... Talking Head and Animated Icon: Behaviorally Situated Avatars for Tutoring”; and the EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing Advanced Research and Development Activity (ARDA) VACEII Grant ... pressure examination Our data includes “normals” (typically American and foreign students), right- and left-handers, and individuals with Parkinson disease at various stages of disease and treatment ... utterance: and see the thing is || is there are wombats in the theater .” The SCPV peak flags a large withdrawal of the hand backward terminating ina downward beat at the word “wombats.” At...
... off-the-shelf hardware, the availability of standard programming environments (such as MPI [70, 126] and PVM [65]) and utilities have made clusters a practical alternative as a parallel processing platform ... put and share data by using in or out operations This idea has been implemented in Linda [6, 40] and some Linda-based systems such as BaLinda [139, 140] 2.3.1 Cache Coherence Protocols Ina parallel ... computation as well as the communication in programs To simplify the analysis of various parallel paradigms, it is assumed that parallel programs with a certain kind of paradigm can be written in a...
... 25 See Hamashita, China, East Asia and the Global Economy, pp 57-84; and Leonard Blusse, Visible Cities: Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the Coming of the Americans (Cambridge: Harvard University ... presenting the latter as backward and stagnant, a similar charge made on the Fairbankian School for its depiction of China Mainland Japanese scholars, on the other hand, understand the kingdom as part ... and Ajia no naka no Ryukyu ō kokuアジアのなかの琉球王国 (The Ryukyu Kingdom in Asia) (Tokyo: Yoshikawa Kobunkan, 1998) Ina similar vein Dana Masayuki 田名真之 examines the Ryukyuan aristocracy in detail and...
... the European continent, handshaking is done when meeting and departing day inand day out and even the same assortment of acquaintances, in England as well as Great Britain, it is done less frequently ... than men are In Afghanistan, for example, men and women have their own ways of greeting strangers A man will greet by saying manda na bashi (may you not be tired) Anda women will raise her hand ... both speaker and hearer (7:3) It is clear that a great deal of everyday human interaction is characterized by the primarily interpersonal rather than the primarily transactional use of language For...
... something of the Latin, even perhaps of the Arab, in his nature Every one admitted that he had a certain brilliance; but he was odd, and was generally regarded as a failure A medical practice ina ... human society and the absorbing personal contacts which came to him with adolescence There was a certain absent-mindedness and dilatoriness about his buying and selling of stock, very exasperating ... to act as John's financial agent; and when he insisted on indulging in various wild speculations against my advice, I began to tell myself that I had been a fool to treat him as anything but a...
... hydrogen bonding interactions are indicated using dashed green lines (A) In wild-type YhdA, a salt bridgebetween Lys109 and Asp137 is formed across this interface (B) In the K109D ⁄ D137K variant, the ... molecular mass was estimated by molecular sieve chromatography Each protein variant eluted as a single species; however, all protein variants exhibited larger elution volumes indicating a lower apparent ... concentrations (Fig 3B; and barely visible in Fig 3A) , the K109L ⁄ D137L protein variant exhibits an additional band at lower mobility, indicating that this protein variant may form tetramers under...
... Yamashita, Yoshitaka Hirano, Hiroshi Matsuda, Kazuma Takaoka, and Masayuki Asahara, 2000 Morphological Analysis System ChaSen version 2.2.1 Manual Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Dec Yutaka ... Processing, Japan, pages 379–382, Keihanna, Japan Satoru Ikehara, Masahiro Miyazaki, Satoshi Shirai, Akio Yokoo, Hiromi Nakaiwa, Kentaro Ogura, Yoshifumi Ooyama, and Yoshihiko Hayashi 1997 Goi-Taikei ... Class A mizu-mo sitataru water- TOO drip “extremely handsome” - Adnominal - Nominal - Adverbial Class B yaku-ni tatu part-DAT stand “serve the purpose” - Verbal - Adjectival Untransformable Transformable...
... Dean Large-Scale Temporal Data Bases for Planning in Complex Domains In: Proceedings of the IJCAI-87 860-866 [Hellan, 1981] L Hellan Towards an Integrated Analysis of Comparatives Tuebingen: Narr ... interpreted as concatenation in the empirical domain, and scalar multiplication is interpreted as repeated concatenation Krantz et at [1971] show that under proper axiomatization, concatenation is ... prohibitively slow and unreliable The algorithm is based on an operation called ref i n e m e n t , defined as follows Given a constraint Cj, a parameter Xi appearing in Cj, and labelling L define: R E...
... high, increases in attitude had a decreasing marginal impact on IT use intentions, and when attitude was high, increases in subjective norms had a decreasing marginal impact on usage intentions Also, ... importance of including significant nonlinear relationships in research models in general, and taking into account the significant nonlinear relationship betweenAand SN in organizational IT ... of Interaction and Non-linear Modeling,” in Interaction and Nonlinear Effects in Structural Equation Modeling, R E Schumacker and G A Marcoulides (eds.), Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,...
... expressed as kappa statistics between the questionnaire and the interview in regard to ever having used copper amalgam, performed manual mixing ina mortar, and used a Dentomat Taking the answers ... that was manually mixed ina mortar? yes-no Have you ever manually weighted mercury and alloy and mixed it ina mortar? If yes: In that case, when and for how many years? From year to year Have ... preparation methods for amalgam i) heated copper amalgam, ii) manually weighting and mixing ina mortar and iii) a Dentomat The respondents were also asked how long they had used the preparation methods...
... improvements in physical function, vitality and mental health and reductions in pain, or have shown that total knee arthroplasty (TKA) and total hip arthroplasty (THA) are beneficial and effective ... variables (waiting time, BMI, affected joint, 15D score at baseline, gender, age, education, housing) and 15D score at admission Waiting time was skewed and thus included in the model as a categorical ... She contributed as a principal researcher and writer including drafting the article and the analysis and interpretation of data MB was the leader of the research project She made contributions...
... EXTRA funds and supported by the Norwegian National Council of Mental Health Thanks to all parents and patients participating in the study, and to all personal at the Department of Child and Adolescent ... reading problems and all pupils in the 4th grade [20] Measures Socio-demographic and clinical information In the school sample information on child age and sex were given by both child and parent ... students matched for sex and age, and that both child and parent proxy reports of QoL were obtained In addition all subjects resided in the same health care Jozefiak et al Health and Quality of...
... for manufacturing and applying the gloss Hedonic brain systems are well-developed in the brain, spanning subcortical and cortical levels, and are quite similar across humans and other animals ... time Anhedonia Figure Balancing and unbalancing of the pleasure processes in the brain In the normal brain, wanting, liking, and learning processes are balanced over time (column 1) The breakdown ... possibly lack a satiety phase (suggested candidates for brief or missing satiety phase have included money, some abstract rewards and some drug and brain stimulation rewards that activate dopamine...
... a waterway andina harbour Dendrochronological research proved that the main building activity took place between A. D 1250 and 1300 [14] In total, 111 wood samples with pith and preserved sapwood ... rates in the first cambial age class (a cambial age of to 10 years, starting from the pith) After they reached an age of ca 20 years the growth rate rapidly decreases, and tends to stabilize at ... processing Tree-ring widths of the contemporary, archaeological and historical wood specimens were measured to the nearest 0.01 mm using a LINTAB measuring stage and the TSAP-Win acquisition and...
... differences in experimental power and particularly statistical methods used In the study of de Koning et al [11] paternal and maternal imprinting effects were tested separately against a no-QTL model, and ... Evaluation of statistical models and permutation test for detecting gametic imprinting in QTL scans, in: Abstracts of the ASAS/ADSA Joint Annual Meeting, 24–28 July 2001, Indianapolis, USA, pp ... (d) Estimates of additive (a) and dominance (d) effects in females and males; s.e standard error (b) R Quintanilla et al SSC Trait (a) Table II Results from fitting two QTLs Trait (a) ADG2 (g ·...
... investment in many countries of Sub Saharan Africa[82] Indeed, it has been appreciated for many years that the global availability and marketing of cheap vegetable oils and fats is leading to increasing ... 48(7):1247-1257 Ramachandran G, Santha T, Garg R, Baskaran D, Iliayas SA, Venkatesan P, Fathima R, Narayanan PR: Vitamin A levels in sputum-positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients in comparison with ... shown an association between usage and changes in fat deposition All ART trials that have included objective body shape evaluation have consistently found an increased risk of abdominal fat in HIV...
... Dilution Antimicrobial Susceptibility Tests for Bacteria That Grow Aerobically; Approved Standard Clinical and Laboratory Standard Institute, Wayne, PA, 2009, M07 -A8 18 Clinical and Laboratory Standard ... Performance Standards for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing; 18th Informational Supplement M100-S18 Clinical and Laboratory Standard Institute, Wayne, PA; 2008 17 Clinical and Laboratory Standard Institute: ... the Declaration of Helsinki, and national and institutional review board Associations among qualitative variables were analysed using the contingency table The statistical significance was assessed...
... several simultaneous aggravating factors In Finland, equine summer eczema affects typically native Scandinavian horse breeds, the Finnhorse and Icelandic horse, and the severity of clinical signs ... citation purposes) Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2009, 51:29 was assessed separately in the Finnhorses and Icelandic horses born in Finland, the latter group tended to get symptoms about two years ... born in Finland http://www.actavetscand.com/content/51/1/29 factors affect the prevalence of IBH; the disease was less common in areas with rainy and cold days or sandy soil with scanty vegetation...