... contributors to society Second, federal, state, and local budgets will improve significantly when governments can dedicate more of their resources to productive endeavors, rather than to remediation, ... growth by an estimated 11 to 20 percent in recent years.*33 Increases in productivity are essential to economic growth and improved standards of living Current efforts toimprove student achievement ... likely to come from later savings in the criminal justice system The criminal justice savings alone are expected to pay for one-half to more than four-fifths of the cost to expand preschool to all...
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... October 13, 2010 MEMORANDUM TO: Kaitlyn Datzman Marcia Imbeau FROM: Ro Windwalker IRB Coordinator RE: New Protocol Approval IRB Protocol #: 10-09-117 Protocol Title: Using Dialogue Journals to ... began with introductory or topical sentences She continued to struggle with using verbs in past tenses and word order (see Appendix Z) Towards the end of January, Student began to use “would” instead ... were given the option to respond to a question from the novel or to write on a topic of their choosing The researcher gave the students bookmarks and assigned them to read to page 50 in the novel...
... set The simplest way to match query tokens to snippet tokens is to allow a query token to match any snippet token This can be problematic when we have queries that have a token repeated with different ... a given query, and then to transfer the tags from the snippet tokens to matching query tokens This “direct” transfer idea is at the core of all our experiments ... relevant snippets, such as selecting the snippets of the clicked results, using the top-10 results or using only the top result, perform similarly (see Table 1) We skip navigational queries,...
... in comparison to documents from other domains: Turney (2002) observes that the movie reviews are hardest to classify since the review authors tend to give information about the storyline of the ... to the antecedent which was the previous opinion target In the results of our experiments in Section 5, we will refer to the configurations using these extensions with the numbers attributed to ... fraction of the total number of pronouns are ac265 up over all folds In Table 4, a true positive refers to an extracted pronoun which was annotated as an opinion target and is resolved to the correct...
... handwritten text may be too small, light or closely-spaced to readily distinguish, causing the system to drop them entirely While Arabic disconnective letters may make it hard to determine word boundaries, ... 5.1.1 to the improvements gained in Table 3) The largest improvement comes with the addition of the bigram (thus introducing context into the model), but the trigram provides only a slight improvement ... list that the word appears in to the total number of hypotheses These numbers are calculated using the original N-best hypothesis list, before the data is trimmed to H={1, 10} Like the N-grams,...
... will lead to TMP resistance However, if the fusion construct is insoluble, E coli will be susceptible to the inhibitor In order to increase solubility, the target gene is mutated ) using either ... and shuffled to produce a mutant library, the members of which were then monitored for their ability to confer increased TMP resistance when fused to DHFR The genes corresponding to resistant ... ligand to a residue that is unlikely to bind metal The G270V residue is located next to a metal-binding residue ) this mutation is likely to cause a conformational change that is likely to further...
... yield an improvement of about 0.2 BLEU points on the Dev and Test set respectively (see table 2) 4.2 Effect of SMT quality Our motivation for this approach was to be able toimprove SMT performance ... to as the noisy sourcechannel approach in SMT (Brown et al., 1993) Bilingual corpora are needed to train the translation model and monolingual texts to train the target language model It is today ... These translations will be then used to detect potential parallel sentences in the English Gigaword corpus to use the best possible SMT systems to be able to retrieve the correct parallel sentences...
... scanning, photographing, recording image documents) into text files so that computers can totally encrypt.The purpose of this system is to change documents, books, newspapers… into digital documents ... to save or make a public property in the internet; classify characters and change it into the input of other systems such as: machine translation, text -to- speech and text mining…( Attending to ... causes the color noise when we want to change character images into monochromatic Some algorithms were used to reduce the documentary image noise Methods to reduce the noise by filter Median...
... it relates to robust analysis in a high-throughput laboratory, but performance still needs to be gauged with specific technologies Spectrophotometry and the PicoGreen assay measure total DNA present, ... Institute Boston, MA Helena Furberg, PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC France Gagnon, MSc, PhD University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health Toronto, ON, Canada ... point that is central to the search for moderate- to high-frequency low-penetrance variants associated with human diseases and traits (12) Efforts to replicate are necessary to guard against the...
... events in addition to network congestion toimprove the performance of TCP over wireless networks To address this issue, we propose a unified solution called TCP NCE for improving the performance of ... samples Compared to Blanton-Allman algorithm, RR TCP needs excessive computational and storage overhead TCP Persistent packet reordering (TCP PR) proposed toimprove the poor performance of TCP ... Experimental setup for end -to- end throughput performance We have used three different network topologies for evaluating the performance of TCP NCE throughput in order to show that our solution...
... due to congestion ESACK also mitigates bandwidth waste due to continuous ELN generation in a disconnection by appropriately filtering received ELNs according to their causes To investigate the performance ... cwnd for a timeout To calculate the jitter, the TCP sender has to store the sending time of each segment and the receiver has to report the segment receiving time in each ACK to the sender TCP ... restores the parameters and resumes data service Simulation Results To investigate the quantitative performance of the proposed scheme, we perform comprehensive simulation using the ns2 simulator...
... grouped into provinces), Using past growth toimprove diameter growth models 411 Table II Mean, standard deviation (S.D.) and range of the main characteristics in the study material related to P sylvestris ... the predicted plot factors were applied as well as the different correction factors for bias correction in diameter increment logarithmic regression Using past growth toimprove diameter growth ... measured in the field (using a hand lens); laboratory measurements using a microscope would produce more accurate data, but they would be too costly for practical forest inventories However, the...
... OCLC FirstSearch (1995 to October 2009), EThOS (British Library), Index to Theses (1716 to October 2009), Intute, HMIC - Ovid (1979 to October 2009), SIGLE, Scopus (1823 to October 2009) Search strategies ... Knowledge (1970 to October 2009), Science Citation Index Web of Knowledge (1970 to October 2009), Conference Proceedings - Web of Knowledge (1970 to October 2009), PsycINFO - Ovid (1806 to October Week ... order toimprove healthcare performance The objectives of this review were: to determine the effectiveness of strategies to change organisational culture in improving healthcare performance and to...
... organization Quality improvement [28,40] seeks toimprove and/or reduce variation in work processes toimprove the organization's ability to meet its goals Action research, as applied to organizations, ... with the greatest improvement Using the resulting sample, we were able to examine what strategies were present at top performing organizations, circumstances prior to their top perform- Page ... needed evidence for how toimproveperformance Finally, there was substantial impetus from both clinical and management staff to reduce door -to- balloon time Reducing door -to- balloon times both...
... years of age) to confirm risk-based performance Patient record, registration form, to analyse risk management Patient record, registration form, questionnaire to analyse additional performance ... that information to patients This measure will use data from patient interviews to confirm risk-based performance All data will be collected using special registration forms to be completed by ... any) in professional performance (recall intervals between successive ROEs, total number of radiographs, both based on individual risk assessment) Oral care unrelated to the topic of the interventions...
... organization Quality improvement [28,40] seeks toimprove and/or reduce variation in work processes toimprove the organization's ability to meet its goals Action research, as applied to organizations, ... with the greatest improvement Using the resulting sample, we were able to examine what strategies were present at top performing organizations, circumstances prior to their top perform- Page ... needed evidence for how toimproveperformance Finally, there was substantial impetus from both clinical and management staff to reduce door -to- balloon time Reducing door -to- balloon times both...