... test the theories ofthe chess pieces within the boundaries ofthe chess game, i.e the conceptual framework However, unlike the chess game, we still not know the rules (should there be any) ofthe ... action theories, or Greenhalgh et al.'s [18] conceptual model summarising the range of theories that influence diffusion of innovations Further consideration of these issues forms the basis ofthe ... Changing the behaviour of healthcare professionals: the use of theory in promoting the uptake of research findings Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2005, 58:107-112 Rycroft-Malone J: Theory and...
... to the slacking student and the rest of us, “What can any person in the face of all the world’s challenges? He or she can try.” xi The 100 Simple Secrets ofSuccessful People As I conducted the ... dozens of pictures of women and asked to choose the six that other people would think are the most beautiful The person whose answers most closely resembled the collective opinion ofthe other ... in their lives than they did after the expansion And in return for all their hard work, they got less money and the threat of bankruptcy because they could not keep up with debts incurred in the...
... periods of time When used without qualification, "weather" is understood to be theweatherof Earth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki /Weather) 5.2 Weather terms Weather terms that describe weather under ... field English weather terms 5.1 Definition ofweatherWeather is the state ofthe atmosphere as measured on a scale of hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or storm, clear or cloudy Most weather phenomena ... in the area ofweather terms Weather is one ofthe popular specific fields, like other language, its terminologies can change over time If we translate in theweather field, we must find the...
... London The first subsection describes the data that are used in this case study, the second discusses the choice of statistical models, while the third presents the results 5.1 Description ofthe ... remainder of this subsection describes the model building process, including justifications for the choice ofmodelsThe first part focuses on the trend models, while the second discusses the air ... naturally within the Bayesian framework adopted here Apart from the inclusion of prior distributions in the Bayesian approach, there are two major differences between the two models, the first of which...
... Assemblage ofthe clones yield the full-length cDNA sequences of at least two distinct LDH-A isoforms, which differ substantially in the coding sequence and length ofthe 3¢-UTR Therefore, isoform-specific ... acclimation Therefore, we think that the described mechanism maintains either (a) the kinetic ⁄ thermodynamic properties of this metabolic node by ‘dilution’ ofthe major mRNA with the minor one; ... All the observed dynamic changes in enzyme properties under acclimation should be considered in the context ofthe relevance for the performance of metabolic networks, because the theory of metabolic...
... intermediate [11] The sum of these ndings points at the involvement of more than one active oxidant in the diverse types of P450-catalyzed substrate processing [1215] The goal ofthe present perspective ... which small alterations in the environment can cause drastic changes in the reactivity ofthe active species [76] Further support in favour ofthe idea ofthe involvement of a high-valent iron-oxene ... grounds being unlikely [105] The sum of these ndings thus suggested that there was either an error in the kinetic scale for fast radical reactions or the mechanistic paradigmof P450-mediated hydroxylations...
... unsupervised algorithms The purpose of this paper is an analysis ofthe underlying probabilistic models and the types of errors committed by each one Furthermore, it is investigated how the decision threshold ... say that our models describe the process of word generation from the left to the right by alternately using two dice, the first for deciding whether to place a morpheme boundary in the current ... boundaries than in the opposite direction with a net increase of 0.0819 of correct boundaries which led to the increased recall Since the deduction of precision is less than the increase of recall, a...
... yielding a sample of 439.1 Table summarizes the sociodemographic and psychological characteristics ofthe sample at the time ofthe first interview The majority ofthe sample was White (83%; the remainder ... in the composition of social networks over time could alter the relative availability and efficiency of different types of support because of changes in the availability of certain types of ties ... predictions The data pattern (see Table 1) showed that whereas men received the most emotional support from their wives, the women in the sample said they received the most emotional support from their...
... record the head position of each word tree in accordance with the requirements of head driven parsing models As an example, the right tree in Figure has the context free rule “NN → JJf NNf”, the ... POS tagging In Proceedings ofthe Joint Conference ofthe 47th Annual Meeting ofthe ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Process- ing ofthe AFNLP, pages 513–521, ... structures By (3)–(5), the generation of word structures is exactly the same as that of ordinary phrase structures Hence the probabilities of these words can be defined in the same way as higher...
... (GSH), the two cardinal metabolites that mainly determine the integrity ofthe cell The goodness of these simplied models was evaluated by using the solutions ofthe full mechanistic model as the ... bold) The heading designates the type of load parameter varied and the range of variation relative to the normal value ofthe reference state The last four columns show the percentage ofthe total ... denote the reference values for the chosen in vivo state ofthe cell Differences between the load characteristics obtained by means ofthe exact model and the approximate models composed of the...
... 1.1 The process is initiated at the top left ofthe Vee with the definition ofthe operational need ofthe stakeholders The focus ofthe decomposition and definition process (or design) is the ... with the identification ofthe need for the system and progressing through the retirement ofthe system Some ofthe phases ofthe life INTRODUCTION TO SYSTEMS ENGINEERING Identification of Need ... or qualification of both the elements ofthe system and the system itself to ensure that the system meets the ultimate needs ofthe stakeholders 1.2 OVERVIEW OFTHE ENGINEERING OF SYSTEMS This...
... evil is the corruption ofthe character of victims Chapter 10 ofthe present work treats the knowing or deliberate corruption ofthe character of 12 The Atrocity Paradigm victims as a case of diabolical ... considering examples of evils Historically important conceptions of evil have focused on either the harm or the culpable wrongdoing, to the relative neglect ofthe other component, or have collapsed the ... alleviate it (as in the case ofthe Tuskegee syphilis experiments) or were wrongly behind the spread ofthe disease in the first place.3 The distribution by the British to Native Americans of blankets...
... activation promotes the removal of microorganisms and the processing of immune complexes The liver is the main source of these proteins in peripheral blood, but they are also synthesized in other organs ... steps in the complement cascade All of these regulatory proteins are produced in the human brain, but less is known about their CNS synthesis in other species [31] The status of some of these regulatory ... must be determined in animal modelsof AD to clarify the relevance of these models for investigating the significance of complement activation in the development of AD-type pathology Abbreviations...
... techniques The authors of this book provided this comprehensive treatment ofmodels in hardware testing in appreciation ofthe achievements of Christian Landrault who laid the foundations of many ofthe ... flowing between the floating node and the output node ofthe inverter With the knowledge ofthe gate leakage currents influencing the downstream gate, the steady state voltage ofthe floating line ... resistive opens (a few k ) The delay is higher when the open is located in the middle ofthe interconnect line related to the rest of locations, i.e., the beginning and the end ofthe line o PDF Open...
... the underlying market They are usually very cheap and the broker can buy a lot of them for a small amount of money and therefore rack up a large commission for him or herself The problem is they ... it stands to reason that the more options the customer buys, the more money the broker makes Therefore, the cheaper the option premium the more options the customer can buy But not all options ... just for the sake of taking a profit Options, of course, are different because ofthe inherent liquidity problems in some markets and because frequently the reason an option is purchased in the first...
... is the number of cells strictly left of c in the diagram of λ (3) The leg of c, denoted l(c), is the number of cells strictly below c in the diagram of λ (4) The coleg of c, denoted l (c), is the ... journal of combinatorics 11 (2004), #R68 c Figure 1: Diagram of a partition (1) The arm of c, denoted a(c), is the number of cells strictly right of c in the diagram of λ (2) The coarm of c, denoted ... diagram of λ For example, the transpose ofthe partition in Figure is λ = (7, 6, 5, 5, 3, 2, 2, 1) Definition Let λ be a partition of N Let c be one ofthe N cells in the diagram of λ the electronic...
... in each ofthe 82 harvested oaks at breast height For 52 oaks out ofthe 82 trees sample, a second disc between 1.30 m and the first defect in the commercial log was kept In other words the breast ... this hypothesis because neither the degree of inclination nor the eccentricity of stems allow one to draw conclusions about the content of tension wood [18, 22], as microscopic examination of thin ... was representative ofthe whole sample and the mid-level sample only accounted for 52 trees The longest radius as well as its diametrically opposite radius were sampled from the sawn discs In...
... extensive oedema of all the muscle groups around the pelvis, most marked in the region ofthe obturators and the adductor muscles in the proximal thigh and bone marrow oedema in the symphysis pubis ... seeding of bacteria to the fascia may be another causative factor of NF and bears significant relevance to our case, as MRI scans ofthe pelvis and biopsy ofthe symphysis pubis highlighted the presence ... from the antero-lateral aspect ofthe left thigh were applied to the perineal and thigh wounds on day-20 The VAC system was then applied over the skin graft at a lower topical negative pressure of...
... amount of data and type of prior, i.e the more data are available the less are the estimates of responses influenced by the choice of priors And similarly for the variances ofthe estimate, they ... decreasing function ofthe degree of overlap between generations, or ofthe degree of connectedness ofthe data Obviously, when generations not overlap the situation is that of design 1, with no ... here for the sake of completeness, and the derivation ofthe estimator of is detailed in the Appendix Using Thompson’s notation, n unrelated males (n > 2) are measured for the trait of interest...