... ConstN P {Det, AP, N, Pro} (set of possible constituents of NP) In PG, each category of the grammar is described with a set of properties A grammar is then made of a set of properties Parsing an input ... these objects are described bymeansof a set of properties (see (Blache05b)) In terms of parsing, the mechanism consists in exhibiting the potential constituents of a given construction This ... ratio of satisfied properties with respect to the total set of evaluated properties This information is computed as follows: Let C a construction defined in the grammar bymeansof a set of properties...
... Derivatives byMeansof Evolutionary Algorithms GABLER EDITION WISSENSCHAFT Svenja Hager Pricing Portfolio Credit Derivatives byMeansof Evolutionary Algorithms With a foreword by Prof Dr.-Ing ... assistance of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft by funding my research at the University of Tübingen, and of the Stiftung Landesbank Baden-Württemberg by supporting the publication of this dissertation ... banks, the exchange of credit risk is an interesting meansof risk management, as long as it allows for maintenance of the client relationship Eliminating the credit risk of a client by simply selling...
... interactions of MalFGK2 (Eur J Biochem 269) 4079 Fig Substitutional analyses of the peptide epitopes recognized by the mAbs Each amino acid of the four peptide epitopes (indicated at the lefthand side of ... differ from those of soluble MalK Fab fragments of 5B5 and 4H12 only slightly inhibit ATPase activity of MalK and of proteoliposomes Having established the binding properties of the mAbs, we analyzed ... ratios of 1.5 : and : 1, respectively (molecular mass of MalK, 40 kDa; molecular mass of complex, 171 kDa) In the case of proteoliposomes, this actually corresponds to a 12-fold molar excess of mAbs...
... This is the concept of survival of the fittest and natural selection described by Charles Darwin in On the Origin of Species byMeansof Natural Selection (1859) Over a period of time and many generations, ... Oakley of the Isle of Wight • John Perry of Vantage Associates in Fremont, California • Craig Reynolds of Symbolics Incorporated • Rick Riolo of the University of Michigan • Jonathan Roughgarden of ... start computing an estimate of average payoff p1 for arm and an estimate of average payoff p2 for arm But each of these estimates and σ22, respectively) of the actual payoffs has an associated statistical...
... the loss of those providers requires managers to train new providers as replacements The data were analysed bymeansof SAS software Summary statistics were generated with gender, type of provider, ... Somali) We also reviewed working status by qualification and by number of courses taken Results Of the 6353 service providers with information provided, a total of 1744 service providers were followed ... standard level of trained providers Other options include task shifting of certain care responsibilities to lower-level cadres of health care workers or creation of a specialized cadre of HIV/AIDS...
... presence and availability of teaching faculty versed in pedagogical methods for surgical skills are essential to the effectiveness of the training Cost of training bymeansof simulation We used ... [7] The role of simulation in surgical training One way to improve surgical skills training has been to transfer parts of the surgical apprenticeship to laboratory settings, bymeansof simulation ... ratio of 3:1 to ensure the optimum recommended by current research [13] For each of the five skills being taught each day, faculty members gave a five-minute introduction followed by 55 minutes of...
... explained by a neutralization of charge of [MnIII6CrIII]3+ caused by the mirror-charge effect in the first layer but by anions in the other ones (Figure 10c) a) 4.9 nm b) fraction of the area ... The upper layer covers 23% of the surface The layer thicknesses were estimated out of the histogram of the heights by Gaussian fits The lower layer shows a height of 2.1 nm (see Figure 3c) while ... is covered by the molecules 23% of the area is covered with a second layer (c) Histogram of distribution of heights Two plateaus are visible nm nm Figure Three nc-AFM-micrographs of [MnIII6CrIII](BPh4)3...
... The fraction of the number of full slots over the total number of slots in a frame is represented bymeansof Egyptian Fractions, where the denominators are a power of two Bymeansof a binary ... slots of 300 bytes, a packet size of 280 bytes and with a requested rate of 70 and 77 bytes per second, respectively According to the calculations, the period should be one for a rate of 70 bytes ... of 1190 bytes has a similar flow as with the gradual arrival of packets, but with an offset that is the result of the packetized arrival of the data The flow of the packet size of 1200 bytes shows...
... inclusion of the processing time and of the packet size in future versions of the algorithm comes as a necessity Impact of Topology A further improvement of performance is represented by a circular ... Work As shown by the practical implementation of the segmentation results, the expected performance figures are affected by the size of the data packets and by the processing time of individual ... the quality of this paper The research of the first author has been partially supported by the DOMES Project at the University of Turku (no 8123518, 2008-2010), funded by the Academy of Finland...
... of barriers—Affinity of the productions of the same continent— Centres of creation Meansof dispersal, by changes of climate and of the level of the land, and by occasional means Dispersal during ... differences—Causes of the sterility of first crosses and of hybrids—Parallelism between the effects of changed conditions of life and crossing —Fertility of varieties when crossed and of their mongrel offspring ... perfection— Meansof transition—Cases of difficulty —Natura non facit saltum—Organs of small importance—Organs not in all cases absolutely perfect—The law of Unity of Type and of the Conditions of Existence...
... components of variance were analyzed bymeansof the BrownForsythe statistical test (1974), although this is less powerful than the classic ANOVA Influence of rootstock species on the frequency of the ... length (NL, mean length of five needles taken from the top of terminal shoot), stem diameter (SD, measured above graft union), number of total branches (TB), number of branches of first, second and ... flowering each year studied, a moderation of masting effect induced by the rootstock of P brutia This is shown by less pronounced interannual percentage oscillations of flowering in heteroplastic than...
... flexibility, was one of the species most widely used Today the forest landscape of many Italian regions is characterized by the presence of stretches of conifer forests surrounded by broadleaf woods ... the metropolitan area of Florence (Tuscany, central Italy), and showing severe crown yellowing The purpose of this study is to assess the vegetational conditions bymeansof foliar diagnostics ... mountain flora typical of the Apennines Most of the spontaneous stands consist of mixed deciduous xerothermal oakwoods, typical of the sub-Mediterranean horizon, with a prevalence of Quercus pubescens...
... (Vhpv) The coincidence of many of the peaks of the fluctuating patterns shows that the technique is reliable and the observed irregular transpiration stream could be determined by other factors related ... sapwood cross sectional area was determined by adding a blue dye to the water and counting with a microscope the number and area of vessels filled by the solution The relationship between the ... calibration procedure for the hpv system consisted of measuring in the field the water uptake of sampled trees, which represented the averages of the size classes A plastic tank was attached around...
... control bymeansof AP, related to the limited number of the patients in our study, or related to the origin of the parameters PAI-1 is synthesized not only by the endothelium, but also by the ... score and parameters related to coagulation and fibrinolysis The mMOF score (mMOF score = MOF score – the points of coagulopathy of MOF score) was positively correlated with (a) the DIC score, (b) ... method bymeansof AP We consider that better understanding of the aforementioned relationships and confirming the useful parameters will be helpful for the early diagnosis of the severity of sepsis...
... collected bymeansof automatic test messages Description of the total individual course pattern Nine of the 13 possible course patterns were observed in this study sample (Table 4) Examples of the ... number of days with LBP (questions 2) and severity of pain (question 1) on a group level Moreover, days off work (question 3) were too infrequent to be suitable for the analysis of course profiles ... previously that the identification of distinct subgroups of LBP patients is a necessary step in order to advance our understanding of the causes of LBP and thereby also the indications for treatment...
... stimulus of each of the three abdominal scars tested led to a diminution of signal intensity of the rectus femoris (Figure 5) Correction of this sedating effect could not be achieved by the use of ... the element acupoint of the son Element acupoint of the generating meridian Element acupoint of the son meridian Element acupoint of the grandchild meridian Element acupoint of the grandparent ... effects can be achieved via acupoints of the same meridian or of associated meridians according to the theory of the Five Elements The use of additional acupoints of tonification or sedation show...
... structure of the helicase enzyme of Usutu virus was modelled by applying homology modelling techniques and using the crystal structure of the Murray Valley Encephalitis virus helicase of the Flaviviridae ... fill by solute parameter was set to 80% The dielectric constants of the solvent and the solute were set to 80.0 and 2.0, respectively An ionic exclusion radius of 2.0Å, a solvent radius of 1.4Å ... domains one and two of the Usutu helicase and most specifically, by loops between secondary structure elements of the latter domains More detailed (i.e per residue) comparison of the ssRNA interaction...
... approved by the Institutional Committee for Animal Care and Use of the School of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo Twenty-seven male mongrel dogs from kennel of School of Medicine of ... concentrations of MDA and NOx showed no significant difference among the three groups (Tables and 2) Discussion The results of the present study indicate that 60 minutes of ischemia bymeansof supraceliac ... from rats submitted to 90 minutes of cerebral ischemia with 24 hours of reperfusion [17] Joviliano et al (2005) investigated different times of I/R bymeansof infrarenal aortic cross-clamping...
... ecificity Figure Results of protein-protein interaction prediction by PIC Results of protein-protein interaction prediction by PIC (a) Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves of PIC for S cerevisiae ... of P falciparum is of special interest, showing that codon usage is a powerful tool for prediction of interactomes within a wide range of G+C compositions Figure 1b compares the performance of ... and methods for the details of the analysis) Finally, for the sake of comparison, the predictive power of the absolute difference of CAI (see [16] for the definition of CAI and to compare it with...