... commercial grouts have been preblended and packaged The packaged materials contain a mixture of aggregate, cement, and admixtures and require only the addition of water in the field The use of ... the test provides a means to evaluate the overall placeability and in -service performance ofa grout The test apparatus essentially consists ofa baseplate that simulates a typical grouting application ... less than 5% of the plate area are usually considered acceptable A weak surface may be caused by bleeding or settlement shrinkage of the grout Bleeding results in an increased water content of...
... ordered n sentences From each pair of segments, we generate one positive and one negative training instance as follows Given a pair of two segments Aand B arranged in an order A B, we calculate ... criterion Let us think of the case where we arrange segment A before B Each sentence in segment B has the presuppositional information that should be conveyed to a reader in advance Given sentence ... coverage and excludes redundant information Precedence criterion measures the substitutability of the presuppositional information of segment B (eg, the sentences appearing before sentence b) as...
... and layered materials and by a proper choice of doping and catalyst elements as well as by integrating several sensing elements on one chip, and by reducing the size and layout ofa heating element ... surface after various surface treatments Due to a cut in the planned budget the fabrication of the heated substrates was transferred to a TEKES project However, these substrates are available also ... comparison between two samples grown at different temperatures; a) RHEED image ofa clearly polycrystalline sample, b) RHEED image ofa monocrystalline sample, c) and d) AFM images of the corresponding...
... teams: One team collects data from field research, a second processes and annotates the raw data anda third team performs statistical analysis In this example every group has the need to share ... Resources for NLP Applications, pages 9–15 Bernhard Jussen, Alexander Mehler, and Alexandra Ernst 2007 A corpus management system for historical semantics Appears in: Sprache und Datenverarbeitung ... to browse and analyse the Patrologia Latina7 Alexander Mehler, Ulli Waltinger, and Armin Wegner 2007 A formal text representation model based on lexical chaining In Proceedings of the KI 2007...
... for example, organics are rejected better than water Degree of hydration: in general, the greater the degree of hydration, the greater the rejection, for example, chloride is rejecter better than ... cellulose acetate membranes developed and prepared at UCLA were used in the facility Additionally, the hardware for the system was fabricated at UCLA and transported piecemeal to the facility9 ... fixed by the designer Exceeding the design recovery can result in accelerated fouling and scaling of the membranes, because less water is available to scour the membrane on the concentrate side...
... and engineers at all levels ofdesign Engineer's education is more specialized and in depth than the architect's However, engineer must be kept aware of overall architectural objective In the ... Di erent Sections ofa Loaded Beam Slope Relations Between Load Intensity and Shear, or Between Shear and Moment Deformation ofa Beam un Pure Bending Elastic Curve from the Moment Diagram Approximate ... Approach Emphasis Analysis Engineers Elemental Component Exact, detailled Final Trusses, Frames Per code Table 1.1: Structural Engineering Coverage for Architects and Engineers Table 1.2: tab:secae...
... an integrated servicedesign framework The specific purposes of this research were to: Develop a measurement model forservicedesign effectiveness and efficiency Investigate the antecedents ... antecedents ofservicedesign effectiveness and efficiency The results of this research may have several contributions to both academic research on servicedesignand practical servicedesign management ... importance and applicability of effectiveness and competitiveness performance metrics to measure and assess NSD efforts”, “investigate in greater detail the operational antecedents of NSD performance”,...
... platform-independent and generalist As a consequence, UML tools are usually designed to support mainstream software development and provide therefore very poor means of validating real-time properties All ... depending of the features it offers Besides, there are often several solutions to generate code from a given model For example, a state-transition model may be generated under the form ofa set of nested ... which each vertex represents an active object in a specific state (of the associated statechart diagram) and each edge represents a ’wait -for- relation’ The number of vertices of the State- Figure...
... fucose and galactose However, this study was planned as a pilot study to see whether fucose/galactose would have any effect Further studies are warranted to compare fucose/galacatose to other inhalations ... with exacerbation but not patients with stable disease were investigated Inhalation with fucose/galactose has never been used before in a clinical trial with CF patients For methodical considerations ... inflammation Although fucose/galactose has been demonstrated to be effective in vitro and in vivo (6-8) at present there is no information available on the clinical effect of fucose/galacatose when given...
... the tender or the tender, as revised, and modified, are not accepted or if the terms of the offer and the acceptance are not the same, the acceptance remains a mere counter offer and there is no ... agreements are contracts: An agreement is a contract enforceable by law when the following are satisfied A defect affecting any of these renders a contract un-enforceable 14 (a) (b) Freedom of ... as well as some allied areas such as installation of equipment, operators’ training, after sales services, maintenance contract, etc Relevant aspects of purchase management techniques have been...
... an order of protection Qualifying Misdemeanor - state or federal misdemeanor crime that has as an element the use or attempted use of physical force or the threatened use ofa deadly weapon 18 ... trusted friend, battered women's program representative, or attorney to accept service if the abuser makes an effort to change the order of protection or seeks a separate custody order after the survivor ... tribe Four years later, she relocates to a state where the maximum duration of an order is three years Q: Is her order of protection enforceable in the state? A: Yes Since the Indian tribe (issuing...
... proposed algorithm Images are corrupted by uniformly distributed salt and pepper noise at different densities for evaluating the performance of the algorithm Three images are selected They are Lena, ... 255] then it is considered as a noise-free Each and every pixel of the image is checked for the presence of salt and pepper noise pixel During processing if a pixel element lies between “0 and 255”, ... display the quantitative performance of the various algorithms for cameraman image It can be observed that the proposed algorithm removes noise e ectively even at higher noise levels and preserves...
... the spacing and density of the patterns using spheres of different diameters NSP technique does not have special requirement for the coverage of the spheres, because the area of photoresist without ... technique for forming highly uniform arrays of nanoholes and nanopillars The technique utilizes the self-assembled property of microand nanospheres and applies them into the maturely developed ... followed by a post-exposure step for about Using NSP technique, we could also change the size of the holes and the periodicity of the array precisely and independently The hole diameter has been...
... state to unsaturated state This means that Sr can not be used as an evidence of other phenomena such us the decrease of void ratio or increase of shear strength for this case Table Average water ... shear strength Cu of soil gained by combined method has increased to a greater degree, especially near to the anode, the soil revealed like soft rock The average difference between the undrained ... presented in table 2, for average values, and illustrated by Fig for different depths of residual soil sample Table indicates that vacuum preloading already had remarkable effect on the reduction of...
... Pi Wei yu' and ‘ Guan yuan yu' may have excellent corrective effects on abomasal displacement in dairy cattle and they may be valuable therapeutic alternatives available instead of surgical methods ... rapidly after the first stimulation, three with left or right abomasal displacement were corrected after treatment forand days and the other one had to be operated by paramedian abomasopexy Two ... consecutive days In Moxa Group, moxa patches were applied at the same points in EA Group Modified moxa patches were coated with the extracts of red pepper seed (Capsicum longun) and medicine wormwood...
... differentiate between rare variants and sequence errors, while the variable representation of each haplotype among those sequenced makes MAF estimates more variable and complicates association testing ... KS analysed the MPS data, performed additional statistical analysis and cowrote the manuscript VS designed and performed the PCR reactions, analysed data and co-wrote the paper MB advised and ... cohorts and performed tests of association under allelic, genotypic, recessive and dominant genetic models We also performed a fixed-effects meta-analysis for the allelic test; this was not deemed advisable...
... recommendations about appropriate treatments and goals of care, are evidence-based endorsements of the American College of Critical Care [4] and the Surviving Sepsis Campaign [5] However, the patient ... vignette, the ranges of mortality estimates remained wide (Table 2) For each respondent, the average difference between the highest and lowest baseline mortality prediction was 24.9 percentage ... hypotheses were that between-respondent estimates would have a wide range despite identical patient factors and that mortality and morbidity predictions and vignette factors were associated Available...
... features of super ligands are of significance for selecting and/ or designing multipotent agents Of course, the new strategy should be treated with wariness, because of the potential side effects ... the endeavor of Rognan and co-workers, a well-defined ligand database, the Annotated Database of Druggable Binding Sites from the PDB (sc-PDB), was released recently [27] For this database, the ... metabolism-relevant ligands Click here data file bio-ligands Ligands and theand2 of bio-ligands and binding ATP, ligands Additionalfor file 1ownerships of metabolism-relevantADP and block numbers of for...
... These materials are generally best in high-temperature, aggressive acid service They may be relatively brittle and may have high thermal expansion coefficients compared to steel and concrete ... while placing subsequent concrete The materials and equipment needed for curing should be available and ready for use before the concrete arrives While there are many methods of curing concrete, ... settlements, shrinkage and temperature effects 2.2.4.2 Pavement slabs—The term “pavement slabs” as used in this report denotes the particular case of slabs-on-grade designed for drainage capture and...