... symptoms on overall symptom severity may suggest that the item ratings need to be 'impact' weighted in order to provide the best estimate of the measurement construct Single Cause Indicator models ... Multiple Mixed Indicator models One final family of measurement models is what Bollen and Lennox [21] refer to as the Multiple Mixed Indicator (MMI) model As the name implies, such models contains ... measurement models and provide a practical example of a PRO scale based on each Multiple Effect Indicator models Starting with the top left quadrant of Figure with Model A, the Multiple Effect Indicator...
... Customers are now able to immediately declare their goals (“I want to change my address”) rather than having to laboriously navigate a series of multiple-choice ... of the dialogue with the customer By interacting with a model of the customer’s preferences a dialogue interface is able to recommend appropriate services for the customer (Moore et al., 2004), ... (optional) example phrases that users might employ to answer the prompt, and these are automatically added to the GF grammar Figure 5: Example: using DUDE to define prompts, answer sets, and database...
... the base MT system In the second setting, we allow the model to use up to 100 translations, and to automatically select the best number to use As seen in Table 3, (n=16) translations were chosen ... log-probabilities according to inverted and direct channel models estimated by relative frequency, lexical weighting channel models, a trigram target language model, distortion, word count and phrase ... according to inverted and direct channel models estimated by relative frequency, lexical weighting channel models following Vogel et al (2003), a trigram target language model, two order models, ...
... Towards a Framework for Practice Jerry Tew 216 CONTRIBUTORS 228 SUBJECT INDEX 231 AUTHOR INDEX 237 Foreword It is a cause for celebration to be able to introduce this thought-provoking book to ... and presents the results back to the creators and implementers It campaigns for increased attention to be paid to social and user-focused research, and is committed to a consideration of issues ... develop a repertoire of concepts and models that may help to move us beyond the territory of just treating symptoms, and may be useful in giving meaning to experience, and in enabling and supporting...
... shown to be infectious and able to replicate efficiently in the newly described HPV18 ⁄ E6E7-immortalized hepatocytes In this experiment, interferon regulatory factor-7, a regulatory factor of ... Takada Y, Egawa H, Uemoto S & Shimotohno K (2007) Serum-derived hepatitis C virus infectivity in interferon regulatory factor-7-suppressed human primary hepatocytes J Hepatol 46, 26–36 45 Lerat ... regulatory factor-7-defective form of this cell line has been engineered by stable expression of transdominant mutant interferon regulatory factor-7 These deficient cells were more susceptible to...
... direct their course towards the equator The former flow from the temperate to the torrid zone This circumstance of courses pursuing opposite directions (towards the equator, and towards the temperate ... and Pore Berrio told Raleigh that he came from the Casanare to the Pato, from the Pato to the Meta, and from the Meta to the Baraguan (Orinoco) We must not confound this Rio Pato (a name connected ... country to country, have been successively adapted to different localities In the sciences, in order to distinguish truth from error, it often suffices to retrace the history of opinions, and to follow...
... time A calibrated model has to factor in the database locking effect www.it-ebooks.info 2.1 Building Models 33 The models of production systems have to be calibrated to ensure that they provide ... models help to abstract from application specifics that might be substantial from a functionality perspective but irrelevant to sizing and tuning Why we are going to use queuing modelsto understand ... by queuing models: Bridge toll Cars are requests; booths are servers Grocery store Visitors are requests; counters are servers Cellular phone network Phone calls are requests; phone towers are...
... research to compare them, as described below To assess each extraction, we determine how similar its context vector is to a canonical seed vector (created by summing the context vectors of the ... and Pickerington are not identical, so to the traditional approach these contexts offer no evidence that Pickerington and Chicago are of the same type For a sparse token like Pickerington, this ... context vector v(ej ,ek ) , whose i-th dimension corresponds to the number of times context ci occurred with the pair (ej , ek ) in the corpus These context vectors are similar to document vectors...
... (FO) to refer to the subsets of the corpus that are translated from English to French and from French to English, respectively The translation tasks are English-toFrench (E2F) and French -to- English ... French -to- English, but it drops to 0.46 for the reverse task The covering set average length measure shows similar behavior: R2 drops from 0.75 in French -to- English to 0.56 in Englishto-French ... additional factor in the phrase table that “encourages” the decoder to select translation op- 261 tions that are closer to translated texts than to original ones Analysis In order to study the...
... vs excitotoxicity [52] Immune adherence and opsonization [89] (may facilitate Aβ clearance by phagocytic microglia) Anaphylatoxin (weak) [156] Anaphylatoxin; protects neurons vs excitotoxicity ... vitro protection against excitotoxicity [51,52] and Aβ-induced neurotoxicity [53], as well as anti-apop- totic effects [54,55] Further, C1q, the first complement protein to be deposited on cell membranes ... the entorhinal cortex and the molecular layer of the dentate gyrus [106,107], systemic administration of the excitotoxin kainic acid [108,109], or injection of the neurotoxin colchicine into the...
... alternative option of less structural change and to include cool-storage: Dr Phong to design alternative options Cool-storage need was highlighted by a report of a recent shipment of DF to Indonesia which ... working model pilot to the wider Binh Thuan dragon fruit production area and into the provinces of Tien Giang and Long An Objective To develop the postharvest and production modelsto enable small-holder ... mentored by Dr Allan Woolf, implemented his planned research programme to extend the storage life of dragon fruit The project purchased temperature data recording equipment to enable Dr Phong to...
... hygiene at farm - Old model toilet - New model toilet - Traditional toilet (fish toilet) Fertilizer storage - No storage - Separate space - Storage along with other tools - Storage along with pesticides ... (%) - Less than 5.000 m2 - From 5000 toless than 10.000m2 - From 10.000 toless than 20.000m2 - Up to 20.000m2 Livestock activities percentage - Domestic fowls (chicken, duck,…) - Livestock (cow, ... programme was suggested: continue to produce and sell to collectors work towards resolving management issues work together to build a strong Cooperative progress towards GlobalGAP on-farm and for...
... First-Order Left -to- Right Suprasegmental Hidden Markov Models First-Order Left -to- Right Suprasegmental Hidden Markov Models have been derived from acoustic FirstOrder Left -to- Right Hidden Markov Models ... CSPHMM2s are superior modelsto each of First-Order Left -to- Right Suprasegmental Hidden Markov Models (LTRSPHMM1s), SecondOrder Left -to- Right Suprasegmental Hidden Markov Models (LTRSPHMM2s), ... first-order left -to- right, second-order leftto-right, first-order circular, and second-order circular models were trained on top of acoustic: first-order left -to- right, second-order left -to- right, first-order...
... requirements Software -to- be: software to be developed - part of the Software -to- be machine, component of the system -to- be Environment: all other components of the system -to- be, including people, ... system as it exists before the machine is built as-is into it System -to- be: system as it should be when the machine will to- be operate into it Concepts, phenomena, rules about car handbraking ... organization units, staff, operators, – physical components: devices, legacy software, mother Nature, Machine: what needs to be installed to solve the problem Machine – software to be developed and/or...
... 2S were inventoried to forest transport roads during traffic research Subsequently it was necessary to classify these transport slope roads according to their parameters pursuant to new norms ... possible to classify these roads to forest roads of 2L grade, in accordance with the norm in force and that is why they are classified as forest roads of 2L2 grade and these are counted to non-stocked ... created by sediments – sandstones, claysoils and floury soils 77 Fig The map of Natural Forest Regions (www.uhul.cz, 2007) The Czech Republic is divided into Natural Forest Regions, which are continuous...
... Postoperatively the patient was extubated and was discharged to home on postoperative day eight He received postoperative radiation for a total of 60 Gy References Barbetakis N, Samanidis G, Samanidou ... complex anatomy of the mediastinum, can be daunting However, given the often encapsulated nature of the lesions, complete resection is often possible and debulking can lead to symptomatic relief ... Conclusions Despite the complex nature of the anatomy surrounding mediastinal liposarcomas, surgical intervention is not unreasonable and thought to be the most effective form of treatment [1,3]...
... 25 to 32 fractions The range of fractional doses to clinically negative volumes was 1.28 to 1.80 Gy Seventeen patients (50%) received a fractional dose of less than 1.60 Gy, 13 (38%) received less ... in 20 to 25 fractions over to weeks Patients with less than 50% response were treated surgically, and all others were recommended to receive a boost (15 Gy in fractions, by electrons, photons, ... areas to receive different total doses while the number of fractions remains the same Under certain conditions, elective regions could receive a fractional dose as low as 1.50 Gy per day Historically,...
... estimates dropped somewhat For the models 12a and 12c the m estimate increased by a factor of 1.5 to (from 0.04 (0.04) to 0.07 (0.06) in population A and from 0.03 (0.02) to 0.05 (0.04) in population ... these covariances to be non-zero (in model 12) All the F values were positive (in models 13-18) as were the C estimates EC m _effect in models 7-12 The models without a c (models 13, 15 and 16) ... females), y is a where, for traiti (i vector of observations; b is a vector of fixed effects; a is a vector with random i i additive genetic animal effects; c is a vector with random maternal permanent...
... normal chondrocytes on non-fibrillated regionsto secretory chondrocytes with irregular shape, and apoptotic (chondroptotic) chondrocytes in the deeper fibrillated regions Thus, they suggested that, ... immunohistochemical localization of Notch receptors and ligands in human articular cartilage, chondroprogenitor culture and ultrustructural characterestics of these progenitor cells Acta Histochem ... Notch receptor, which translocates to the nucleus and interacts with its downstream transcription factor, CSL, and thereby activates transcription of its target genes [7,18-21] (Figure 2) To date,...
... l The G effects according to Model at h= are by definition equal to the G z j j effects according to Model In order to compare the results from Model with the other models, a &dquo;MHC free&dquo; ... effects according to the different models is shown in table II - Model to the present material would lead to false conclusions table II The agreement between the G solutions according to Model and ... complete set of mixed model equations to obtain individual BLUP values Modifications of the models The G effects in the models may be j formula: decomposed according to the following general where 81’...