... the European Union NB - COUNT and SVM - NORMF for perspective classification; Pang et al (2002) consider most and Yu et al (2008) all of the above for related tasks of movie review and political ... wars and conflicts, education, trade relations in and between countries like Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt, Yemen, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, as well as their relations with the US and members of the ... use University of Maryland Death Penalty Corpus (Greene and Resnik, 2009) of 1085 texts from a number of proand anti-death penalty websites We report 4-fold cross-validation (DP-4) using the folds...
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... contents of NS needles from class and class II trees (1980-1983; based on dry weight) differ significantly in the levels of starch, TP and F26BP, in that class II needles show a decrease in starch, ... southern part of the Black Forest (Kalbelescheuer and Haldenhof, near Freiburg, F.R.G.) Collection and freeze-drying of needle samples well as metatrolite analyses bed elsewhere (Einig and as Hampp ... thus be indicative of increased tween starch and sucrose will sucrose visible signs of damage The determination of F26BP levels in needles could constitute an early indicatorof affected carbon...
... incidence of GBS bacteremia and meningitis in cellulitis-adenitis syndrome, as well as on the value of acute phase reactants to predict them and to adjust the duration of parenteral antibiotic ... but abrupt onset of a fever, as well as poor feeding and/or irritability Cellulitis was predominantly located in the submandibular region But, in isolated cases, cellulitis was found in preauricular, ... is relevant because it is often associated with bacteremia and meningitis (91% and 24% of cases, respectively, according to a recent review [5]) Meningitis has been found even in infants in good...
... point of the last rib The combined thickness of skin and SAT was measured using the scanner's software These measurements were thus the standard "P2 measurements" used in the pig industry Image analysis ... of the hips For analyses a reconstruction algorithm favoring contrast resolution was used Ultrasound scanning and measurements The thickness of skin plus SAT was determined at the "P2" site using ... species Methods Animals Twelve Danish Landrace female pigs were used At the outset of the study, their mean age (standard deviation in parenthesis) was 116 (1.1) days, and mean body-mass was 51.7 (4.0)...
... series of ages to assess the efficacy of the selection As testis size may also be anindicatorof ovulation rate and litter size (Land 1973), records of reproductive performance were kept and will ... body weight might simply be anindicatorof allometric growth of internal organs, and that high ratios of weights of several organs to body weight are anindicatorof approaching maturity In the ... with index there was a substantial direct response of sd in the index and correlated responses of the order of sd of increasing body weight and decreasing testis weight Estimates of realized heritability...
... sacrificed and the ovaries and uterus excised Corpora lutea asan estimate of ovulation rate and the number of live foetuses were counted, and prenatal mortality calculated as their ratio (ie assuming ... performance and fattening and carcass characters in the pig Ann Genet Sel Anim 3, 153-160 Morris CA (1975) Genetic relationships of reproduction with growth and with carcass traits in British pigs Anim ... Jenkins JC, Land RB (1990) Selection on testis size asanindicatorof maturity in growing animals Genet Sel Evol 22, 229-244 Islam ABMM, Hill WG, Land RB (1976) Ovulation rate of lines of mice selected...
... the type of roof substrate, the age of the building/roof and whether the roof had been cleaned recently Alternatively, it may indicate that using NOx concentrations asanindicatorof air quality ... limitation of this study might be because of road density is a proxy measure for vehicle density and may not be an accurate reflection of traffic and emission 36 Urban bushland was significantly associated ... presence and abundance of lichens may be affected by a number of factors besides air quality These include the type of roof substrate, the age of the building/roof and whether the roof had been cleaned...
... worked as a cassette player and examiner The marking was done with the same way of assessment and then was analyzed in turn The class with English songs in teaching process was called class A, ... column of marks seven and eight is higher in class A However, the comparison of the modes reveal that the class B seems to be better than class A as its modes of six is higher than the one of class ... -Correlation: N Class A Class B 30 30 Mean 5.3667 5.1667 Std Deviation 1.56433 1.59921 Median 5 The mean of 5.3667 says that class A is a little bit better than class B whose mean is 5.1667 The means also...
... plasmid construct was verified by sequencing Establishment of stable transfectants and the luciferase assay An aliquot of 0.4 lg of each plasmid was transfected into · 105 HeLa cells with lipofectamine2000 ... (luciferase) was secreted into the culture medium A 50 lL aliquot of culture medium from each transfectant was used to measure luciferase activity The luciferase activity was measured using the ... observations, we reasoned that the transcriptional inhibition of Gb3S may be an effective means of treatment of Gb3-related diseases Previously, we have identified and characterized the human Gb3S promoter...
... value of intention as a predictor of enrolment in and attendance of preventive programs At this stage health behaviour is not severely restricted by a case of emergency or the burden of a disease ... procedures by means of a covering letter at baseline and by an informative meeting The coaching program offered was free of charge but participation at five sessions during leisure time was required ... less of the predetermined workload On top of this, additional information was given by two scales indexing (mental) health conditions: Psychological distress was assessed using German version of...
... could just as easily contain all of the item we have added Dim SyncItemValues(1) As Variant Dim SyncItemServerHandles(1) As Long Dim SyncItemServerErrors() As Long ' Get the Servers handle for ... ClientHandles and ItemServerHandles variables a lot Just what are these “handles” A handle is an identifier assigned in software to point to a memory location or data point When you connect to an OPC ... your group has new data for you • The DataChange event tells you how many items changed, gives you back the client handles so you know which ones changed, and the data, quality, and timestamp...
... macronutrients are often partly remobilized from older annual rings and transferred towards younger and more active parts of the wood (Ogner and Bjor, 1988; Häsänen and Huttunen, 1989; Peterson and Anderson, ... climate, with an average annual rainfall of 700 mm It stands on different formations of the Lias The substrate frequently consists of marl, in some places limestone, but rarely of sandstone, and it ... gradual decline of the soil acid neutralizing capacity (Van Breemen et al, 1984) and in most cases leads to a decrease in available Mg Ca , 2+ 2+ and K an increase in Al and often, but 3+ , +...
... Ziemmermann MH (1983) Xylem Structure and the Ascent of Sap Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Over van den L, Baas P, Zandee M (1981) Comparative wood anatomy of Symplocos and latitude of provenance IAWA ... changes and conditions of tree growth in a stand, is very important from the wood-application and silviculturepractice points of view It should be noted that only quantitative assessments of ... dominant tree) For latewood vessels, with increasing age of growth rings, an increase in the lumen diameter and in the number of vessels per unit area was observed (table III) However, an increase...
... in temperature A number of studies addressing plant and animal phenophases (recurrence of annual phenomena such as plant budding) have been performed Polar areas or areas of colder climates seem ... growing season by +0.36 day/year (an advancement of spring by 6.3 days and a delay in fall of 4.3 days).48 It was also noted in this study that the advancement was more pronounced in areas of northern ... comparison of ragweed plants released from dormancy at three 15-day intervals, Rogers and colleagues determined that the plants released from dormancy first had increased height, increased weight, and...
... understanding of regulatory mechanisms of bone mineralization and Pi homeostasis, and in assessment of therapeutic aspects of human bone/Pi-associated disorders Additional material Page of Additional ... (NPP) as the substrate One unit of enzyme was defined as that releasing μmole of Pi from NPP per Protein was measured with a BCA Protein Assay Reagent Kit (Pierce) Serum ALP levels were assessed as ... [10,11] PHEX, another potent mediator of phosphate homeostasis, has been identified from analyses of human Xlinked hypophosphatemic rickets (XLH) [12] and Hyp mutant models [13,14] Loss -of- function...
... bars are the standard error of the mean n = individual heads (ODC) and an isoform of arginine decarboxylase designated as ADC2 (see below) showed a significant increase following inoculation with ... polyamines and amino acids measured in the time-course experiment (Figure and Figure 3) with disease and DON levels, we also measured DON levels and fungal biomass (Figure 4) during disease development ... trichothecenes such as DON are toxic to animals and humans when present in feed and food products, respectively [6] Because of the undesirable effects of DON on human and animal health, its presence in...
... the vast majority of the primary land mass of North America, extending from Canada, through the United States and Mexico, as far south as Costa Rica (Figure 2.1) This range of latitudes and longitudes ... change over recent decades and relate changing abundances to climate AnIndicatorof the Impact of Climate Change on Populations of Bird Species in the USA 3.1 Introduction Climate change has ... 50° W) was selected to encompass the northern and southern range margins of the vast majority of the 384 North American breeding species to be modeled, including the entirety of mainland Canada,...
... lint, and other processed commodities—in the total export basket By this measure and using Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) data on the portfolio of product exports, the export basket of Zimbabwe has ... machinery and transport equipment as well as some miscellaneous manufactures such as furniture parts and medical instruments In the long term, the technology content of Zimbabwe’s exports has barely ... trade asan engine of growth Two bright spots in recent performance are underscoring the promise of Zimbabwean exports for future growth: the surge of mining exports and the emergence of China as...