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... following called control group) of Abies alba were selected and felled during winter season 1997/1998 in an approximately 70-yr-old stand near Domat/Ems (Canton of Grisons, Switzerland, grid reference ... phase of exponential growth of the mistletoe subpopulations The analogue ratios for the control group were 3/7 and 0/10 (Tab II) Changing the reference year 1988 for the trees of the control ... approximates the age of each tree The size of mistletoe subpopulations on the infested trees in 1997 and the beginning of infestation (first year with more than 10 new infections) is given Only living...
... navigation method in an unknown environment is basedon the combination of two types of obstacle avoidance behaviors, one for the convex obstacles and one for the concave ones In the case of convex ... Avoidance of concave obstacles In an environment composed with concave obstacles and in order to avoid blocking situations, we use an additional behavior, inspired of the myopic method, which consists ... Japan, 1993 [21] K Nishimori, S Hirakawa, H Tokutaka, Fuzzification of control timing in driving control of a model car, in: Proceedings of the Second IEEE Conference on Fuzzy Systems, San Francisco,...
... sanctification, an ongoing replication of the initial conversion that continued until the saint’s death and subsequent glorification The believer’s postconversion life offered repeated confirmations ... Greek and Latin, and even owned an edition of Horace, the Towardan anthropology of Puritan reading prosodic virtuoso of antiquity (Dean ) But when he set out to justify the ways of God ... home the consolations of the gospel Through the reading and writing of elegy, Puritans drew from the occasion of death an inner echo of the twofold revelation of Scripture itself.8 Puritan discourse...
... information provided in the loan application Various federal regulatory agencies have issued guidance in response to consumer protection concerns and for reasons of safety and soundness This guidance ... FDIC, Risk Management Manual of Examination Policies, Section 9.1 - Bank Fraud and Insider Abuse, http://www.fdic.gov/regulations/safety/manual/section9-1.html Mortgage Loan Fraud Financial Crimes ... jointly by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Federal Reserve System, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Office of Thrift Supervision, and National Credit Union Administration The full...
... the oscillations is a coupled transcription-translation system with delays (C) Effect on IKK and of nuclear NF-jB of varying one rate constant (for reaction 28 in [18]) by two orders of magnitude ... (computational and theoretical), reductionist and synthetic, qualitative and quantitative, and a systems biologist would lay more stress than is conventional on the righthand arcs of the diagrams ... diagnostics bionanotechnology, and computational linguistics text mining The belief that an organism is nothing more than a collection of substances, albeit a collection of very complex substances,...
... top of the Nuance Toolkit Section gives details of experiments carried out on a medium-vocabulary command and control task from an instruction manual domain Section concludes Semantic analysis as ... associated semantic representations are shown at the beginning of Section The speech understanding component is implemented on top of the Nuance platform (Nuance, 2002); the recognition package ... level, semantic interpretation is viewed as a statistical classification task An interpretation consists of a set of one or more semantic atoms Each utterance is associated with a set of features;...
... default/non-default - Consolidation of internal data and external information - Construction and estimation of a statistical credit scoring model - Determination of cut-off value(s) on the default ... definition of default, depending on the nature of the loans and the company’s internal calculation, its marketing strategy and credit policy Consequently, the lack of information on any concrete ... condition the distribution of each indicator on the default or non-default event The separation of the two conditional, group-specific distributions shows how well the indicators perform in monitoring...
... private and public choice, individual and collective choice, economic and social choice, production and consumption choice and many more types of choices In this context we can say that the choicebased ... Nature of financial economics and Role of Financial System: Definition of Financial economics and its nature, -Money and finance Money and near-money - Financial intermediation and financial intermediaries ... Hicks on Classical and Keynes- Leijon Hufwood on Keynesian economics and economics of Keynes- Recent developments- Neutrality of money- Classical, Keynesian and post Keynesian views- Conditions of...
... Consumption The first pillar of the Common Vision advocates for the responsible use of paper products and the elimination of excessive and wasteful consumption to reduce the many environmental and ... production and consumption in the North American pulp and paper industry The organizations of the Environmental Paper Network are continuing to work in a coordinated manner to advance the goalsof ... carbon offsets basedon conservation and improved forest management with FSC certification in the heart of their fiber basket in the Southern Appalachian region of the United States Likewise, Office...
... autocorrelation function, CT(t), for the classical dimer of spins with only exchange interaction and no biquadratic exchange interaction (K ” 0) for very low temperatures and for an F exchange interaction, ... autocorrelation function, CT(t), for the classical dimer of spins with only exchange interaction and no biquadratic exchange interaction (K ” 0) for very low temperatures and for an AF exchange interaction, ... smooth function of |J| t with fast decaying oscillations |K|/|J| increases and becomes larger or of the order of unity In Figs and we consider an F exchange interaction, J = –|J| < 0, and, respectively,...
... Iran of which related factors are living in urban area, and at the age of under 24 Study of Le Thi Van also showed level of education of mother would be another related factor Results also shows ... examination, treatment (if any) and health counselling - Aim of the intervention: Improving good knowldge and practice on postnatal care among mothers and early detecting any dangerous signs of ... This is a result of good national propaganda on nutrition currently On labor and hygiene: there is about 12,1% of urban mothers and 31% of rural mothers believe in water resistance after childbirth...
... for reasons of stem visibility 959 CONCLUSIONS AND PERSPECTIVES The photo-documentation of sample trees can be used for the calculation of stem dimensions and for the interpretation of stem surface ... polygonoriented segmentation process and a fuzzy logic based classification The polygon based segmentation takes into consideration that semantic information, which is necessary for a meaningful ... noted in relation to the plot centre (horizontal distance, direction) This offers the option of (1) an area-related transfer of the results and (2) of a later re-investigation of the sample trees...
... Additional material Additional file 1: ISsaga user manual A detailed explanation of the use of ISsaga and instructions concerning the correct system of annotation for insertion sequences Additional ... 18 The table shows a comparison of IS annotations of eight bacterial genomes contained in the corresponding GenBank files (GB) with those obtained by manual annotation (Manual) and using the ... Enrichment of ISfinder Database Finish Annotation (b) New AnnotationFile Genome Context Annotation Preview Pre-identified ISs ? Update ISbrowser* Annotation Status Annotation Table Yes Annotation Tools...
... of EBPs On one hand, there is an appreciation of a model of practice built upon documented results rather than on the opinions of experts [64], and organizations such as the National Alliance for ... Second, much of organizational learning occurs through continuing education and related professional development activities by its licensed professionals Regulations surrounding mandated continuing ... providers, organizations, and state agencies, and several of these costs accrue to organizations Examples include the costs of training in EBPs, costs of ongoing supervision and case consultation, productivity...
... Reliability in content analysis: Some common misconceptions and recommendations Human Communication Research 2004, 30:411-433 Kehr HM: Goal conflicts, attainment of new goals, and wellbeing among managers ... attention upon what else the GP wants to and does during the consultation, and how they relate to the focal behaviour In some instances, many of the other goal-directed behaviours in the consultation ... but expressing conditions related to the situational demands of the consultation that affect that high intention; future research should consider the implications of these 'conditionalities' Finally,...