... important aspect of SLA, because language is one of the most observable expressions of culture and because in second (as opposed to foreign) language settings the acquisition of a new language ... result of conscious study of the formal properties of the language In performance, “acquired” knowledge serves as the major source for initiating both the comprehension and production of utterances ... Rationale of the Study Significance of the Study Scope of the Study Aims of the Study Overview of the Study PART II: DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER 1: LITERATURE REVIEW 1.1 Definition of “Discipline” 1.2 Types of...
... on the useof hand-held test devices for installation of the KRONE Cat.6 KM8 products December 2001 Page of 23 Cat 6/5e Channel Adapter DSP-LIA012S: § Contains two interface adapters foruse with ... on the useof hand-held test devices for installation of the KRONE Cat.6 KM8 products December 2001 Page of 23 Cat 6/5e Channel Adapter N2604A-100: § Includes two interface adapters foruse with ... of the cable length by the instrument Notes on the useof hand-held test devices for installation of the KRONE Cat.6 KM8 products December 2001 Page of 23 IDEAL LT8600LT The IDEAL LT8600 performs...
... habash@umiacs.umd.edu Christof Monz, University of Maryland, christof@umiacs.umd.edu STUDENTS: Stacy President, University of Maryland, stacypre@umiacs.umd.edu Nathaniel Waisbrot, University of Maryland, waisbrot@umiacs.umd.edu ... Automatic Generation of Informative Cross-Lingual Headlines for Text and Speech Thesis Proposal, University of Maryland, 2003 5.3 OTHER PRODUCTS Trimmer: Trimmer generates a headline for a news story ... at Maryland: Translation Selection and Document Selection”, Proceedings of the Interactive track for the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum Workshop, Trondheim, Norway, 2003 Nizar Habash and Bonnie...
... i.e., the number of values of L, and produces estimates of the 249 The judges are given lists of sentences for which their tags differ from the biascorrected tags Judges M, D, and J participate ... held-out portion of the training data 10-fold cross validation is performed The data is partitioned randomly into 10 different SFor the analysis in Table 3, certainty ratings and 1, andand are combined ... 251 sets On each fold, one set is used for testing, and the other nine are used for training Feature selection, model selection, and parameter estimation are performed anew on each fold The following...
... they used quantitative PCR to investigate DWV prevalence, with the forward primer containing no mismatches for KV andfor VDV, the reverse having no mismatches for KV and mismatches for VDV, and ... viruses are present in any given sample and thus will affect the prediction of cause and effect The data presented here provides further foundations for understanding the ecology of these viruses ... the useof the RdRp as a taxonomic marker for the classification of the order Picornavirales and, to an extent, for the viruses infecting the honeybee The evidence supports the assignment of DWV,...
... more formal involvement as members of the PRO design team Greater useof moderators in PRO content development activities is a good useof expertise, due to their deep emersion in, and understanding ... wording of new questions and instructions are based in the natural language and phraseology of respondents; and 3) The instructions, item pool, and response options are understandable and acceptable ... however, the usefulness of IFGs for cross-cultural use has not been systematically evaluated Proof of concept study: IFGs and cross-cultural PRO content development This POC study was part of a larger...
... performed during the follow-up period to check for any recurrence of meningiomas Criteria of inclusion (1) The sites of the meningiomas were restricted to the quadrigeminal cistern or the rear of ... the chance of severe neurovascular compromise [3] However, because of the presence of the tentorium, which produces restricted visualization at both the lateral and superior corners, Krause’s approach ... it provides a good prognosis for patients Page ofand blood supply [9] The degrees of staining were severe in four cases, moderate in two cases, mild in three cases and no staining in one case...
... with the useof functional imaging As a matter of fact, a number of recent literature studies tried to show that the addiction of PET and PET/ CT may be able to add useful information for the ... acquired for 3-4 minutes per bed position Field of view was of 50 cm with a matrix of 512 × 512 pixels for CT andof 128 × 128 for PET The processed images were displayed in coronal, transverse, and ... observed in 18.5% of cases with change of treatment intent in 3.7% GTV and CTV contours changed in 55.6% and 37.0% of cases respectively PET/CT-GTV and PET/CT-CTV, that were used for clinical purposes,...
... skull were acquired for 2–3 minutes per bed position Field of view was of 50 cm with a matrix of 512 × 512 pixels for CT andof 128 × 128 for PET The proc- Page of (page number not for citation purposes) ... scenario ofimagingfor radiotherapy of head and neck tumors may include the useof functional imaging such as FDG-PET/CT with the aim to characterize the biological features of the tumor and optimize ... patients were candidates for curative surgery Fifteen patients were candidates for combined radiotherapy and platinum-based chemotherapy and patients for radiotherapy alone Image acquisition and fusion...
... estimates and information about the location of the QTL, one could use Method II to detect simultaneous linkage of markers with a QTL and then use Method I for the estimation Unfortunately, Fulker and ... and Ollivier (1992) found that the useof fully informative matings can increase the power of the Haseman-Elston test for a given number of genotypings Consequently, only these matings were used ... in a reduction of the number of effective sib-pairs of between 15% (for B Z l/ 0.02/0.02) and 42% (for 1/ 0.02/0.14) To assess the goodness of the estimation, all replications of a certain variant...
... (described above), and theory of planned behaviour constructs and measures The theory of planned behaviour has been extensively used and tested in the fields of psychology and healthcare Systematic ... 39% of the variance in intention and about 27% of the variance in behaviour [24,25] A number of studies have demonstrated the feasibility of producing valid and reliable measures of key theory of ... Therefore, we calculated estimates of statistical precision for ICCs of 2, 3, 5, 7, and based on a six-month trial period with 80% power; an estimated standard deviation of 1.0; significance of...
... how they used it (and the degree of ‘contamination’ between the two arms of the RCT, if any) and why, Page of whether, and how it was helpful in their work and why, what aspects were most and least ... summary of what we learned from the interviews and invite comment on it) Finally, we will use the document analysis of the comments left in the user forum to help further our understanding of how ... of research evidence often focus on four clusters of knowledge translation activities (’producer push,’ facilitating ‘user pull,’ ‘user pull,’ and ‘exchange’ efforts) [24], and the SHARE database...
... warehouse for the prevalence of hypertension, useof thiazides and other anti-hypertensives, and blood pressure goal attainment Assess and establish data quality Review and format GMS and PC ... we used to analyze the data ignored its time series nature, and used the patient as the unit of analysis in a "before and after" analysis Using z-tests of pro- Page of 13 (page number not for ... variables [11] We used all patients who met the conditions in our defining algorithms, and did not perform any sample size or power calculations beforehand The Because most GMS and PrimeCare practitioners...
... representation of all targeted genes for HTLV-I and HCV For HIV, while there was no cross-hybridization to amplicons of other viruses, only two (proviral LTR and nef) of the 11 spotted regions of the ... cyclins and cyclin dependent kinases (CDK) have been shown to be critical for the expression and replication of a number of viruses, including HIV and several herpesviruses [29-35] We and others ... DNA arrays are designed for the analysis of thousands of genes representing a single species We chose to construct a virus chip for the detection of various human viruses and demonstrate that this...
... future For honour and glory” andfor the love of science” as you have always put it ii Toh TC 2014 The useof sexually propagated scleractinian corals for reef restoration Kok Ben, thank you for ... you for supporting me for all the choices that I have made so far andfor giving me the freedom to grow To Venetia and Veralyn, both of you have been my pillar of support all these years and ... love and cherish the both of you forever Lastly, thank you God for all your provisions in my life v Toh TC 2014 The useof sexually propagated scleractinian corals for reef restoration TABLE OF...
... can also be utilized to produce biofuel The advantage of biofuel is that, it can be stored, transported and burned or used in fuel cells Oil, coaland natural gas and woods were originally produced ... the emittance and absorption properties of corrugated absorber Materials of different shapes, dimensions and layouts have been studied and utilized to enhance the thermal performance of solar collectors ... analyzed the performance of solar air heater for low temperature application Karim et al [19] studied the performance of a v-groove solar air collector They also performed a review of design and construction...
... in the production of H2 and CO2 and the consumption of CO As the contents of K and Na of the particles were unchanged at the ends of the experiments, the catalytic activity of the material cannot ... an Oxford Inca EDX system for chemical analysis, was used From both fresh and used feldspar samples, several individual particles were randomly chosen and analyzed, to ensure homogeneity of the ... superiority of fresh feldspar over fresh olivine for this application The balance of C, H and O between the raw and reformed gases and based on the permanent gas species was calculated and expressed...