... Fractures of facial bones and cranial bones as well as intracranial injuries are evaluated based on the tolerance limits of the biomechanical parameters General trend of maximum intracranial biomechanical ... to all of my colleagues and my best friends Arpan Gupta, Guo Shifeng, Zhu Jianhua, Zhuang Han, Liu Yilin, Kyrin Liong, Saeid Arabnejad Khanooki, Shahrokh Sepehri Rahnama, Ahmadali Tahmasebimoradi, ... unpaired vo omer and mandi ible as well as paire lacrimal, nasal, pa ed alatine, infe erior turbin nate, maxillary a zygoma bones The primar function of the cran bones is to and atic ry nial...
... probabilistic frameworks Also, the model training and testing is transparent and observable, and true probability rather than transformed weights are used, all of which makes it easy to understand ... Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1999 S Narayanan and D Jurafsky A bayesian model predicts human parse preference and reading times in sentence processing Proceedings of Advances in Neural Information Processing ... using a parallel beam-search parsing technique based on the stochastic context-free grammar (SCFG) and subcategorization probabilities Crocker and Brants (2000) used broad coverage statistical parsing...
... exceptions are Hendel and Nevo (2006) and Hartmann and Nair (2008) 3 theoretical (Becker and Murphy 1988), empirical (Tauras and Chaloupka 1999), and experimental work (Donegan et al 1983, Peele ... both contain three large brands that occupy different price tiers and account for more than 80% of sales For crackers, Nabisco is the dominant brand with a market share of nearly 50% anda sales-weighted ... “Rational Addiction and Rational Cessation: A Dynamic Structural Modelof Cigarette Consumption,” Working paper, Yale University Chaloupka, F J (1991), “Rational Addictive Behavior and Cigarette...
... that allanxanthone C and macluraxanthone purified from Guttiferaes are capable of in vivo antileukemic effects in a xenograft murine modelofhuman CLL These therapeutic activities of the natural ... the data and revised the manuscript; CBi interpreted the data and wrote the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they have ... cells are also considered in order to define therapeutic targets Acknowledgements We are grateful to Drs A. G.B Azebaze (University of Douala, Cameroun) and A. E Nkengfack (University of Youndé, Cameroun)...
... University of Maryland, Baltimore animal facility and maintained in accordance with institutional guidelines approved by the University of Maryland, Baltimore Animal Care and Use Committee To compare ... a pattern of progressive adenocarcinoma with similar genetic changes and pathophysiology as seen in human breast cancers associated with BRCA1-mutations [11,12] Additionally, as in human BRCA1-associated ... enlarged view ofa cell indicating the contact surfaces of the source and the drain is shown to the right of the wafer Gate voltage is applied at the back of the wafer Also indicated are the aligning...
... modern dance, abstract art and classical music are rather low on this dimension Situation and context are presumably more important in opera and theatre and less important in books and music and any ... forms of visual art is the combination of visual processing, extraction of meaning and resolution of ambiguity We assume that classical, representational art and most kinds of sculptures are processed ... Conceptual ideas, stylistic reflections and variations, as well as abstract concepts no longer apparent from the appearance of the artwork have become increasingly dominant in contemporary art This aspect...
... same-voice, same-place and same-manner which check if curr is exactly identical to out or shares the exact value ofa particular feature Our choice of templates and features is based on standard ... dewaanah:94, waanih:37, wahnah:16, waan:13, wahneh:8, wahnih:5, wahney:3, waanlih:3, rived from the same intended form, assuming gold wehnih:2, waaneh:2, waonih:2, waaah:1, standard word boundaries ... statistical learning mechanism In Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop at EACL Armen Allahverdyan and Aram Galstyan 2011 Comparative analysis of Viterbi training and ML estimation for...
... novel application of the EM algorithm Using a standard backoff trigram model as a default distribution, we built a class of exponential language models which use nonstationary features based on ... stochastic language modeling Computer Speech and Language, 8:1-38 Berger, A. , S Della Pietra, and V Della Pietra 1996 A maximum entropy approach to natural language processing Computational Linguistics, ... using a static trigram model as a "prior," or default distribution, and adding certain features to a family of conditional exponential models to capture some of the nonstationary features of text...
... Government of Malawi, Ministry of Health and Population: Malawi National Health Accounts: a broader perspective of the Malawian Health Sector 2001 Government of Malawi, Ministry of Health and Population: ... Malawi, Ministry of Health and Population: Malawi National Health Accounts: a broader perspective of the Malawian Health Sector, 2001) In theory, health care providers in Malawi are organized according ... professional and technical cadres, coupled with a major initiative to recruit and re-engage qualified Malawian staff The Emergency Human Resources Programme Malawi has implemented a variety of...
... internal standard is added to each sample, after solid phase extraction samples are derivatized and purified by thin layer chromatography, and finally analyzed An aliquot of these extracts was assayed ... the reaction was stopped and absorbance immediately read at 450 nm Oxidized protein standards, internal controls and blanks were always assayed at the same time and in the same way All samples ... outlined anatomical area in the image, as previously described [9,16,17] Analyses were always performed in a coded fashion Statistical analysis Data are expressed as mean ± standard error of mean (S.E.M.),...
... parameters and position parameters) for describing human body motion Here, we assume that three rotation angles of head and two rotation angles of torso (rotation angle around X-axis and Z-axis) ... 100, A Real-Time Model- Based Human Motion Tracking and Analysis the center of Rarm-j is unchanged, Rarm-j = [68, 132], because the search region is inside the range of angular variation of the arm ... Shah and R Jain, Eds., vol of Computational Imaging and Vision, chapter 8, pp 171–198, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, Mass, USA, 1997 [11] C R Wren, A Azarbayejani, T Darrell, andA Pentland,...
... stand, computed as the difference between net assimilation (predicted) and (growth and maintenance) shoot respiration (measured and fitted to temperature) The allocation of carbon to roots was ... these various components Roots apparently act as aof carbon from early spring until is confirmed by measurea strong decrease in root starch concentration during that time (Dubroca and Saugier, ... tentatively computed as the dif- carbon allocated to roots is similar to that stored in shoots total ference between the net amount of carbon entering the plant and the measured amount of carbon...
... Comparison of rTRAIL and membrane bound Ad-TRAIL treatment efficacy To compare the efficacy of rTRAIL in the treatment of rabbit joint synovitis with that of Ad-mediated membrane bound Page of ... the shaved cartilage (rTRAIL) under synovial lining was sectioned for evaluation of cartilage structure Histological examination of hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) and TUNEL stained cartilage sections ... systemic adverse effects rTRAIL has similar apoptotic effects as adenoviral mediated TRAIL gene transfer To compare the efficacy of treatment with rTRAIL and AdTRAIL gene transfer, rabbit arthritic...
... media was recovered and stored at -20°C Unincorporated 35SO42- from media was chromatographically separated using PD-10 columns (Phar- macia, Piscataway, NJ, USA), and radiolabeled GAGs released ... protein (Ad.eGFP) At days and 7, the knees were lavaged, and on day the animals sacrificed and their knee joints collected (a) As a measure of proteoglycan breakdown, the glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) ... reduction had further increased to approximately 46%, a level that was similar to naïve rabbit knees GAG synthesis is another parameter of cartilage matrix metabolism To determine and compare the ability...
... Expressing values and preferences related to potential health outcomes and options Adopted from Makoul and Clayman, 2006 *Primary targets of DESIs to date † These are arguably behavioral categories, ... significant relationships between attitudes and behavior [35], self-efficacy and behavior [24], perceived social norms and behavior [36,37], and behavioral intention and behavior [38,39] Finally, a ... theoretical and empirical work devoted to conceptualizing and testing the determinants of behavior and behavior change [30] However, little behavioral research has focused on shared decision-making and...
... programs have generated adequate quantities of high-quality data to enable systems analysis [6] For example, Carerra et al [4] modeled the transcriptional network of Arabidopsis and identified plantspecific ... not trained on drought stress data Another module (characterized by motifs AS~TATAbox, AT~TATA-box, BN~TATA-box, PC~Box_4 and ZM~TATA-box) was affected by the removal of the budset data and is ... data and found that some network hubs have existing functional evidence in Arabidopsis; Quesada et al [14] performed a comparative analysis of the transcriptomes of Populus and Arabidopsis, and...
... Expressing values and preferences related to potential health outcomes and options Adopted from Makoul and Clayman, 2006 *Primary targets of DESIs to date † These are arguably behavioral categories, ... significant relationships between attitudes and behavior [35], self-efficacy and behavior [24], perceived social norms and behavior [36,37], and behavioral intention and behavior [38,39] Finally, a ... theoretical and empirical work devoted to conceptualizing and testing the determinants of behavior and behavior change [30] However, little behavioral research has focused on shared decision-making and...
... Kinematic and dynamic gait compensations in a rat modelof lumbar radiculopathy and the effects of tumor necrosis factor-alpha antagonism Kyle D Allen1,2, Mohammed F Shamji1,3, Brian A Mata2, ... operated limb On day 5, animals were evaluated for spatiotemporal gait characteristics and mechanical sensitivity On day 6, animals were evaluated for dynamic gait characteristics and weight bearing ... preoperatively and again on day The arena is composed ofa glass floor, three transparent acrylic sides, a black acrylic back, black acrylic top, and mirror oriented at 45o underneath the arena floor...