... struggle for improving antibiotic treatment decisions Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Acknowledgements Second, the precise microbiologic etiology of the ... time point Given the heterogeneity of the included patients and infectious syndromes, a uniform 8-day antibiotic course forthe control group might not reflect the standard of care for all indications ... Indeed, it was different from the treatment approach forthe control group in the previously reported subgroup analysis by the same authors, where ‘treatment was discontinued according to clinical...
... namely the Gaussian linear mixed model, threshold models, Poisson mixed models and models for survival traits The models for survival traits include Weibull and Cox log normal frailty models ... scale isthe same for all animals Furthermore, without time-dependent covariates, and if the baseline hazard is that of a Weibull distribution (Λ0 (t) = (γt)α ), then themodel in (3) is a log ... on the best predictor 313 The best predictor of the breeding values of potential parents is given below for each of the four models 3.1 Linear mixed model In the linear mixed model we have the...
... (Table 3) Forthe rest of the variables, the null hypothesis of normal distribution was rejected [19] There was no significant difference in the distribution by sex between the cases and the controls ... constructing a statistical model with the controls gathered in primary care and the cases, and later, by constructing another model with the controls gathered in the hospitals and with the same cases ... records was made The package in EXCEL format was exported to SPSS format for its later statistical analysis, and the quality controls were also made at this stage Statistical analysis An initial...
... the modal verb is omitted but the sense of permission or obligation is still felt And whenthe agent or recipient is missing in the theme but a permission or an obligation is still present, the ... from the context who the permission or obligation is targeted at Another important means in establishing the Deontic modality of the text isthe present, non-deictic tense of the verbs, making the ... Significance of the study The results of this study will help test the quality of the English translation of the Law on Investment 2005 of Vietnam under themodel developed by the German linguist House,...
... adequate information for achieving the performance described in the results Results 3.2 Validation statistics 3.1 Evolved MLP models The validation statistics is presented for each model and the reference ... where N isthe number of data points, Oi the observed % value, Pi the predicted value and O isthe average of the observed data The final estimate of model goodness (fitness function, F) was then ... practice discussed later in Section 2.2 The search was focused on the architectural issues of the MLP (Section 2.4), because it is still unclear how these issues affect the capability of MLP to forecast...
... that the covariates are not included The equation forthe value of leaving in the ACOL modelis Vt L Wt c T t t Wc Rtm c t (3.5) This is identical to the equation forthe DRM The equation forthe ... of the likelihood for this modelis similar to the previous modelFor example, suppose that we observe an officer stay for five years after his initial service obligation and then leave Then the ... civilian career, rather than the expected value of the maximum (This means that the officer is assumed to be unable to make an informed decision when new information is revealed For example, in our...
... instillation, the established mouse modelfor Der p sensitization was applied and the tracking of [75Se]Der p was performed in sensitized, as well as nonsensitized mice To our knowledge, this isthe first ... in the trachea demonstrates that themodelis suitable for studies of inhaled allergens The i.t instillation route was used to minimize the loss of [75Se]Der p during the exposure Although this ... from the administered [75Se]Der p2, indicate together with its own remaining intact levels (the 16 kDa band) that the clearance and further metabolism of the allergen was altered as a result of the...
... Munteanu et al 2004) The DOM tree alignment modelisthe key technique of our mining approach Although, to our knowledge, this isthe first work discussing DOM tree alignments, there is substantial ... the prob, ability of translating the forest T[iE, j ] into F T[m ,n ] based on the alignment A The tree align- where K isthe degree of N lF (3) If N iE is deleted, and N lF is aligned with the ... (here the index of the node is in the breadth-first order), and TiD refers to the sub-tree rooted at N iD , so N1D refers to the root of T D , and T1D = T D ; T[Dj] refers to the forest consisting...
... morning" Figure 3: the transformed form of the path with dash line forthe second pass processing As required in our statistical model, we have to 2.4 The statistical parameter calculate the following ... information Whether or not the baseNP information can improve the precision of POS tagging in our approach is determined by the identifier assignment of the baseNP rules when training trigram model ... sentence is totally correct forthe 2nd step This provides an ideal upper bound forthe system The reason why we choose N=4 forthe N-best POS tagging can be explained in Figure 4, which shows how the...
... hypotheses can cause interferences This is why the noisy word hypothesis interferences can be reduced, and the present approach is therefore not sensitive at all to the increased number of noisy ... sentence hypotheses The Laneua~e ModelThe goal of the language modelis to participate in the selection of candidate constituents for a sentence to be identified The proposed language modelis composed ... noisy word hypotheses can be rejected and many unnecessary constituents can be avoided, and the most promising sentence hypothesis can thus be easily found In this way the weakness in either the...
... operating the vehicle at age i, RPC isthe replacement cost of the vehicle,2 RCCj isthe discounted cost of recapitalizing the vehicle at age j, TBi isthe discounted tax benefit (or liability) of the ... the midst of a major transformation to ensure its preparedness and ability to meet the needs of the nation An integral part of the Army’s Transformation Strategy is modernization, for there is ... (the product of the two dummy variables) to account forthe possibility that the two variables in combination could affect the dependent variable.21 Forthe repair-cost logistic regression, the...
... know whether the small increase in disordered structure, observed in the CD spectrum, affects this part of the protein, or whether there is transient unfolding of the end of this helix There are ... subunit Therefore, it is not surprising that it is not accessible in the dimer The identification of the 56–57 bond as a site that is hidden in the dimer, but accessible to chymotrypsin in the monomer, ... change in the conformation of this loop Changes in the conformation of the backbone at this point and changes in the orientation of other side chains, as a result of the introduction of the large...
... the final “beamn ” The y of the top-scoring state isthe predicted parse Under the plain transition-based scoring regime scoreT , the score for a state π isthe sum of the “local” scores forthe ... restrict the factor to the innermost sibling pair forthe tri-siblings 81 and the outermost pair forthe grand-siblings We use the first two siblings of the dependent from the left side of the head for ... stacking the two approaches Therefore the Since search is not exhaustive, there is of course a slight danger that the correct history drops out of the beam before complete information becomes available...
... text for e-mails or other media Also, the material in this book is not for commercial use Disclaimer: The information contained in this cookbook is intended for educational purposes only It is ... diet (LID) The diet is to prepare forthe RAI Using the diet is recommended in the guidelines of the American Thyroid Association The patient follows the diet when preparing for RAI either by temporarily ... levothyroxine • Thepurpose of a low-iodine diet is to deplete the body of its stores of iodine, to help increase the effectiveness of the radioactive iodine scan or treatment The premise is that when the...
... correction of the disease [30] Together, these two studies suggest that iPSCs are a good cell source for correcting blood diseases (especially monogenic disorders); however, more work is required ... technology could allow the production of specific cell types forthe treatment of various patients or diseases [74], but the suitability of these cells for therapeutic use is still open to debate ... regarding the suitability of these cells for clinical therapies are starting to emerge The main objection to the potential clinical use of hiPSC-derived cells isthe use of viral vectors required for...
... supplement the aggregate analysis Finally, we will draw some conclusions forthe policy discussion in Germany and discuss whether the Italian case can be used as a role modelforthe reform of the German ... Germany now does Therefore, the scope for reform in Germany is smaller than it was in Italy in the beginning of the 1990s 5.3 Idiosyncratic Shocks The calls for structural reforms in the German banking ... comparisons of the developments since the 1990s However, it is questionable whether this time period is suited for such a comparison Several idiosyncratic factors have influenced the evolution of the...
... 250 -a Thepurpose of our experiments is to study the impact of the syntactic and semantic representation for complex question answering task To accomplish this, we generate summaries forthe topics ... similarity with the query and takes the average of these measures 5.2 Evaluation Results The comparison between the systems in terms of their F-scores is given in Table The SYN system improves the ROUGE-1, ... v)) The denominators in both terms are for normalization C isthe set of all sentences in the collection The value of the parameter d which we call “bias”, is a trade-off between two terms in the...
... further modi®cations A modelfor recognition of PCDDs by Ah receptors The most noticeable conformational difference between the mAhR model and the FixL template isthe relative position of the ... present in the other PAS proteins analyzed Therefore, by analogy with the FixL mechanism, it is conceivable that, once PCDD is bound, Arg333 in mAhR is involved in the interaction with one of the chlorine ... mutagenesis results that identi®ed Ala375 as critical forthe ligand binding activity [19] Interestingly, there is also a good correlation between the size of the side-chain at this position and the...
... on beach, which is mainly responsible forthe erosion of foreshore during storms, is not simulated in this model. Regarding all the above mentioned facts, thepurpose of this study is ... TKE in the horizontal direction is more important than that in the vertical direction. Therefore, in the present study, the TKE is assumed uniformly distributed in the whole water depth, and the ... Peregrine [5] is used to compute the wave runup on the beach. A sketch of the scheme is shown in Fig. 1. In this scheme, whenthe shore is approached, all the dispersion terms ...
... n fi ¥) The broken line isthe sum of the last two terms (the terms with gamma functions) and quantifies the (negative) effect on the hydrolysis rate arising from the ‘check blocks’ Forthe parameters ... For this model, this is readily performed by introducing apparent orders in Eqn (5) However, the current treatment is limited to the simple case in which the kinetic order is equal to the molecularity ... that this is not inhibitory to cellulolysis or the coupled reactions (see Ref [48]) Therefore, the continuous decrease in the rate of hydrolysis was modeled as protein inactivation To this end,...