value decomposition and its use to solve least squares problems

Food Label Use and Its Relation to Dietary Intake among US Adults

Food Label Use and Its Relation to Dietary Intake among US Adults

... fat, and sugars; users of the list of ingredients had lower reported values for total fat, saturated fat, and sodium; users of the serving size had lower reported values for total energy, total ... cholesterol, and sugars; and users of the health claims had lower reported values for total fat and saturated fat Reported dietary fiber intake was found to be higher among label users for all ... Use of serving sizec Use of health claimsc Use of energy informationde Total fat intake (g/d) Covariates onlyc Use of Nutrition Facts panelc Use of list of ingredientsc Use of serving sizec Use...

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Báo cáo sinh học: "The use of retroviral vectors for gene therapy-what are the risks? A review of retroviral pathogenesis and its relevance to retroviral vector-mediated gene delivery" pptx

Báo cáo sinh học: "The use of retroviral vectors for gene therapy-what are the risks? A review of retroviral pathogenesis and its relevance to retroviral vector-mediated gene delivery" pptx

... is due to oncogene activation How HTLV [36] and BLV cause cancer is not entirely clear Both are complex retroviruses, and in addition to the gag, pol and env genes common to all retroviruses, ... of its relevance to the design and use of retroviral vectors Retroviruses causing immuno-deficiencies The AIDS epidemic has brought a substantial focus to bear on the retroviruses that cause ... active 3) The PHSC is notoriously difficult to transduce with oncogenic retroviral vectors and the protocol used was designed to enhance transduction by using multiple cytokines to stimulate division...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 19:22

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EVALUATION OF THE LEAN APPROACH TO BUSINESS MANAGEMENT AND ITS USE IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR

EVALUATION OF THE LEAN APPROACH TO BUSINESS MANAGEMENT AND ITS USE IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR

... within the organisation to deal with change; and an organisational culture which is receptive to understanding the customer and process analysis and is able to use relevant data to drive improvement ... This uses customer-driven, non-rework demand to define needs and assess workload volumes “It is important to analyse demand and take out failure demand6 Then map process We still don’t understand ... Identify problems and issues and help think how to resolve the problems Develop a profile of a good facilitator and help in their recruitment and training Provide tactical advice as to which...

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Development of the Quantitative PCR Method for Candidatus ‘Accumulibacter phosphatis’ and Its Application to Activated Sludge

Development of the Quantitative PCR Method for Candidatus ‘Accumulibacter phosphatis’ and Its Application to Activated Sludge

... (PAO462, PAO651 and PAO846) and an FITC-labeled EUBMIX (EUB338, EUB338 II and EUB338 III) probe (Table 1) The targets of PAOMIX and EUBMIX probe are Candidatus ‘Accumulibacter phosphatis and most eubacteria, ... suitable for routine monitoring or measurement of a large number of samples, and lead to better understanding of the contribution of Candidatus ‘Accumulibacter phosphatis’ to phosphorus removal ... eubacteria, archaebacteria Candidatus ‘Accumulibacter phosphatis’ Candidatus ‘Accumulibacter phosphatis’ Candidatus ‘Accumulibacter phosphatis’ Candidatus ‘Accumulibacter phosphatis’ Candidatus ‘Accumulibacter...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:38

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Tài liệu The NULL Encryption Algorithm and Its Use With IPsec ppt

Tài liệu The NULL Encryption Algorithm and Its Use With IPsec ppt

... NULL and IPsec November 1998 [ESP] specifies the use of an optional encryption algorithm to provide confidentiality and the use of an optional authentication algorithm to provide authentication and ... be zero (0) bits, to facilitate interoperability and to avoid any potential export control problems To facilitate interoperability, the IV size for this algorithm MUST be zero (0) bits Padding ... to represent the optional use of applying encryption within ESP ESP can then be used to provide authentication and integrity without confidentiality Unlike AH these services are not applied to...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 16:20

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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Organizing Encyclopedic Knowledge based on the Web and its Application to Question Answering" ppt

Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Organizing Encyclopedic Knowledge based on the Web and its Application to Question Answering" ppt

... non-linguistic information (such as special characters and e-mail addresses) To resolve this problem, Fujii and Ishikawa (2000) used a language model to filter out descriptions with low perplexity However, ... dictionary entries to estimate P (t|c) and P (t), which are relative frequencies of t in c and all the domains, respectively We used the ChaSen morphological analyzer (Matsumoto et al., 1997) to extract ... We used a probabilistic method (Robertson and Walker, 1994), which is one of the major IR methods To sum up, given a question, its type and four choices, our QA system chooses one of four candidates...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 18:20

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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION AND ITS APPLICATION TO INFORMATION EXTRACTION" pdf

Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION AND ITS APPLICATION TO INFORMATION EXTRACTION" pdf

... to a detection-based approach will be important to solve such problems [2] How to extract contextual information, predict users' responses, and focus on key words are very important issues Stochastic ... than trying to accomplish a real task Users actually trying to accomplish a task, however, use a different linguistic style Adaptation of linguistic models according to tasks, topics and speaking ... models that use news manuscripts written prior to broadcasting To cope with this problem, we introduced filled-pause modeling into the language model is the reading-dependent language model, and LM3...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 18:20

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The Savings and Loan Crisis and Its Relationship to Banking pptx

The Savings and Loan Crisis and Its Relationship to Banking pptx

... regulators used supervisory tools and enforcement actions to limit growth and raise capital levels at commercial banks and mutual savings banks But both banks and S&Ls, and their regulators, ... does not have too much influence over its regulators and if the regulators have the ability to hire, train, and retain qualified staff In this regard, the bank regulatory agencies need to remain ... Origins and Causes of the S&L Debacle, 98–99; and Barth, The Great Savings and Loan Debacle, 130–32, 137–41 42 For a listing of RAP-insolvent and tangible-insolvent thrifts from 1981 to 1987,...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20

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Báo cáo khoa học: N-Glycosylation is important for the correct intracellular localization of HFE and its ability to decrease cell surface transferrin binding pptx

Báo cáo khoa học: N-Glycosylation is important for the correct intracellular localization of HFE and its ability to decrease cell surface transferrin binding pptx

... 61129/2004) and the Health Research Board (RP/ 2006/294) to J.V.F and Health Research Board Grant (RP/2005/107) and Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Investigator Grant (05/IN.3/13859) to MMC The ... antigen binding and presentation to CD8 + cytolytic T cells In HFE, the proximity of the two a helices and the presence of amino acid side chains that project into the groove appear to prevent peptide ... reported to co-localize and interact with the type transferrin receptor (TfR1) [5,18] TfR1 mediates the endocytosis of iron-loaded transferrin into acidic endosomes where the iron is released and...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 22:21

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Báo cáo khoa học:The principle of flux minimization and its application to estimate stationary fluxes in metabolic networks docx

Báo cáo khoa học:The principle of flux minimization and its application to estimate stationary fluxes in metabolic networks docx

... enzymes, metabolites) can be used to build up mathematical models of the gene-regulatory, signal-transducing and metabolic networks of a cell and to integrate them into whole-cell Ôin silicoÕ models ... larger than or equal to unity If available, the values of the equilibrium constants were as published previously [34], otherwise they were fixed to ð0Þ the standard values ðDGj ¼ 0Þ and 100.0000 ð0Þ ... upper threshold restricting v1 to values close to 1.51 mMÆh)1 Up to the value of v1 ¼ 2.98 mMÆh)1, all strongly exergonic reactions [hexokinase (HK), phosphofructokinase (PFK), pyruvate kinase...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 15:20

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Báo cáo khoa học: Characterization of a cathepsin L-associated protein in Artemia and its relationship to the FAS-I family of cell adhesion proteins pot

Báo cáo khoa học: Characterization of a cathepsin L-associated protein in Artemia and its relationship to the FAS-I family of cell adhesion proteins pot

... dithiothreitol and 10 mM MgCl2) using a motorized mortar and pestle (Torsion Balance Co, Clinton, NJ, USA) Following centrifugation to remove nuclei, yolk platelets, mitochondria (10 000 g, 20 min) and ... yielded both CL and CLAP in a high state of purity However, dissociation of CLP to its subunits (CL and CLAP) required incubation of CLP at pH for at least h at °C prior to chromatography on Mono ... IEF standards (Std) and buffer control gel run in parallel The numbers at the right represent the pI values of the major bands in e and f, while the numbers at the left are the pI values of standard...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 16:20

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Báo cáo khoa học: "Bayesian Synchronous Tree-Substitution Grammar Induction and its Application to Sentence Compression" pdf

Báo cáo khoa học: "Bayesian Synchronous Tree-Substitution Grammar Induction and its Application to Sentence Compression" pdf

... engineering and is not in general amenable to latent variable problems A simpler alternative to this two step approach is to use a generative model of synchronous derivation and simultaneously segment and ... incorporating sparse priors to simultaneously solve both the narrowness and overfitting problems Such models have been used as generative solutions to several other segmentation problems, ranging from ... an STSG derivation of the example sentence and its extractive compression can be used to delete a subtree rooted at PP We use square bracketed indices to represent the alignment γ of frontier nodes...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 22:20

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Báo cáo khoa học: "A Method for Relating Multiple Newspaper Articles by Using Graphs, and Its Application to Webcasting" pptx

Báo cáo khoa học: "A Method for Relating Multiple Newspaper Articles by Using Graphs, and Its Application to Webcasting" pptx

... reference to its source document, an identifying id, genus and differentia words, and other information on the article The tag < f o l l o w s > is used to denote arcs from the article to related ... are stored in XML, and then pushed to subscribers who can capture the flow of topics by following the threads In another scenario, when a user gets an article, and wants to see its origin or the ... Kohno, takes a critical attitude toward China, and asks France to understand Japan's position d6: The prime minister of New Zealand asks the French Government not to restart nuclear testing dT:...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 06:20

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Báo cáo khoa học: "Generalized Encoding of Description Spaces and its Application to Typed Feature Structures" potx

Báo cáo khoa học: "Generalized Encoding of Description Spaces and its Application to Typed Feature Structures" potx

... — we would need to look in a table to see what value to assign it An alternative would be to place that value in the frames for a and b from the beginning But since the value itself must be of ... type to the least upper bound, and point the other's type representation to it, and (3) recurse on respective pairs of feature values The frame does not need to be resized, only the types need to ... bit vector encoding the type,3 or (2) a reference pointer Instead of a bit vector, we could also use an index into a table if least upper bounds are computed by table look-up module of its type...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 07:20

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Women’s Employment and Its Relation to Children’s Health and Schooling in Developing Countries: Conceptual Links, Empirical Evidence, and Policies pptx

Women’s Employment and Its Relation to Children’s Health and Schooling in Developing Countries: Conceptual Links, Empirical Evidence, and Policies pptx

... likely to undervalue the benefits to girls’ schooling, either because they are not fully aware of them (for example, better nutrition of children of educated mothers) or because the benefits to not ... however, that both this and Glick and Sahn's results may be explained in ways that not involve intrahousehold bargaining and differential preferences of wives and husbands See Glick and Sahn (2000) for ... increasingly, integration into the global economy Women (like men) shift out of agriculture and into expanding manufacturing, service, and commerce sectors These and concomitant changes in the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 09:20

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The Retirement Crisis and a Plan to Solve It doc

The Retirement Crisis and a Plan to Solve It doc

... I plan to bring together business and labor leaders, policy experts, advocates, and my fellow lawmakers to implement necessary reforms The retirement crisis is simply too big to ignore, and it ... to ignore, and it is time for us to roll up our sleeves and get to work Sincerely, Senator Tom Harkin Chairman THE RETIREMENT CRISIS “Retirement.” The word used to conjure up images of travelling, ... is 90% The replacement factor drops to 32% for AIME between $767 and $4,624 and 15% for AIME between $4,624 and $8,532 The Act improves Social Security benefits by expanding by 15% over a 10 year...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 21:20

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Báo cáo khoa học: "Revision Learning and its Application to Part-of-Speech Tagging" pptx

Báo cáo khoa học: "Revision Learning and its Application to Part-of-Speech Tagging" pptx

... combines a stochastic model and a binary classifier to achieve higher performance with lower computational cost We applied it to English POS tagging and Japanese morphological analysis, and showed ... classification problem, because words in a sentence are not separated by spaces in Japanese and the morphological analyzer has to segment the sentence into words as well as to decide the POS tag of ... i := to l − begin Call the stochastic model to obtain the ordered indexes {n0 , , nk−1 } such that P (cn0 |xi ) ≥ · · · ≥ P (cnk−1 |xi ) for j := to k − begin if cnj = yi then Add xi to the...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 08:20

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Geometric algebra and its application to mathematical physics   c  doran

Geometric algebra and its application to mathematical physics c doran

... bivector rotates vectors in its own plane by 90 , but forms trivectors (volumes) with vectors perpendicular to it The trivector 1^ 2^ commutes with all vectors, and hence with all multivectors ... unit vector a into another unit vector b, leaving all vectors perpendicular to a and b unchanged This is accomplished by a re ection perpendicular to the unit vector half-way between a and b (see ... individual rotors are used to represent rotations, we must look at their composition law Let the rotor R transform the unit vector a into a vector b, ~ b = RaR: (1:86) Now rotate b into another vector...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 14:29

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Placental Bed Disorders Basic Science and its Translation to Obstetrics potx

Placental Bed Disorders Basic Science and its Translation to Obstetrics potx

... protease-deficient protein and potent inhibitor of death receptor-mediated apoptosis In addition to Fas ligand and Fas, decidual cells abundantly express c-FLIP, which may serve to prevent autoactivation of ... to have a hysterectomy When Geoffrey Dixon moved to the Academic Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the University of Bristol in the 1970s he started to collect uteri with the fetus and ... However, tissue androgen levels and conversion of androstenedione to testosterone are higher in secretory than proliferative endometrium [32] Moreover, a rise in circulating androgen levels in...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20

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Báo cáo khoa học: "Detection of Quotations and Inserted Clauses and its Application to Dependency Structure Analysis in Spontaneous Japanese" doc

Báo cáo khoa học: "Detection of Quotations and Inserted Clauses and its Application to Dependency Structure Analysis in Spontaneous Japanese" doc

... “けれども, keredo-mo” are used at the ends of inserted clauses (2) fillers and pauses Fillers and pauses are often inserted just before or after quotations and inserted clauses Pause duration is normalized ... shown in Figure Here, we use “clause” to describe a quotation and an inserted clause Inserted Clauses In spontaneous speech, speakers insert clauses in the middle of other clauses This occurs when ... also used to detect the beginning of the clauses If the end of a clause is given, the bunsetsus to the left of the clause should satisfy the two conditions described in Figure Our method uses...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 18:20

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