... receding, andthe pace and magnitude ofthe international response is failing to keep up withthe scale ofthe challenge It is clear that one ofthe key shortcomings of humankind’s existing relationship ... and Initiatives (ZERI); the Biomimicry Guild; IUCN andthe UNEP The initiative is the brainchild ofthe Biomimicry Guild andthe ZERI in partnership with UNEP and IUCN It is aimed at showcasing ... membership ofthe World Trade Organization (WTO) The third movement concerns thereconciliationofthe various rightsin existence within the Philippines, by reason ofthe multiplicity of peoples and...
... observed LDOS is a convolution ofthe LDOS ofthe SiNWs and that ofthe adsorbed PQ aggregates Therefore, the contribution ofthe LDOS ofthe SiNWs at the proximity ofthe Fermi level is presumably ... (dotted red line) andthe ONWs (full blue line) obtained upon the adsorption of L of PQ The inset shows the corresponding I(V) curves lent bonds between the top silicon atoms ofthe NWs andthe oxygen ... molecules, and faint lines, which correspond to the SiNWs The faintness ofthe SiNWs, as compared to Fig 1, is due to the presence ofthe molecular aggregates on top ofthe SiNWs which decreases the...
... Rand Index to establish the performance ofthe WDCM, andthe comparisons withthe other algorithms were conducted simultaneously Finally, we tested the robustness ofthe WDCM on clustering the ... assessment method ofthe clustering result, andthe external validation index Adjusted Rand Index ofthe clustering performance Moreover, Robustness test ofthe WDCM on clustering the incomplete data ... respectively denote the number of gene pairs that are inthe same cluster in both X and C, the number of gene pairs that are inthe same cluster in X andin different clusters in C, the number of gene pairs...
... terminator region of RNA polymerase II Close inspection revealed that the mRNA of OCT1h was predominantly terminated upstream ofthe EBNA-1 binding site region With pEBTetD, the copy number of ... disturbing background differences [14] Instead we opted to utilize continuous expression ofthe unmodified TetR The original tetracycline repressor simply binds to a tandem ofthe type tetracycline ... establishment of doxycycline-inducible protein expression in human cell lines by just a single transfection For closely matching cellular backgrounds we use continuous expression ofthe original TetR instead...
... that there are two molecular species of PS coexisting inthe cell differing inthe location ofthe C-terminus This would implicate that the C-terminal region could interact with factors in both the ... six and seven (indicated with ‘D’) HRs are indicated in Roman numerals (TLN) and APP have also been shown to interact with PS Once again, PS binds with its C-terminus to the TM domain of TLN and ... One ofthe members ofthe c-secretase complex, nicastrin, has been shown to bind at the C-terminus of PS [13] The PS binding site in nicastrin is likely to be located in its TM region, suggesting...
... (default and non-default), the box ranges from the 25%-quantile to the 75%-quantile ofthe specific distribution The black bar within the box denotes the median ofthe distribution The range ofthe ... trading consumer goods Section deals with indicators of individual payment performance andthe monitoring of payment behavior The empirical study continues by evaluating the proposed indicators with ... additional input feature in an internally developed credit scoring model Independent ofthe source of credit quality information, the next step consists in defining risk classes andin establishing decisions...
... seen, the results ofthe UMTS link offer the worse results, due to the delay ofthe operator’s network andthe bandwidth limited by the radio coverage andthe available resources inthe cell The ... maintaining MR1 (and thus MNN1) moving in a 65 meters radius around the position of MR2, and reporting the achievable throughputs None ofthe MRs have gone out ofthe access points’ coverage and ... projects The OLSR daemon has been adapted to the routing scheme proposed in Section 4.3.1 In this way, OLSR routing entries are maintained in one ofthe multiple routing tables ofthe kernel The NEMO...
... to zero Propertyof DM mentions that the CDs of skin pixels are very small compared to the nonskin ones Combining PropertyandPropertyof DM, we find that if some skin regions exist inthe image, ... are determined by a specific set of training pixels Basically, the main aim of skin segmentation is to find skin regions in images rather than skin pixels only However, most ofthe existing methods ... taking the smallest CDs at corresponding positions among initial DMs ((4) provides one such example) In other words, the final CD of a pixel is the minimum of its CDs inthe initial DMs Hence, the...
... obtained is two selected frames: one at the end ofthe static segment (or at the beginning ofthe translation segment) and one at the end ofthe translation segment (or at the beginning ofthe ... on the magnitude andthe succession of motions for thresholds 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, and 0.4 On the other hand, for thresholds 0.5 and 0.6, the summarization method withthe frame inthe center ofthe ... calculating the overlap between them The greater the overlap is, the closer the content is andthe fewer keyframes are selected Inthe same way, Fauvet et al [8] determine from the estimation of the...
... interval, to provide the receiver with sufficient statistics to detect the transmitted data Assuming the channel gains inthe two links, f1 and f2 , are constant within the observation window of ... context ofthe problem at hand, the complete set of data is the (equivalent) transmitted pattern B andthe channel gains g1 and g2 ; the sequence B is the desired data, andthe channel gains are the ... Gaussian process, with a variance of N0 It should be pointed out that the fading gains andthe noise samples are statistically independent To recover the data contained inthe R[k]’s, the receiver...
... same region inthe same year The origin ofthenew A(H1N1) influenza virus emerging in North America in 2009 The sublineage ofthenew A(H1N1) influenza virus was situated at the top ofthe six panorama ... each ofthe viral genes could be divided into 6-10 lineages, and some ofthe lineages could be further divided into several sublineages The distribution ofthe lineages and sublineages in hosts, ... isphere inthe 1970s within the sublineage S3.2.8 were quite similar to those isolated inthe Western Hemisphere inthe same period within the sublineage S3.2.9 Heterogeneity ofthe lineages in mutation...
... same region inthe same year The origin ofthenew A(H1N1) influenza virus emerging in North America in 2009 The sublineage ofthenew A(H1N1) influenza virus was situated at the top ofthe six panorama ... each ofthe viral genes could be divided into 6-10 lineages, and some ofthe lineages could be further divided into several sublineages The distribution ofthe lineages and sublineages in hosts, ... isphere inthe 1970s within the sublineage S3.2.8 were quite similar to those isolated inthe Western Hemisphere inthe same period within the sublineage S3.2.9 Heterogeneity ofthe lineages in mutation...
... belongs to these scales of probability and usuality In a proposal, the meaning ofthe positive and negative is prescribing and proscribing “do it” inthe positive and “don‟t it” inthe negative There ... would be interesting to investigate their uses in them all However, in order to make our tasks manageable in keeping the aims ofthe study, within the time allowance, it is intended that the most ... modal The third drawback is the lack of variety in presenting context inthe textbooks These drawbacks result in students‟ incomplete understanding and learning of modals and semi- modals and lead...
... 3- INVESTIGATION AND FINDINGS 35 3.1 Test design 35 3.1.1 Description of syllabus and textbook 35 3.1.2 Objectives ofthe test 35 3.1.3 Format ofthe ... result and errors made by learners 36 3.4 Application to the teaching and learning modals and semi- modals 38 3.4.1 Frequencies of Vietnamese students‟ errors in using modals and semi- ... UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES MAI THI ̣ VÂN ANH “BE TO” AND “HAVE TO” + LEXICAL VERBS AND THEIR MODAL MEANINGS FROM FUNCTIONAL AND COGNITIVE...
... members are always the source of inspiration They continue to motivate me to better in whatever I am doing Their blessings and faith in me were the main driving force during the course of my PhD I dedicate ... Topics and Methods Next, the topics and research approaches ofthe articles inthe database are examined We begin by focusing on the topics covered andthe dependence ofthe number of articles and ... whereas the other is in library service environment The chapter provides the background, andthe discussion on findings from these two studies Chapter 6, and presents the results ofthe research They...
... Beautification ofthe rivers andthecreationof landscaped river walk The river improvement works were complimented with hard and soft landscaping on both banks The river walkway were landscaped with ... plankton, etc Of these surveys, the coral reef mapping has a major impact ofthe civil engineering design A detailed investigation on the living status ofthe coral reef and their distribution and species ... contractor andthe client had yielded a satisfactory outcome ofthe project The Project standing ofthe coastal processes and sound engineering judgement The successful rehabilitation ofthe Teluk...
... ≤ G < 5700} Based on the operators defined in (7) and (8), the universal generating function ofthe branches can be obtained, and then the universal generating function ofthe power system can ... obtain the universal generating function ofthe system, the operators ofthe universal generating function are defined as follows [2, 3]: , U k ( z ) , U k +1 ( z ) , , Define the following δ ... theory The results show that: CONCLUSIONS The multi-state system theory is introduced to analyze the reliability ofthe power system in this paper, and is compared 97 (1) The reliability of the...
... Artificial Intelligence, pages 662–667 Dan Moldovan and Sanda Harabagiu 2000 The structure and performance of an open-domain question answering system In Proceedings ofthe 38th Annual Meeting ofthe ... contents ofthe top 1,000 pages, the remaining pages were not used in our experiments Inthe following two sections, we explain the first and second experiments, respectively 5.2 Evaluating Encyclopedia ... dictionary On the other hand, inthe case where random choice was performed, the Nichigai dictionary andthe Webbased encyclopedia were comparable in terms of both the coverage and accuracy Additionally,...
... reference training traditional healers on and involving them inthe TB detection strategy might reduce the HSD Determinants of total delay The centralization ofthe point of diagnosis of TB, the referral ... TB, the referral pattern, the cost of care andthe misunderstanding ofthe requirements of TB treatment influenced the TD inthe same manner as they influenced the PD andthe HSD As a result, a ... calculating a wealth score based on housing status, the construction quality ofthe dwelling, the sources of drinking water and electricity, the type of sanitation, the ownership of certain items...
... Ascaris pepsin Determination of cathepsin E and D activity inhibitor, which inhibits pepsins and CatE [33], but does not affect other types of aspartic proteinases including CatD [31,34] This inhibitor ... performed as described in Experimental procedures The increasing concentration of CatE caused inhibition of antibody binding giving the IC50 value of 48.6 ng The same concentrations of CatD had no effect ... Katunuma N (2000) Lysosomal cathepsin B plays an important role in antigen processing, while cathepsin D is involved in degradation ofthe invariant chain inovalbumin-immunized mice Immunology...