toward a unified biofilm theory

... 564 A2 1 Polarization of Electromagnetic Radiation A2 1.1 Introduction A2 1.2 States of Polarization: Monochromatic Radiation A2 1.2.1 Linear polarization A2 1.2.2 Elliptical and circular polarization ... polarization A2 1.2.3 Stokes parameters A2 1.2.4 Stokes parameters for scattered radiation A2 1.3 States of Polarization: Quasi-Monochromatic Radiation A2 1.4 Change of Polarization: Depolarization Ratios, ... to Raman with the remark A scientist painted by a scientist’, Raman answered ‘No, an artist painted by an artist’ A detail of Waterlilies by Claude Monet white lead and lapis-lazuli blue (a) ...

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... | (A2 ) and (A4 ) hold for all z0 ∈ Γ1 and i ≤ N } (A2 ) and (A4 ) are, as noted earlier, analogs of (G1) and (G2) in Section 2.2 We claim that for T ∈ GN , (A3 ) and (A5 ) are satisfied automatically ... PHASE-SPACE DYNAMICS The goal of Part II is to identify, among all maps T : X → X that are near small perturbations of 1D maps, a class G with certain desirable features To explain what we have in ... (a) = fa (ˆ (a) ) ˆ Proposition 2.3 (i) a → q (a) is differentiable; (ii) as k → ∞, ∗ Qk (a ) := dˆk ∗ x da (a ) k−1 (fa∗ ) (ˆ1 (a )) x dq dˆ1 ∗ x → (a ) − (a ) = da da ∞ i=0 a fa (ˆi (a )) |a= a∗...

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... attempt a coup against Hitler Yet, procedures) of the United States, Britain, France, Brazil, Taiwan, Argentina, Romania, South Africa, Russia, and the Philippines are examined in Thomas C Bruneau, ... especially American intelligence that has drawn such a sharp distinction between home and abroad A more familiar line of inquiry begins with the observation that as the nature of states change, states—even ... form and asserted that at best a theory of intelligence is ambiguous.21 Some argued that a good theory should be applicable at all times and in all contexts Today’s policymaking process (and,...

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... Bangladesh (Lindenbaum), Amazonia (Johnson and Baksh, Good, Ross), Paraguay (Hawkes), Canadian sub-arctic (Winterhalder), Southeast Asia and Africa (Franke), Mexico (Pelto), Costa Rica (Edelman), ... Wilbert has observed of the Warao of the Orinoco delta "that some of the nutritionally most valuable game animals, especially tapir, and here and there also deer and paca, are traditionally tabooed" ... preferences and avoidances, dominate data collection On the other hand, etic foodways data not necessarily require eliciting operations and are reported in a data language whose units and categories are...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 16:29

... Note that assumption A1 above allows for coherent signals, and that in A2 the noise field is allowed to be arbitrarily spatially correlated with an unknown covariance matrix Assumption A3 is a wellknown ... 15] The IV-SSF approach has a number of appealing advantages over other DOA estimation methods These advantages include: • IV-SSF can handle noises with arbitrary spatial correlation, under minor ... algorithm can be summarized as follows: Assumptions — A batch of N samples of the array output y(t), that can accurately be described by the model (64.1) and (64.2) is available The array is calibrated...

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... group an action or reaction among actors that is triggered by an CATALYSIS outside agent a very small amount of catalytic agent can facilitate a very large-scale reaction If we think of tools and ... go hand-in-hand, posing a choice at every juncture, a choice that arises because of a basic dilemma—traditionally framed as a social dilemma Social Dilemmas: The Problem of the One and the Many ... on ways to structure and manage organizations—both large and small, public and private—to foster collaborative and cooperative behavior In particular, it gives us a more sophisticated analysis...

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... as it demanded that the film-maker be free to express himself in nonstandard language and inasmuch as it was an attempt at cultural decolonization But such attempts have already reached, or are ... militant cinema show that social layers considered backward are able to capture the exact meaning of an association of images, an effect of staging, and any linguistic experimentation placed ... of cinema, art, and beauty as universal abstractions and not as an integral part 0i the national processes of decoloniza tion Rene de la Mere, ,,,iento Zaveleta ides - vla: creci(Bolivia: Growth...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 10:20

... 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, pages 314-321 ACM Giambattista Amati, Edgardo Ambrosi, Marco Bianchi, Carlo Gaibisso, and Giorgio ... contextual information between the opinion and its corresponding target, Avatar in A and com- 1368 fortable (o1) are also regarded as relevant opinion mistakenly, creating a false positive In reality ... contribution of a sentiment word was its corresponding incremental mean average precision value This method required that large amount of training data and manual labeling Different from the above opinion...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 04:20

... best approximated by metrics that have similar f/c ratio as the application being evaluated and similar p/r ratio as the evaluation package used by the human assessors For example, an application ... separately evaluated Each version was evaluated by a human evaluator, with no reference answer available For this evaluation 115 test questions were used, and the human evaluator was asked to assess ... faithfulness/compactness ratio In this case, our evaluation framework predicts that the automatic evaluation metrics that explain most of the variation in the human evaluation must have a low α and a high N As...

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... bookstore that had also used the “Amazon” name Initially, one would assume that Amazon.com would have a good case for registering “Amazon” both as a trademark and a domain name Before the Amazon.com ... Halbert and others have argued that trademark protections are being expanded in ways that are inappropriate and potentially damaging to the market place A recent example that tends to support such a ... intellectual and creative works, so that they are not alienated from their actual creators and openly available to anyone This system would encourage and reward the sharing of information and the advancement...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 11:20

... Lowenthal and Reinhard Lettau have been a great help and a great pleasure Leo Lowenthal has again proved his reputation as a fierce reader and critic ; Reinhard Lettau has demonstrated that authentic ... exploitation This emancip ation , and the ways 36 toward it, transcend the realm of propaganda They are not adequately translatable into the language of political and economic strategy Art is a productive ... has been made into a rigid schema, a schematization that has had devastating conse­ quences for aesthetics The schema implies a normative notion of the material base as the true reality and a...

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... Computational Linguistics, pp.65-72 ACL’99 S Argamon, I Dagan, and Y Krymolowski (1998) A memory-based approach to learning shallow th language patterns In Proceedings of the 17 International Conference ... Computational Linguistics, pp.218-224 COLING-ACL’98 Lance A Ramshaw and Michael P Marcus ( In Press) Text chunking using transformation-based learning In Natural Language Processing Using Very large ... identification and POS tagging 4 Comparison approaches with other To our knowledge, three other approaches to baseNP identification have been evaluated using Penn Treebank-Ramshaw & Marcus’s transformation-based...

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... Levels r0 and rl of the HAEL theory are axiomatized, and shall extend the axiomatization to the higher theories by means of axiom schemata for the beliefs of the speaker and hearer Agents s and h ... (negatively) in Ai, then rj _ r~ (rj -< ri) Ao {P (a) , B (a) } AI - {LIP (a) A" ,LoF (a) D -,F (a) } A2 -" {L2B (a) A ",LI-,F (a) D F (a) } Theory r0 contains all of the first-order consequences of P (a) , ... self belief A stable ezpansio, (analogous to an extension of a default theory) of an autoepistemic base set A is a set of formulas T satisfying the following conditions: Hierarchical autoepistemic...

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... separation is motivated by various reasons, among them being: the intention to enable for a meaning-based transfer, via the semantic descriptions area, between monolingual dictionaries; the capability ... automatically classified during the learning (acquisition) phase (Tufis 1990) into an inheritance hierarchy A compilation phase transforms this hierarchy into the paradigms table The internally assigned ... necessarilY a leaf node because of the possibility of including one ending into a longer one Such a case is called intrinsic ambiguity All terminal nodes are attached to the paradigmatic information...

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... and develop positive values and motivation to act on those values u Provide access to clinical care, as appropriate 26 Young Men’s Sexual and Reproductive Health: Toward a National Strategy A ... u A clearinghouse to inventory and collate information about existing program approaches and to make them readily accessible to programs and program planners u Training and technical assistance ... pregnancy setting and achieving life goals parenting as a life goal values regarding parenthood/ fatherhood values regarding “being a man” physical exam screening for development abnormality primary...

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... recent past, the understanding of central bank transparency and communication has changed dramatically As it became increasingly clear that managing expectations is a central part of monetary policy, ... statements Federal funds futures months ahead Treasury yields 2-year 10-year Treasury forward rates to year ahead to years ahead to years ahead to years ahead Greenspan testimony Greenspan speeches ... to researchers, in particular with regard to data availability, the issues are at least as important, as it is the general public that gives central banks their democratic legitimacy, and hence...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20

... anti-access study with us xxi Glossary AB AMC APOD APOE APS ARCENT ARPAC ARSOUTH ASAT ASW ATACMS AWACS BCT C2 CBRNE CENTCOM CEP CONUS EMP Air Base Air Mobility Command Aerial Point of Debarkation ... • “Anti-Access in a Baltic Scenario,” 2003; “Anti-Access in a SWA Scenario,” 2003; “Anti-Access in a PRC-Taiwan Scenario,” 2003; and “Anti-Access Strategies: A Quantitative Analysis of Military ... to APODs and SPODs, and onward movement toward the tactical area Our assumption was that, in theory at least, an adversary could direct attacks or other actions against any of the nodes or arcs...

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... age, estimated odometer reading by age, annual mileage by age, estimated annual down days by age, and estimated annual parts and labor cost by age VaRooM also required economic parameters as inputs—specifically, ... Master Data File AMSAA Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity ASL Authorized Stockage List AWCF Army Working Capital Fund CAA Center for Army Analysis CBO Congressional Budget Office CEAC Cost and ... data for each vehicle, we averaged the data over the study period rather than using panel-data analytic techniques As more years of data on individual vehicles become available, it may be advantageous...

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