the storyline a futuristic version of voltaire s classic novel

... that A ⊆ G and A ⊆ G are subsets of abelian groups, and that s is an integer We say that a map φ : A → A is a Freiman s- homomorphism if a1 + · · · + as = as+1 + · · · + a2 s implies that φ (a1 ) ... AND TOM SANDERS Lemma 4.10 (Properties of joins) Let S, S be as above Then the join S ∧ S is also a Bourgain system It has dimension at most 4(d + d ) and its size satisfies the bound |S ∧ S | 2−3(d+d ... |A| , there are at least |A| m /2 such m-tuples We know that either the vectors a1 , , am are not dissociated, or else there is a further a ∈ A such that a lies in the linear span of the In either...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:21

... validity of the Hausa version of IKHOAM The divergent validity of the Hausa version of IKHOAM was analyzed by subjecting participants' scores on the Visual Analogue Scale and the Hausa version of IKHOAM ... IKHOAM to Spearman rank Order correlation Internal consistency of the parts of the Hausa version of IKHOAM was calculated using the Cronbach 's alpha Level of significance was set at 0.05 The SPSS ... the patients reported clarity of the Hausa language and ease of understanding of all the items The final version of the Hausa translation of IKHOAM (see Additional file 2) The anchors (English)...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... participated in the interpretation of the data and discussion of the findings AS advised on the study design and analysis and participated in the interpretation of the data and discussion of the ... oral health status, perceived general health conditions, and pain using a visual analogue scale (VAS) A Visual Analogue Scale is a measurement instrument that tries to measure a characteristic ... Finally, the relationships between the OIDP scores and clinical measures of restorative and prosthetic treatment needs were assessed through the use of Kruskal-Wallis test Treatment need variables...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... children less than 16 years of age), following oral and written explanation of the study Analysis Data were analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 11.4 Assessing ... group and those in public care than for controls Assessing responsiveness The responsiveness of the MMQL-UK (PF) was assessed by using the scores of the exemplar group parents who reported a change ... because of the rapid changes in children 's attitudes, abilities, and priorities as part of the normal developmental process [15] The solution is to regard both child and parental assessment as valid...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... was assessed from the nostril to cm and minimum cross-sectional area (mCSA) was assessed in both nostrils Clinicians also completed the Total Symptom Score (TSS) for all patients The TSS consists ... Barcleona, Spain; Michael Herdman, Lola Sanz, Josep-Mar a Manresa, Insight Consulting & Research, Barcelona, Spain; Mar a José Rosales, Medical Affairs, Schering-Plough, Madrid, Spain; Vanesa ... Barcelona, Spain; Ramona Soler, Allergology Department, Hospital Son Dureta, Palma de Mallorca, Spain; Mª Teresa Audicana, Allergy Service, Hospital de Santiago, Vitoria, Spain; Ana Mar a Navarro, Allergy...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... and selfassessment of oral satisfaction by the sampling region and the sampling cluster units of the study Self-assessment of oral satisfaction Athens Satisfied n=127 Dissatisfied n=75 Mean (S. D.) ... subscale scores and selfassessment of oral satisfaction Self-assessment of oral satisfaction Satisfied n=127 Dissatisfied n=75 Mean (S. D.) Subscales All subjects n=202 Mean (S. D.) Mean (S. D.) 2.9 (2.0) ... significant association was found between questions aiming to subjectively evaluate individuals’ oral health status (such as self-perceived oral health status and self-assessment of oral satisfaction)...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... In a similar way, we calculate the constants c3, c4 where c3 = c4 = sinh s( π a) s sinh s( π a) s sin sa − cos sa − cosh s( π a) cos sa s cosh s( π a) sin sa s (1:13) Substituting (1.12) and ... formulas 0≤x a cosh s( x − a) − cos sa sinh s( x − a) ; s ϕo (x, λ) = sin sx s ; − sin sa s ϕo (x, λ) = − sinh s( π a) cos s( x − a ) cosh s( π a) sin s( x − a) ; s s sinh s( π −x) ; a < x ≤ π s a < x ... at the point x = a, from which it can be easily seen that c1 = − sin sa sinh s( π − a) − s c2 = sin sa s cosh s( π − a) + cos sa s cosh s( π cos sa s sinh s( π − − a) a) , (1:12) Substituting (1.12)...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 22:20

... In a similar way, we calculate the constants c3, c4 where c3 = c4 = sinh s( π a) s sinh s( π a) s sin sa − cos sa − cosh s( π a) cos sa s cosh s( π a) sin sa s (1:13) Substituting (1.12) and ... formulas 0≤x a cosh s( x − a) − cos sa sinh s( x − a) ; s ϕo (x, λ) = sin sx s ; − sin sa s ϕo (x, λ) = − sinh s( π a) cos s( x − a ) cosh s( π a) sin s( x − a) ; s s sinh s( π −x) ; a < x ≤ π s a < x ... at the point x = a, from which it can be easily seen that c1 = − sin sa sinh s( π − a) − s c2 = sin sa s cosh s( π − a) + cos sa s cosh s( π cos sa s sinh s( π − − a) a) , (1:12) Substituting (1.12)...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 22:20

... improvement of the exponent 1/25 Lemmas Below in statements of lemmas all the subsets are assumed to be non-empty The first two lemmas are due to Ruzsa [12, 13] They hold for subsets of any abelian group, ... We also mention that in the case |A| > p2/3 one has max{ |A + A| , |AA|} p1/2 |A| 1/2 , which is optimal in general settings bound, apart from the value of the implied constant; for the details, see ... bounds in prime fields, Math Proc Cambridge Philos Soc (to appear) [4] J Bourgain, A A Glibichuk and S V Konyagin, Estimates for the number of sums and products and for exponential sums in fields of...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 15:23

... R[XV ] and the initial stacks Sv of ℓv − erasers are assigned to them The idea is that Mr Paint substitutes in the ith round a new symbolic variable Ti for some of the variables Xv , instead of coloring ... Theorem 4.5 As we will see at the end of the paper, this is not possible without additional assumptions The additional assumption that we found is to only allow substitutions of algebraically independent ... [Scha3] that this concept has applications in time scheduling We also saw that ℓ-list colorable graphs not always are ℓ-paintable, as we say, i.e., there does not have to be a winning coloration...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 12:23

... expressing with an extra parameter d that all edge densities are the same by Lemma 2.3 For trees, the number of variables is the same as the number of equalities, but generally it is not the case ... regardless of the edges outside the span of the first i classes xi is adjacent to all vertices of Xi+1 , since the edge structure is saturated So (1 − xi ) is adjacent to at most one vertex of Xi+1 ... constructions: it says that optimal constructions may have relatively few vertices The lemma is the generalization of a claim in the third section of the paper of Bondy, Shen, Thomass´ and Thomassen...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 12:23

... observations about use of elements/subelements, and a set of questions for diagnostic analysis and planning All of the separate components of the actual Guide are contained in additional files ... explanatory material; also see Kitson et al. s discussion regarding theoretical issues in general and PARIHS’ status specifically, noting the potential diagnostic and evaluative questions they ... understanding of PARIHS elements/sub-elements Tips also may facilitate design decisions As stated previously, the material contained across the additional files (i.e., the revised PARIHS Guide) is...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... was able to produce a translation table for comparing total subscale scores of the Mini-PANSS to total subscale scores on the original PANSS Results show scores on the subscales of the Mini-PANSS ... kernels This is a program for data analysis from tests, scales and questionnaires In particular, it displays the performance of items and options within items, as well as other test diagnostics and ... via their subscale scores, rather than a total PANSS score was confirmed by conducting PCA on each subscale to assess unidimensionality The PCA of the General Psychopathology subscale did not assume...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... MUS and MES when screening somatoform symptoms or disorders using self-report measures, as advocated by some authors [12,28] In spite of that, the R-SOMS-2 presents a satisfactory sensitivity and ... discussed the data had more than 20 years of clinical experience The CS diagnosis was the "gold standard" to estimate the discriminative power of each symptom in the SOMS-2 list as well as its cut-off ... complaints was made for each subject As a standard procedure, medical records were always consulted, as well as other sources of medical information (if necessary) available on-line (hospital inpatient...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... translation The back translator translated the ACIC Dutch version back into the source language The project team compared both versions and discussed the professionals’ comments and issues that caused ... validity of the questionnaire and sensitivity to change Analysis Our analyses involved the following seven steps The sample characteristics were analysed using descriptive statistics We data-screened ... the subscales was assessed by calculating Cronbach s alphas, inter-item correlations within each subscale, and correlations between subscales We investigated the sensitivity to change of the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:22

... in patients who told their cough had significantly improved (GRC = 4) Statistical analysis SPSS version 12 was used for data analysis Data are presented as mean (SE) or ranges Pearson correlation ... higher score indicates a better health status The total score is the sum of the scores of the three domains (varying to 7) The LCQ already has been validated in English and has also been used in at ... corre- Authors' contributions AH and MW participated in the design of the study and helped to draft the manuscript SU participated in the design of the study and performed the statistical analysis...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... one school day [44] The response rate at the first assessment was 85% and 79% at the second, resulting in a total of 169 subjects participating at any of the assessments The subjects in the total ... correlation of SPSQ-C is thus by and large comparable to those of well-established measures in use for the assessment of SAD in children and adolescents Secondly, concurrent validity was assessed, ... internal consistency of the scale was assessed using the Cronbach 's coefficient alpha for the first eight items of the SPSQ-C (data from the first assessment) Specificity (1-α) and sensitivity...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... general linguistics However, literary language possesses some typical characteristics Literary language possesses all the features that assist in realizing the descriptive goal of literary texts As ... cohesive devices enables the TT to thrill the readers and otherwise strengthens its characteristics as a narrative Another typical feature of the ST as a literary work is the abundance of action ... widest sense of ―area of operation‖ of the language activity, as well as details of the text production as far as these can be deduced from the text itself 10 CHAPTER II: ANALYSIS OF THE SOURCE...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:26

... Julianne House s functional – pragmatic approach House s model for translation assessment is based on pragmatic theories of language use It concerns semantic field, pragmatic aspect and textual aspect ... Restatement of aims This study set out to assess the quality of the TT by first investigating the features of the ST based on J House s model and then comparing the ST and TT on dimensions of ... regards Medium, the TT embraces signals of spoken mode such as comment and contact parentheses and exclamation, which are absent in the ST In terms of Social Attitude, the TT lessens the formality...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2015, 19:50