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... time of testing Typical angina was defined as chest pain that was substernal, occurred during stress, and resolved within 10 minutes after rest or the receipt of nitroglycerin.8 Chest pain was classified ... data were obtained for at least one year after testing Each patient provided written informed consent (including consent to participate in our registry) at the time of exercise testing The study ... patient-information system (WebVS) and the Social Security Death Index To ascertain the cause of death, the information provided by WebVS and the death certificates obtained for all who died in Los...
... students’ interest in learning English In short, speaking like Finocchiaro (1973:174) by using songs “language learning can be combined with recreation or aesthetic appreciation for a change of pace in ... at the beginning or the end of the lesson, an exciting learning environment is recreated, students, therefore, regain their interest in learning and then the listening skill better In addition ... English songs in teaching listening skill Question 5, in the end, brought about the failure of using songs in teaching listening skill Along with the questionnaire, two tests of listening (pre-test...
... profiling, and utilizes lectins, a group of glycan-discriminating proteins In general, however, the glycan–lectin interaction is relatively weak in comparison with, for example, antigen–antibody interactions ... lectin binding to increase their sensitivity The final challenge to be faced is the feasibility of using biomarkers in the drug development process Incorporation of biomarkers into phase II clinical ... lectin profiling (Fig 3C) In this system, 100 ng or less of each candidate is immunoprecipitated from serum using an antibody against the core protein moiety of the candidate glycoprotein (Step in...
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... relation In order to prepare training examples for the trainable classifier used with his algorithm, we first have to convert a treebank to suitable labeled instances by using the algorithm in Figure ... sentences that appear in the training corpus Since it gets harder for the readers to reproduce the same experimental setting, we We show a sample set of generated examples for training the classifier ... have to generate training examples for the classifier by using the algorithm in Figure In other words, we should not sample bunsetsu pairs independently from a given sentence Therefore, we select...
... from putting efforts into further training • alternative language models: An idea forimprovement here is to integrate skipped words into the LM (similar to the modeling of noise in speech) In this ... selecting good candidates for reranking in the firstplace Comparison: Human Study One of our motivations forusing syntactic representations for the task of Nbest listreranking was the intuition ... Parsing, 8th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, Prague, Czech Republic, pages 8-15 Eric Brill 1994 Some advances in transformationbased part of speech tagging In Proceeedings...
... modeling approach For example, for the HMM, using discriminative training methods is likely to improve system performance, but possibly at a cost of reducing the accuracy of the combined system In ... were not annotated according to the guideline used for the training and test data (Strassel, 2003) For BN, we use the training corpus for the LM for speech recognition For CTS, we use the Penn ... directly in the Maxent or CRF framework, rather than using a separate prosody model and then binning the resulting posterior probabilities Important ongoing work includes investigating the impact...
... from 11% in 2000 to 16% in 2004, one of the steepest increases seen in sub-Saharan Africa in recent years [9] Rising prevalence in pregnant women may suggest that new infections continue to increase, ... is intended to generate calculations for incremental workforce needs for scaling up HIV care only Integrated care facilities will need to consider workforce needs for other health problems in ... Antiretroviral Therapy: A Model for Assessing Health Workforce Needs In Tools for Planning and Developing Human Resources for HIV/ AIDS and Other Health Services Management Sciences for Health, World Health...
... in each FFT subwindow is obtained By using Inverse Fourier Transform and Overlap and Add method, the estimated clean speech signal in the time domain is derived Since with increasing the spectral ... appeared strong in forming effective algorithm for rejection noise The algorithm embodies fast adapting capability, as sharp change in angle grinder noise characteristics is noticed Using subwindows makes ... speech in each FFT subwindow is obtained and with taking inverse Fourier transform and overlap and add method, the estimated clean speech signal in the time domain is derived Increase in the...
... out in parallel for all bit-planes as shown in Figure 12 The SIG information is obtained directly from the STRIP BUFFER whereas the DESC and GDESC information for a coefficient is obtained by OR-ing ... in each pass for different magnitude intervals [5, 10] The strip-based coding technique proposed in [10] which adopts the line-based wavelet-transform [12] has resulted in great improvements in ... processing and buffering compared to the traditional SPIHT coding making it suitable for implementation in severely constrained hardware environments such as WSNs Using the proposed new 1D addressing...
... University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Juiz de Fora, Brazil, in 1999, and the M.S and Ph.D degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil, in 2001 and 2005, ... that for a given Nmin , it is possible to design a detection technique capable of achieving a high detection rate independent of the sampling rate, fs Then, by using an appropriate sampling rate, ... disturbance sources for the ongoing disturbance in a shorttime intervals To go into detail of the proposed technique, Section 3.1 describes the scheme for detecting disturbances In sequel, Section...
... according to ASTM D-638 types IV using electromechanical tensile testing machine (TIRA testing machine, 2850-S 50 KN, Germany) The gauge length was set at 50 mm and crosshead speed at mm min–1 ... bench press for 25 at room temperature The polymerization cycle that carried out using water bath at boiling temperature was then switched off and left for 15 It was then boiled again for 20 and ... routine work for sample preparation in dental laboratory was followed The recommended mixing ratio for heat-cure was 35 g powder to 14 ml liquid The required amount of liquid poured into a mixing...
... hybridization probes, were compared in formalin fixed and paraffin embedded CHV-infected cells The optimum result was obtained using digoxigenin-labeled probe, 100 µg/ml proteinase K pre-treatment, and ... protocol resulted in the increasing sensitivity as compared with hourshybridization protocol Digoxigenin-labeled probe was capable of detecting CHV in MDCK cells infected with 103 TCID50 using overnight ... However, biotin-labeled probe was able to detect CHV in MDCK cells infected with 104 TCID50 By using digoxigenin-labeled probe, ISH of MDCK cells infected with 107 TCID50 of virus resulted in strong...
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... of the final version VA, GM, UW, CS and SR were involved in data analysis and data interpretation AA, UH, JD, SM and PEH were involved in critically revising the manuscript for important intellectual ... performed for RNA isolated from cells incubated for the same time period (24 h) under normoxic conditions For bioinformatical-analysis a step-wise approach was applied: Weak signals, below the intensity ... stably maintained for at least 12-24 h [10] Aim of the present work is to investigate the effects of rapidly induced hypoxia on cellular processes using the enzymatic GOX/CAT system in comparison...
... well-versed in developing and using these tools within diverse continuing care settings We will use findings from this study to identify best practices and implement process improvements in the use ... application of RAI data to continuing care settings in Alberta Settings and sample The settings are nine LTC nursing units in four facilities or nursing homes (NHs) in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada ... the intervention We have discussed the rationale for measuring intent to change behavior earlier Including intent to change behavior as an intermediate process outcome will assist in assessing...
... analysis was conducted using SPSS Version 14 for Windows (SPSS, Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) Prior to inferential analysis all data were explored for normality To maintain independence of data only ... trials within the same session The analysis of absolute reliability provides information regarding within trial variability expressed as a percentage Inter-session reliability was evaluated using both ... primary aim of this study was to determine the reliability of the TekScan MatScan® system in assessing plantar forces and pressures during level barefoot walking using a test-retest analysis of thirty...