... through the lens of the competition theory, are nonfunctional. Applying each of the above six tests to the three examples confirms the affinity of these tests for the competition ... this is the role of the competition theory. Because the identification theory prevents monopolization of even more features than the competition theory, the identification theory ... opposite that of the identification theory. The competition theory assumes that any aspect of a product's appearance has the ability to designate origin. In other words,...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 12:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Retina identification based on the pattern of blood vessels using fuzzy logic" doc
... Although their algorithm is more effi- cient than that of [9], they have evaluated their system using a database which only includes 14 images. 2.1. Anatomy of the retina The retina covers the inner ... vessels form a connected pattern like a tree with OD as root over the surface of retina. The average thickness of these vessels is about 250 μm [15]. These vessels form a unique pattern for each ... size of the feature vector is a nother advantage of retina to the other biometrics; this property leads to fas- ter identification and authentication than other bio- metrics [18]. Despite of its...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 22:20
Semantics Semantics is the study of meaning that is used to understand human expression through language.
... too plain). The boy cut his hair with the scissors In this example, we can notice that there is a tool that helps the Agent to perform the action. That is the semantic role of INSTRUMENT He ... Merida tomorrow. In the first sentence the text in blue marks the semantic role of Location In the second, the semantic role of Source In the third one, the semantic role of Goal Location, ... HYPONYMY Hyponymy is the state or phenomenon that show the relationship between more general term (lexical representation) and the more specific instances of it. The concrete forms of sets of word (the specific...
Ngày tải lên: 13/07/2014, 23:26
Báo cáo toán học: "The Number of Labeled 2-Connected Planar Graphs" ppsx
... the proofofTheorem1. 1.9 1.92 1.94 1.96 1.98 2 2.02 2.04 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 t Figure 2: The plot of à (t) for 0 t ≤ 1. 4 Proof of Theorems 2 and 3 Proof of Theorem 2 : One can use the same type of ... done. 3 Proof of Theorem 1 The proof of Theorem 1 has three main steps: (A) Determine the dominant singularities of the function D(x, y) in Lemma 1, when it is viewed as a function of x with y ... vertices in the final graph) but retaining the ordering of the labels within each copy of G + 2 and on the vertices of G. The resulting graph, H, is clearly 2- connected and planar. Keep the inserted...
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 07:21
báo cáo khoa học: " The implications of trade liberalization for diet and health: a case study from Central America" ppt
... An analysis of the implications of full implementation of CAFTA-DR in Central America has shown that the trade agreement is likely to further the nutrition transition by exacerbating the trends ... to policy change. The weakness of the method is the inability to infer causality due to the descriptive nature of the analysis, or to estimate the rela- tive importance of trade liberalization ... been a result of increased domestic production (Figure 5). Yet this, too, partly reflects the impact of trade liberalization, since trade policies have stimulated the import of one of the major inputs...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21
báo cáo khoa học: " Evidence-informed health policy 3 – Interviews with the directors of organizations that support the use of research evidence" pps
... are members of the ACHR. JL is also President of the ACHR for the Pan American Health Organization (WHO's regional office for the Americas). The Chair of the WHO ACHR, a member of the PAHO ... about supporting the use of reports and the implementation of their recom- mendations. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no financial competing interests. The study reported ... three members of the study team (AO, JNL, RM) based on their knowledge of and experience with these types of organiza- tions. Interview guide development and interviewing We developed the first draft of the...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:21
Báo cáo y học: " Regional differences in the pattern of airway remodeling following chronic allergen exposure in mice" pptx
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 16:20
Báo cáo y học: " The pattern of methacholine responsiveness in mice is dependent on antigen challenge dose" ppt
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21
Báo cáo y học: "Extracorporeal life support for status asthmaticus: the breath of life that’s often forgotten" potx
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20
Báo cáo sinh học: " Genetic variability of the pattern of night melatonin blood levels in relation to coat changes development in rabbits" pdf
Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:22
Báo cáo sinh học: " The pattern of genetic and environmental variation in relation to ageing in laying hens" ppt
Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 20:20
the strategy of trade sanctions in international environmental agreements
Ngày tải lên: 04/03/2015, 10:25
Báo cáo khoa học: "Circadian pattern of activation of the medical emergency team in a teaching hospita"
... on the activation of all MET calls is maintained on a hospital switchboard logbook that includes the date and time of the call, as well as the ward where the MET review occurred. The details of ... during the hours covered by the parent unit doctors (47% of MET calls during 42% of the day). In the 5 years that the MET system has operated, there has been a trend for an increasing proportion of ... mortality. Second, the pattern of fluctuation of the MET service at our institution is likely to be based on the calling criteria that we have implemented. The study may not apply to other hospitals...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:45
Metaphor, based on the association of similarity, is one of the two basic types of semantic transference that have been an interest for many linguistic researchers
... what part the language is playing, what it is that the participants are expecting the language to do for them in that situation, the symbolic organisation of the text, the status that it has, ... another, both the types of speech role that they are taking on in the dialogue and the whole cluster of socially significant relationships in which they are involved? + The MODE OF DISCOURSE ... of the processes, i.e. the ideational grammatical metaphor is a more metaphorical way of expressing the meaning at the level of experience. The interpersonal grammatical metaphor, on the other...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:44
Chapter-7-The tools of the trade
... though, there’sabetter way to do that: what we’re doing here is feeding the output of a program into the input of another program. That happens so often that there’s aspecial method of doing ... \ and the end of the line; otherwise the shell will interpret the first space as a parameter by itself, and then it will interpret the end of line as the end of the command. ã In the C programming ... windowoperations. ã At the right of the title bar,there are three buttons that you can select. The left one iconifies the window, the middle one maximizes the window, making it takeupthe entire screen, and the one...
Ngày tải lên: 16/10/2013, 16:15
The return of universalist law - human rights and free trade
... historic importance of the ending of the division of the European continent and the need to create firm bases for the construction of the future Europe 50 The passionate sources of personal moral ... entrusted to the World Trade Organization). 44 The first fifteen years of the life of the World Bank were dominated by recon- struction efforts shaped by the rise of the Cold War and the need to ... and to the development of the productive resources of all members as primary objectives of economic policy. 42 The immediate background to the founding of the World Bank and the IMF were the 1930s...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20