estimation of adult mortality from information on the distribution of deaths by age

INDIRECT TECHNODUES FOR DEMOGRAPHIC ESTIMATION pot

Ngày tải lên : 30/03/2014, 14:20

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Báo cáo hóa học: " Joint fundamental frequency and order estimation using optimal filtering" pot

Ngày tải lên : 21/06/2014, 03:20

... recursion over the model order To apply the matrix inversion lemma to the calculation of (103), we first define the matrix composed of vectors corresponding to the L k - first harmonics of the full ... to order estimation, investigating the performance of the estimators given the fundamental frequency The reason for this is simply that the high-resolution estimation capabilities of the proposed ... require the determination of the noise variance for each candidate model order The criterion in (85) reflects the tradeoff between the variance of the residual and the complexity of the model For example,...

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Báo cáo y học: "Cost and mortality prediction using polymerase chain reaction pathogen detection in sepsis: evidence from three observational trials" pot

Ngày tải lên : 13/08/2014, 21:21

... potential of the new method to lower mortality from sepsis The predicted 2.6% (2.0 to 3.2%) absolute reduction of mortality in the PCR-tested patients could be considered a relevant contribution to the ... to Equation when dividing the incurred cost by the number of incremental survivors For calculating the number of incremental survivors, we developed the denominator of Equation With the investigated ... €) (Equation with inputs of Table 1) Correcting inadequate coverage of a Gram-positive pathogen by multiplex PCR contributed 38.2% to the reported cost-effectiveness; the contributions of accelerated...

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Air pollution exposure estimation using dispersion modelling and continuous monitoring data in a prospective birth cohort study in the Netherlands potx

Ngày tải lên : 06/03/2014, 19:20

... considered as the sum of the background concentration and the contribution from local emission sources We modelled the contribution of local emission sources to the PM10 and NO2 concentrations at the three ... background concentrations This was done using continuous hourly monitoring data from three monitoring stations in the study area The measured air pollution concentrations at these stations are considered ... three monitoring stations Subsequently, we subtracted the hourly modelled contributions from the hourly measured concentrations at the stations, thereby deriving an hourly estimate for the background...

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**Báo cáo khoa học: "Analysis System of Speech Acts and Discourse Structures Using Maximum Entropy Model*" pptx**

Ngày tải lên : 17/03/2014, 07:20

... function together Among the ways to combine the unified feature function with the separated feature function, we choose the combination in which the separated feature function is used only when there ... example of an unified feature function, and equation (17) and (18) which are delivered by separating the condition of b in equation (16) show examples of separated feature functions for the contextual ... using DSBs In the training phase, the model transforms discourse structure (DS) information in the corpus into DSBs by comparing the DS information of an utterance with that of the previous utterance...

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Báo cáo khoa học: " Parsing the Wall Street Journal using a Lexical-Functional Grammar and Discriminative Estimation Techniques" doc

Ngày tải lên : 23/03/2014, 20:20

... created from section 24 of the WSJ treebank for experimental selection of the variance parameter of the prior distribution This set consists of 120 sentences which received only full parses, out of ... maximize the conditional likelihood of the sets of parses given the corresponding strings in a discriminative estimation setting rameters which make the two expectations in the last equation equal, ... on a frequency cutoff on instantiations of properties for the parses in the labeled training set The result of this procedure is a reduction of the property vector to about half its size Furthermore,...

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Model choice in time series studies of air pollution and mortality pdf

Ngày tải lên : 29/03/2014, 18:20

... evaluate the estimation procedures in each of these scenarios The deﬁnition of the scenarios relies on the timescales at which confounding occurs and the strength of the concurvity between the pollutant ... are deﬁned on a grid of knot locations spanning the range of the data The function itself, as well as its second derivative, is continuous on the entire range of the data and the function is restricted ... temporal variations in air quality The principal determinants of variation in air pollution concentrations are day of the week changes in emissions (but the day of the week is controlled in these studies),...

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perlovsky - neural networks and intellect - using model-based concepts (oxford, 2001)

Ngày tải lên : 03/04/2014, 12:09

... reason and freedom) The combination of intuition with a mathematically uniﬁed paradigm provides the foundation of a physical theory of mind The book is based on a number of conference presentations ... ends with a consideration of the future directions of research in the physical theory of mind HOW TO READ THIS BOOK The book is self-contained in that the concepts of philosophy and mathematics ... structures The basis of this search for the material structures of intellect, for the explanation of how the interactions of brain neurons could process the information and perform computations was...

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Three essays on real estate, environmental, and urban economics using the hedonic price model technique

Ngày tải lên : 03/06/2014, 02:21

... both the environmental and urban economics literature by examining whether house price impacts of environmental disamenities are affected by the intervention of real estate agents The existence of ... addressing the impact of real estate agents on the relationships between selling price of a house and the time it takes to sell it, the availability and quality of information on the house, as ... a linear function of distance from the landfill, ceteris paribus The market value of the property at various distances from the landfill is given by the locus of tangencies of the buyers’ bid...

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Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Robust and Accurate Curvature Estimation Using Adaptive Line Integrals" pdf

Ngày tải lên : 21/06/2014, 08:20

... evaluating the area integral invariant [13] of a particular point on a curve, the standard convolution algorithm has a quadratic computational complexity With the help of the convolution theorem and the ... Tang and G Medioni, “Robust estimation of curvature information from noisy 3D data for shape description,” in Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV ’99), ... diagram of the radius selection algorithm using bootstrap method avoiding the convolution with polynomial complexity by instead using the one with constant complexity 2.6 Adaptive Window Selection The...

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Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article A Practical Approach for Simultaneous Estimation of Light Source Position, Scene Structure, and Blind Restoration Using Photometric Observations" pot

Ngày tải lên : 21/06/2014, 22:20

... light source position, given by the intersection of the tangents to the circle at the critical points The dark portion of the ﬁgure shows the portion of the object beyond the critical boundary, ... shading information from image contours In [22], a scheme which is based on the concept of critical points in the image for extracting multiple illuminant directions from the image of a sphere of ... knowledge of the light source position they not consider the blur in the observations In all these methods, the researchers not consider the eﬀect of blur while solving the problem of photometric...

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Báo cáo hóa học: "Research Article A Geometrical-Based Model for Cochannel Interference Analysis and Capacity Estimation of CDMA Cellular Systems" pot

Ngày tải lên : 21/06/2014, 23:20

... the probability of the AoA of the interfering signals at the BS is proportional to the area E(φ) of the polygon deﬁned from the axis that connects the BSs of the desired and the interfering cell, ... sectorization of the cells on the reverse link performance of a WCDMA cellular system are also investigated The ﬁrst two sets of results presented are the pdfs and the cdfs of the AoA of the interfering ... evaluation of the proposed model are presented The accuracy of the proposed model and the circular-cell approximation is examined in detail The impact of the BS antenna radiation pattern and the...

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Báo cáo hóa học: " Doubly Selective Channel Estimation Using Superimposed Training and Exponential Bases Models" pdf

Ngày tải lên : 22/06/2014, 23:20

... relation (13) leads to (19) (see Section 2) which allows for a “decoupled” estimation of the coeﬃcients dmq (see (10)) from data In the CE-BEM model the exponential basis functions are orthogonal ... operations, respectively δ(τ) is the Kronecker delta and IN is the N × N identity matrix The symbol ⊗ denotes the Kronecker product The superscript ∗ denotes the complex conjugation operation 1.1 ... at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa He was with the Long Range Research Division of the Exxon Production Research Company, Houston, Tex, from June 1982 to September 1989 He joined the...

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Báo cáo hóa học: " Ofﬂine Signature Veriﬁcation Using the Discrete Radon Transform and a Hidden Markov Model" doc

Ngày tải lên : 23/06/2014, 01:20

... angle The accuracy of the DRT is determined by Θ (the number of angles), β (the number of beams per angle), and the accuracy of the interpolation method Note that the continuous form of the Radon ... each one of these feature sets, a special two-stage perceptron one-class-one-network (OCON) classification structure is implemented In the first stage, the classifier combines the decision results of ... to the other nonzero components before the decimated vector is shrunk or expanded Since the dimension of the feature vectors are high compared to the number of these additional components, the...

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Báo cáo sinh học: "High-resolution quantitative imaging of mammalian and bacterial cells using stable isotope mass spectrometry" docx

Ngày tải lên : 06/08/2014, 18:21

... image, (d) 12C-, (e) 13C-, (f) 13C-/12C- ratio image The images in (c,f) result from the pixel -by- pixel division of the 12C15N- image by the 12C14N- image and of the 13C- image by the 12C- image, ... escape? The ionization yield, in the negative secondary-ion emission mode, depends strongly on both the electron affinity of the elements or clusters under consideration and the concentration of the ... are the sputtering rate (the rate of removal of the target atom by the primary ions), the ionization yield (the fraction of sputtered atoms that are ionized) and the local concentration of atoms...

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Báo cáo khoa hoc:" Comparison between estimation of breeding values and ﬁxed effects using Bayesian and empirical BLUP estimation under selection on parents and missing " doc

Ngày tải lên : 09/08/2014, 18:21

... where wij is the element ij j=1, j=i of the coefﬁcient matrix and hi is the element i of the right-hand side of the MME 46 F.S Schenkel et al The fully conditional posterior distribution of variance ... respectively The previous fully conditional posterior distributions from (3) to (5) were used in the Gibbs sampling scheme The starting values of the variances to obtain the ﬁrst solution from MME were the ... populations would be of interest The objectives of this study were to examine the effects of non-random selection on the parents (using phenotypic records or BLUP of breeding values) on the sampling...

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Báo cáo sinh học: " Power and parameter estimation of complex segregation analysis under a finite locus model" pot

Ngày tải lên : 09/08/2014, 18:22

... generated under the finite locus model than under the mixed model Violation of the assumption of independent segregation of the major gene and other genes had a negative effect on the power of the mixed ... dominance) of the other nine loci in the corresponding finite locus model The polygenic effect of progeny was generated from a normal distribution with mean equal to the average of polygenic effects of ... study the effect of violation of the two assumptions of the underlying model in segregation analysis, namely a skewed polygenic distribution and linkage between a major gene and polygenes, on the...

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Báo cáo y học: "Haplotype and isoform specific expression estimation using multi-mapping RNA-seq reads" pptx

Ngày tải lên : 09/08/2014, 22:23

... each of the two males, containing their individual versions of the 117 isoforms We then created a third hybrid reference containing two copies of the 117 isoforms, one matching the haplotype of one ... The second RSEM plot from the left is a blown up version of the plot on the far left so that the y-axis covers the same range as the MMSEQ plots on the right Isoform-level application to the HapMap ... contrast in the distribution of expression values between lanes of the same individual and lanes of different individuals (Additional file 6) The consistency of expression values for lanes of...

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Báo cáo y học: " Role of pulmonary intravascular macrophages in endotoxin-induced lung inflammation and mortality in a rat model" pot

Ngày tải lên : 12/08/2014, 14:20

... contamination units of Platinum Taq DNA polymerase was substituted for the Superscript III RT/Platinum Taq mixture in the reaction A negative control reaction consisted of all the components of ... interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions SSG conducted the experiments, analysed the data and participated in the preparation of the first draft of the ... higher concentrations (**) of all the measured cytokines compared to all other groups + indicates more concentrations than the control and the LPS group while * means more than the control rats...

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Báo cáo y học: " Surfactant disaturated-phosphatidylcholine kinetics in acute respiratory distress syndrome by stable isotopes and a two compartment model" potx

Ngày tải lên : 12/08/2014, 15:20

... of our conclusions remain valid independent of any assumption regarding the site of degradation of surfactant The present results agree with the view that, in ARDS, only a fraction of the lung ... assumptions on the relative role of the two degradation pathways need to be incorporated into the model Based on the results of studies in which rabbits or mice received non-degradable analogues of ... patients who took part in the study and all the nurses for their precious contribution to the collection of the tracheal samples This study was funded by a grant from University of Padova, Italy and...

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