... improved the PPV of our effectiveness algorithm by 6%, but limits generalizability
as it excluded one-third of our data.
The strengths of our study include evaluation of a large number of patients ...
characteristics of the eligible cohort remained similar (right-most column of Table 2).
The primary results of the study are shown in Table 3. Among biologic users (Table 3), a total of
28% of treatment ... use of that biologic agent in last 6 months. Eligible participants
must have had a baseline VARA visit on the same day or within 1 month of biologic initiation.
The date of initiation of the...
...
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Prof. dr.ir. H.G. Wind University of Twente
Prof. dr.ir. A.E. Mynett UNESCO-IHE / WL | Delft Hydraulics
Prof. dr. S.M. de Jong University of ... University of Twente, chairman/secretary
Prof. dr. P.G.E.F. Augustinus University of Utrecht, promoter
Prof. dr. S.J.M.H. Hulscher University of Twente, promoter
Dr. J.L. de Kok University of Twente, ... years of experience, source of knowledge and level of interest of
expert i on a certain set of questions, respectively. Their values are in the range between
zero and two. The result of Eq....
... analysis of PEwax showed that small molecules were con-
sumed faster than large ones in the depolymerization processesof PE.
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Modeling and Simulation of Microbial Depolymerization
Processes of ... Simulation of Microbial Depolymerization Processesof Xenobiotic Polymers
12.5
Discussion
The degradation rate
λ
()M
of the exogenous depolymerization model is the ratio
of the total weight of ... Modeling and Simulation of Microbial Depolymerization Processesof Xenobiotic Polymers
of xenobiotic polymers with experimental
data introduced into analysis .
Proceedings of the 7th Biennial...
... loyalty (Hofstede, 1991, p.260). Although the contrast of cultural I-C has
been used to explain and organize a wide variety of behaviors in a number of different
cultures, the use of cultural ... group
composition on communication processes (i.e. the influence of input on processes) .
Second, the theory seeks to predict the relationship between communication processes
and group outcomes in ... turn-taking, and speaking time distribution. The results of this study indicate
that: (a) the cultural dimension of I-C is a predictor of the number of turn-takings and the
speaking time duration, (b)...
... theory of bond market has to include an integration of measure-
valued processes with respect to jump-diffusion processes with values in
some Banach space of continuous functions. Some versions of ... side ϕ in a dense subset of the image space. The purpose
of this section is to present a class of models, for which we can give an
explicit characterization of the class of hedgeable claims.
Assumption ... apply
part 1 of the present theorem.
We now turn to the issue of so called “martingale modelling”, and re-
mark that one of the main morals of the martingale approach to arbitrage-
free pricing of derivative...
... challenge of
replacing the lost volume and octane value of MTBE in the gasoline pool. In addition, uti-
lization of idled MTBE facilities and the isobutylene feedstock result in pressing problems
of ... Terms of Use as given at the website.
●
Because of the low isostripper pressure in a two-tower system, this arrangement permits
the use of steam for reboiling the isostripper column instead of a ... shutdowns.
●
Although fewer pieces of equipment are required with the single tower, the large num-
ber of trays and the high-pressure design necessitate the use of more tons of material and
result in...
... exchange [102], diagenetic alteration of porous rocks [34, 63] and to
leaching of minerals [9]. Many of these ideas also apply to the area of geologic storage of carbon
dioxide [85], or CO
2
sequestration, ... (t), of the porous medium bounded by a surface, S(t). A material
balance on component i in the control volume can be stated as
Rate of change of
amount of compo-
nent i in V (t)
=
Net rate of in-
flow ... in-
flow of component
i into V (t) due to
flow of phases
+
Net rate of in-
flow of component
i into V (t) due
to hydrodynamic
dispersion
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The chemical potential is of...
... president of the National Academy of Sciences.
The National Academy of Engineering was established in 1964, under the charter of the
National Academy of Sciences, as a parallel organization of outstanding ... development of microarray technologies) have expanded
those evaluations to permit the simultaneous detection of the expression
of tens of thousands of genes and to support holistic evaluations of the ... subject of this report was approved by the Governing
Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of
the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of...
... president of the National Academy of Sciences.
The National Academy of Engineering was established in 1964, under the charter of the
National Academy of Sciences, as a parallel organization of outstanding ... superior
achievements of engineers. Dr. Wm. A. Wulf is president of the National Academy of
Engineering.
The Institute of Medicine was established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences
to ... Academy of Sciences
to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination
of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public. The Institute acts under the...
... estimates of this distribution are based on
the counts of those labels, i.e., the number of tables
associated with each word type.
An example of such a hierarchical model is the
HDP bigram model of ... fixed base
Empirical, inferred base
Figure 2. Comparison of several methods of approx-
imating the number of tables occupied by words of
different frequencies. For each method, results using
α ... the state of the restaurant that doesn’t
require explicit table tracking.
6
Instead we main-
tain a histogram for each dish w
i
of the frequency
of a table having a particular number of customers.
Figure...
... of our validation classifier over the set
of all candidate paraphrase pairs. On French, it
yields an improvement in F-measure (43.16) of
+6.46 over the best individual technique (TER
p
)
and of ... therefore
use features to indicate the sequences of part -of-
speech for a pair of candidate paraphrases. We
used the preterminal symbols of the syntactic
trees of the parser used for SYNT.
Character-based ... on the inter-
pretation of the expected level of annotation by the annota-
tors.
Results on the test set for the two languages
are given in Table 3. A number of pairs of tech-
niques have strong...
... for
completion of laboratory validation, or the appropriate time to
terminate a laboratory validation process or to revoke an active
validation status.
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No.
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Department of the ... COMMITTEE:
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APPENDIX A
REFERENCE
A-1
CEMP-RT
CECW-E
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Washington, ... provides
guidance, procedures, and criteria for the validation of
commercial and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) division
analytical chemistry laboratories. Laboratory validation is
required to ensure that...
... quality of the
fruit.
Application of semi-permeable coatings has
been shown to improve the storability of perish-
able crops (Lowings and Cutts, 1982). For exam-
ple, application of Pro-Long coating ... application of chitosan coating partially inhibited decay of fruit during
storage. However, increasing the concentration of chitosan coating did not significantly increase the beneficial effects
of chitosan ... model of chitosan coating and
the possibility of it replacing the use of fungicides.
Taste panels of the stored fruits were done
regularly while the other assessments were taken
and no off-flavours...