... Comparison of the quantification results of laboratory-scale and full-scale activated sludge by the quantitative PCR method and by the FISH method, and their correlation The results from laboratory-scale ... sensitive and rapid tool for its quantification in activated sludge It would be suitable for routine monitoring or measurement of a large number of samples, and lead to better understanding of the ... Quantitative PCR and FISH method in Activated sludge The amount of Candidatus ‘Accumulibacter phosphatis’ in the laboratory-scale andthe full-scale activated sludge were quantified both by the quantitative...
... noticeably improved, andthe coverage was comparable with that for the Nichigai dictionary On the other hand, in the case where random choice was performed, the Nichigai dictionary andthe Webbased encyclopedia ... search their knowledge base (i.e., memory) for the description of a given term, and compare that description with four candidates Then they would choose the candidate that is most similar tothe ... organization modelThe new framework is more understandable with respect to probability theory In practice, we first use Equation (1) to compute P (d|c) for all the c’s predefined in the domain model Then...
... metabolites) can be used to build up mathematical models of the gene-regulatory, signal-transducing and metabolic networks of a cell andto integrate them into whole-cell Ôin silicoÕ models The predictive ... imply a thermodynamically unfavourable regime where the flux through the oxidative pentose phosphate pathway had to be reversed to maintain the target fluxes Then, the NADPH needed to drive the reactions ... briefly outlines the mathematical basis of the method The second part presents two applications of the method tothe metabolism of erythrocytes and of the microorganism, Metylobacterium extorquens AM1...
... five Mandarin vowels [a], [i](yi), [u](wu), [e], and [o](wo) with four tones: the flat tone (tone 1), the rising tone (tone 2), the falling and rising tone (tone 3), andthe falling tone (tone ... for every tone (1, 2, 3, 4) andthe score across all tones (The Fisher score across all tones is not equal tothe average score over the four tones Generally this score is smaller than the average ... 450 Hz to 100 Hz, andthe formants of the vowel are 384 Hz, 2800 Hz, and 3440 Hz, which are extracted from a real female vowel The sampling rate is 8000 Hz, andthe total duration of the signal...
... operator P and give the e relation between T0 -periodic P C-mild solution andthe fixed point of P After showing the compactness of the Poincar´ operator P and obtaining the boundedness of the fixed ... sometimes andthe conditions for Banach fixed point theorem are too strong Our method is much different from others’, and we give a new way to show the existence of periodic solutions In addition, the ... result, P is a compact operator In order to use Leray-Schauder fixed pointed theorem to examine whether the operator P has a fixed point, we have to make assumptions H2.2 and H2.5 a little stronger...
... from the EcoRI site upstream of the U6 promoter tothe BamHI site downstream of the terminating sequence, were sequenced and then inserted into the cloning site of the baculovirus transfer vectors ... pCEP4 as the template The CMV promoter was inserted into the HindIII and EcoRI sites upstream of the EBNA1/OriP sequence The CMV-EBNA1/ OriP unit was digested with PmeI, and inserted into the NaeI ... makes them attractive candidate vectors for in vitro gene therapy studies [14,15] These recombinant vectors contain compatible promoters and are highly effective in infecting primary hepatocyte and...
... B Figure The GSH/GSSG ratio of the prototype and expanded models The GSH/GSSG ratio of the prototype and expanded models The prototype model (A) andthe expanded model (B) Page of 11 (page number ... the prototype modeland simulation experiments The de novo GSH synthesis and GSSG export pathways (Figure 3) were added tothe prototype modelThe kinetic equations and parameters of these pathways ... have not included these pathways [17] andthe results they generated were similar to those obtained using our prototype model (Figure 2) Our prototype modelandthe previous models developed Reference...
... transfer its momentum hq and energy ∆Eo tothe v v electrons of the solid The projection of q upon the surface kx determines the plasmon wave vector and, together with the dispersion relation, the ... increases as the slab becomes thinner Note that in order tomodelthe Au layer between the cavity andthe metal surface in the cavity system, the medium above the Au slab is here assumed to be water ... (6) Since all the k values (i.e k ix and k iz ) are totally described by Eqn 2, and 6, these v v equations thus collectively determine whether the E1 and E2 fields are bound tothe interface...
... at its end that is used to scan the specimen surface When the tip is brought into the proximity of a sample surface, forces between the tip andthe sample lead to a measurable deflection of the ... chapter The distance of the center of the cavity tothe surface is h The major and minor axis of the cavity are ˆ denoted as a and b respectively a y -axis is pointing perpendicularly out of the ... you want them to; but these are not as important as perseverance The journey I have embarked on to reach where I am today, has taught me to persevere First and foremost, I would like to express...
... of fans, motors and voltage regulator; Repair and maintenance of refrigerators and air conditioning Since the time factor and scope of the research, the thesis will develop a process to apply ... in general and VT for rural workers in particular in the country andthe world, the author found that theoretically and practically there has been no specific research on TFEL anditsapplication ... knowledge and especially skills CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE THESIS - Theoretically: To analyse and clarify the rationale of TFEL (systemrelated concepts, to clarify the nature and processes) - In practice: Thesis...
... created For the second input utterance, the likelihood value of the utterance given the speaker-independent modeland that given the speaker-adapted model are calculated and compared If the former ... larger, the utterance is considered to be the beginning of a new speaker, and another speakeradapted model is created Otherwise, the existing speaker-adapted model is incrementally adapted For the ... manuscripts written prior to broadcasting To cope with this problem, we introduced filled-pause modeling into the language model is the reading-dependent language model, and LM3 is a modification...
... alignment between the source nodes andthe corresponding target nodes (as well as on either side), which we take to be the state of the sampler We start at a random derivation of the corpus, and at every ... single model on the development set, here we provide the whole spectrum of models and their performances in order to better understand their comparative behavior In Figure we plot RelF1 on the test ... alternative to this two step approach is to use a generative model of synchronous derivation and simultaneously segment and weight the elementary tree pairs to maximize the probability of the training...
... gatherer collects articles from Web sites and threader makes threads for them The results are stored in XML, and then pushed to subscribers who can capture the flow of topics by following the ... reference toits source document, an identifying id, genus and differentia words, and other information on the article The tag < f o l l o w s > is used to denote arcs from the article to related ... example, the paths in the graph show the stories of the nodes they contain Multiple paths for a node (article) show that there are multiple stories associated with it Furthermore, if the node...
... resizing and referencing is to (1) find the least upper bound of the types of the frames being unified, (2) update one frame's type tothe least upper bound, and point the other's type representation to ... need to look in a table to see what value to assign it An alternative would be to place that value in the frames for a and b from the beginning But since the value itself must be of type a in the ... is referenced tothe other If both values are circular references, then one is referenced tothe other, which remains circular The feature structure in Figure 8, for example, has the frame representation...
... ranking of the candidate classes for a given example is assigned by the stochastic model as in the training Then the binary classifier classifies the example according tothe ranking If the classifier ... HMMs to all the nodes connected tothe current state node, andthe best of these nodes is identified based on the SVMs classifiers The selected node then becomes the current state node in the next ... lexical forms andthe inflection forms of the two morphemes preceding µ; the POS tags andthe lexical forms of the two morphemes following µ; the lexical form andthe inflection form of µ The preceding...
... two points a and b, the line joining them together is represented projectively by the bivector a ^ b If the grades of Ar and Bs sum to more than n andthe vectors comprising Ar and Bs span n-dimensional ... so the commutator product of two bivector blades results in a third bivector It follows that the space of bivectors is closed under the commutator product, and hence that the bivectors (together ... simply a handedness and a magnitude The handedness tells whether the vectors in the product a^b^c form a left-handed or right-handed set Examples include the scalar triple product and, more generally,...
... because in the three cases the bunsetsu tothe immediate left depends on the target bunsetsu On the other hand, the bunsetsu “父から, chichi-kara” is the most likely to be the beginning since the bunsetsu ... information Therefore, the global information is also used to detect the beginning of the clauses If the end of a clause is given, the bunsetsus tothe left of the clause should satisfy the two conditions ... probability modelThemodel in this study (Uchimoto et al., 2000) takes into account not only the relationship between two bunsetsus but also the relationship between the left bunsetsu and all the bunsetsu...
... These three sentences are as follow (from Marcus [80] ) (s3) "The judge presented the prize tothe boy." (s4) ~The judge presented the boy with the prize." (s5) "The judge presented the boy the ... deleted phrases, "each" and "names", with the contexts tothe case frame analysis The other point is to hold undecided case elements in STRCONB The head PP andthe subject in the sentences, for example, ... the object or the subject: so that each is treated according tothe procedure to decide the role of the antecedent andthe omitting grammatical relation Therefore, it is necessary to introduce...
... June 15, 2004 Distillation Theory andItsApplicationto Optimal Design of Separation Units Distillation Theory andItsApplicationto Optimal Design of Separation Units presents a clear, multidimensional, ... into the pattern of the multicomponent mixture distillation and better understanding of the methods of design of the units used for the separation of these mixtures As Chapter introduced, the ... into pure components, we are mostly interested in the sharp splits The rest of the splits we call the nonsharp splits For a three-component ideal mixture (here and further on component is the...