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Fund offices with representatives of the Design Section of the Office of Design and
Construction Management for the purpose of analyzing bids. This meeting must ...
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matical Association of America), pp. 59, 182–183 [synthetic division].
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an ... 198
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... regulating synaptic levels of zinc, as
the GIF-deficient mice had a reduced content of Zn(II)
within a number of brain regions [28].
ROS scavenging ability of GIF
The coordination of redox-active metal ... binding of Zn, leading to the for-
mation of SDS-soluble monomeric zinc-bound Ab and
soluble copper-bound GIF [38]. Therefore, the metal
swap led to simultaneous modification of the final
form of Ab(1–40) ... the Cu(II)-
induced aggregation of Ab is toxic. The neurotoxicity of
Cu(II)-induced Ab aggregation is related to the genera-
tion of ROS through the redox cycling of Cu. In this
regard, GIF has...
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AUDITOR INDEPENDENCE, OBJECTIVITY AND PROFESSIONAL SKEPTICISM
e auditor must be independent of...
... implementation, all of them were pursuing their
planned actions by January 2000.
The RAND Evaluation
The evaluationof the asthma practice guideline demonstration con-
sisted of both a process evaluation ... established collaboratively
by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Department of
Defense (DoD).
This report presents results from our evaluationof the second of
the three demonstrations, in which ... emphasis of the DoD/VA practice guideline for pri-
mary care management of asthma is on effective management of
asthma, including medication management, with the goal of pre-
xviii Implementation of...
... sophistication of computer
support also varied considerably.
THE RAND EVALUATION
The evaluationof the demonstration by RAND consisted of two
components: a process evaluation and an analysis of the effects ... guideline.
Summary reports of the results of the final round of site visits for the
four participating MTFs are presented in Appendix B.
The purposes of the analysis of the effects of guideline implementa-
tion ... to assess
the effects of the guideline on clinical practices. Results of the pro-
cess evaluation are reported in Chapters Four and Five, and results of
the evaluationof guideline effects are...
... transactional
security, the devaluation of assets as a strategy to avoid expropriation and lobbying. At
the core of each of these mechanisms is the modification of the payoffs of the original
PD game, ... Rechts
Herausgegeben von
Professor Dr. Peter Behrens
Professor Dr. Thomas Eger
Professor Dr. Manfred Holler
Professor Dr. Claus Ott
Professor Dr. Hans-Bernd Schäfer
Professor Dr. Stefan Voigt ... judiciary of
host-states. Especially in the light of the lack of a truly multinational treaty on the
protection of FDI, bilateral investment treaties can be considered a cornerstone of
international...
... chal-
lenge is the evaluation: manual evaluation is a
difficult, time-consuming process and not ap-
plicable within efficient development of sys-
tems. Automatic evaluation requires a cor-
pus of questions ... the majority of cases (83% of the
questions) one of the workers replied with the NoA,
the ones that answered did agree up to a point: of
all the answers, 72% were such that all of their sen-
tences ... example of a procedure that can be used to post-
process the data and in further projectsof similar
nature. For example, the ROUGE similarity could
be used in the data collection phase as a tool of...
... grammar, rhythm and flow,
appropriateness of tone, and several other specific
characteristics of good text.
In terms of automatic evaluation, we are not aware
of any technique that measures only fluency ... Methods
PoStag In the first of these, we constructed a
rough approximation of typical sentence grammar
structure by taking bigrams over part -of- speech
tags.
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chine Translation. Technical Report RC22176, IBM.
Joseph Turian, Luke Shen, and I. Dan Melamed. 2003. Evalua-
tion of Machine Translation and its evaluation. In Proceedings
of MT...
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Miscellaneous
Contribution of exporting to the growth of the firm SUB-MIS-CGF 1 2
Contribution of exporting to the quality of firm’s management SUB-MIS-CQM 1 2
Quality of distributor relationships ... of the studies reviewed here used the firm as the unit of analysis. The remaining fifteen studies adopted ex-
port venture as the unit of analysis. In the case of using the firm as the unit of ... sales return on investment SUB-SAL-ROI 1 2
Export sales return on investment compared to competitors SUB-SAL-ROIC 1 2
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Subject Page
Acknowledgemen
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IV
Declaration V
Table of Contents VI
List of Figures X
list of Tables XI
List of ... frame work of
project management in construction to be developed.
ã Chapter Seven: this chapter summarized the problems in managing
projects and role of each of the stakeholders. A set of conclusions ... future of the country. Palestine has suffered greatly
in recent decades as a result of occupation, closure and lack of resources.
That and other issues have caused stagnation in many aspects of...
... scenario and some pilot studies to test
the feasibility of our approach.
2 Advantages of Ecological Approaches
Evaluation of the effectiveness of persuasive sys-
tems is very expensive and time consuming, ... effectiveness of different linguistic choices. The
experiments reported in this paper are illustrative ex-
amples of the method proposed and are concerned
with the evaluationof the role of minimal ... performance of each single
ad (its persuasiveness, from our point of view):
ã CTR, Click Through Rate: measures the num-
ber of clicks divided by the number of impres-
sions (i.e. the number of times...
... consists of the
following 4 elements:
ã Selection of application domain.
ã Development of a manually-bracketed corpus (tree-
bank)
of the domain.
ã Creation of a grammar with a large coverage of ... incorrect,
since two of its part -of- speech labels and one of its bracket
labels differ from those of the treebank parse.
Grammar writing and statistical estimation:
The task of developing the ...
broad but not unrestricted range of sentence types and
the availability of large corpora of computer manuals. We
amassed a corpus of 40 million words, consisting of several
hundred computer manuals....
... QARLA, for the evaluation
of text summarisation systems. The in-
put of the framework is a set of man-
ual (reference) summaries, a set of base-
line (automatic) summaries and a set of
similarity ... Combination) 6/9
Table 1: Results of the test of identifying the manual summariser
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is reliable, or the evaluation outcome may change
by ... Metrics.
In Proceedings of MT Summit IX, New Orleans,LA.
Luke Shen Joseph P. Turian and I. Dan Melamed.
2003. Evaluationof Machine Translation and its
Evaluation. In In Proceedings of MT Summit IX,
New...
... argued as force-
fully on the basis of my study of users* evaluationof
machine translation [2] a study which was prompted by
the evaluations of the quality of machine translation as
viewed ... difficulties of
evaluation given the vide range of evaluaCors and their
purposes.
We
are all undoubtedly convinced of the value
of NLI for the society as a whole, but the evaluationof
experiments ...
acceptance of the limitations of our NL interfaces.
Also, we are far more aware of the fact
chac
evaluations
of '~orth" or "quality" have Co be conducted in the con-
texts of...