... view the bus topology of USB is somewhat limiting One ofthe original intentions of USB was to reduce the amount of cabling at the back of your PC Apple people will say the idea came from the ... from the address field whether the packet is for itself, and if so will copy the payload ofthe following data packet to the appropriate endpoint buffer dictated by the value in the endpoint field ... synchronise the clock ofthe receiver with the transmitter The last two bits indicate where the PID fields starts PID PID stands for Packet ID This field is used to identify the type of packet...
... is the Fed’s chief body for monetary policymaking Its voting membership combines the seven members ofthe Board of Governors, the president ofthe Federal Reserve Bank of New York and four other ... rotating basis The chairman ofthe FOMC is also the chairman ofthe Board of Governors The FOMC typically meets eight times a year in Washington, D.C At each meeting, a senior official ofthe Federal ... States The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC), the Office ofthe Comptroller ofthe Currency (OCC) and the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) also supervise financial institutions For the Fed,...
... lines of action following the aesthetics of warfare or of peacemaking Their 40 Introduction respective “arts of living” have consequences, on the one hand in the theater of war and on the other ... precursory: the shaman becomes the priest and prophet, the cave artist becomes the Wit’s End 25 aesthete, the fireside storyteller the epic poet, the hunter the prototype ofthe hero, the cult becomes the ... observe and utilize the reality of their lived experience The primary end of human wit is the ability to make senseof that reality by ordering the world The process ofmakingsense using sensory...
... weighted sum ofthe observed scores for each resolution class (i.e the mean for the class measured on the other five data sets) weighted by the proportion of CEs that belong to the class The predicted ... measures the impact of each resolution class on the overall MUC score 4.3 Results Table shows the results of our resolution class analysis on the test portions ofthe six data sets The # columns ... determine whether each member of class C is coreferent with each of its preceding CEs We then count the number of unique correct/incorrect links that the system introduced on top ofthe correct...
... properties of sensemaking (Chapter 8), doubt as a trigger for sensemaking (Chapter 15), information overload as both the occasion and the product of sensemaking (Chapter 5), enactment as a means of structuring ... (2000) call the crucible ofthe quotidian” (p x) That is hardly the language of a search and rescue unit However, it is what they face The quotidian is the commonplace, the everyday, the recurring, ... as the context for impermanence (recall the crucible ofthe quotidian’ mentioned in the Preface) That focus on the mundane may seem out of place in this book given the scale and drama of the...
... Where the waves come from HOW DOES THE ECG ‘LOOK’ AT THE HEART? To make senseofthe ECG, one ofthe most important concepts to understand is that ofthe ‘lead’ This is a term you will often ... begins with the discharge (‘depolarization’) ofthe SA node The impulse then spreads from the SA node to depolarise the atria After flowing through the atria, the electrical impulse reaches the AV ... for the identification of disorders ofthe cardiac rhythm, extremely useful for the diagnosis of abnormalities ofthe heart (such as myocardial infarction), and a helpful clue to the presence of...
... the ones that help you deliver and deploy online learning Finally, the book describes ways to assess the effectiveness of your online learning efforts One ofthe biggest advantages of using the ... Technology for Learning Make Sense? Since technology is part ofthe future landscape of learning, knowing when to use it (and when not to) is the first step toward makingsenseof online learning In ... given the resources to succeed They want and need to learn this way They have access to the technology They have enough time and skills to use the technology They perceive it as adding value to their...
... variety of phyla within all three lines of descent of life The number of genomes encoding selenoproteins is indicated (‘selenogenomes’) together with the total number of sequenced genomes in the ... to the presence of selenoproteins in approximately 8-14% of bacterial species Despite the vast number of assumptions made in arriving at those percentages, they are not too far from the 20% of ... subset of bacteria that require selenoFdhA, thus dramatically increasing the representation of that gene among the well-studied bacteria As most microbes The forces driving the evolution of selenocysteine...
... `experts' The range of these different expert opinions are then fed back to each member ofthe expert panel to see whether they wish to revisit their initial assessment in light of what their fellow ... Part ofthe reason why such grand theories go astray has to with the ratio between the wide range of phenomena they attempt to explain and the narrow range of research observations on which they ... Today, the slickness ofthe argument ± the way the information is presented and spun ± can often gain ascendancy over the absolute power and robustness ofthe evidence underpinning this gloss There...
... understanding, the mini-exercises found at the end of each unit The keys to the exercises are at the end ofthe book If you find a unit beyond your level, simply go to one ofthe earlier units ... the sentence—at the end of a sentence You need not worry about the order ofthe other elements as long as you put the verb at the end You can use either SOV or OSV, although the emphasis is slightly ... see also Units and 59 10 The noun in the sentence subject! gakusei-desu is not theThe noun in the sentence gakusei-desu is not the subject ofthe sentence It is part ofthe verb-like element An...
... Center (IPC) ofthe RAND National Security Research Division (NSRD) NSRD conducts research and analysis for the Office ofthe Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the Unified Commands, the defense ... future on the model of another post-communist state, the Soviet Union, but it may be better conceived through the hypothesis of yet another weak Caribbean state Terrorism Again, the metaphor of a ... powerful role The Army and Navy divided the decryption task, rather than cooperating, so neither saw the total picture There was no comparison ofthe intelligence take and no analysis of it The shear...
... secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health ofthe public The Institute acts under the responsibility given to the ... that the mean ofthe input affects the rate but that the variance ofthe input is not correlated with the variance ofthe output Instead, the input variance acts more like a volume control for the ... that the Peskin work reflects two ofthe main themes common to other talks at the workshop First, the evolution of his heart model over the years has been guided by a clear 22 MAKINGSENSEOF COMPLEXITY...
... Center (IPC) ofthe RAND National Security Research Division (NSRD) NSRD conducts research and analysis for the Office ofthe Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the Unified Commands, the defense ... future on the model of another post-communist state, the Soviet Union, but it may be better conceived through the hypothesis of yet another weak Caribbean state Terrorism Again, the metaphor of a ... powerful role The Army and Navy divided the decryption task, rather than cooperating, so neither saw the total picture There was no comparison ofthe intelligence take and no analysis of it The shear...
... specify the number of segments in the reference segmentation for both our system and the baselines Parameter Tuning We tuned the number of quantized blocks, the edge cutoff parameter ofthe minimum ... ≤ Ny , where Nx and Ny are the number of MFCC samples in each utterance The value 2R + is the width ofthe diagonal band that controls the extent of temporal warping The parameter R is tuned on ... speaker-independent (SI) transcripts For all ofthe algorithms, the target number of segments is set to the reference number of segments boundaries along the span ofthe lecture and selecting random boundaries,...
... drive the formation of a favored i-motif [16] For example, in the case ofthe Bcl-2 i-motif, specific interactions between bases in the loops are believed to be responsible for the stability ofthe ... description ofthe transcriptional factors and their role in the control of c-Myc via the NHE III1 are also described in a separate review [29] The role of negative supercoiling in conversion of duplex ... modulating the activation and silencing ofthe NHE III1 in the c-Myc promoter (A) shows the G-quadruplex/i-motif form ofthe NHE III1, which is the silencer element (A) to (C) via (B) illustrates the...
... conditions at all of these levels are likely to influence the nature ofthe DDDM process For example, at a particular level ofthe system, the accuracy and accessibility of data and the technical ... one-third of Pennsylvania districts require mathematics progress tests in some or all of their schools Another indicator ofthe importance of progress tests is the rapid increase in availability of ... they often did not find these sessions to One specific use of test scores common to many ofthe study sites was the identification of “bubble kids” whose current levels of achievement place them...
... are those ofthe authors and not necessarily reflect the official position or policies ofthe U.S Department of Justice The National Institute of Justice is a component ofthe Office of Justice ... which also includes the Bureau of Justice Assistance; the Bureau of Justice Statistics; the Community Capacity Development Office; the Office for Victims of Crime; the Office of Juvenile Justice ... the President and confirmed by the Senate The Director establishes the Institute’s objectives, guided by the priorities ofthe Office of Justice Programs, the U.S Department of Justice, and the...
... Whether it be royalties for print, music, video games or other forms of content, the accounting implications of these transactions are often complex and may vary depending on the substance ofthe ... are the types of royalties in the industry? Royalties in the film industry often cross into the industries discussed above, most notably music and books The parties involved often make use of ... interruptions on the right to use the licence during the licence term or constraints on the frequency and timing ofthe broadcast e.g to specify the sequencing of television episodes and restrict the maximum...
... comprehension ofthe other in most ofthe steps With regard to temporal exploration ofthe material, most students adopted a regular progression through the instruction, following the order suggested by the ... motion ofthe planet Mars as seen from the Earth Two conditions were compared Participants in the assessment condition were told that at the end ofthe study period, they would be tested on what they ... studying the material, the number of students favoring the text increased to 10% Reflexive questions in the series of so-called ‘metacognitive boxes’ presented to the students while they navigated the...