... data analysis and manuscript revision SS created tables and figures and participated in data analysis and manuscript revision XY participated in treatment planning, data collection and data analysis ... in data collection, data analysis and manuscript revision KE participated in data collection, data analysis and manuscript revision SC prepared the manuscript for submission, participated in data ... in data collection, data analysis and manuscript revision GE participated in data collection, data analysis and manuscript revision SY participated in data analysis and manuscript revision CJ...
... idiom’s literal and figurative meanings For instance, learners can draw pictures to present the literal meaning, this can be particularly effectivefor lower- proficiency learners for idioms which ... reactions or emotions For example, the beaver is chiefly a North American animal Its constant activity, its habit of gnawing down trees and building complex “homes” and its skill and ingenuity in ... with an adverb Once and for all (dứt khoát) “Once and for all, he decided not to visit his friend” This sentence means firstly he decided to visit his friend but finally he changed his mind and...
... certain circumstances and because of various reasons formally and informally Hence, presentation plays an important role in our communication life However, due to the restriction of time and limitation ... skills are important because they accomplish two things within a company; they motivate the workforce and they disseminate information in a way that employees can understand and make use of In ... was very important 18% of them answered it was important and the rest (2%) chose response of not very important No one chose “not important” So we can see that they all understand the necessity...
... as an optimization problem, which will be formulated as an integer linear program 5 An Integer Linear Program Formulation In the case where a pair of F-disjoint paths cannot be found in the network, ... Perspective, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1998 [21] R Ramaswami and K Sivarajan, “Design of logical topologies for wavelength-routed optical networks,” IEEE JSAC/JLT Special Issue on Optical Networks, ... designed to find node and edge disjoint paths [9-12, 15-18] However, in WDM networks [20], diverse routing of working and protection paths can be more complicated For a WDM network, traffic is...
... opportunity and the foundation for continuing education, many thanks To my daughters Michelle and JoAnne, thanks for your understanding and I hope this work will provide encouragement, for you both, ... others at the forefront of their work, and act in ways that will be for the benefit of others Comparing Transformational, Transactional and Servant Leadership Bass (1990) transformational leadership ... change amidst constantly changing world conditions His model of transformational leadership refers to a transformation in the assumptions and thoughts of followers while creating a commitment for...
... may forward it to the network manager to take appropriate actions To send a packet from one Titan Node to another, Titan provides a communication service, which can be instantiated on both network ... Germany, 2006 U Ramachandran, R Kumar, M Wolenetz et al., “Dynamic data fusion for future sensor networks,” ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, vol 2, no 3, pp 404–443, 2006 G J Pottie and W ... Titan frameworkfor pervasive applications comprises tiny tasks running on Titan nodes in the PAN (left), a mobile device (center) and Internet application repositories (right) The network manager...
... test both the annotation and text-based retrieval performance for unlabeled environmental sounds Furthermore, an important novelty in this work is the ability of the hybrid network to handle out-of-vocabulary ... annotation and text-based retrieval performance Table compares the MAP and MAROC values for the Soundwalks dataset where all tags are used in building the network both with and without semantic links ... preference, and WordNet similarity data to find only rankings between words and sounds of the form “A is more like B than C is D”, we can learn a single dissimilarity function for the entire network...
... through three transformation steps: the hierarchy flattening transformation, the HSDF transformation, and the DAG transformation (see Section 3.3.2) These transformations prepare the graph for the static ... (SynDEx [17]), the Data ow Interchange Format (DIF [18]), and SDF for Free (SDF3 [19]) Both MIC and OTIE can not be accessed online According to literature, MIC focuses on the transformation between ... Synchronous Data Flow (SDF) model used in the SDF4J library and PREESM is not available in DIF SDF3 is an open-source tool implementing some data flow models and providing analysis, transformation,...
... mobility metrics for the random-walk mobility model the magnitude of X, similarly for Vi and V j The acute angle Ψ between Vi and V j is uniformly distributed in [0, π), and Ψ, Vi and V j are independent, ... nodes in the network can be described by i.i.d random processes Let the random variable representing the separation distance between two nodes at epoch m be Lm , and let lm denote an instance of Lm ... give an approximate calculation for link duration and path duration for a random waypoint mobility model In this paper, we determine an exact expression for the PMF of node separation distance...
... Affymetrix platform, and QuantiSNP is designed fordata obtained from the Illumina platform Therefore, Birdseye, PennCNV, and ÇOKGEN's superior performance compared to dChip and QuantiSNP on Affymetrix ... 2008, 9:27 Wang J, Wang W, Li R, Li Y, Tian G, Goodman L, Fan W, Zhang J, Li J, Zhang J, Guo Y, Feng B, Li H, Lu Y, Fang X, Liang H, Du Z, Li D, Zhao Y, Hu Y, Yang Z, Zheng H, Hellmann I, Inouye ... express thanks to Sivakumaran Arumugam and Katherine Wilkins for running the Birdseye and dChip software, respectively We also thank Simone Edelheit and the CWRU Genomics Core Facility for assistance...
... amount of data that will soon be made available by large collaborative projects such as modENCODE Materials and methods Datasets and gene annotation Expression levels for all annotated worm transcripts ... expression datafor embryonic stem cells and neural progenitor cells were from Cloonan et al [64]; and the histone modification datafor matched cell lines were obtained from Mikkelsen et al [47] and ... file 11: Supplementary documents about the Bayesian network analysis and so on The file contains additional information about the Bayesian network analysis Additional file 12: Correlation patterns...
... Metrics with different units and scales cannot be aggregated before being transformed to a common scale (normalization) Of the many existing choices for normalization, ranking and assignment to a categorical ... subjective choices and chance variation in the underlying data on provider performance can be modelled in higher order Monte Carlo experiments The importance of uncertainty analysis cannot be overemphasized ... compensate for poor performance on other metrics In fact, ‘average’ providers may be ‘poor’ providers for patients whose needs are within the low scoring performance areas Some of these dangers can be...
... Metrics with different units and scales cannot be aggregated before being transformed to a common scale (normalization) Of the many existing choices for normalization, ranking and assignment to a categorical ... subjective choices and chance variation in the underlying data on provider performance can be modelled in higher order Monte Carlo experiments The importance of uncertainty analysis cannot be overemphasized ... compensate for poor performance on other metrics In fact, ‘average’ providers may be ‘poor’ providers for patients whose needs are within the low scoring performance areas Some of these dangers can be...
... JK, and SB made substantial contributions to the conception and design and to the analysis and interpretation of the data CD made substantial contributions to the acquisition of data TB, WS, and ... Additionally, χ2 tests and parametric (t tests, analysis of variance [ANOVA]) and nonparametric (Kruskal-Wallis) tests (in cases in which distribution was not normal and transformation was not reasonable) ... substantial contributions to the interpretation of data UR, CD, TB, and SB were involved in drafting the manuscript WS, NT, and JK were involved in revising the manuscript critically for important...
... of data analysis for this thesis I thank these two gentlemen for their inputs and support for my research study My very special thanks go to Professor Wang Shou Qing, for his sophisticated network ... but is global, and therefore, there is an urgent need for new management ideas and methods to improve the industry’s performance Inspired by the manufacturing sector, a significant number of studies ... I thank all the directors, project managers, engineers, foremen, and other participants for giving me their time and access to their firms and projects Last but not least, I would like thank...
... emphysema, and asthma, and is responsible for roughly a third of all cancers These include 90% of all lung cancers (the deadliest cancer in terms of the amount of people killed), colorectal cancer ... Japan Tobacco, for example, provided substantial funds to three biotechnology companies involved in genetic and vaccine work: Genesys and Corixa for a lung cancer vaccine, and British Biotech for ... Bhutan (tobacco); Afghanistan, Brunei Darussalam, Iran, Maldives, Mauritania, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Sudan (alcohol) 43 Inhalation allows a far quicker absorption of a drug than oral...
... salts, and studied for the performance and the mechanism in heavy metal removal (Kanel et al., 2005; Kanel et al., 2006; Li and Zhang, 2006; Li and Zhang, 2007) Kanel et al (2005, 2006) demonstrated ... separation and recovery of the nanoparticles by a membrane filtration system for its feasibility and effectiveness 1.3 Organization of the Thesis The contents of this thesis revolve around and branch ... method for producing P4VP nanoparticles, and enhance the understanding on the membrane fouling phenomenon associated with nanoparticle separation are described Finally, additional datafor Chapter...
... control plane for signaling, data plane for media transmission and knowledge plane for meta -data recording 3.3 QCMF M ANAGEMENT F UNCTIONS As an adaptive end-to-end QoS management framework, ... architectures and network architectures While the data plane handles the actual media data transmission and processing, the QoS control plane, on the other hand, is responsible for the exchange of ... PLANE FOR SIGNALING, DATA PLANE FOR MEDIA TRANSMISSION AND KNOWLEDGE PLANE FOR META -DATA RECORDING 32 FIGURE 3-5: MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONS OF QCMF ARE FULFILLED BY ITS SEVERAL BUILD-TIME AND...
... thanks to my husband Ying Peizhi for his love and to my parents for their endless support This thesis is to my lovely son and I wish him a happy and healthy future i An Interactive Frameworkfor ... SINGAPORE 2003 An Interactive Frameworkfor Component-based Morphing Acknowledgements First and foremost, I would like to thank my supervisor, A/P Tan Tiow Seng, for his invaluable guidance in my ... user control, and thus users can interact with their morphing design in a natural and intuitive way Thirdly, this framework makes an effort to integrate skeletons as an intuitive and effective tool...