... characterization of injuries and illness and detailed characterization of populations at risk through surveillance; (2) identification and characterization of special populations and the unique health and ... understandable, and helpful format Research has informed public policy and regulatory initiatives at the federal level and in several states It is vital that independent, scientifically based research ... Fishing Vessel Owners’ Association National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory National Labor Relations Act National Safety Council National Traumatic Occupational Fatality New York Center...
... approaches to validation studies; advanced informatics and information flow; standardization of reagents and assays and data reporting; and creation of standard statistical and computational tools ... active translational research in the biology of cancer formation It was expected that discoveries would move from laboratory to clinical and population research settings and that observations from ... statistical and computational researchand guiding statistical design and data analyses of validation studies Principal Investigator Location Ziding Feng, Ph.D Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center...
... utilization and conversion Of this, approximately one-half was spent on direct liquefaction and gasification for building and operating large, commercial-scale demonstration plants between 1978 and ... present) and related policy, legislative, and strategy goals and purposes of the R&D; review studies that have been undertaken by DOE on the costs and benefits of its R&D efforts; review studies and/ or ... stationary systems 3-D seismic imaging Deep water drilling and production Improved oil and gas reservoir characterization and modeling Improved oil and gas drilling: horizontal, deviated, and...
... h at the Intersection of the Physical and Life Sciences RECOMMENDATION Federal and private funding agencies should expand support for interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary researchand education ... creative, alternative sources of energy and from improved medical diagnostics and treatments to new, biologically inspired devices that identify and combat biological threats or help to mitigate ... Earth, Its Climate, and the Biosphere, 16 Grand Challenge Understanding Biological Diversity, 18 12 Societal Challenges Identifying and Combating Biological Threats, 21 Early Detectionand Intervention,...
... Meteorological Satellites (2000) Future Biotechnology Research on the International Space Station (2000) Issues in the Integration of Researchand Operational Satellite Systems for Climate Research: ... Microgravity and Physical Sciences Researchat NASA National Research Council, Washington, D.C National Research Council 2003 Factors Affecting the Utilization of the International Space Station for Research ... ensures that the desired materials properties of interest to NASA will be attained, and in a greatly reduced time andat lower cost • Thermophysical data of the liquid state in microgravity Accurate...
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... Development, also attempts to serve as a “handbook of practice, application and strategy” for translational researchers [7] However, textbooks like these cannot the job alone and they are static They ... successful translational strategies for early drug development, principles of biomarker qualification and utilization in drug discovery and development, indepth examples of translational research in ... hard won lessions of translational researchand early drug development could well be lost and the more recent successful strategies for coping with high attrition rates may have to be relearned...
... is onset detectionand plotting functionality, as well as code for generating our analysis data and results It also includes an application that allows for the labelling of onset locations in ... in detection accuracy comes at the expense of much greater computational cost, however (see Section for detection accuracy and performance results) In this section, we present a novel ODF that ... regions that are really noise and not part of any underlying harmonic component Often they will remain unmatched, and so not form long-duration partials Alternatively, if they are incorrectly matched,...
... is onset detectionand plotting functionality, as well as code for generating our analysis data and results It also includes an application that allows for the labelling of onset locations in ... in detection accuracy comes at the expense of much greater computational cost, however (see Section for detection accuracy and performance results) In this section, we present a novel ODF that ... regions that are really noise and not part of any underlying harmonic component Often they will remain unmatched, and so not form long-duration partials Alternatively, if they are incorrectly matched,...
... the natural death rate of the immature prey population d1 is the natural death rate of the mature prey population d2 is the natural death rate of the predator population The predator population ... existing immature population with proportionality constant r We also assume that the death rate of mature population is of a logistic nature, that is, proportional to the square of the population with ... is the density of the population d is the death rate The population is birth pulse as intrinsic rate of natural increase and density dependence rate of predator population are denoted by a, b,...
... the patterns embedded in the signal Then they trained a neural network and further discriminate between seizureand nonseizure patterns Mormann et al [7] summarized some prediction methods and ... One seizure with predition time 380 360 340 x variable epileptic seizures, and the latter EEG-recordings without seizure activity We use all ictal EEG data, andat least 10 hours interictal data ... addresses seizure feature selection and determination 3.1 Dynamic Model Energy can be used to represent features of a signal For epileptic seizures, we find that energy for some specific frequency band...
... image segmentation by mode detection 2.2 Spatial-color pixel classification Spatial-color pixel classification approaches take into account both the distribution and the spatial location of the ... Classical fuzzy erosion and dilation operators The selected classical fuzzy erosion and dilation operators are those which generate the strongest effects of erosion and dilation [32] They use a ... meaning that the human and automatic segmentations are strongly different, to 1, meaning that the segmentations are identical The automatic segmentation results, shown in Figures 16, 17, and 18,...
... Synthesis of Standards (NISE Brief) Volume Madison, WI: National Institutes for Science Education; 1996 Ball DL: Teacher learning and the mathematics reforms: what we think we know and what we need ... MS: Between systemic reforms and the mathematics and science classroom: the dynamics of innovation, implementation, and professional learning Review of Educational Research 1997, 67:227-266 [http://rer.sagepub.com/cgi/content/ ... development to teachers; and systematically monitoring teacher practices and support to teachers Multilevel structure of the school system To understand the level and nature of the mandate, authority,...
... managed and participated in several national and international research projects on data assimilation, parameter estimation, optimization and uncertainty assessment in 13 hydrodynamic and hydrological ... River and Flood Management Department at DHI Water & Environment He has comprehensive experience in the management of surface water and groundwater resources Through national and international ... Hydrodynamics and Water Resources, and in the period 1989-2001 Director of the Groundwater Research Centre He was President of the water resources systems commission of the International Association...
... managed and participated in several national and international research projects on data assimilation, parameter estimation, optimization and uncertainty assessment in hydrodynamic and hydrological ... River and Flood Management Department at DHI Water & Environment He has comprehensive experience in the management of surface water and groundwater resources Through national and international ... Hydrodynamics and Water Resources, and in the period 1989-2001 Director of the Groundwater Research Centre He was President of the water resources systems commission of the International Association...
... motivation has been widely accepted by both teachers and researchers as one of the key factors that influence the rate and success of second/foreign language learning He explains that motivation ... implication for educators and teachers is to find the suitable ways to motivate students to learn I.1.3 Types of motivation and their effect in language learning Many researchers divide motivation ... class I.2.5.What types and what ways of teacher feedback best motivate students to write? There has been a strong debate on which and how feedback becomes most effective and better motivates students...
... information about the relationship between what they did and the quality of their performance, and information about possible alternative strategies that would also be useful Thirdly, self-regulation ... particular andat HUBT in general What is more, motivation is a complex phenomenon and it is difficult to classify motivation into different types That is why the classification of extrinsic and intrinsic ... classification of the feedback into three types as corrective, evaluative and strategic by Gattullo (2000) and Harmer (2001) because it is considered the most appropriate for the situation of...
... later research (1985) that positive attitude and motivation are related to success in second language learning If learners have positive attitudes, they will have motivation in their study and ... examine what strategies (Bottom-up or Top-down) are used by students at PYCI To investigate PYCI students’ attitudes towards Bottom-up and Top-down reading tasks Research Questions: The research ... bottom-up and top-down reading tasks 1.1.2 Attitudes in language learning Attitudes and learning have a close relationship A lot of researches have been proved that students with positive attitudes...
... motivation has been widely accepted by both teachers and researchers as one of the key factors that influence the rate and success of second/foreign language learning He explains that motivation ... implication for educators and teachers is to find the suitable ways to motivate students to learn I.1.3 Types of motivation and their effect in language learning Many researchers divide motivation ... class I.2.5.What types and what ways of teacher feedback best motivate students to write? There has been a strong debate on which and how feedback becomes most effective and better motivates students...
... on the operated extremity, the patient should be rather considered as a candidate for a resection arthroplasty and not for a spacer implantation For prevention of any spacer dislocation due to ... constructs failed at significant lower loads (pins at 832 N and nails at 1275 N, respectively) To our knowledge, there are no clinical data available that have demonstrated that the insertion ... fracture and frequently associated with a subsequent spacer head dislocation In these cases treatment should consist of revision surgery and spacer exchange On the other hand, asymptomatic fractures...