... update the agent’s internal state based on its current internal state, the world state, andthe database knowledge The external behaviors of the agent refer to the world and internal states, and ... can (i) gather information from the architecture andthe environment; 1694 (ii) be triggered by the architecture andthe environment in the form of exceptions generated in the application; (iii) ... in the two different levels of fusion operations, “early fusion” atthe feature fragment level, and “late fusion” atthe semantic Dynamic Reconfiguration of Multimodal Generic Architectures level...
... competing and displacing the bound syto Therefore, the integration of syto and propidium iodide fluorescence provides an estimate of the percentage viability for monitoringthe kinetics of the bactericidal ... active on the E coli population, as reflected by the ED50 values (Fig and Table 1) The relative percentage survival, as evaluated by the viability assay, also correlated with the reduction in the percentage ... pellet (P) andthe second lane to the supernatant fractions (S) PGN were incubated with each protein andthe soluble and insoluble fractions were collected as described in the Materials and methods...
... indicates that minority and White women are doing the same Source: Data from 2000–2004 and provided by the National Vital Statistics System public use data file Death rates calculated by the National ... between the ages of 18 and 64 fare atthe state level by measuring their health status, access to care, andlevel of social disparities in each state It also examines the key health care policies and ... represented the most recent data atthe time theproject began, andthe base years for most of the sources of data The BRFSS and CPS questionnaires ask respondents about their experiences in the prior...
... service status of these health care providers atthe district level? • What is the primary place of work of these health care providers atthe district level? • What was the effect of decentralization ... situation is further complicated by the fact that the government has inadequate information about the stock of health care providers atthe district level, especially the rapidly increasing private ... trained atthe end of the 1970s andthe first part of the 1980s were highly motivated and dedicated people who genuinely wanted to bring health care to their less-fortunate compatriots There is...
... improving the performance of the health sector [7] Atthe same time the health information system is unable to provide the district level information needed to track changes and understand human ... staff, the item that, under Indonesia’s decentralization, has first call on the general allocation fund from the central government Thus, in the absence of a matching increase in the general allocation ... districts, the outcome of a national policy, are likely to be indicative of what happened across the nation They have important implications for the sector as a whole in terms of funding, decentralization,...
... from the median at hours andthe negative regulation of proliferation related genes down-regulated at later time points, pointing to a general induction of cell proliferation Moreover, at later ... Processing and Presentation, and Monocyte and Surface Molecules Pathways, although the former pathway revealed a constant up-regulation of genes, whereas for the latter pathway a down-regulation at late ... downregulation of the IL-12 and STAT4 Dependent Signaling Pathway in Th1 Development andthe Co-stimulatory Signal during T-cell Activation Pathway While these data suggest that GM-CSF treated monocytes...
... geobiocoenoses using soil acidity, base saturation and C/N ratio The relationship between vegetation andsoil characteristics, and/ or humus forms, can be defined by observing the process of decomposition, ... vegetation andthe rest of phytocoenosis contributing to the formation of thesoil environment or on the contrary, the absence or presence of herbs on thesoil surface is primarily caused by the ... vegetation lead to the conclusion that thesoil environment is non-changeable when the aboveground soil is homogeneous These results demonstrate that vegetation can be absent in more cases of the...
... of the saturated state andthe mathematical approach used to measure the shrinkage values are certainly among the key features of our method, compared to other authors [5, 14, 20] MATERIAL AND ... isolated from the rest of the material (in terms of kinematics), an image of this zone (R-T plane) is grabbed at a certain water content (generally at saturation) and then at a different water ... case the datum of interest If two points on the reference configuration (saturated state) are called A0 and A, andthe position of these two material points identified on the generic configuration...
... seed at stage 8.1 and (B) In mature pea seed at 2.1 (C) Higher magnification of the AZ development in the young pea seed in (A) (D) Higher magnification of the AZ in the mature pea seed in (B) There ... Cell separation process in the AZ of wild type seed We have shown that the abscission of the seed from the funicle is initiated atthe centre of the seed coat/palisade junction in the wild type ... from the Netherlands that incorporates the same mutant def allele In the absence of nearisogenic lines for the Def alleles, two well characterized lines (JI 116 and JI 2822) that matched the gross...
... may represent patches that accumulate carbonat a greater rate, relative to other patch types In general, soil temperature was not as important as soil moisture in driving respiration across all ... are the photosynthetic and respiratory responses of crusts to a precipitation pulse? What is the contribution of soil microbial crusts to the efflux of CO2 from soils, relative to the respiration ... what are the photosynthetic and respiratory responses of crusts to a precipitation pulse? What is the contribution of soil microbial crusts to the efflux of CO2 from soils, relative to respiration...
... executive and director compensation is associated with good operating performance On the other hand, they provide evidence that good governance as measured by charter and bylaws (that focuses ... highly associated with bad operating performance They however put a caveat in their conclusion saying that although the results indicate association between good corporate governance and performance, ... result of the study buttresses the fact that there is the need to have a clear separation between the positions of board chairman and CEO The size of the firm rather has a significant positive...
... the current literature compare the cooperative andthe noncooperative R&D levels with the socially optimal level, we only look atthe noncooperative case as the dynamic version of the cooperative ... allocate their funds in the representative industry comprising of the leader andthe follower firms, then the valuations (in terms of the marginal benefits of shareholders) of these two firms on the ... differential game to derive the dynamic optimal allocation of R&D and found that the availability of perfect information accelerates the development of innovations and that the impact of rivalry on...
... transfers the forms and meanings andthe distribution of forms and meanings of their native language and culture to foreign language and culture In the case that both L1 and L2 are similar, the learner ... understand what their strength and weakness are and helps them assess and monitor themselves From this, they will be motivated to work and learn harder to reduce and eliminate errors themselves ... generally andthe students atthe intermediate level particularly For the students, they can understand clearly about the notion of error andthe distinction between error versus mistake This thesis...
... selective implementation atthe district level There is, therefore, a gap between the RH components as stated in the national policy andthe components available atthe district levelThe reality districts ... both the national and district levels Priority setting is essentially driven atthe national levelThe study suggests that the national level sets priorities and districts implement them The sector ... selective implementation atthe district level There is therefore a gap between the RH components as stated in the national policy andthe components available atthe district levelThe reality districts...
... indicators of demand and supply Each of these is elaborated below Demand-side methodology An assessment of the quantitative nature of demand-side imperatives atthe intermediate level in the ICT sector ... provider) The second section of the chapter elaborates on the nature, form and context of instruction It identifies the type andlevel of courses offered, and elaborates on the nature of private provision ... training atthe intermediate level 53 22 Tables Table 3.1 Employment in IT-related occupations by skills level in the USA, 2000 13 Table 3.2 Levels on the National Qualifications Framework (as at December...
... isolation procedures and prolonged incubations in the same way as rat and mouse [26] cells The insulin-sensitivity for phosphorylation of the insulin receptor andthe immediate downstream mediator ... that a node of cross-talk between the stress-generated signal and insulin signalling is located atthelevel of IRS1 or between IRS1 and PKB The effect and ultimate function of stress signalling ... controls subjects and type diabetic patients after overnight incubation Cells were incubated overnight and then with the indicated concentration of insulin for 10 before whole-cell lysates were subjected...
... indicators of demand and supply Each of these is elaborated below Demand-side methodology An assessment of the quantitative nature of demand-side imperatives atthe intermediate level in the ICT sector ... provider) The second section of the chapter elaborates on the nature, form and context of instruction It identifies the type andlevel of courses offered, and elaborates on the nature of private provision ... training atthe intermediate level 53 22 Tables Table 3.1 Employment in IT-related occupations by skills level in the USA, 2000 13 Table 3.2 Levels on the National Qualifications Framework (as at December...
... approach, similar to that in (Rogati and Yang, 2003) Let L1 be the source language and L2 be the target language The crosslingual retrieval consists of the following steps: Expanding a query in L1 ... blind feedback Translating the query by taking the dot product between the query vector (with weights from step 1) and a translation matrix obtained by calculating translation probabilities or ... reflect those of the sponsors References Brown, P.F, Pietra, D., Pietra, D, Mercer, R.L 1993 .The Mathematics of Statistical Machine Translation: Parameter Estimation In Computational Linguistics,...
... from rather different feature sets (such as acoustic and lexical features) suggest that there is some redundancy between these feature sets (at least with respect to the task) Fourth, the fact ... However, unlike the efficiency and experimental parameters features, the normalization of the dialogue quality features by dialogue length means that rules learned on the basis of these features are ... Figure 3: Feature representation of dialogue D1 The dialogue quality features attempt to capture aspects of the naturalness of the dialogue Rejections represents the number of times that the system...