... pretreatments are acidic, alkaline, and water pretreatment Sulfuric acid and monoethanolamine (MEA) are applied as catalysts during acid and alkaline pretreatment No catalysts are applied during water ... Comparison of sugar concentrations during saccharificaiton with alkaline pretreatment at different concentrations of monoethanolamine: at 3.3% biomass, pretreatment at 135°C, and saccharification ... pretreatment After pretreatment, the effect of temperature and the effect of combination of xylanase, cellulase, and β-glucosidase were examined during saccharification 2.2.4 Physical and acid...
... We thank Kazuko Seo and Hiroko Yamazaki, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, for technical assistance, and Dr Masahiro Tomita and Dr Katsutoshi Yoshizato, Hiroshima Tissue Regeneration ... density-gradient centrifugation Each fraction was assayed for activities of NADPH-cytochrome c reductase (an ER marker) and a- mannosidase II (a Golgi marker) Proteins in every other fraction were analyzed ... component of silk fibroin J Biochem (Tokyo) 114, 1–4 Maruyama, Y., Nakajima, T & Ichishima, E (1994) An a1 ,2mannosidase from a Bacillus sp.: purification, characterization, and mode of action Carbohydr...
... Motivated by the work of Combettes and Hirstoaga 34 in a Hilbert space and Takahashi and Zembayashi 33 in a Banach space, Zhang 35 and also authors of 36 obtained the following lemma Lemma 2.2 see 35 ... integrals,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 305, no 1, pp 227–239, 2005 39 S Reich, “Asymptotic behavior of contractions in Banach spaces,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and ... for resolvents of accretive operators in Banach spaces,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 75, no 1, pp 287–292, 1980 30 P Katchang and P Kumam, “An iterative algorithm for...
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... general formula appears not to exist for calculating variances of hitting timesfor random walks on graphs The theoretical background developed in Section is appropriate and 32 necessary for understanding ... i and j, we say that i and j are adjacent, or that i and j are neighbors We denote adjacency as i ∼ j Definition 1.4 We call an n-vertex graph k-regular if there are exactly k edges leaving each ... average of the expected hitting timesfor random walks on G is simply equal to the sum of the fundamental matrix’s eigenvalues; and because of the natural relation between Z and P , we can easily...
... summarises and acknowledges the variety of approaches to brand loyalty Second, it offers an explanation for the variety and the lack ofa single best approach to defining and measuring brand loyalty ... Journal of Product & Brand Management 23:4/5, 322-332 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] Farzana Quoquab, Norjaya Mohd Yasin, Rozhan Abu Dardak 2014 A qualitative inquiry of multi-brand loyalty Asia Pacific ... measures of consumer satisfaction'', Advances in Consumer Research, pp 94-9 Wright, M., Sharp, Aand Sharp, B (1998), ``Are Australasian brands different? '', Journal of Product and Brand Management,...
... are important and must be taken into account when considering an actual trade, and when calculating actual net returns on any option transaction These charges and requirements may vary, and should ... you an estimated percentage change in the value of your bond portfolio fora 1% change in interest rates The calculation is complex, but can be performed using many analytical software packages, ... and most modern financial calculators If you are unable to calculate duration, consult your financial advisor 36 Assume that modified duration given the current value of the yield, maturity and...
... from the Bank of England’s April 2008 Financial Stability Report, Chart 2.18, p 35 Data are from Markit Group Ltd, Thomson Datastream, published accounts, and Bank of England calculations 544 ... accounted for at fair values, and while it has the advantage of presenting current valuations on assets and liabilities of banks rather than historic cost valuations, it also has some negative implications ... Reform Act of 2008 provides a regulator for GSEs and the Federal Home Loan Banks—will offset these dangers The regulator will be able to establish capital standards, prudential management standards,...
... Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei C Yang 2001 Internal and external forces in language change Language Variation and Change, 12(3):231–250 C Yang 2002 Knowledge and Learning in Natural Language Oxford ... 2009) An advantage of our approach is an enhanced ability to evaluate a range of proposed causes fora particular case of language change By using simple models, we were able to consider a range of ... detailed datasets are potentially very useful for evaluating and differentiating between proposed computational models of change This paper is a first attempt to integrate detailed data with a range...
... Survival and Maternal Health account in fiscal years 2004 and 2005 helped fund wide-ranging efforts to lower maternal and child mortality in Africa, Asia and the Near East, and Latin America and ... Survival and Health Programs Fund Child Survival and Maternal Health account Source: GAO analysis of USAID data Note: Appropriated funds for the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria support ... countries in Africa, Asia and the Near East, and Latin America and the Caribbean and to the Bureau for Global Health In allocating the funds, the agency considered various factors in its annual budgeting...
... interpreted as consumer-perception variables (quality) and quality-signal variables (supermarket and label) perform better statistically than the standard intrinsic-quality cue variables (fat and color) ... willing to pay a premium The debate over fair trade and fair working practices and conditions is gaining prominence and media coverage As an example, many coffee brands use fair-trade labels (see ... policies State Agricultural-Product Labels and Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) Labels Regional and local origin labeling is also gaining prominence The increasing demand for high-quality and...
... scan a text for synonyms, and disambiguating words using Part -of- Speech (POS)18 tagging (Van Atteveldt 2008: 48) Offering as an example that ‘safe as a noun (a money safe) and as an adjective (a ... limitation, Gephi was expertly capable of handling the large amount ofdata necessary to this project, and was the clear choice amongst rival software In addition to this, Gephi came prepackaged ... the analysis, and will observe the use of the HT-OED Access database and the corpus linguistics AntConc tool As this project is an expansion ofa previous proof -of- concept, some of the data gathered...
... Channel estimation anddata detection for the last M2 OFDM symbols of each block 95 4.3.4 Summary of the proposed channel estimation anddata detection 98 4.4 Analysis of MSE of ... complexity of the receiver However, with increasing demands of high data transmission rate and reliable communication quality, channel estimation has become a necessary part in the OFDM system For example, ... investigated, for both multipath Rayleigh channels and multipath Ricean channels The joint PDF of two arbitrary correlated Ricean random variables has been provided in an integral form (Chapter...
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... models Transactions of Information Processing Society of Japan, 40(9):3397–3407 (in Japanese) Andrew Kehler, Douglas Appelt, Lara Taylor, and Aleksandr Simma 2004 The (non)utility of predicate-argument ... 719–724 Sadao Kurohashi and Makoto Nagao 1998b Japanese Morphological Analysis System JUMAN version 3.5 Department of Informatics, Kyoto University (in Japanese) References Eugene Charniak and Mark ... method Sadao Kurohashi and Makoto Nagao 1994 Kn parser: Japanese dependency/case structure analyzer In Proceedings of the Workshop on Sharable Natural Language Resources, pages 48–55 Sadao Kurohashi...
... whereas function words are treated as a part of grammar For dealing with discourse markers, we not regard this distinction as particularly helpful, though As we have illustrated above and will elaborate ... describing discourse markers is a dedicated lexicon that provides a classification of their syntactic, semantic and pragmatic features and characterizes the relationships between similar markers To this ... situation, we are assembling pieces of information on German and English discourse markers from grammars, dictionaries, and the linguistics research literature This information is classified and...