... HOWARD HU, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor ROGER E KASPERSON, Clark University, Worcester, MA TERRY L MEDLEY, E.I du Pont de Nemours & Company, Wilmington, DE JANA MILFORD, University of Colorado ... Toxicity-Pathway -Based Risk Assessment 59 C Symposium Agenda 63 D Biographic Information on the Speakers and Panelists for a Symposium on Toxicity-Pathway -Based Risk Assessment 70 ... (e.g., rodents)vertebrate organismsbased based screening screening Engineered tissue -based screening Cell culturebased high content screening Single moleculebased screening Throughput potential...
... RCRA assessment considerations RCRA legislation summarized for organic chemical manufacturers includes classification of generators; requirements for hazardous waste generators and transporters; ... begins with interviews of Process production unit managers, shift supervisors, production engineers, and unit operators The assessment team members may be knowledgeable about certain areas of the ... Connections Pumps, Compressors and Steam Jet Ejectors Storage Tanks, Containers, and Vessels Blending and Milling 2.3 Heat Transfer Heat Exchangers Condensers Evaporators 2.4 Separation Distillation...
... graph -based parsers, S denotes the graph -based parsers with semi-supervised methods, D denotes our new parsers 6.7 Table 6: Main results for Chinese 6.6 and Pereira (2006), Koo08-standard refers ... Baseline parser We implement our parsers based on the MSTParser1 , a freely available implementation of the graph -based model proposed by (McDonald and Pereira, 2006) We train a first-order parser on ... refers to the parser of (Chen et al., 2008), Yu08 refers to the parser of (Yu et al., 2008), Zhao09 refers to the parser of (Zhao et al., 2009), and Chen09-ord2s refers to the second-order parser...
... incorporating a phrase -based error model significantly outperforms its baseline systems To the best of our knowledge, this is the first extensive study of learning phase -based error models from clickthrough ... tries to learn error models from clickthrough data To our knowledge, this is the first such attempt using clickthrough data Most of the speller systems reviewed above are based on the framework ... URLs were clicked Following Suzuki et al (2009), we extract query-correction pairs as follows First, we extract pairs of queries Q1 and Q2 such that (1) they are issued by the same user; (2) Q2...
... National University Journal of Science, Natural Sciences and Technology, Vol 27 (1S) ,p 1-8 (In Vietnamese) Jorn Birkmann (2006) Approaches to flood vulnerability assessment, first expert meeting ... capacity map Fig 5: Exposure map Fig 7: Vulnerability map A flood vulnerability matrix is developed from the exposure level and coping capacity level Flood vulnerability scale is created by overlaying ... Mark Vulnerability Conclusion In this study, the flood vulnerability of the local community in downstream of Thach Han river basin were investigated using anew approach relating the flood vulnerability...
... ASYMPTOTICS OF ADAPTIVE DESIGNS BASED ON URN MODELS Yan Xiu-yuan (Bachelor of Economics, Renmin University of China) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF ... summarized as follows: Some of the researchers concentrate on inferences based on the data obtained from the trials Wei (1988) described an exact permutation test based on some real life data obtained ... +1) at the nth stage based on the occurrences that occur at this stage, which result from the allocation of the (n − M + 1)th ( or first ) to the nth patients The following recursive relationship...
... structured data models to develop the clinical decision model will also ease the reuse and exchange of decision models among different groups of users In addition, many guideline -based decision models ... Architecture Based on the observations and analysis in Chapter and Chapter 3, we present a new practical methodology to build decision models automatically from the knowledgebased GLIF guideline models ... More recently, Sanders [1998], in her PhD work, developed a new approach that allows developers and users to create, disseminate, and tailor CPGs, using normative decision models (represented...
... requires us to assess the vulnerability of numbers of various socioeconomic groups using an interdisciplinary approach 2.3.5 VulnerabilityAssessment The vulnerabilityassessment aims to identify ... vulnerabilityassessment needs to be based on a comprehensive and holistic approach and should take into account the dynamic nature of vulnerability and the underlying causal factors Moreover, flood vulnerability ... and to the factors that shape them, since the vulnerabilityassessment is usually based on a single hazard (e.g., typhoons, floods, droughts or salinity intrusion) In this study, vulnerability...
... common accounting -based bankruptcy prediction models (based on own assessment) 18 Table 2: Overview of market -based bankruptcy prediction models (based on own assessment) 20 Table ... prediction models (based on own assessment) 30 Table 6: Descriptive statistics for the sample (based on own assessment) 33 Table 7: Results for Belgian listed companies (based ... literature (based on own assessment) 38 Table 10: Results for Belgian listed companies (based on own assessment) 39 Table 11: Results for German listed companies (based on own assessment) ...
... of the vulnerability of freshwater resources on the island Then, an integrated vulnerability index (VI) is calculated based on possible vulnerable parameters; the results will assess the vulnerability ... main questions: Why is a vulnerabilityassessment is important? How can we assess the vulnerability of the island? And, what are the main objectives of a vulnerabilityassessment in this study? ... approach is based on the application of the DPSIR (Drivers, Pressures, State, Impacts and Responses) analytical framework for assessing vulnerability index The UNEP (2009) vulnerability assessment...
... Vulnerability Human Vulnerability Structural VulnerabilityVulnerabilityAssessment Land Vulnerability Funtional Vulnerability Risk Assessment Figure 2.1: Criteria for risk assessment (Disaster ... the most significant affecting factors are selected By using RS &GIS technology landslide occurrences on all these factors have been analyzed The vector basedGIS has been used for digitizing to ... produce thematic maps, as analysis for study was based on the pixel based information therefore Raster basedGIS has been used for the analysis Pixel based calculation was made by using the CF value...
... placental microsomes fortied with deuteriated androgen precursors in the presence of 18O2 were used to explore the mechanistic course of aromatization, a transient ferri peroxy-hemiacetal-like ... Aktivierung von Sauersto in Modellsystemen In Biochemie des Sauerstos (Hess, B Staudinger, H.J., eds), pp 229248 Springer, Berlin McMurry, T.J & Groves, J.T (1986) Metalloporphyrin models for cytochrome ... Primus, J.L., Teunis, C., Boersma, M.G., Osman, A.M., Veeger, C & Rietjens, I.M.C.M (1998) Reversible formation of high-valent-iron-oxo porphyrin intermediates in heme -based catalysis: revisiting...
... hierarchical grammars for certain language pairs (Baker et al., 2009) In contrast to the above tree -based translation models, our approach maintains a standard (non-syntactic) phrase -based translation ... LMs Syntactic language models have also been explored with tree -based translation models Charniak et al (2003) use syntactic language models to rescore the output of a tree -based translation system ... of parsers as syntactic language models during binary bracketing transduction translation (Wu, 1997); under these conditions, both syntactic phrase-structure and dependency parsing language models...
... available models This shows that FHMMs and other time-series models may be a valuable model to resolve anaphora Acknowledgments We would like to thank the authors and maintainers of ranker models ... extracted from the parsing results with Stanford parser The success rate of this baseline configuration is 0.48 This low accuracy is partially due to the errors of automatic parsing With gender and ... was applied to learn parameters automatically from the parsed version of the North American News Corpus (McClosky et al., 2008) This model generates a pronoun’s person, number and gender features...
... interpolation models are constrained so that the discount parameters fully determine the interpolation parameters Thus the discount parameters have to correct for both types of error.5 The single theory -based ... interpolation parameters can be set independently of the discount parameters D, with the intention that the α and β parameters correct for quantization error, and the D parameters correct for overestimation ... proportional to the no discount parameters, it forces the interpolation parameters to the same double duty that other models force the discount parameters to Jelinek-Mercer smoothing is an exception...