three tier model and its siblings

... the complex sampling design and account for sampling weights Model included only demographic factors, model included demographic factors, BMI, and perceived health, and model included all previous ... analyzed and interpreted the data and wrote the draft version RR and AAFH and RR were involved in the acquisition of the data IR, DCP, DM, PH and RB were involved in the writing of the paper and critical ... GUIA: a model for understanding and promoting physical activity in Brazil and Latin America J Phys Act Health;7(suppl 2): S131-34 24 Bernal R, Silva NN Home landline telephone coverage and potential...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:21

... the validation of the Fama and French three factor model in the Thailand stock market from June 2002 to May 2007 The research result showed that the three factors model explaining the effect ... however, is not high, the standard deviation is below 8%/month, the highest violation is only 7.61%/month Table 2: Regression of CAPM and Fama and French Three factors Model sorted by portfolios: ... portfolios applying the Fama and French model is 1.08 The smaller intercept coefficients in the Fama and French model, the more significance level of the variables putting into the model compared with...

Ngày tải lên: 13/09/2015, 17:51

... the proposed model and scheme are explored and investigated, and well-known perceptual models related to the proposed JND model are discussed • A new spatio-temporal DCT-based CSF model, which ... domain, subband JND models are of particular interest because CSF can be more easily incorporated in subband and more images are coded in a subband scenario A typical subband-based JND model consists ... CSF model is combined with luminance adaptation and contrast masking to form a complete JND model Subjective testing shows that our model outperforms existing models in JND value prediction, and...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2015, 17:17

... the protean career, I develop a three- factor model, which is discussed in the next section Three- Factor Model The three- factor model (Figure 1) contends that three types of factors — individual ... managers and employees are assuming greater responsibility for planning their career moves and identifying the steps required to achieve them Implications of the Three- Factor Model The three- factor model ... Human Resource Portals and the Protean Career 123 their own career advancement opportunities The three- factor model has implications for research and practice for both employees and employers Introduction...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 08:20

... Deciduous broadleaf, Mixed cover, and Woodland; - Wooded grasslands; 8, - Closed shrublands, and Open shrublands; 10 - Grasslands; 11- Crop land; and Areal-Average potential evapotranspiration over basin ... forest 0.18 125 Mixed forest 0.18 125 Woodland 0.18 125 Wooded grasslands 0.19 135 Closed shrublands 0.19 135 Open shrublands 0.19 135 Grasslands 0.20 120 Croplands 0.10 120 3.3 Meteorological data ... UMD 1km Global Land Cover (http:// www.geog.umd.edu/landcover/1km-map.html) based on AVHRR and LDAS (Land Data Assimilation System) information AVHRR provides information on globe land classification...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 16:20

... include Gilboa and Schmeidler (1989), Epstein and Wang (1994), Anderson, Hansen, and Sargent (2000), Chen and Epstein (2002), Hansen and Sargent (2001), Epstein and Miao (2003), Routledge and Zin (2002), ... under the reference model by choosing a ¼ and b ¼ 0, and ventures into other models by choosing some other a and b Let P be the entire collection of such models defined by a and b We are now ready ... times t 6¼ s, Zt and Zs are independent, and all three types of random shocks B, N, and Z are assumed to be independent This specification of aggregate endowment follows from Naik and Lee (1990)...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 10:20

... Here, C0 is the current character, C−1 and C1 denote the previous and next characters, and C−2 and C2 are the characters located two positions to the left and right of C0 One limitation of their ... about 400 in Chinese and 50 in Japanese, and it is impossible to list all the candidates Our analysis shows that beyond the 10th candidate, almost all the probabilities of the candidates in both ... 0.785 0.794 Table 3: Model combination results Conclusions and future work In this paper we have presented our new joint optimization method for a two-step CRF model and its fast decoding algorithm...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 00:20

... shown in Tables and The columns 1, 2, and SU4 in the tables respectively refer to ROUGE-1, ROUGE-2, and ROUGE-SU4 In addition, rand100k refers to the randomized algorithm with 100,000 randomlygenerated ... summarization as a knapsack problem and obtained the global solution and its approximate solutions Its relation to our method will be discussed in Section 6.1 Filatova and Hatzivassiloglou (2004) first ... 557–564 Pawan Deshpande, Regina Barzilay, and David Karger 2007 Randomized decoding for selection-andordering problems In Proceedings of the Human Language Technologies Conference and the North American...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 22:20

... kodakaraensis, Candida glabrata and Yarrowia lipolytica, the Rossmann proteins are two to three times more redundant than proteins in general The redundancy among eukaryotes increases with genome size and ... pumping nicotinamide nucleotide transhydrogenase, a three domain protein with the first and third domain binding NAD and NADP, respectively, and the second domain consisting of 13–14 TM helices ... of the Rossmann fold (b1a1b2), there are three glycine residues surrounded by hydrophobic residues, with the first glycine at the end of the b1 strand and the other two at the beginning of the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 10:21

... MLS projection is its ability to handle noisy data We extend the MLS technique to a moving parabolic approximation (MPA), which is a model of a second-order projection The MPA model is naturally ... (6) where E =1, F =0 and G =1 at the foot-point ox The second form of S*(u,v) is given by II * = Ldu + 2Mdudv + Ndv , (7) where L = a*, M = b* and N = c* The mean curvature H* and the Gaussian curvature ... calculation and Proposition 1, we obtain the minimum and maximum principal curvatures of the underlying surface S at ox:  * κ = H * − H * − K * ,   (9)   * κmax = H * + H * − K *    and the...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 10:20

... word-based 2-gram model for bunsetsu generation and the character-based 2-gram model as an unknown word model (Mori and Yamaji, 1997) are common to the POS-based model and class-based model Their contribution ... summation over all its possible derivations In order to compare the POSbased dependency model and the class-based dependency model, we constructed these models from the same learning corpus and calculated ... method is more predictive than the POS-based model and that our word clustering Table 3: Accuracy of each model language model POS-based model class-based model select always the next bunsetsu cross...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 04:20

... Parvovirus LuIII Proposed Model for the Replication of Parvovirus LuIII A model for the replication of the (+) and the (-) strand of LuIII is shown The NS1 nick site and its complementary sequence ... in equivalent amounts of plus and minus DNA viral strands (figure 6) In this model the plus and minus DNA strands, independently initiate replication from the right and left hairpins respectively ... labeled by random primed Digoxigenin-11-dUTP Cotransfection of pGLu883∆Xba/LuIII Lt-Lt (lane 2), resulted in three sets of doublet bands These doublets were of ~1.8, ~1.2 and ~.8 kb These bands not...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... Parvovirus LuIII Proposed Model for the Replication of Parvovirus LuIII A model for the replication of the (+) and the (-) strand of LuIII is shown The NS1 nick site and its complementary sequence ... in equivalent amounts of plus and minus DNA viral strands (figure 6) In this model the plus and minus DNA strands, independently initiate replication from the right and left hairpins respectively ... labeled by random primed Digoxigenin-11-dUTP Cotransfection of pGLu883∆Xba/LuIII Lt-Lt (lane 2), resulted in three sets of doublet bands These doublets were of ~1.8, ~1.2 and ~.8 kb These bands not...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... mobility models in MANET simulation is the random walk mobility model [4] In this model, the movement direction and speed at some time t + Δt has no relationship with the direction and speed ... makes this model memoryless, and generates a nonrealistic movement for each MN, presenting sharp turns, sudden stops, and accelerations Some other models based on the random walk mobility model have ... Analytical modeling The SIMM model uses two Markov chains with discrete parameters and states (0, 1, and 2), to represent movements in the x- and y-coordinate, with changes in coordinates x and y...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... physical safety and security, (c) Health and social care: accessibility and quality, (d) Home environment, (e) Opportunities for acquiring new information and skills, (f) Participation in and opportunities ... position in life in the context of the culture and value systems in which he/she lives and in relation to his/her goals, expectations, standards, and concerns” [26] The cross-cultural nature of ... between QoL globally and in its four domains [38] We did not focus here on the physical domain The objectives of this study were to assess the QoLpsychological and to analyse its association with...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... bleeding and a generally poor fetal prognosis [5] Proper pre-operative evaluation and diagnostic techniques can help ensure a timely diagnosis, and preoperative treatment such as embolization and ... positive on 28th April and dilatation and evacuation was performed on 29th April Two days before admission to hospital her pain increased in severity and was associated with fever and painful micturition ... to the omentum, the bowel and the posterior surface and the right cornua of the uterus Partial omentectomy was performed and part of the placenta was left behind Two units of blood were transfused...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:21

... genetic risk model and gene-environment interaction model in the solution space, defined by pDZg and fge respectively, the variances Vg and Vge can then be calculated, as can γmax and γmin For ... Vg+Ve VP is input and a single solution for Ve and Vg calculated Heritabilities are given by: H2 = Vg/VP h2 = VA/VP Ve and ε are input and Vg and Vge calculated, for a chosen cMD and all possible ... Biology and Medical Modelling 2006, 3:35 http://www.tbiomed.com/content/3/1/35 Example 2model solution space with RMD < 1+RSD and Uge ≥ Figure Example model solution space with RMD < 1+RSD and Uge...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:21

... discrete model of the cell cycle and a continuous macroscopic model of tumor growth and invasion The basis of the model is that the sensitivity to irradiation depends on cell cycle phase and that ... Individual-based models of cell movement, e.g the Potts Page 17 of 19 (page number not for citation purposes) Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2006, 3:7 model [49,50] and the Langevin model [51], ... and contributed to linking the sub-models together SS elaborated the genetic Boolean network model of colorectal oncogenesis and its implementation He also supervised manuscript preparation and...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20

... 103] (A) The skull model; (B) the brain model with 11 pairs of bridging veins; (C) sagittal cross section of the head and neck model; (D) anatomical structures modeled in KTH model ... a subject-specific model of human skull and brain (Model 1) segmented from CT and MRI data by Mimics The meshed model on the right shows the mid-sagittal view of the skull and CSF except the ... 56  Table 11: Element number and element type in Model and Model 82  Table 12: Material properties of both the intracranial and extracranial components used in the models 84  Table...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:04

... constraints and heterogeneities such as limited battery power, limited processing power, limited bandwidth, random time-varying fading effect, different protocols and standards, and stringent ... workload, we thus focus on the model between decoding workload and video quality and its relevant applications in this thesis The study of the decoding workload model is important because: 1) ... of frames This prediction model makes use of previous frames’ workloads, and incoming frames’ types and sizes The history-based models need to fully decode the video bitstream to obtain the historical...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 09:07