... that the price was all-important, and every penny counted The supermarket was generally accepted as the food retailer until the years 1970s By the end ofthe decade, the changing lifestyle ofthe ... ofthe store by evaluating the store in terms ofthefactors comprising the choice criteria Based on the evaluation, the consumer 18 forms a degreeof preference for the store If preference exceeds ... Demographic profile of supermarkets’ non-users and heavy-users The demographic profile of heavy users in the sample is similar to the profile described for the whole sample (table 4.16 The figures...
... to the experiment, a stable water level in the reservoir was kept by the overhead tank Once the bottom ofthe capillary tube contacted with water in the reservoir, the dynamic movement ofthe ... K is the permeability, L is the length ofthe capillary tube, Pc is the macroscopic capillary pressure, φ is the porosity, µ1 and µ are the viscosity of water and air, and ρ1 and ρ are the density ... With the background above, the purpose ofthe present work was to present a novel laboratory method determiningthe hydraulic permeability of sand layer based on the capillary rise (CR) theory...
... reset the rotation ofthe various hands on the clock to their starting positions The next action attaches the sound named alarm in the library to the alarmSound Sound object The last action uses the ... second (the frame rate ofthe movie) if necessary This allows the user to reset the minute and second settings ofthe timer dynamically—that is, while the timer is on—and update the value of totalTimeToAlarm ... when the alarm is set to go off The functionality ofthe Alarm section ofthe application will be handled by two main functions: one for starting the alarm timer, and another for stopping the...
... function ofthe number of sources, Ns , is the vector of parameters needed for the model that generated the data Y The criteria are composed ofthe negative ofthe ˆ ˆ log-likelihood function ofthe ... both of these methods, the estimate ofthe number of sources is that value of Ns which minimizes the criterion In [9] there is a more thorough discussion concerning determiningthe number of degrees ... portion ofthenoise while thenoise subspace contains only that part ofthenoise that is orthogonal to the signals [3] If there are fewer sources than sensors, the smallest M − Ns eigenvalues of...
... discuss your responses with the class The instructor will write the class consensus on a flip chart Use the space below for brainstorming Activity 7.2: Determiningthe Impact of Technology on a Windows ... Identify the level of impact — high, medium, or low — that each technology type would have on the given layer of a Windows DNA design Write your answers in the grid provided After completing the above ... 7.2: Determiningthe Impact of Technology on a Windows DNA Design Exercise 1: Determining Technology Implications ! Determine technology implications Participate in small groups as assigned by the...
... types (nchar, nvarchar, and ntext) report double the value ofthe MaxLength property ofthe column object In the example, the ShipCountry column ofthe Orders table reports MaxLength = 15 (stores ... keyed on the column name The code then iterates over the collection of columns in the table and displays the length, precision, and scale for each from the Hashtable Information from the FillSchema( ... is the name of a table object, the result set returns data including the length, precision, and scale of each column in columns named Length, Prec, and Scale The column length returned by the...
... support/attitudes of others Non-adherence with GFD compromised by: a Significant others having poor knowledge of CD/GFD b Eating outside the home c Difficulties getting hold ofthe food, and when they do, the ... distance themselves from authority figures, including doctors (Booth, 1991) As such, they may eat gluten containing products to avoid the difficulties of others not understanding the importance ofthe ... University of Birmingham Research Archive e-theses repository This unpublished thesis/dissertation is copyright ofthe author and/or third parties The intellectual property rights ofthe author...
... treatment ofthe chick face with RA, and this is accompanied by an increase in apoptosis [73] The authors of this study ascribe the regulation of outgrowth of limb buds and patterning ofthe digits ... further analyze their interactions with AP-2 and the functional role of these in chondrocytes Furthermore, it is speculated that in melanoma, where AP-2a acts as a tumor suppressor, the loss of ... ofthe differentiation stages during chondrogenesis and the involvement of transcription factors (henatoxylin and eosin-stained section of an embryonic cartilaginous limb) ofthe development of...
... ethanol The overhead vapors pass to the bottom ofthe rectifier, where the concentration of ethanol is increased from 45% to 91% by weight The bottoms from the rectifier are pumped to the top ofthe ... degerm the corn but rather have the corn germ (and oil) be included in the DDG Separation ofthe corn germ prior to fermentation should add to the profitability ofthe dry milling process VII.2 The ... explore the potential of co-location of cellulosic ethanol with their existing corn ethanol processes The final reports of five ofthe six contracts were received in the first quarter of 2000...
... Jung’s conception of a “shadow side” to the psyche De Staebler feels that we have gained comfort and technology at great expense to the health ofthe environment and the health ofthe human psyche ... for firing onto the 20° F concrete and hosed them off, while they were red hot, with freezing water They survived The velvety smoke that permanently penetrating the surfaces of my figures seemed ... is the subject of this piece Female/male, anima/animus, yin/yang, positive/negative, black/ white the number two Each of these examples illustrates that there are two sides, and the two sides of...
... distribution of surrounding words of target terms For example, the distribution of co-occurrence words ofthe terms, the distribution of predicates which have the terms as arguments, and the distribution ... long Therefore the large quantity of information is gained by this message (Haykin, 1994) If we consider the terms in a corpus as messages of a channel output, the information quantity ofthe ... A set of journal abstracts was extracted from MEDLINE database using the disease names as quires Therefore, all the abstracts are related to some ofthe disease names The set consists of about...
... system to another, so invalidating the conclusions ofthe comparison Model since the tagger error rate is getting too close to the error rate ofthe test corpus Since we want to s t u d y the relationship ... state than one ofthe taggers performs better than the other when the two intervals overlap, since this implies a chance t h a t the real performances of both taggers are the same The following ... Discussion The presented analysis ofthe effects ofnoise in the test corpus on the evaluation of POS taggers leads us to conclude that when a tagger is evaluated as better than another using...
... in the mother’s blood, pass through the placenta, and reach the developing fetus Other hazardous agents can affect the overall health ofthe woman and reduce the delivery of nutrients to the ... whose mothers were exposed during pregnancy The 12 current practice of minimizing the use of X-rays on pregnant women, the use of newer equipment that reduces the risk of exposure, and the use of ... to 3% of babies are born with a major birth defect In most cases, the cause ofthe birth defect is unknown The first months ofthe pregnancy is a very sensitive time of development because the...
... costs and the expenses ofthe social and health services are increasing The report analyses thefactors influencing the use of social and health services by the elderly On the basis ofthe analysis, ... means of ordered logit models the impacts of age, dependency and other factors on probabilities to use home and community care for the elderly With these models and the age profile ofthe institutional ... to the form of care is easiest seen by comparing their contributions at the sample means (the last column ofthe parameter table) The size of FSMAGRANT tells that the average grants from the...
... Packets (Photons) • The size of an energy packet (E) is determined by the frequency ofthe radiation (f) • • Radiation with a higher frequency has more energy in each packet The amount of energy in ... but also to the total number of packets arriving at a given location (such as our skin) • Total Energy depends on many factors including the intensity of sunlight • The UV Index rates the total ... http://www.mhhe.com/physsci/astronomy/arny/instructor/graphics/ch03/0305.html The Sun’s Radiation Spectrum Most ofthe sun’s radiation is UV, Vis & IR : • ~ 43% is in the visible range • ~ 49% is in the near infrared range • ~ 7% is in the ultraviolet range...
... are a variety of other synthetic opoids medications that are commonly prescribed for the treatment of pain The classification of synthetic drugs that mimic the pharmacologic action of opium and ... impact on the global consumption of all opioids, the United States (US.) consuming 80% ofthe global supply and 99% ofthe global supply of hydrocodone (Manchikanti, 2007) Unfortunately, the rising ... act directly on the central nervous system ofthe brain, resulting in feelings of euphoria These feelings and the physical and psychoactive affects ofthe drugs can help explain the non-medical...
... the exception of Fabbri (2002), employ the stock of debt to examine the impact ofthedegreeof judicial enforcement on loan size Most of these studies find the impact ofthedegreeof judicial ... for these factors in order to capture the pure impact ofthedegreeof judicial enforcement Finally, our data set allowed us to investigate the impact ofthedegreeof judicial enforcement on the ... available on the length of trials We also tried using the length of trials and that ofthe ratio ofthe number of pending trials to the number of incoming trials instead of dummy variables thereon...
... h u s , if the input d e s c r i p t i o n F0 is inconsistent, then there is a proof of F0 , in which every branch ofthe proof ends in a subproof like that in Figure There we have the simple ... are pairs of finite sets of formulas, and we can make the further restriction that formulas on the right ofthe sequent arrow ("succedents") contain at most a single member The axioms ofthe calculus ... roughly We then define the full set of compound relation name expressions R* as the closure ofthe basic relation names under A, V and ' A formula of is then an element of R* applied to a pair of node...
... suggestions, so not fault them if you find parts of this thesis disagreeable or in need of revision A crucial part ofthe success of many ofthe experiments in this thesis was the result of a fruitful collaboration ... energy ofthe dot, there are additional quantum energy level spacings, ∆E These excited states are a result ofthe higher order states ofthe electron wavefunction and are related to the density of ... where R is the radius ofthe membrane and r is the radius ofthe AFM tip (Tanizawa and Yamamoto 2004) A detailed theoretical review of this technique for indentation of thin films in the membrane...