... independently and randomly from {0, 1} The winner ofthe game is the player whose selected string appears first This problem has been formulated asa game or studied asa classical probabilistic problem ... and two players choose any pair of complement strings (except forthe pair 11 10 and 00 01), then the third player can always attain an advantage by choosing a particular string Before we ... has the same or better chance of occurring before σ1 and σ2 Proof The proof can be shown in a similar fashion to that of Theorem 2, so it is omitted Remark It should be noted that the inequalities...
... as an extra material to enhance students‟ speaking skill as well as to createa relaxed learning environment Maintaining a friendly, relaxing and harmonious classroom atmosphere is as necessary ... teachers to establish a successful language classroom Foreign language classes have to incorporate playful dimension, thus the possibility for making the class as an instance of learning and a ... involving the use of articles, verbs, conjunctions and other expressions that contribute to the creation of humour based on class ambiguity The effect ofthe lack of articles is confusion about the...
... the father of Fabius against the persistency ofthe dictator, he urged that never onthe occasion ofthe defeat of any of their captains had the Romans done what Papirius desired them to onthe ... such alarm in the minds ofthe commons that they slackened in their support of their leaders Their other contrivance was as follows: A certain Appius Herdonius, at the head ofa band of slaves and ... inasmuch asthe liberty of Sparta and Venice has had a longer life than that of Rome As touching reasons, it may be pleaded forthe Roman method, that they are most fit to have charge ofa thing,...
... dimensions one has Λ2 (AB) = (Λ2 A) (Λ2 B) One also has Λ2 I = I and therefore Λ2 A 1 = (Λ2 A) −1 for nonsingular A In particular, the second compound matrix of an orthogonal matrix is orthogonal, and ... A , and so the eigenvalues of B are those of AA⊤ ⊤ together with those ofAA Using the SVD forA we see that AA⊤ has the m eigenvalues 2 2 σ1 , , σr , 0, 0, and AA has the n eigenvalues ... We conjecture below an analog ofthe Brualdi-Hoffman conjecture for nonbipartite graphs [1], which was proved by Rowlinson [5] See [3, 8] forthe proof of partial cases of this conjecture Conjecture...
... reduced water availability Assessments of chlorophyll fluorescence, asa surrogate measure of plant performance, would assist in providing a more rapid and non-destructive evaluation ofthe suitability ... 2.5 Diurnal gas exchange, chlorophyll fluorescence, shoot water potential and hydraulic conductance determinations Dark respiration rates, Amax and leaf water status at a saturating irradiance (200 ... deficit treatments The decrease in Gs under waterlogged conditions was greater in the exposed, compared to shaded plants, and was associated with a larger leaf to air VDP, and a lower midday Ψs and...
... coronal and transaxial), free planar views, and 3D views ofthe anaImage guidance with tools on targeting and trajectory planning Image guidance was based on axial planar views (sagittal, coronal ... tape (DAT) Data processing and preparation was performed using an autosegmentation technique (ACCISS II software version 1.9) Image guidance was based on axial planar views (sagittal, coronal ... metastasis metastasis metastasis metastasis prim bone tumour left frontal/left parietal right frontal/left temporal left frontal/right frontal left frontal/left occipital skull base + orbita MRI...
... associated with a dedicated local grammar that recognizes, in the textual part ofa web page, information relevant to the concept associated with that node The parser dynamically constructs a semantic ... Generation of Cooperative Natural Language Responses in WEBCOOP Ninth European workshop on Natural Language Generation EACL, Budapest, Hungry Benamara F 2002 A Semantic Representation Formalism for ... Optimisation, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, 15(2):162207, 1990 Gaasterland T, Godfrey P, Minker J 1994 An Overview of Cooperative Answering Papers in Non-standard Queries and Non-standard Answers,...
... NE, USA) PCBM as an electron acceptor was purchased from Nano-C (Westwood, MA, USA) Aluminum asa cathode was purchased from CERAC™, Inc (Milwaukee, WI, USA) Device fabrication The pre-patterned ... was thermally annealed Asthe annealing temperature was increased, the polymer aggregate or grain size also increased, and eventually, the continuous interfaces are formed, which improve conductivity ... through the interfaces of grains Asthe annealing temperature was increased, the root- mean-square [RMS] surface roughness of pentacene-doped PEDOT:PSS films increased as well because the grain size...
... equations, diagonal systems and variational integrals Manuscripta Math 55, 467–486 (1986) doi:10.1007/BF01186659 Rutkauskas, S: Onthefirst boundary value problem forthe class of elliptic systems ... such a case, the ˜ n satisfy the equation ln (qn2j ) = Forthe same ˜ elements ofthe second row of matrix Q ˜ reason as above, we obtain that qn2j (r) ≡ (j = 1, s) on (0, R) Further, continuing ... degenerating at an inner point Math Model Anal 6(1), 147–155 (2001) Rutkauskas, S: Onthe Dirichlet problem forasystemof degenerate at a point elliptic equations in the class of bounded functions...
... Gopalsamy, Stability and Oscillations in Delay Differential Equations of Population Dynamics, vol 74 of Mathematics and Its Applications, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, ... LotkaVolterra competitive system with delays and feedback controls,” Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, vol 211, no 1, pp 1–10, 2008 S Ahmad, Onthe nonautonomous Volterra-Lotka ... competition equations,” Proceedings ofthe American Mathematical Society, vol 117, no 1, pp 199–204, 1993 S Ahmad and A C Lazer, Onthe nonautonomous N-competing species problems,” Applicable Analysis,...
... measured at day 1, day 6, and the change in value between day and Stata 9.0 (StataCorp, College Station, Texas) computer software was used for statistical analysis All interval data in tables and ... respiratory system compliance, BD, PaO2/FiO2, age, gender, COPD, pneumonia, vasopressors, APACHEII In the multivariate analyses (Table 3), as in the bivariate analyses, OI was the only variable associated ... day of mechanical ventilation were calculated for each variable (Table 3) The only variable associated with death in these analyses was a decrease in the Crs (OR 2.14, p = 0.02) between days and...
... “Mà” as Theme-Rheme boundary marker 4.2.2 Classification of Theme in Vietnamese 4.2.2.1 The classification of Theme into topical, interpersonal and textual Theme 4.2.2.2 The classification of Theme ... in the means we consider the clause asa message At clause rank, the major textual system is THEME It is a resource for organizing the interpersonal and ideational meanings of each clause in the ... more attention to the vocabulary and grammar ofa language than to the making use of grammatical knowledge in order to have effective communication A typical exampleof this is the teaching and...
... described at the former paragraph about the Wall Street And the sub-title part is at the upper one to re-inform that the financial companies have on average $13.4 billion in daily borrowing Forthe above ... language story to the target language It is the task of translators to restructure the form ofthe news story so as to make it appropriate forthe presumed readers Translation is a process of ... that were released Monday by Senator Charles Grassley, the ranking Republican onthe Senate Finance Committee The committee has been investigating the delay in the release ofthe Enhance trial...
... is newspaper that is the most typical mean of indicating language as well as indicating any change of language and life Because language is a mean of human interaction and people are social beings ... ofa social group Thesystemof language is a part of shared cultural knowledge of social groups, and ways of communicating are an important part ofthe observable behavior of people in social ... story are one sentence Thus, if we regard the news story asa “big” paragraph, the passages are really supporting sentences According to some experts, “one ofthe reasons to make the paragraphs consisting...
... which has gone on to dilatation and its consequences Nevertheless, in the absence of any statistics to the contrary, I strongly suspect that I am an exceptional case, and my aquatic career was not ... language ofthe censors of these pastimes To support their assertions they bring forward the case ofa boat which one hot summer's day rowed from Oxford to London, and although the crew were all ... spent many a pleasant hour onthe Severn), and was matured at University College, Oxford, where I was for three years captain ofthe John +, a boat which has often played a prominent part in the...
... banking organization, such as credit, market, liquidity, operational, legal, compliance, and reputational risks, as well as other risks to the viability or operation ofthe organization Some of these ... controls For example, unbalanced incentive compensation arrangements can place substantial strain onthe risk-management and internal control functions of even well-managed organizations Therefore, ... by the end of 2011 (affecting the award of incentive compensation awards forthe 2011 performance year), and should fully conform thereafter For example, the interagency guidance states that large...
... IMAGEQUANT software, and depurination was calculated by relating the amounts ofthe small aniline-fragment and 5.8S rRNA and expressing values asa percentage Reassociation and quantification of ... carried out for each individual atom Data collection and refinement statistics are given in Table Assay ofthe N-glycosidase activity of ricin A chain variants The activity of each ofthe RTA ... To assess the effect of substitutions made at each ofthe arginyl residues on catalytic activity of RTA, the ability of each ofthe purified RTA variants to depurinate yeast ribosomes was compared...
... Azzalure and Dysport and cannot be applied to other formulations or preparations of BoNT -A Consensus recommendations General preparation Patient management Patient education and counselling are ... upper face indications, based on their own experience during clinical practice and based onthe results of large clinical studies if they were available A strong consensus was defined as approval ... integral parts ofthe BoNT -A treatment It is essential forthe patients to have a realistic expectation ofthe treatment outcome, as their expectations determine the level of satisfaction after...
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