... neuropathy group, and their perception ofarangeof research grade monofilaments applied to six sites on the plantar aspect of the foot Methods Ethical approval was granted by Torbay Local Research ... test was clearly explained to the participant, and a monofilament was demonstrated on the inside of the investigator's forearm and then repeated at the same site on the participant They were asked ... ulceration [7,9,10] One study [11] calculated that lack of perception of the 10-gram monofilament equated toa 10-fold increased risk of ulceration The employment ofarangeof monofilaments have...
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... (RRA) approach to initial project preparation was developed By the end of the decade, there was arangeof RRA methods and approaches available which then gave rise to participatory rural appraisal ... University of Greenwich, UK PHFRP (DFID) Post-Harvest Fisheries Research Programme PLA Participatory Learning and Action PPA Participatory Poverty Assessment PRA Participatory Rural Appraisal RMA Rapid ... requires a relatively larger number of interviews Rapid market appraisal The origins of rapid market appraisal (RMA) are similar to those of rapid rural appraisal (RRA), in that formal surveys were often...
... Makoto Nagao 199 4a KN Parser: Japanese dependency/case structure analyzer In Proceedings of Workshop on Sharable Natural Language Resources, pages 48–55 Sadao Kurohashi and Makoto Nagao 1994b A ... Scaling to very very large corpora for natural language disambiguation In Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL- 2001), pages 26–33 David A ... http://chasen.org/˜taku/ software/cabocha/ 636 ascertain the fundamental characteristics of these strategies 3.1 SVM of CaboCha, and tested with second- and third-degree polynomial kernels The input data for each...
... Cartoon heroes are easy to draw usinga bunch of circles and ovals to capture their exaggerated muscles Follow along and give it a try for yourself! Step - Body, Head & Legs First draw the torso ... example as closely as possible, and remember to draw lightly at this beginning stage of the drawing so that you can easily erase any unnecessary guidelines later Step - Arms & Muscles Exaggerate ... will make the top of the cape Add a few lines as shown to form a neck and upper arms Step - Final Details Use some short curved lines to indicate the sleeve length on the arms and the top of the...
... extension of the linguistic theories of Halliday and his colleagues The Appraisal framework, an approach to exploring, describing and explaining the way language is used to evaluate, to adopt stances, ... attribution and its characteristics in syntax, semantics and pragmatics are still inaccessible to many of us 2 THEORETICAL BACKGROUND 2.2.1 Overview of Appraisal Theory The Appraisal framework is an extension ... interpersonal meaning at the level of discourse semantics The framework of appraisal theory accommodates analysis of stance as positioning in relation to values and voices in the text The model of Appraisal...
... rectum, sinus/nasal, stomach, testicles and thyroid, as well as melanoma (a form of skin cancer), multiple myeloma (cancer of the plasma cells of bone marrow) and neuroblastoma (cancer of the nerve ... 21 can affect reproduction and 15 are nervous system toxicants A number of published studies using animal toxicity data and human cells/ tissue laboratory data also show that pesticides are linked ... also a root cause of asthma A landmark 2004 study finds that not only environmental exposures lead to above-average asthma rates among children, but that timing of exposure is also crucial Examining...
... probable that resistance to change may at times have a positive effect on the outcome of organizational change, and that it may be strategically valuable to an organization For example, it is imaginable ... perceptions and attitudes are associated with resistance to change and/or support for change Additionally, it aims to provide theoretical and, perhaps, practical insights to organizations, top managers, ... organizational change is problematic: situations in which changes are undertaken are shifting, it is harder for organizations, and in particular top managers as well as change agents, to prepare...
... Many thanks to the rest of the STOP team, and especially to Ian McCann and Annette Hermse for their work in the clinical trial Thanks also to Yaji Sripada, Sandra Williams, and the anonymous reviewers ... output can be compared toa human transcription ofa speech signal), this to date has been harder to in NLG, especially in applications such as STOP where there are no human experts (Reiter et al., ... clinical trial But the cheapness of (1) and (2) were partially due to the fact that they were too small to produce statistically solid findings, and the cheapness of (2) and (3) were partially due to...
... task Finally, we compare our approach toa stateof-the-art tagger, based on Brill's transformation based approach; we show that SNOWbased taggers already achieve results that are comparable to ... training data, and will allow the algorithm to adapt to the new context For example, a language acquisition system with a tagger trained on a general corpus can quickly adapt toa specific domain, ... network to adapt to new data While online algorithms are at a disadvantage - each example is processed only once before being discarded - they have the advantage of (in principle) being able to quickly...
... design of the study, statistical analysis, and data interpretation, and drafted the manuscript AA performed the statistical analysis VMF and SJP participated in the data acquisition and interpretation ... interests Authors’ contributions HK participated in the data acquisition, analysis, and interpretation SP contributed to data analysis and interpretation, and carried out immunoassays RP participated ... 158:20-29 33 Jarvinen AK, Autio R, Haapa-Paananen S, Wolf M, Saarela M, Grenman R, Leivo I, Kallioniemi O, Makitie AA, Monni O: Identification of target genes in laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma by high-resolution...
... Ken Goldman, Jonathan Jackson, Craig Kawahara, Mike Ma, Chad Moats, Sasha Parry, Greg Peters, Ian Peters-Campbell, Brian Pridham, Rajiv Ramanasankaran, Dave Robaska, Tom Seago, Charles Stearns, ... getApplicationDescriptors(handle); if (descriptors.length > 0) { ApplicationDescriptor descriptor = descriptors[0]; try { ApplicationManager manager = ApplicationManager getApplicationManager(); while (manager.inStartup()) ... gateway Domain name WapGatewayIP The gateway to use for a WAP connection IP address WayGatewayPort The port to use for a WAP connection Integer WapSourceIP Local IP address IP address WapSourcePort...
... developed as an alternative to both Medicaid fee-for-service (FFS) and to Medicaid managed care [20] The larger Choices in Care evaluation examines access to care and quality of care as well as patient ... of analyses below, the Dynamics of Care measure may be examined with respect to specific areas of care or summarized across areas to create a variety of different summary variables Health care ... interpretation that earlier delays can lead to greater use at a later time After controlling for baseline and other health status indicators, receipt of home-based care was associated with better access...
... Madrid, and Univere sidad de Alcal´ , all of them in Spain He has participated in more a than 40 projects and contracts and he has coauthored more than 100 journal and international conference papers ... where νx , νs > are adjustable parameters that control the variance of the propagation process, and zx,t , zs,t are complex Gaussian vectors with zero mean and covariance matrices I2 and INs , respectively ... Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA ’05), pp 64–69, Zagreb, Croatia, September 2005 M K Pitt and N Shephard, “Auxiliary variable based particle...
... estimation accuracy and the database size is achieved While θi takes values in the range [0, π), σi2 may take a very large value The straightforward quantisation of σi2 significantly increases ... constructed a 4.4 Determination of searching range We have measured the estimation accuracy and the processing time for different values of the searching range D We have evaluated the estimation accuracy ... successively store the pairs of {(ρ(m), θ(m))}M=1 into the m database If the database has already stored the same PARCOR vector as the current one, we delete it We denote the number of data sets which are...
... Cochard et al, 1992; Bréda et al, 1993) In addition, the ability to maintain significant rates of CO assimilation and to keep a functional pho- to- synthetic apparatus during drought may have an ... treatment or to oversaturation of the leaf disks Drought effects on stomatal conductance and net CO assimilation rate Stomatal conductance to water vapor (ψ ) w and net CO assimilation rates (A) dis2 ... Lincoln, NE, USA) Average (± standard deviation) leaf temperature (t leaf), a to- air difference in vapor mol fraction, CO mole fraction in the air (c and PFD at the leaf sur), a face were, respectively,...
... retrieval and analysis KY, KK, ES participated in immunostaining and data analysis HN participated in the management of this study All authors read and approved the final manuscript Page of Competing ... Kitayama J, Yasuda K, Kawai K, Sunami E, Nagawa H: Circulating lymphocyte number has a positive association with tumor response in neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy for advanced rectal cancer Radiat ... samples, and mean value was calculated in each case The longitudinal length of the rectal tumor was measured by barium enema study before and after CRT, and the ratio of tumor reduction was calculated...
... (Ajinomoto Foods, Hamburg, Germany) at a final concentration of 60 U per gram dry weight of cartilage block in 0.01 M acetic acid, adjusted to pH (transglutaminase was applied according to the protocol ... effects of the surface degradation treatment, the extracellular matrix content of cartilage blocks was analysed after being subjected to the respective agents Additionally, the supernatant was analysed ... perpendicular to the height of the articular cartilage block toa thickness of μm and stained with toluidine blue for GAGs [5] Determination of cytotoxicity The relative cytotoxicity of degrading and...
... to incomplete manifestations of SAPHO: either acne and arthritis or acne and anterior wall osteitis with an unclear pustulosis history The physician needs to make a careful inquiry about a past ... oligomerization domain protein 2/ caspase recruitment domain 15) system in the inflammasome (associated with Crohn disease) leading toa nuclear factorkappa-B overactivation may be involved in SAPHO ... Further trials are needed to create a model of SAPHO disease using P acnes transfer to healthy animals Mechanisms of ineffective host responses for neutralizing and eliminating P acnes should also...