the soft edged mask is the combination of the mask in the top layer mask layer a radial gradient in the middle layer top masked layer and the background image in the bottom layer bottom masked layer
... Vertical Analysis: the analysis is based on comparison ofthe proportion ofthe targets and items on the financial statements For fixed assets, auditor can calculate a margin as the ratio of self-financing, ... comparison to analyze increase or decrease inthe balance tangible or intangible fixed asset, and auditors can compare the data with data in last year to evaluate the reasonableness ofthe volatility ... fixed assets are presented inthe balance sheet (including financial lease fixed assets) actually exist in reality at the end ofthe fiscal year Completeness - The transactions and amounts arising...
... hepatic steatosis, so as to evaluate the predictors of clinical and pathological characteristics in these patients with steatosis and their diagnostic values in hepatic fibrosis Patients and ... Hepatic steatosis, stage of fibrosis and grade of disease activity were determined according to the Guidelines for the assessment and management of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease inthe Asia-Pacific ... Company, Japan) Each specimen was longer than cm and had more than portal areas Specimens were fixed in buffered formalin, embedded in paraffin, and stained with hematoxylin-eosin-safran and Masson's...
... condition was maintained at the ceiling andthe floor ofthe domain to simulate non-permeable cap-rock Fixed-state boundary condition was applied at the outer lateral boundaries ofthe domain, allowing ... it is inevitable that CO2 will eventually rise and concentrate near the ceiling (caprock) ofthe aquifer, the saturation of gaseous phase (SG) near the top- most layerofthe simulation domain is ... interval is described at the midpoint ofthe interval, called the sample point Since both the information of time (x-axis) and flow rate (y-axis) is needed to describe a certain injection scenario...
... 7.59 aA 1.16 aA 1.49 aA 1.95 bA 0.95 aA 1.05 bA 1.41 bA 7.54 aA 4.81 bA 2.30 bA 2.73 bB 2.70 bA 4.10 aB 7.33 bB 17.50 aB 9.75 bB 5.70 aA 5.80 aA 6.10 aA 9.09 aA 8.77 aA 8.36 aA 1.40 aB 1.48 aA 1.80 ... 1.80 aA 0.93 aA 1.09 aA 1.61 bA 8.07 aA 5.51 bA 5.00 bB 2.83 bB 2.80 bA 3.03 bC 7.67aB 11.50 aC 8.75 aB 5.83 aB 5.80 aA 6.18 aA 9.36 aB 8.90 aA 9.10 aA 1.41 aB 1.52 aA 1.64 cA 0.91 aA 1.06 aA 1.68 ... 1.423 aA 1.481 aA 1.425 aA 67.210 aA 78.000 bA 82.250 bA 9.820 aA 10.480 aA 10.225 aB 0.059 aA 0.059 aA 0.091 bA 0.667 aB 0.677 cB 0.668 aB 1.433 aA 1.553 aA 1.575 aA 65.563 aA 79.560 bA 59.875 aB...
... abundance ofthe quantitation ion ofthe analyte inthe sample Ais = integrated abundance ofthe quantitation ion ofthe internal standard inthe sample Qis = total quantity (in micrograms) of internal ... contain materials that adversely affect method performance This is accomplished by analyzing replicates of laboratory fortified matrix samples and ascertaining that the precision, accuracy, and ... for each peak RF (Ax) (Qis) (Ais) (Qx) 525.2-20 where: Ax = integrated abundance ofthe quantitation ion ofthe analyte Ais = integrated abundance ofthe quantitation ion internal standard Qx...
... Self-Evaluation and Planning Guide Camera imagery Availability of Weather Information Part II Planning and Guidance None Use of External Weather Information Sources 42 Use of Internal Weather Information ... Weather information gathering – Obtaining better weather data and information • Institutional coordination – Coordination within and outside a TMC • Advisory functions – Advisory functions ofa ... Weather Information in Transportation Management Center Operations Self-Evaluation and Planning Guide PART II PLANNING AND GUIDANCE 31 Part II Planning and Guidance Integration of Weather Information...
... 38:1055-1058 Ueyama H, Kiyohara T, Sawada N, Isozaki K, Kitamura S, Kondo S, Miyagawa J, Kanayama S, Shinomura Y, Ishikawa H, Ohtani T, Nezu R, Nagata S, Matsuzawa Y: High Fas ligand expression ... recurrence of UC in Page of ileal pouch This fact precluded the development of appropriate prophylaxis and treatment The fecal stream and stasis play an important part inthe pathogenesis of immunological ... mucosa [16,17] The study of intrinsic and extrinsic apoptosis pathways in ileal pouch remains not completely available and there are few studies inthe literature that have evaluated this putative...
... improvement of BER and thus, for the implementation of this algorithm in practical systems Advances ofthe state -of -the- art inthe OOB power reduction: promising combinationof windowing and CCs ... essential that the spectral shape ofthe NC-OFDM waveform is treated such that the out -of- band (OOB) radiation is minimized In addition to the issue of OOB interference, OFDM-based waveforms are ... communication system attempting to access the available spectrum ina dynamically varying radio environment, it is also important that the length and shape ofthe applied window can be also altered...
... imprecise than the analytic model since it largely depends on the inputs andthe operating point1 However, in many cases it has the advantage of being much easier and quicker to obtain On certain ... shows a manipulator holding a marked tray, anda camera which provides an imageofthe tray with marks The output y in this system may correspond to the coordinates associated to each ofthe marks ... theorems and definitions are kept to a minimum; they are mainly present in Chapter (mathematical preliminaries) and some appendices Yet, when simplicity inthe language may induce mathematical ambiguity...
... temperature However, the value of viscosity increased with increasing concentrations of 1alkanols and decreased with increasing temperature As the number of hydrocarbon groups or the chain-length of ... with increasing concentrations of DMF This was due to the weakening ofthe hydrogen bonding interaction between the ketone (cyclohexanone) and alcohols, and also due to the dissociation of alkanol ... molecular interactions in these systems and subsequently to determine the effect ofthe chain length of 1alkanols EXPERIMENTAL The chemicals used inthe present work were analytical reagent (AR) and...
... exogenous factors [4] Other important elements in mutagenesis include the various DNA repair and damage tolerance pathways, which may be responsible for and mitigate against the formation of mutations ... Briefly, T-cells were isolated by macerating spleens individually in 12-well plates, layering the cells on a histopaque 1077 and washing the recovered Molecular analysis of hprt mutation cells with ... overlaid with mineral oil and placed ina Robocycler gradient 96 (Stratagene, USA) for 45 at 48oC and for at 94oC, followed by 40 cycles of 30 s denaturation at 94oC, annealing at 55oC, and extension...
... vessel's maximal diameter, at exactly the same anatomical site, was measured FMD was then calculated as the percentage increase in diameter from baseline After 10 min, a second scan at rest was performed ... performed and then nitroglycerin was administered (400 μg sublingual); later a final scan was taken in order to assess nitrate mediated dilatation (NMD), which was used as an index of endothelium independent ... quantitative variables had a normal distribution curve Inthe crosssectional study analysis of variance (ANOVA), provided by the general linear model, was applied to the comparison of mean values...
... theorems and definitions are kept to a minimum; they are mainly present in Chapter (mathematical preliminaries) and some appendices Yet, when simplicity inthe language may induce mathematical ambiguity ... shows a manipulator holding a marked tray, anda camera which provides an imageofthe tray with marks The output y in this system may correspond to the coordinates associated to each ofthe marks ... Hossain and M.H Shaheed Multivariable Control Systems P Albertos andA Sala Control Systems with Input and Output Constraints A. H Glattfelder and W Schaufelberger Analysis and Control of Non-linear...
... obtained isin general more imprecise than the analytic model since it largely depends on the inputs andthe operating point1 However, in many cases it has the advantage of being much easier and ... Spectral Norm The spectral norm Aofa matrix A ∈ IRn×m is defined as2 A = λMax {ATA}, where λMax {ATA} denotes the largest eigenvalue ofthe symmetric matrix ATA ∈ IRm×m Inthe particular case of ... that the matrix Ais positive definite and shall not be read as Ais greater than 0” which makes no mathematical sense 24 Mathematical Preliminaries A square not necessarily symmetric matrix A...
... La Salle’s Theorem as adapted here for the scope of this text, isa corollary ofthe so-called La Salle’s invariance principle which was originally and independently proposed by J La Salle and ... if the ith joint is revolute, or to the linear displacement along zi if the ith joint is prismatic Inthe typical case where the actuators are placed at the joints among the links, the generalized ... mathematician A M Lyapunov in his doctoral thesis in 1892 It is interesting to stress that his work was largely in uenced by that ofthe French mathematicians H Poincar´ (contemporary ofand personally...
... controllers and to analyze the stability, inthe sense of Lyapunov, ofthe equilibria ofthe closed-loop system In anticipation ofthe material in later chapters of this text andin support ofthe material ... Yoshikawa T., 1990, “Foundations of robotics: Analysis and control”, The MIT Press The method of assigning the axis zi as the rotation axis ofthe ith joint (for revolute joints) or as an axis parallel ... rewritten inthe state-space form As a matter of fact, this property is not limited to particular examples but stands as a fact for robot manipulators in general This is because the inertia matrix is...
... configurations since the Jacobian is not used at all: the reference trajectories are given in joint coordinates and we measure joint coordinates This is what is called “control in joint space” Thus, ... Diagram ofthe 2-DOF Pelican prototype robot I2 denote the moments of inertia ofthe links with respect to the axes that pass through the respective centers of mass and are parallel to the axis ... derivative In doing this one must keep in mind that the expressions obtained are valid only as long as the robot does not “fall” into a singular configuration, that is, as long as the Jacobian J(q...
... finds that the control laws (6.1) and (6.2) are indistinctly called “PD control” The common argument in favor of this ambiguous terminology is that inthe particular case when the vector of desired ... of another Lyapunov function which does not appeal to La Salle’s theorem Certainly, this alternative analysis is also valid for the study of (6.6) ˜ Note that we are not claiming that the matrix ... Equation II.2 ) inthe dynamic model ofthe manipulator (cf Equation II.1) In general, the closed-loop equation isa nonautonomous nonlinear ordinary differential equation Representation of the...
... digital equipment (e.g ordinary personal computers) take a longer time than the evaluation ofthe ‘PD-part’ ofthe control law In certain applications, the (high) sampling frequency specified may ... 8.8 Catastrophic jump and we considered again the numerical values: J = 1, mgl = 9.8 and ˙ kv = 0.1, with the initial conditions q(0) = [rad] and q(0) = [rad/s] When the value of kp is increased ... Equation (8.22) To study the stability properties ofthe origin, consider now the following Lyapunov function candidate, which as a matter of fact, may be regarded as a generalization of the...