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MONETARY VALUES FOR AIR POLLUTION RISK OF DEATH: A CONTINGENT VALUATION SURVEY ppt

MONETARY VALUES FOR AIR POLLUTION RISK OF DEATH: A CONTINGENT VALUATION SURVEY ppt

Ngày tải lên : 29/03/2014, 14:20
... j dt introduction of several individuals aects the optimization setting in a linear way The proofs of existence and unicity of the solution remain valid, although the values of the solutions ... corresponds to the sum of the VPFs of each member of the household: Vj ∗ = λ (j ) n ¯ V P Fn (11) n=1 Each of these VPFs can itself be expressed as a ow of discounted age-independent Value Of Lost Years ... computed for each household/respondent It now remains to express the right hand side of Equation (13) in a way compatible with the estimation of δ and V OLY Unfortunately, an analytical formulation of...
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Báo cáo y học: " Rationale for one stage exchange of infected hip replacement using uncemented implants and antibiotic impregnated bone graft"

Báo cáo y học: " Rationale for one stage exchange of infected hip replacement using uncemented implants and antibiotic impregnated bone graft"

Ngày tải lên : 26/10/2012, 09:53
... populations are often missed by conventional culture The problem of diagnosis markedly increases taking into account the issue of bacterial phenotypes inside biofilms Sonication of explanted devices ... eradication of planktonic residues but are not effective in eliminating micro-clusters disrupted from biofilms that may be the cause of recurrence after an indefinite period of time Fragments of biofilms ... insufficient in eliminating biofilm bacteria new ways of antibiotic delivery are required The criteria of antibiotics for efficacy against biofilms are different from those meant for action against planktonic...
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Using Ubuntu Server for System Imaging

Using Ubuntu Server for System Imaging

Ngày tải lên : 19/10/2013, 02:20
... cloned C HA P TER USING UBUNTU SERVER FOR SYSTEM IMAGING Figure 2-4 For optimal performance, use one of the first four options; for optimal flexibility, use the select-in-client option Cloning the ... Clonezilla server for cloning: the Figure 2-2 You can set up imaging for all nodes, or for a limited selection of nodes only Specify engine 37 38 C HAPTER USI NG U B U NTU S ER VER FOR S YS TEM I ... choose from two different options, as shown the option to write an image file to the Clonezilla option is useful only if you want to clone the contents of server The used for this purpose, as long...
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Developing speaking skill through using language games for the 10th form students at sam son high school

Developing speaking skill through using language games for the 10th form students at sam son high school

Ngày tải lên : 19/12/2013, 15:47
... reasons for this First of all, the majority reveals that some of the games that teachers give are unclear and somewhat confusing Besides, some of the respondents consider the high required level of ... designed for those who admit the effectiveness of using language games in speaking classes Therefore, only 110 students get involved in this question 27 Figure 12: Benefits of using language ... 1.2.4.2.2 Level of the games 1.2.4.2.3 Classroom language 1.2.4.2.4 Classroom management CHAPTER II: A SURVEY OF USING GAMES FOR THE 10TH FORM STUDENTS AT SAM...
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Tài liệu Study the Values--Higher Values For You ppt

Tài liệu Study the Values--Higher Values For You ppt

Ngày tải lên : 20/12/2013, 19:15
... become major issues for every chain, and for every new retail concept that seeks to grow The proof of the core values is the willingness of the retailer to put the considerable effort and time required ... also the other attributes of business (brand!) that you embody Core values lead to corporate values Corporate values lead to product and store values Product and store values lead to store branding ... Study the Values insufficient effort to execute on those values This chapter begins with a brief discussion of brand, follows by relating the brand to core values, and shows how core values are...
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Tài liệu USING SAVINGS BONDS FOR EDUCATION pptx

Tài liệu USING SAVINGS BONDS FOR EDUCATION pptx

Ngày tải lên : 15/02/2014, 13:20
... interest earnings on such bonds don't qualify for the Education Savings Bond Program FOR MORE INFORMATION For detailed information about the rules as well as information on income eligibility, check ... Income and Expenses;” IRS Form 8815, “Exclusion of Interest From Series EE and I U.S Savings Bonds Issued After 1989;” and IRS Form 8818, “Optional Form to Record Redemption of Series EE and I U.S ... Answer: For purposes of this program, modified adjusted gross income (AGI) means the sum of the taxpayer's adjusted gross income for the taxable year, including interest on U.S Savings Bonds before...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Using Structural Information for Identifying Similar Chinese Characters" pdf

Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Using Structural Information for Identifying Similar Chinese Characters" pdf

Ngày tải lên : 20/02/2014, 09:20
... code sequence of the character according to the layout of its components Hence, the information about a character includes the tag for its layout and between one to three sequences of code elements ... recognition, Journal of Memory and Language, 40, 498–519 Su-Ling Yeh and Jing-Ling Li 2002 Role of structure and component in judgments of visual similarity of Chinese characters, Journal of Experimental ... Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 28(4), 933–947 Drawbacks of Using the Cangjie Codes Using the Cangjie codes as the basis for comparing the similarity between characters...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Using Confidence Bands for Parallel Texts Alignment" pptx

Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Using Confidence Bands for Parallel Texts Alignment" pptx

Ngày tải lên : 20/02/2014, 18:20
... the Rosetta Stone for there was a name of a King (Ptolemy V) which occurred the same number of times in the ‘parallel texts’ of the stone Each pair of texts provides a set of candidate correspondence ... supported and uses no heuristics Another area for future experiments will use relevant strings of characters in parallel texts instead of using just homographs For this purpose, we will apply a methodology ... number of homographs with equal frequencies per pair of parallel texts (average percentage of homographs inside brackets) For average size texts (e.g the Written Questions), these words account for...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Towards History-based Grammars: Using Richer Models for Probabilistic Parsing*" docx

Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Towards History-based Grammars: Using Richer Models for Probabilistic Parsing*" docx

Ngày tải lên : 20/02/2014, 21:20
... model of context, and we describe a technique for estimating the parameters for this model using decision trees The history-based grammar model provides a mechanism for taking advantage of contextual ... range of values m a y b e from to a b o u t 100 with a median of There are 672 rule templates of which 400 are actually exercised when we parse a corpus of 15,000 sentences The n u m b e r of productions ... which is generated as part of the parse structure Performance The HBG Model To evaluate the performance of a g r a m m a r and an accompanying model, we use two types of measurements: Unlike P...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "SITS: A Hierarchical Nonparametric Model using Speaker Identity for Topic Segmentation in Multiparty Conversations" pptx

Báo cáo khoa học: "SITS: A Hierarchical Nonparametric Model using Speaker Identity for Topic Segmentation in Multiparty Conversations" pptx

Ngày tải lên : 07/03/2014, 18:20
... Resnik, P (2009) Elements of a computational model for multiparty discourse: The turn-taking behavior of Supreme Court justices Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, ... Beyond bag -of- words In Proceedings of International Conference of Machine Learning [Wallach, 2008] Wallach, H M (2008) Structured Topic Models for Language PhD thesis, University of Cambridge ... lc,t requires us to consider merging or splitting segments We use kc,t to denote the shared topic indices of all tokens in turn t of conversation c; Sac,t ,x to denote the number of times speaker...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Two diverse systems built using generic components for spoken dialogue (Recent Progress on TRIPS)" potx

Báo cáo khoa học: "Two diverse systems built using generic components for spoken dialogue (Recent Progress on TRIPS)" potx

Ngày tải lên : 08/03/2014, 04:22
... help with purchasing? The family of tasks involving purchasing items online, regardless of the type of item, have a number of elements in common The process of purchasing has some common dialogue ... state -of- the-art dialogue systems listen, they typically wait for the end of the utterance before deciding what to People on the other hand not wait in this way – they can act on partial information ... this type of interactivity with a dialogue system – at least at the level of two or three words at a time, if not parts of words – imposes some interesting challenges For example: Information...
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Using Online Learning for At-Risk Students and Credit Recovery ppt

Using Online Learning for At-Risk Students and Credit Recovery ppt

Ngày tải lên : 15/03/2014, 04:20
... for at-risk students; (2) different forms of alternative education for students who not well in regular classrooms; and (3) school-wide restructuring efforts for all students.”9 The variety of ... Investigation of Reform Practices to Promote Ninth Grade Success, Nettie Legters and Kerri Kerr, Center for Social Organization of Schools, Johns Hopkins University, 2001 http://www.scusd.edu/com_office/fcpro/legters.pdf ... from U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics and U.S Census Bureau, The Big Payoff: Educational Attainment and Synthetic Estimates of Work-Life Earnings, US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics,...
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Team-Based Learning for Health Professions Education A Guide to Using Small Groups for Improving Learning pdf

Team-Based Learning for Health Professions Education A Guide to Using Small Groups for Improving Learning pdf

Ngày tải lên : 15/03/2014, 06:20
... set of forms Further, because they are only used for the team tests and can often be used for more than one GRAT, an initial order often covers the needs of several users and/or several years of ... some of the primary benefits of using TBL PART ONE—FOUR ESSENTIAL PRINCIPLES OF TBL Shifting from traditional forms of teaching to a TBL approach requires significant changes in (a) the focus of ... presence of built-in subgroups, for example, boy/girl friends, sorority/fraternity members, ethnic groups, and so forth Regardless of the process used to form the groups, both of these categories of...
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Synthesis and characterization of silicon nanowires using tin catalyst for solar cells application

Synthesis and characterization of silicon nanowires using tin catalyst for solar cells application

Ngày tải lên : 16/03/2014, 15:12
... performance Therefore, further reduction of the reflectance will be expected from the optimization of the synthesis conditions of SiNWs For analysis of the electrical properties, the I–V curve of the fabricated ... difference of the reflectance might be the effect of synthesis conditions, such as thickness of metal film and SiH4 gas flow The reduction of reflectance is very helpful to improve the solar cell performance ... I–V characteristics of the fabricated SiNWs solar cell under dark and light conditions the thickness of Si base substrate more thinly For improvement of conversion efficiency of the SiNWs solar...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Using Derivation Trees for Treebank Error Detection" potx

Báo cáo khoa học: "Using Derivation Trees for Treebank Error Detection" potx

Ngày tải lên : 17/03/2014, 00:20
... structures to compare for inconsistent annotation, and are computed separately for each instance of each nucleus from the full derivation tree that each instance is part of. 5 For example, for comparing ... the full details of our solution, but it basically consists of two steps First, as a result of the analysis described so far, for each nucleus we have a mapping of each instance of that nucleus ... annotation types, we can examine large numbers of nuclei at a time Of the first 10 different types of derivation tree inconsistencies, which include 266 different nuclei, all 10 appear to real cases of...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Using Leading Text for News Summaries: Evaluation Results and Implications for Commercial Summarization Applications" ppt

Báo cáo khoa học: "Using Leading Text for News Summaries: Evaluation Results and Implications for Commercial Summarization Applications" ppt

Ngày tải lên : 17/03/2014, 07:20
... LEADs for typical news stories, based on past informal observations of LEAD fields Because of the query bias, the test corpus does not represent our news database For example, only 5.5% of the ... Rates for General News Document Sub -types Table Acceptability Rates for General News by Document Length The distribution of list, newsbrief and transcript type documents was often the cause of other ... case for most list and newsbrief documents and for many transcripts Beyond news data, this holds for case law documents, many types of financial documents, and others matic Condensation of Electronic...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Using directed evolution to improve the solubility of the C-terminal domain of Escherichia coli aminopeptidase P Implications for metal binding and protein stability pptx

Báo cáo khoa học: Using directed evolution to improve the solubility of the C-terminal domain of Escherichia coli aminopeptidase P Implications for metal binding and protein stability pptx

Ngày tải lên : 23/03/2014, 07:20
... this stage, mutants of a single-length fragment were selected for a further round of shuffling Two further rounds of shuffling were completed before a mutated fragment was selected for expression, ... digestion of the AMPP gene (pepP) The gene fragments gave rise to a series of protein fragments that were examined for their solubility by fusing them to DHFR and monitoring the absence or presence of ... in a loss of functional activity The object of this study was to increase the solubility of the C-terminal domain of AMPP, and in so doing to determine which residues are responsible for its poor...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Using Search Engines for Robust Cross-Domain Named Entity Recognition" ppt

Báo cáo khoa học: "Using Search Engines for Robust Cross-Domain Named Entity Recognition" ppt

Ngày tải lên : 23/03/2014, 16:20
... See text for explanation of notation The definitions of URL - MI, LEX - MI, and BOW- MI for LOC, ORG and O are analogous to those for PER For better readability, we write [[x]] for x for compound ... dataset for the “lowercased” runs are bolded (see below for discussion of the “capitalization” runs on lines c9 and i9) For all experiments, we selected a subset of the combinations of the feature ... idea of using search engines for robust domain-independent feature representations yields solid results for one specific NLP problem, NER Piggyback features achieved an improvement of F1 of about...
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a general equilibrium model for energy policy evaluation using gtap-e for vietnam

a general equilibrium model for energy policy evaluation using gtap-e for vietnam

Ngày tải lên : 26/03/2014, 14:07
... structure of dynamic GTAP and the GTAP-E model for Vietnam for the period of 2004-2025.The model is used to simulate the adoption of alternative carbon tax for Vietnam for the based year of 2004 and for ... effect of subsidies allowed in the EU emission trading directive to industries for compensation of the loss of competitiveness The literature survey shows the lack of using dynamic GTAP-E for carbon ... largest for Belgium, Denmark and Great Britain; smallest for Germany Taking into account the economy-wide and terms of- trade effects of emissions trading, however, terms -of- trade effects can offset...
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