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... especially to novices The ambiguity of natural language may also interfere with careful thinking about the data stored in the machine An understanding of onto/into mappings, one -to- one/one -to- many/many -to- many ... you?" recognizes the deception and soon begins to wonder how else the bank is trying to deceive them Customers want simple tools whose range of functions they understand A more serious problem arises ... stage (feedback on failures and successes), recording the history and current status of the problem solving process, and giving the user comprehensible and powerful co,ands Hansen, W.J., User engineering...
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... and (ii) are treated in Sections and 6, respectively Sections and are devoted to step (iii) Sections and 10 are concerned with Steps (iv) and (v) Section 11 deals with steps (vi) and (vii), and ... weight and level 200 is and there are (up to isogeny) exactly five elliptic curves of conductor 200, and these are the curves E , , E above The rest of the lemma follows from [24, Prop 3], and ... associate a Frey curve to solutions of (18) and apply level-lowering Our objective is to give the Lucas analogue of Propositions 7.2 and 7.3 CLASSICAL AND MODULAR APPROACHES 985 Suppose then that...
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... the candidates’ psychiatric symptoms considered to be related to suicidal ideation were chosen from the KMI 2.2 Community dwellers Town A (total population, approximately 8000) and Town B (total ... seemed to be related to autonomic ataxia, women are prone to express symptoms related to somatoform autonomic dysfunction defined by the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and ... of somatic symptoms related to suicidal ideation compared to men Two of those were symptoms related to sleep disturbance Together with other symptoms, such as feelings of edema and chest pain,...
... adjusted to a 1.0 McFarland and diluted to 10-2 and 10-4; mL of each dilution is then added to each quadrant of separate plate and incubated for upto three weeks at 37 ± 1ºC in an atmosphere of to ... study by D’Amato and colleagues, the sensitivity and specificity of the Amplicor MTB when compared to culture as the gold standard was: 55.3% and 99.6% from smear negative and 94.1% and 100% from ... rpoB gene (WT 1-8) and four mutations (MUT 1, 2A, 2B and 3) For katG gene there was one WT and mutations (MUT 1and 2) and for inhA gene WT (1 and 2) and mutations (MUT 1, 2, 3A and 3B) The isolate...
... for NYSE and AMEX firms and 1,563 for NASDAQ firms) Out of this total, 1,851 delistings were due to mergers, 261 due to acquisitions, 124 due to liquidations and the remaining 1,119 due to other ... for the stocks and flows so our analysis examines valuations for groups with different measures of the stocks and flows 26 B.1 Conditioning on the Current Stock Accounting We first group firms ... Ackert and Smith (1993) and Shoven (1986) to discover them We searched the CRSP monthly returns file for information on shares outstanding and each decrease in shares outstanding (adjusted for stock...
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... vary significantly among either modified Tokuhashi subgroups (as 0–1, 2–4, and 5–7) or Karnofsky subgroups (80–100, 50– 70 and 10–40) The mean followup was 11.2 ± 10.4 months (range, – 48 months) ... the following subgroups: low risk (Karnofsky 80–100, modified Tokuhashi, 2–4 points), moderate risk (Karnofsky 50–70, modified Tokuhashi, 2–4 points), and high risk (Karnofsky 10–40, modified Tokuhashi, ... related to many factors such as the general condition of the patient, their ability to carry on normal activity and care for them self, and the degree of their disability Other important factors...
... of the randomly permuted user ordering, algorithm “e”, lies in the middle between “W” and “B” 10−6 10−7 10 11 12 13 SNR (dB) CONCLUSIONS In this paper, we consider practicalapproachesto the ... subject to the exponential distribution and such are (x1i −x1i−1 ) and (xKi −xKi−1 ) [26] The expectations E{x ji − x ji−1 }, j = 1, , K decrease linearly as i decreases [26] and thus due to (A.3) ... ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work was supported by the Academy of Finland REFERENCES [1] IEEE Std 802.16e, “Air interface for fixed and mobile broadband wireless access systems amendment 2: physical and medium access...
... difference upto atm (Fukushima, 1981) Current Basic and Pathological Approachesto the Function of Muscle Cells and Tissues – From Molecules to Humans Determination of the critical electron dose to ... configuration with bound Pi and ADP, and attaches to actin filament Current Basic and Pathological Approachesto 24 the Function of Muscle Cells and Tissues – From Molecules to Humans (solid line in ... receptor (RyR)5 or the IP3 receptor (IP3R) Indeed, IP3R and RyR are highly sensitive to cytosolic Ca2+ concentrations and when cytosolic Ca2+ concentration ranges from nM to µM, they open up On...
... common logical operators are && for ANDand for OR Thus for boolean variables a and b, the boolean expression a&&b; is evaluated to true if and only if both a and b are true The following program ... in today’s market 1.3 Expressions and programs as calculators “Hello World.” Let us choose the program name to be HelloWorld.java Then we need to label the program class with that name too To ... Plasencia, Andrea Roeck, David Savourey, and e Olivier Serre This book became possible thanks to the warm encouragement and support from Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc I express my gratitude to...
... 2, 1, and potential candidate genes within the confidence intervals of loci 1, 2, 3, 5, and 8, respectively, while no candidate gene was identified for loci and Table summarises the 21 candidate ... is suggested to contribute to tolerance through maintenance of the CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cell population [35] Therefore, we have presented a strategy to identify smalleffect QTL and search for ... profiling in rheumatoid arthritis Discriminative genes and effect of rheumatoid factor Immunol Lett 2004, 93:217-226 Devauchelle V, Marion S, Cagnard N, Mistou S, Falgarone G, Breban M, Letourneur F,...
... that are easily incorporated into data-processing pipelines are SAMtools [13] and the Genome Analysis Toolkit UnifiedGenotyper [14,15] Other tools have been developed to exploit aspects of specific ... be analyzed together in an attempt to improve power In whole genome sequencing, a sliding window can be used to group variants, whereas in exome sequencing the natural unit of grouping is one ... [59] aims to find the optimal set of variants to collapse together Although there have been no published complex-disease exome sequencing studies, these tests have been applied to candidate gene...
... to distinguish NSCLC and COPD patients, and control non-smokers The substances belonging to group (factor 2) are heterogeneous and it is therefore more difficult to interpret the between-group ... origin from those influenced by confounding factors mainly related to tobacco smoke Isoprene, pentane and 2-methylpentane are grouped together (group 1, factor 3) These substances can be considered ... methodological issues, defined standard operating procedures, and validated analytical methods of VOC collection and analysis The factors affect the SPME process, such as adsorption and desorption times and...
... for knowledge and learning I would also like to thank my supervisors, Prof Phan Toan Thang and Prof Thiagarajan for their invaluable advice and enthusiastic support throughout my candidature I ... G-protein-coupled receptor 153 GPSM2 G-protein signaling modulator GRB10 Growth factor receptor-bound protein 10 HATH Homologous to amino terminus of HDGF HDGF Hepatoma-derived growth factor HIF-1α ... possible factor underlying the growth and formation of keloids is their resistance to apoptosis Keloid fibroblasts was found to be more resistant to Fas mediated apoptosis (Chodon et al 2000) and the...