... which
bond is best for you).
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As you go through your day, compareandcontrast things around you. Compareand contrast, for exam-
ple, your ... essential for the compare and
contrast technique. Look what happens, for example,
when the writer does not discuss corresponding parts:
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... supporting mandatory school uniforms.
What effects does the author of paragraph A think
mandatory uniforms would have?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
What effects does the author of paragraph B think
mandatory uniforms...
... theorems for second- order discrete boundary value problems,” Jour-
nal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol. 320, no. 2, pp. 649–661, 2006.
[5] Z. Guo and J. Yu, “Existence of periodic and ... sufficient condition for the existence of periodic and subharmonic solutions
of second- order p-Laplacian dierence equations using the critical point theory.
Copyright â 2007 P. Chen and H. Fang. This ... second, the third, and fourth variables and satisfies f (t + m,u,v, w)
=
f (t,u,v,w) for a given positive integer m.
We may think of (1.1) as being a discrete analogue of the second- order functional
differential...
... set. A conditional random field (CRF) can be
used to classify sequential data and is applicable to many of
the same problems as an HMM. CONTRAST uses both SVM
and CRF techniques for different parts ... specificity
Accuracy (%)
GENSCAN
TWINSCAN
N-SCAN
CONTRAST
Genome Biology 2007, 8:233
Minireview
Gene prediction: compareand CONTRAST
Paul Flicek
Address: European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust ... remains a popular bio-
informatics tool. GENSCAN predictions continue to be a
standard feature for every genome released on both the
University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) [6] and Ensembl
[7] genome...
... cards, and
banking, for example. Adding to the deluge of internal data are external sources
of demographic, lifestyle, and credit information on retail customers, and credit,
financial, and marketing ... data mining
effort itself. If we cannot measure the results of mining the data, then we can-
not learn from the effort and there is no virtuous cycle.
Measurements of past efforts and ad hoc questions ...
incorporated villages or cities. For instance, the town of Cortland is in West-
chester county and includes the village of Croton-on-Hudson, whereas the city
of Cortland is in Cortland County, in another...
... the visual quality performance
of Lena and Tiffany images before and after JPEG 2000
compression at compression ratio 100:3. There are three
rows for both images. The ‘before’ row means that the
image ... denotes linear convolution and c(x
n
)is
CSF in the spatial domain.
List of abbreviations
ACOCOA: adaptive content andcontrast aware; COCOA: content and
contrast aware; CSF: contrast sensitive function; ... parameters W
2
= 0.6 and W
1
= 0.4 for
Equation 8.
The performance summaries b y different encoder’s
strategies and attacker’s actions for Lena image of
MSSIM, VIF, PSNR-HVS-M, WSNR, and Correlation
are...
... pages
doi:10.1155/2008/586020
Research Article
Existence and Multiple Solutions for
Nonlinear Second- Order Discrete Problems with
Minimum and Maximum
Ruyun Ma and Chenghua Gao
College of Mathematics and Information Science, Northwest ... of 1 are valid for functional differential equations
in general form andfor some cases of unbounded right-hand side of the equation see 1,
Remark 3 and 5, 2, Remark 2 and 8.
In 1998, ... 1,b}.Let
E :
u | u :
T −→ R
, 1.1
and for u ∈
E,let
u
E
max
k∈
T
uk
. 1.2
Let
E :
u | u : T −→ R
, 1.3
and for u ∈ E,let
u
E
max
k∈T
uk
....
... con-
verge uniformly and monotonically to the unique solution of (1.1), and the convergence
is of order 3.
GENERALIZED QUASILINEARIZATION METHOD
AND HIGHER ORDER OF CONVERGENCE FOR
SECOND- ORDER ... check that α
0
(t) ≡ 0and
0
(t) ≡ 1 are natural lower and upper solutions
for (4.1), respectively. Let H(t,u) denote the right-hand side of (4.1)andsplititinto
nonincreasing and nondecreasing functions ... (t,u)
∂u
k
= f
(k)
(t,u) (1.4)
for any function f (t, u)andfork
= 0,1,2.
In view of natural upper and lower solutions of (1.1), we will develop results when f
is 2-hyperconvex and g is 2-hyperconcave....
... 154 On BVP for second- order discrete inclusions
by
f
2
(t) =
[0,1] for t = 0,
{0} for t ∈ R \{0},
(1.2)
is upper semicontinuous.
For more information about set-valued maps and differential ... R
d
satisfies the discrete inclusion for k = 1, ,T and the bound-
ary conditions for k = 0andk = T +1.
In Section 2, we show that under certain conditions on the right-hand side F,allso-
lutions of ( ... hl
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ık and C. C. Tisdell 163
[6] L. Erbe, R. Ma, and C. C. Tisdell, On two point boundary value problems forsecond order differ-
ential inclusions,toappearinDynam.SystemsAppl.
[7] W. G. Kelley and...
... film is a massive, complex, and expensive task that (8) art and 'bossiness. Making a movie the
talents of hundreds, and some-times thousands, of artists, producers, and business people. It ... classical, popular, and jazz. Within these broad groups are many other subcategories. For
example, (4) disparate types of music as movie sound tracks rhythm and blue, rock, and rap all fit within ... music for?
c. How do you like pop music?
d. Witt makes you like pop music?
5. a. Do you like boy bands?
b. Which group do you do you prefer the
c. What is your best band?
d. What' favorite band?...
... 0.0001 for CTV and p
= 0.0001 for PTV).
The average overlap (intersection) of the T2 and FLAIR
CTVs was 83.84 cc and the average union was 126.34 cc.
The average intersection of the T2 and FLAIR ... data analysis and helped revise the draft manuscript. KC conceived
of the study, and participated in its design and coordination and helped to
draft the manuscript. All authors read and approved ... component of the CTV Union
was 12.9% for T2 and 25.7% for FLAIR, while the overlap
contributed the majority (63.6%) as shown in figure 2.
For example, the composite CTV for patient 1 was com-
prised...
... 17-year-old male pays more for
car insurance than a 60-year-old female. Similarly, the application form for a
simple term life insurance policy asks about age, sex, and smoking and not
much more. ... better models, and try again!
Lessons Learned
This chapter started by recalling the drivers of the industrial revolution and
the creation of large mills in England and New England. These mills ... whatever format best suits that goal and the historical record, if any,
is likely to be in a tape archive. It may require significant political and pro-
gramming effort to get the data in a form...
... customers in California for the challenger and everyone else for the
champion.
■■ Use the 5 percent lowest and 5 percent highest value customers for the
challenger, and everyone else for the champion. ... is a formula for the standard error of a
proportion, there is a formula for the standard error of a difference of propor-
tions (SEDP):
) (p11 - p1)
SEDP =
N1 + p2 )
(1 - p2)
N2
This formula ... standard deviation (strictly speaking,
this is the standard error but the two are equivalent for our purposes) and the
mean value and the sample size for a proportion. This is called the standard...
... descriptive information about a house, suitably mapped, and
produces an output. There is one caveat. The output is itself a number between
0 and 1 (for a logistic activation function) or –1 and 1 (for ...
Jerome Friedman, Richard Olshen, and Charles Stone in 1984. The acronym
stands for Classification and Regression Trees. The CART algorithm grows
binary trees and continues splitting as long ... –1 to 1, this
variables—subtracting the mean and dividing by the standard deviation—is a
useful for neural networks.
SIGMOID FUNCTIONS AND RANGES FOR INPUT VALUES
The sigmoid activation functions...