minimization of characterization costs

Tài liệu Bài 10: ICA by Minimization of Mutual Information pdf

Ngày tải lên : 23/12/2013, 07:19

... is a measure of nongaussianity Thus, (10.7) shows that ICA estimation by minimization of mutual information is equivalent to maximizing the sum of nongaussianities of the estimates of the independent ... convergence of FastICA for ICs with uniform distributions The value of mutual information shown as function of iteration count 10.5 EXAMPLES Here we show the results of applying minimization of mutual ... Thus, we see that the formulation of ICA as minimization of mutual information gives another rigorous justiﬁcation of our more heuristically introduced idea of ﬁnding maximally nongaussian directions,...

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New technologies or innovative treatment lines for reliable water treatment for P&P and minimization of waste production ppt

Ngày tải lên : 09/03/2014, 00:20

... (membrane blocking) of aerobic effluents of both PMs Reduction of pH to around pH 6.5 (HCl) and dosing of anti-scalant was necessary to achieve recovery rates of 80% Softening of wastewater allowed ... addition one of the main advantages of high rate softener: Actiflo® Softener 60 – 80m.h-1 Multiflo™ Softener 20 – 30m.h-1 Conventional precipitation softening – 6m.h-1 Figure 16: Comparison of process ... industrial scale leading to a very substantial reduction of the volume of final waste to be disposed off down to 0.4% in the case of 3FM combined with softening as pre-treatment Page | New technologies...

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The Effects of Funding Costs and Risk on Banks’ Lending Rates pot

Ngày tải lên : 29/03/2014, 01:20

... % Cost of Debt Funding Australian banks’ cost of debt funding has increased materially over the past few years This has reflected both increases in the costs of some of the components of debt ... increase of nearly percentage point, to 7½ per cent, in the share of equity in the major banks’ funding liabilities since mid 2007.2 Graph 1 Funding Composition of Banks in Australia* Per cent of funding ... share of funding sourced from short-term wholesale debt (domestic and foreign) The share of securitisation has also fallen since the onset of the financial crisis, as the amortisation of the...

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Minimization of Environmental Impact of Wachusett Brewing Company Processes pot

Ngày tải lên : 31/03/2014, 22:20

... sample of waste stream going down drain Yeast drained off of the bottom of the fermentor, sample of stream going down the drain Fermentor hot water prewash including residual yeast, sample of what ... barrels of raw water to produce just one barrel of beer Generally, roughly 65% of the total water used in the brewery ends up as wastewater while a small portion of the water is boiled off during ... or other chemicals used, the amount of water used in the wash and diagrams of the major pieces of equipment using the highest amount of caustic Each piece of equipment in the process has a different...

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Báo cáo khoa học: " Importance of nondrug costs of intravenous antibiotic therapy" docx

Ngày tải lên : 12/08/2014, 20:20

... actual costs of treating patients with IV antibiotic therapy The costs were subdivided into four components: the acquisition costs of drugs; the costs of the disposable materials used; the costs ... for the assessment of costs of preparation and of administration Average total costs for each of the different R185 Critical Care December 2003 Vol No van Zanten et al methods of drug administration ... and so on These costs were considered unavoidable in any type of therapy, and were considered central to the task of the pharmacy • Costs for disposal of waste IV administration of antibiotics...

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Báo cáo y học: "Costs of stroke and stroke services: Determinants of patient costs and a comparison of costs of regular care and care organised in stroke service" ppt

Ngày tải lên : 13/08/2014, 13:20

... the costs of coordination, making a distinction between one time start up costs and yearly structural costs of a stroke service Start up costs consisted of: development of uniform transfer of ... patient The main costs are for home care, paramedical care and GP visits The costs of medication, home adaptations and assistive devices together were only 13% of total costs The costs are markedly ... nursing home and total costs per patient (in € of 1999; n = 598) Delft Hospital costs (per hospital patient) (number of patients, average length of stay in days) - accommodation costs - diagnostics,...

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Constructal complex objective optimization of electromagnets based on maximization of magnetic induction and minimization of entransy dissipation rate

Ngày tải lên : 09/09/2015, 10:06

... fixed magnetic induction Complex-objective function of minimization of entransy dissipation rate and maximization of magnetic induction For the case of a constant electrical current density j , the ... He had been the Director of the Department of Nuclear Energy Science and Engineering, the Superintendent of the Postgraduate School, and the President of the College of Naval Architecture and ... constructs based on minimization of maximum temperature The multidisciplinary optimization of electromagnet was discussed by Gosselin and Bejan [65], the optimal geometries of electromagnet based...

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Approaches to cost minimization of power systems with distributed generation

Ngày tải lên : 30/09/2015, 14:16

... UTILITY 57 4.1 OUTLINE OF THE STOCHASTIC MODEL 58 4.2 MODELING OF DER OUTPUT BASED ON PROFITABILITY 61 4.3 MODELING OF DER AVAILABILITY 61 4.4 INTEGRATION OF DERS INTO VIRTUAL UTILITIES ... 51 Figure 4.1 Steps of virtual utilities integration 59 Figure 4.2 PDF of the output PjR of DER j 63 Figure 4.3 PDF of the output of virtual utility k 65 ... consists of a localized grouping of loads and generation operating under a form of coordinated local control, either active or passive At the heart of the microgrid concept is the notion of a flexible,...

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Interior point methods for minimization of potential energy functions of polypeptides

Ngày tải lên : 12/10/2015, 17:33

... problems in the area of energy minimization of Lennard-Jones clusters are solved The two proposed solution approaches have been utilized to solve a number of dipeptide structures of amino acids The ... design of molecules for specific applications Examples of these types of applications provided by Meza & Martinez (1994) include development of enzymes for toxic wastes removal, development of new ... methods to solve the problem of energy minimization The choice of exact methods has its advantages because of the mathematical basis that it provides to determine the quality of solution obtained It...

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Interior point methods for minimization of potential energy functions of polypeptides

Ngày tải lên : 08/11/2015, 16:39

... problems in the area of energy minimization of Lennard-Jones clusters are solved The two proposed solution approaches have been utilized to solve a number of dipeptide structures of amino acids The ... design of molecules for specific applications Examples of these types of applications provided by Meza & Martinez (1994) include development of enzymes for toxic wastes removal, development of new ... methods to solve the problem of energy minimization The choice of exact methods has its advantages because of the mathematical basis that it provides to determine the quality of solution obtained It...

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Characterization and deactivation of sulfided red mud used as hydrogenation catalyst

Ngày tải lên : 23/09/2012, 14:46

... Fig shows the evolution of the conversion of the different compounds with reaction time The evolution of the catalyst activity followed the usual path of an initial period of fast activity decay, ... period of about 25 h of slowly declining activity After about 38 h of run, the activity quickly decreased to a point at which the only reactant converted was anthracene Although the profile of the ... brightness of every pixel of the EDX maps, B, can be quantified on a scale of (black) to (maximum degree of brightness) Fig 10 shows the cumulative brightness distributions (fraction of the sample...

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Báo cáo y học: "Lifetime health effects and medical costs of integrated stroke services - a non-randomized controlled cluster-trial based life table approach"

Ngày tải lên : 25/10/2012, 10:35

... Koopmanschap M, van Wijngaarden J, Scholte op Reimer W: Costs of stroke and stroke services: Determinants of patient costs and a comparison of costs of regular care and care organised in stroke services ... effectiveness is strong [26] The results of other studies ranged from a reduction of a relative risk of dependency for stroke patients of 9% [27], to a 28 week cost reduction of € 567 [11] Two cost-effectiveness ... and each place of Page of 10 residence (hospital, nursing home, revalidation centre and home) at which the patient stayed during this period, weighted by the length of stay Costs of care for the...

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Báo cáo y học: "Characterization of Human Erythrocytes as Potential Carrier for Pravastatin: An In Vitro Study"

Ngày tải lên : 25/10/2012, 11:10

... total amount of pravastatin entrapped in 0.1 ml of the final packed erythrocytes Efficiency of entrapment The percentage of the loaded amount of pravastatin to the total amount of that added ... ml eppendorff tubes, 400 µl of suspension are added to 400 µl of PBS containing the known concentration of the drug and 2.5 mmol of ATP, 2.5 mmol MgCl2 and 2.5 mmol of CaCl2, gently mixing to ... percentage ratio of the hematocrite value of the final loaded cells to that of the initial packed cells, both measured using equal suspension volumes In vitro characterization of pravastatin loaded...

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Báo cáo y học: "CEO- CNE Relationships: Building an Evidence-Base of Chief Nursing Executive Replacement Costs"

Ngày tải lên : 26/10/2012, 08:57

... cause of their position loss [3] Medical surgical nurse replacement costs of $92,442 and specialty-area (APN) nurse replacement costs of $145,000, begs the question, what is the replacement cost of ... 1990;20(5):27-32 24 Jones C The costs of nurse turnover, Part I Journal of Nursing Administration 2004;34(12):562-570 25 Jones C The costs of nurse turnover, Part 2: Application of the nursing turnover ... Productivity & Training; Termination Costs NTCCM Cost of replacing a nurse= $420.18 Costs incurred in screening all applicants divided by number of persons actually hired + costs not calculable Turnover...

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Báo cáo y học: "Characterization of erythrovirus B19 genomes isolated in liver tissues from patients with fulminant hepatitis and biliary atresia who underwent liver transplantation"

Ngày tải lên : 26/10/2012, 10:03

... (Yoto et al., 1996) The sensitivity of this PCR assay allowed detection of as few as 10 copies of B19 genome In addition, we sequenced the B19 isolates consisted of 4561 bp covering NS1, VP1 and ... Discussion The etiology of hepatitis remains obscure in 3-10% of cases in Europe [5] and the United States [6] and up to 30% of cases in Asia [7, 8] Particularly, the cause of fulminant hepatitis ... National Study Group of Fulminant Hepatitis Clinical epidemiology of fulminant hepatitis in Japan before the substantial introduction of liver transplantation: an analysis of 1309 cases in a 15-year...

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Báo cáo y học: "Characterization of N200 and P300: Selected Studies of the Event-Related Potential Salil H. Patel 1 and Pierre N. Azzam 2"

Ngày tải lên : 02/11/2012, 11:08

... processing of auditory information over 200-ms time frames [17] A comparison of the effects of different auditory stimulus deviation types on the MMN component has been determined through a number of ... stimulus variation types Despite a relatively recent growth of interest in N2b characterization, a number of studies have probed the effect of stimulus and experimental condition variations on this ... notable that the detection of a frontal N2 is associated only with instances of a NOGO response Thus, the P300 appears to be inhibited by the appearance of the N2b in tasks of motor activity suppression...

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Sensory characterization of dry-cured ham using free-choice profiling

Ngày tải lên : 03/04/2013, 21:07

... lx) First of all, consumers were briefed on the concept of the methodology and the procedure The aim of this was to allow for development of the vocabulary to describe the four types of dry-cured ... 55.58% of the Table Demographic, socio-economic characteristics and frequency of dry-cured ham consumption of the participants (% of respondents, n = 109) Socio-demographic characteristic % of respondents ... product To summarize, FCP offers the possibility of assisting the demands of marketing and product development teams who require information on target consumer’s perception of products, rather than...

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Isolation and characterization of an extracellular polymer closely related to flocculation of activated sludge

Ngày tải lên : 05/09/2013, 09:08

... polysaccharide One milligram of the partially purified polymer contained 309.7 µg of protein, 160.2 µg of neutral sugar, 58.5 µg of hexosamine, 30.8 µg of uronic acid and 3.8 µg of phosphorus Constituent ... concentration of ppm to estimate the effect of pH After min, A660 was measured and the extent of flocculation was calculated Pronase digestion of extracellular polymer Forty milligrams of the extracellular ... the aqueous phase A total of 274.8 mg of crude extracellular polymer was obtained from 600 ml of activated sludge by sonication for 10 Figure 1A shows the elution profile of the crude extracellular...

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Characterization of the microbial community in the anaerobic/oxic/anoxic process combine

Ngày tải lên : 05/09/2013, 09:38

... the anaerobic tank The characteristics of the influent wastewater were as follows: 160–200 mg/L of SS, 55–80 mg/L of TOC, 45–55 mg/L of T-N, and 4.0–5.5 mg/L of T-P Other details are shown in the ... volume of 20 L, received excess sludge from the anoxic tank, and the amount of sludge was adjusted to 9.4 % of total MLSS per day Ozonation was performed twice a week, and then the supernatant of ... conditions (use of nitrogen gas and addition of 20 mg-N/L NaNO3 to the cup) The PUR was estimated from the slope of the line describing the linear decrease in phosphate concentration The ratio of anoxic...

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Water Pollution Characterization by Pathogenic Indicators in Water Runoff in the Downtown of Hanoi, Vietnam

Ngày tải lên : 05/09/2013, 10:15

... indicator of mixing wastewater with runoff water Fig shows the correlation of EC with T-N, NH4+-N, E.coli and TC, in which the correlation of EC with T-N and NH4+-N is higher than that of the coliforms ... quality of surface runoff water had a vast range of variation which is far greater than that in the quality of raw or treated sanitary wastewater (Mitchell, 2005) This makes surface runoff quality ... condition These results indicate the range of variation in the quality of surface runoff which makes urban surface runoff quality control more difficult Besides washoff from the surface, another pollutant...

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