theory of ecological risk assessment based on species sensitivity distributions

... DISCUSSION The developed regression models can be considered as standalone complex models of environmental risk prediction allowing the “chance and potency” analysis using a traditional regression ... proportion Interception –3.844 Mahalanobis distance test –8.065 M = 2.84; F = 74.1; P = 0.00 Corectness of classification on analyzed data (Orava region, n = 226) 78.3% Corectness of classification on ... Kysuce region Explanatory variable (bi) estimation Orava region Wald st bi (bi/s(bi)) Altitudinal vegetation zone – Ecological- trophical order estimation The Low Tatras region Wald st estimation Wald...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 10:21

... [26,30] As a consequence, the expression of biomarkers and clinical information requires integration into comprehensive translational assessments of the patient’s risk constellation The ISIR algorithm ... particularly information relating to biomarkers However, translational integration of this large amount of information into one risk assessment is a major challenge A multiple regression model derived ... immunhistochemistry UK Conceived and designed the research, worked on the interpretation of data and introduced the conception of ISIR All authors read and approved the final manuscript Declaration of competing...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... is the performance of the component, l = 1, , M Then the universal generating function of the component is: M ∑q z probability; U ( z ) is the universal generating function of the , qM } , where ... is the number of components in subsystem i ; M i is the number of possible states of subsystem i Gm is the performance of subsystem i ; qm is the corresponding Assume that the component has M ... multistate monotone coherent systems IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 1994, Vol 43, No.2, pp.242– 250 J Huang, M J Zuo, and Y Wu, “Generalized multi-state k-out -of- n:G systems,” IEEE Transactions on...

Ngày tải lên: 03/01/2014, 19:38

... assessment, based primarily on knowledge of software faults, installed software and high-level descriptors of running computers One extension should be the inclusion of representations of configuration ... collection, ProgramFault, which has eighteen direct specializations such as the collection of denial of service faults, the collection of readable mail faults and the collection of input validation ... resolution -based reasoning system, consisting of a general theorem-prover and a growing regiment of over eight hundred special-purpose modules Each module is an implementation of a pattern of reasoning...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 23:20

... mediale The acceleration value of the first period of oscillations, calculated from the oscillation graph, characterizes the deformation of the tissue The data of the next oscillation period provided ... testing end of myometer; amax is the maximal amplitude of oscillation, and ∆l is the depth of the displacement of the testing end Measurements for determination of muscle tone during one week work ... PC), (4) where: PO – correspondence proportion of objective experimental data with respondents' responses (yes or no), PC – correspondence proportion of data with number of participants (PC = Σpi2,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... and the presence of colour did not significantly improve the perception of the distribution resulting from the glossy zones This paper deals with the visual detection of TW, based of its shiny aspect, ... analysis software was then used to quantify the area occupied by TW in each ring The algorithm was based on the subtraction of the red component of the image from the blue one This operation enhances ... detailed observation of the concerned rings does not clearly explain the reason why macroscopic detection failed in 48 M.A Badia et al Figure Cumulative distribution function of the tension wood percentage...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:21

... proportion of available information of pattern K in dataset; F%, K: proportion of explained information of pattern K from clinical history; N%-cutoff: proportion of optimized available information of ... examination methods PDA was evaluated with estimations of accuracy (proportion of true results in the population, equation 8), sensitivity [31] (proportion of successful pattern differentiations that ... values of F% and by ascending values of N% or N%-cutoff Comparison between PDA with N% and N%-cutoff Both conditions (N% and N%-cutoff) were tested to evaluate the effect of curve dislocation on...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:21

... regulation Greenhouse gas (GHG) sequestration of cropping systems GHG sequestration of alternative land-use compositions and configuration Carbon sequestration, influence of vegetation on infiltration ... and suggested solutions for improvement 68 6.2.1 Technical limitations 68 6.2.2 Conceptual limitations 70 Conclusions and Recommendations 75 7.1 Conclusions 75 7.2 Recommendations 76 References ... et al (2009) concluded the vital role of remote sensing in natural resources management as the provision of consistent measurements of landscape condition, which allows detection of both abrupt...

Ngày tải lên: 28/05/2016, 16:55

... and the risk profile of the investor It might be clear that for these reasons the views of Bryant (1980) and of Diamond and Dybvig (1983) on the bank as a coalition of depositors, of Akerlof (1970) ... derivatives being the only exception – but to be offered by financial institutions in one-to-one transactions Their capital strength, liquidity, professionalism, and reputation of trust and confidentiality ... theoretical point of view The theory is impressive by the multitude of applications in the financial world of the agency theory and the theory of asymmetric information, of adverse selection and moral...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 09:11

... developed of the Yl family in the (A) sagittal, is overlaid in bold distance of 8.7 and 13.7, respectively They form one family of 10 trials, El, and a smaller one, E2, of 6, all consisting of elderly ... length of the elderly groups Only the El family displayed a higher absorption of the AlF (-.107 -+ 109W/kg) due to an adduction ankle moment The AlF power generation can be considered as a reaction ... center of a 10-m walkway to cover the volume required for at least one complete gait cycle of the right lower limb A third camera was placed in front of the subject and aligned along the axis of...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 07:20

... Space A context vector is the sum of the vectors of concepts that occur in a context window If many of the concepts in a window have a strong component for one of the topics, then the sum of the ... Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence Rada Mihalcea 2003 The role of non-ambiguous words in natural language disambiguation In Proceedings of the Conference ... Section demonstrates the application of this resource on WSD, and presents the results of our experiments Section discusses factors that could affect the acquisition process and then we conclude...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 04:22

... image of surface for the sample x=0.03 at the 10µm scale (a) A sample segmentation into the squares for calculation of the fractal dimension (b) Model of conductivity for perovskites based on ... Model of conductivity for perovskites based on 53 Table summarizes the measurement details and results (D, f, L and L ) For the calculation of f , the percolation threshold concentration xc ... critical exponents n in the low temperature region; this fact argues for the fractal nature of n, but the confirmation needs further investigation In contrast to the fractal dimension determined on the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 13:20

... Sections and present the model Section derives the information contagion Section demonstrates the herding behavior in response to information contagion and incorporates flight to quality Section ... correlation of bank loan returns The direction of information contagion, the localized nature of contagion and herding, and the welfare properties, are also characterized J.E.L Classification: G21, ... Information Contagion and Inter-Bank Correlation in a Theory of Systemic Risk Abstract Two aspects of systemic risk, the risk that banks fail together, are modeled and their interaction examined:...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20

... 5% of the sequences in Swissprot may contain such errors (T Gibson, personal communication) Seed alignment construction HMM construction The initial members of a seed were collected from one of ... other domains on the same chain or is A DATABASE OF PROTEIN DOMAIN FAMILIES Figure (Continued) 411 412 E.L.L SONNHAMMER ET AL Fig Construction of Pfam-B by Domainer Plot of Domainer run on Swissprot ... We have de- Fig Proportion of Swissprot 33 (A) in Pfam, based on sequences and residues The portion of unique sequences is slightly overestimated because of the exclusion of fragments and sequences...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 16:20

... chunking In Proc of 6th CoNLL, pages 63–69 S Kurohashi and M Nagao 1994 A syntactic analysis method of long Japanese sentences based on the detection of conjunctive structures Computational Linguistics, ... Section 2.3 and confirmed 70.6% (522/751) of the final bunsetsus of clause boundary units depended on the final bunsetsu of other clause boundary units Here, the specifications of these annotations ... next section describes a parsing unit of Japanese monologue Section presents dependency parsing based on clause boundaries The parsing experiment and the discussion are reported in Sections and...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 04:20

... adverbs, or connectives Example VP J o n WOn Jon wins, is winning Jon will win Jon had won Jon has won Jon will have won The reinterpretation of comma as precedence due to the presence of an adverb ... STSs or his constraints on their combination Our explanation, by contrast, uses the same mechanism, the default -based semantics of comma, in every portion of the theory Reinterpretation of comma ... disambiguation Such a theory, and an implementation of a disambiguator based on it, are the subjects of this paper In addition to its potential for syntactic disambiguation, a theory of these temporal...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 20:20

... grounds for relations maintain clarity based on concrete structural relations A semantic relation construction of frames based on structural relationships is another possible application of LCS approaches ... Palmer 2000 Class -based construction of a verb lexicon In Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 691–696 Menlo Park, CA; Cambridge, MA; London; AAAI Press; MIT ... argue that some types of relationships between frames are automatically calculated using the LCS approach For example, one of the relations is based on an inclusion relation of two LCS structures...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 03:20

... different reaction conditions for C3H6 oxidation Composition Concentration, % Deficient oxygen Excess oxygen condition Excess oxygen condition with condition with co-existing of CO co-existing of CO and ... oxidation of carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide, - The formation of water via an adsorbed hydroxyl species (OH), - Reactions for the conversion of nitrogen oxides [101] Table 1.4 Surface reactions of ... condition 49 Figure 3.3 C3H6 conversion of CeCo1-4 in different reaction conditions (condition a: excess oxygen condition with the presence of CO: 0.9 %C3H6, 0.3%CO, 5%O2, N2 balance, condition b:...

Ngày tải lên: 12/05/2014, 17:14

... contrast to the broader definition of the two phase nature of nanofluids (solidsin-fluid mixtures) The most common formation of nanoemulsions arises from a stable suspension of droplets of one ... and Diffusion,Deposition of NPs on Heating Surface Brownian Motion,Deposition of NPs on Heating Surface Aggregation and Diffusion,Thermal Conductivity Enhancement (alone) Long Range Structural ... sample of publications The criterion for selecting Page 25 of 37 the publications of the secondary group of level was the nanofluid material composition It was decided to select the nanofluid...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 03:20

... representation of QMF bank [14, 15], the constrained optimization problem (31) is converted into an unconstrained one The use of lattice QMF representation for converting the constrained optimization ... spread of wavelet in time This definition of time-duration gives a measure of time localization of the wavelet [25] Now, the above definition of time duration is used for selecting the support of the ... Criterion for Obtaining Optimal WP Tree Based on Bark Scale The criterion minimizes a cost function and allocates an optimal set of number of terminating nodes at each level of decomposition so...

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