... the chaotic properties of natural phenomena and the use of appropriate non-linear analysis, such as fractal analysis, in place of traditional analyses [1] A strong reason behind this paradigm ... original data can be considered appropriate Recently Parkinsonian patients (PP), spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) patients, and healthy participants’ COP were analysed usinga more traditional fractal dimension ... dimension analysis [13] This method recorded COP data and analysed COP traces using an image analyser to calculate the fractal dimension directly from the image, as opposed to a time series data analysis...
... teeth shape and alignment and declined the periodontal surgery It was explained that her central incisors would have a squared shape and would appear shorter and wider In her case, a diagnostic ... material is then removed at the gingival margin usinga #12 blade or a flame carbide or diamond bur The patient can immediately see and appreciate the proposed result The diagnostic mock-up can ... correct shade for direct composite resin restorations and can serve as a practical chairside alternative to the diagnostic wax-up It can also be used to create a lingual matrix for multilayered...
... gather and analyze spend analysis data that can lead to improved PSM practices -7- What Is aaSpend Analysis? What Is Spend Analysis? An in-depth analysisof purchases An in-depth analysisof ... They also continually manage suppliers and the supply base In sum, a spend analysis integrates internal spend data and external supplier and market data and applies analytical and benchmarking ... data, as well as Kathryn Ekberg, SAF/AQCP, who answered many of our early questions about the data We also thank RAND colleagues Donna Fossum and Larry Painter, who gave us useful guidance about...
... decide on the appropriate composition of the on- and off-balance-sheet activities allowed by banks to ensure adequate liquidity, capital, and duration match of assets and liabilities A balance must ... Treasury and FHFA established contractual agreements to ensure that each company maintains a positive net worth They are indefinite in duration and have a capacity of $100 billion each Conservatorship ... billion, and any loss in excess of that amount is shared by the government (90%) and Citigroup (10%) Guarantee a portion of an asset pool of loans and securities backed by residential and commercial...
... growth began in March and reached a peak in early July Growth ceased in August anda second growth flush appeared from September to December squares and showed a pattern similar to that observed ... ramifications has been referred to as &dquo;root growth capacity&dquo; by This suggests that elongation of the primary axes was followed by ramification and elongation of several secondary axes, and ... physical variables (Goulard et al., 1987) F(X) is considered as a random intrinsic function, thus, for any vector h, the mathematical expectancy and variance of the increment F(X + h) - F(X) are of...
... livelihood capitals (assets) Human capital Social capital Natural capital Physical capital Education, age, household size, dependency ratio, etc Group memberships Farmland size Residential land Location ... (2006) and Doan (2011), a household questionnaire was designed to gather a set of quantitative data on livelihood assets (human, social, financial, physical and natural capitals), economic activities ... fixed and slowly changing factors, including the household‟s natural capital, human capital, and location variables In addition, other factors, in this case farmland loss and past livelihood strategies...
... 2008 Hungary ( Caucasian) Japan ( Asian) China(Taiwan) ( Asian) China ( Asian) China(Taiwan) ( Asian) United States ( African-American) Tunisia ( African) Spain (Caucasian) Korea ( Asian) MAF Power ... Table and Figure 1) We further performed stratified analysis according to asthma type (atopic asthma and non-atopic asthma), age (children and adult) and ethnicity (Asian and Caucasian and African ... recruitment of eosinophils and their up regulation into the airways of asthmatic patients causing tissue damage [23-25] Both atopic asthma and nonatopic asthma are associated with increased levels of RANTES...
... of applications of meta -analysis to political science (Lau 1999 and Roscoe and Jenkins 2005) and political economy (Nijkamp and Poot 2004 and Doucouliagos and Ulubasoglu 2006) Meta -analysis considers ... 1369-1401 Adelman, I and C.T Morris 1967 A Factor Analysisof the Interrelationship Between Social and Political Variables and Per Capita Gross National Product Quarterly Journal of Economics Alesina, ... Democracy and Economic Growth: A meta -analysis Hristos Doucouliagos* and Mehmet Ulubasoglu School of Accounting, Economics and Finance Deakin University Australia * Faculty of Business and Law, Deakin...
... Food and Cancer Risk: A Critical Analysis Cooking and Preparation of Food and Drink Cooking and preparation of food can also produce chemicals that are rodent carcinogens Alcoholic beverages cause ... A. , and Wilson, AA (198 2a) Quantitative analysisof coldpressed lemon oil by glass capillary gas chromatography J Agric Food Chem 30, 507509 Staroscik, J A. , and Wilson, AA (1982b) Seasonal and ... Stofberg and Grundschober (1987), Blauch and Tarka (1983), Nagata and Sakai (1985), IARC (1991) EPA (198 9a) , Risch and Herrmann (1988) TAS (1989), Eltayeb and Roddick (1984) 4100 Stofberg and Grundschober...
... geneticand reproductive technologies The Program works in collaboration with allied organizations at the state and national levels to safeguard and expand the human rights, equality and health of ... Arons, J Arkansas, Hawaii, Maryland, Rhode Island, and Texas Arons, J Arkansas, Hawaii, Maryland, Texas 14 The Ethics Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (2006) Access to ... participate in regional and national conversations taking place and to integrate ART issues and other new geneticand reproductive technologies into their organizational agendas The goals and questions...
... configurations are also possible Verbal arguments can appear before or after the verb, and in many ordering This results in long and flat VP and S structures anda fair amount of sparsity Rich templatic ... heads: Refining a tree-bank grammar for parsing In Proc of ECML Khalil Sima’an, Alon Itai, Yoad Winter, Alon Altman, and Noa Nativ 2001 Building a Tree-Bank of Modern Hebrew text Traitement Automatique ... Language Resources and Evaluation, 42(1):75–98, March Dan Klein and Christopher D Manning 2003 Accurate unlexicalized parsing In Proc of ACL, Sapporo, Japan, July Association for Computational...
... Responses of insect pollinator faunas and flower pollination to habitat fragmentation In: Disruptions and Variability: the Dynamics of Climate, Human Disturbance and Ecosystems in the Americas (eds Bradshaw, ... effects of fragmentation on pollination and reproductive success of plants Two of these species (C grandiflora and L viscaria) were evaluated twice in different papers, thus we analysed a total of ... scatter plot of the lowest and highest values of the independent variable (only when each point from the scatter had an associated variance measure and sample size) or calculated the mean value,...
... corruption see, e.g., Kaufmann, Kraay and Zoido-Lobatόn, 1999; Bai and Wei, 2000; Kaufmann, Mehrez and Gurgur, 2002) Các nghiên cứu gần nhấn mạnh đến việc cân nhắc xem đặc trưng lịch sử đ a lý nước biến ... COMPOSITE RISK RATING lấy số liệu từ ICRG có ý ngh a thống kê, đồng thời để kiểm tra kết trước tác giả bổ sung thêm yếu tố cụ thể TOP MARGINAL TAX RATE, PRICE CONTROLS AND LABOR MARKET REGULATIONS vào ... luật pháp, an toàn quyền sở hữu quy định kinh doanh Các biến INDEPENDENCE, số LEGAL SYSTEM, LAW AND IMPARTIAL COURTS, PROPERTY ORDER, JUDICIAL RIGHTS, MILITARY INTERFERENCE, ADMINISTRATIVE CONDITIONS...
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... response was specific Thus, the NGF mRNA increase acted via the anaphylatoxins/anaphylatoxin receptors and was not due to contaminants in anaphylatoxin preparations Analysisof NGF mRNA expression ... Sayah S, Patte C, Gasque P, Chan P, Ischenko A, Vaudry H, Fontaine M: Characterization of rat C 5a anaphylatoxin receptor (C5aR): cloning of rat C5aR cDNA and study of C5aR expression by rat astrocytes ... sense [AGG TGC ATA GCG TAA TGT CC], NGF antisense [CCT TGA CAA AGG TGT GAG TC], GAPDH sense [TGC CAT CAA CGA CCC CTT CA] and GAPDH antisense [TGA CCT TGC CCA CAG CCT TG] The theoretical size was...
... length f has to be assumed known, which is not always available for the uncontrollable test image We take the advantage that the facial features on the frontal view mean face are available, and show ... January 2004 [22] S K Zhou, G Aggarwal, R Chellappa, and D W Jacobs, “Appearance characterization of linear lambertian objects, generalized photometric stereo, and illumination-invariant face ... 3D face scans For a test image at a rotated pose and under an arbitrary illumination condition, we manually establish the image correspondence between the test image anda mean face image at the...
... recombinant luciferase (Promega) as a standard and normalised for total protein Ad-RGDLuc mediated a time-dependent increase in the level of transgene expression that was evident at all exposure ... cells and intact tissue Transduction of saphenous vein cells and intact tissue Ad-CTL and Ad-RGD expressing eGFP were incubated with (A) HSVEC and (B) HSVSMC for different times and gene expression ... with RLB 100 µL of Luciferase Assay Reagent was added to each well and the plate immediately read for 10 seconds per well Detection was achieved usinga Wallac 1420 (VICTOR2) Multilabel Counter...
... storytelling and organizations is also the key message of Kelly and Zak (1999) Kelly and Zak illustrate the versatility of the narrative paradigm in organizations with the statement ―narrative…operates at ... effectiveness of narrative from a professional standpoint They explain the prevalence of narratives in professional and organizational communication in sense-making activities, like selling and sales, change ... from a psychological perspective Narrative study also transcends different areas of communication research Narrative work is adaptable to many areas of study and is used in quantitative, qualitative,...