... the nominal quality of the phase in question times the average quality of the input data Thus, each phase starts at a quality level, Q, equaling its nominal quality times the quality of the input ... in its set of activities This output becomes the input to the system-level Synthesis activity The quality of the output of the Synthesis activity is limited by the quality of the input data The ... some point inthe program: during subsequent design phases, during manufacturing, during integration and test, during deployment, or during operations It is obvious that the later inthe program...
... professionals in Spain In Spain there is an intense debate within the medical profession and in society in general about whether to adjust the enrolment of medical students [20], in a context ... Causal loops can be reinforcing (if, after going around the loop, it ends up with the same result as the initial balancing) or balancing (if the result contradicts the initial assumption) Loops ... (licenciatura) in general medicine To be accepted into a training program to be a specialist, they must then pass a national examination which allows them to apply for one of the approximately 7000 training...
... shows the wins minus losses for the method listed inthe row when compared against the method inthe column The number of cases that did not reach significance is given in brackets Coverage The ... Jaccard and Lin achieving the best performance, and Cosine surprisingly bringing up the rear Next steps will be to test the similarity-based model in vivo”, in an SRL task; to test the model in a WSD ... of the semantic roles, the corpus was parsed using the Collins (1997) parser Our generalization corpus is the BNC It was parsed using Minipar (Lin, 1993), which is considerably faster than the...
... refer the term model training specifically for model parameter training inthe text that follows The training of the model is usually done by combining the training data with any prior domain knowledge ... understanding in helping me balance my personal life with my research during my PhD I have specially enjoyed the freedom given by him, which inculcated independent thinking in me inthe field of Bioinformatics ... help gain understanding about the problem domain and can also help predict the consequences of intervention A Bayesian network is a model to represent and handle uncertainty inthedomain knowledge...
... after expansion inthe turbine The condensate then follows to the deaerator The combustion gases, after leaving the HRSGs, are further used to produce hot water to the process Finally, they are discharged ... the CP-24 simulation model starting at an initial design point, with ensuing execution of the algorithm until a stopping criterion is satisfied, so that a final design point is obtained The initial ... unimportant The cooling tower range is increased, but the approach is reduced Finally, as already pointed out, distinct treatments are given to the extraction pressure of the steam turbine by the mathematical...
... with increasing , and is thus distinct for each curve 7.3 Results I: on the packing fraction In this section, we examine the behaviour of the packing fraction of the model, as a function of the ... again, the non-ergodic dynamics inthe vicinity of the SPRT is very poorly understood, at thetime of writing this book Additionally, this intermediate regime, with properties in between the ... of H noninteracting ‘grains’ σn (t) = ±1, with σ = +1 denoting a horizontal grain, and σ = −1 denoting a vertical grain The orientation of the grain at depth n, measured from the top of the system,...
... documented in [19] The first cluster of columns shows the error for the calibration suite that was used to fit the models; the remaining clusters show the error for each of the benchmarks described inthe ... even the simple, linear CPU-utilization-based model would meet the accuracy goal outlined in Section The rest of this section examines the results for some of the individual machines, showing ... Mesarina for their help with the physical instrumentation of the Itanium server Jacob Leverich helped provide the measurement infrastructure for the Xeon server and was indispensable in building the...
... consider the case that the destination does not collude with the intermediate nodes In this case, if the intermediate nodes forward only the receipt of a message instead of the whole message, then the ... depends on the destination We distinguish two cases: 1) the destination colludes with the intermediate nodes; or 2) the destination does not collude with the intermediate nodes We first consider the ... that the average path length is hops We first evaluate the CPU processing time on a mobile node In our system, the major online processing overhead is the signing operation by the sender and the...
... reporter plasmid containing the luc gene linked to a 1.2 kb fragment of the 5¢-flanking region of the hsp105 gene [12] or p173OR reporter plasmid containing the b-gal gene linked to the Hsp70B promoter, ... were grown in Eagle’s Minimum Essential medium (Nissui Pharmaceutical) containing 10% bovine serum in a CO2 incubator at 37 °C Screening for Hsp modulators A reporter plasmid containing the Hsp105 ... When the amounts of Luc protein in cells treated with SA at 37 °C were examined by Western blotting, the amounts of the protein were directly proportional to the Luc activity in cells, suggesting...
... world, including the ways in which others see the self The closing of the loop on the “me” sector gives rise to the following kind of schema In this schema, the focus is on the interpretation of the ... inthe form of the mother–infant dyad in order to obtain information from it, rather than being in possession of knowledge from the outset The intrinsic value biases of the infant pre-adapt the ... relating to the other Thus, the infant, say, learns to interpret the mother’s actions, affective dispositions, intentions, and so on, as ways in which the mother relates to the world The infant...
... finish the work remaining than thetime remaining to the project deadline, initiates hiring, overtime (which increases effort via more hours per worker), higher intensity of work (which increases ... (i.e., the work remaining seems doable in less than thetime remaining), work intensity is often reduced, thereby creating the “Slacking Off” variation on the “Work Faster” loop—work intensity ... features and capabilities, thereby eliminating the slack Another possible action, slipping the deadline, is indicated by the negative loop inthe lower right of Figure Deadline slip is often taken...
... 2E) emerging via the breakdown of the torus shown in (a) Note the distinct scales used in (a) and (b) (the original torus would be situated inthe middle section of the map shown in (b)) Other parameters ... to noise-induced bursting in Figure 7b, the bursting intervals remain more regular Consequently, the main peak at the frequency of bursting survives (Fig 7c2, red line) 2.2.1 Noise-induced chaos ... orbits (green line, Figure 2, left) originating from the Bautin bifurcation together with the subcritical AH bifurcation curve (dashed black line) singles out a bistability window inthe bifurcation...
... chose the minimal value of Groot and Warren’s study shows that they can insert the mixing effect as Δa into the repulsive interaction parameter a ij for different kind of beads by the Flory-Huggins ... are the bending angle, the length, the equilibrium angle of the bending angle, and the equilibrium length of the bond Result and discussion Before performing the DPD simulation, the repulsive interaction ... they are transferred by coarse-grain mapping procedure after being obtained from the MD simulation Hence, there are three detailed section parts inthe simulation model The first section is the...
... the fixed point lays on the line 10x 2y This is also the case inthe general setting It follows from 4.22 that whenever σnk −1 then the point xn−k , yn−k is on the line containing the fixed point ... stable In √ the other case, it is clear that the fixed points 0, ± α2 are not attracting, since every solution starting on the line x is 2-periodic Remark 4.8 It is interesting to notice that, inthe ... not inthe α2 , then a there are two equilibrium points 0, ±β1 , b the equilibrium point 0, β1 attracts every complete solution not starting on a point of the line x 0, c the solutions starting...
... to individuals inthe external set Additionally, SPEA2 performs clustering to limit the number of individuals inthe external set (without losing the boundary solutions) while also maintaining ... scripting language for YML The text encapsulated by the script element is processed by the Perl interpreter inthe order it appears inthe YML file The script element has no attributes The namings in ... attributes init, cond, and loop YML interprets the values of these attributes as a script element The init is evaluated once at the beginning of set element processing, cond is evaluated at the beginning...
... of h4, in which the intercept on the ordinate axis is inversely related to the number of repeating units N (the coherent domain size), and the slope is proportional to the fluctuation in period ... plotted against the fourth power of the Bragg order (h4), the y-intercept of the trend-line is inversely proportional to the number of the repeating units (i.e., myelin membrane pairs) and the slope ... Unlike the CNS findings, no reduction of compact myelin was detected inthe PNS In accordance with this finding, no change inthe amount of cerebrosides or sulfatides was detected inthe PNS...
... Varying the infecting dose The outcome of viral infection, in general, is thought to be related to the size of the infecting dose a person initially receives [23] Therefore, we also investigated the ... viral load, Av (t), inthe population was the integral of the mean viral load from the beginning of a given simulation (time 0) until time t, and was used as a proxy for the final size and severity ... overall theoretical understanding, but also inform infection control decisions Methods Combined model for infection dynamics To gain insight into how the basic laws of viral dynamics, within an individual,...
... situation Involving other members of staff and using real equipment inthe scenario is important for keeping participants inthe zone as well as for maintaining a high degree of realism inthe scenarios ... management and the goals of training, rather than just the technological features of the mannequin being used This form of training focuses on most of the factors described in Anesthesia Crisis ... used [12] in medical training particularly in hospital operating room anaesthesia training or teaching specific types of clinical incidents e.g the management of arrhythmias However the complexity,...
... Secondary outcome was the combined endpoint ICU admission or death in ED The combined endpoint was chosen to account for the fact that death occurring inthe ED before discharge to the ICU was proportionately ... duplicated to the study record form by the clinical staff, the research staff extracted the data; the data collection sequence and procedure by the clinical staff remained the same Collected data included ... score during the stay inthe emergency department was assessed in a multivariate logistic regression model including VSS initial and the increase in VSS points (VSSmax - VSSinitial) as predictors...
... some cases For increasing genetic variance, the random animal effects will increasingly resemble fixed effects, potentially resulting in ECP at some point during the Markov chain The risk of this ... binary data Inthe latter type of data, repeated records may exist for each individual, but one of the binary categories (e.g., dead) terminates the recording period Inthe presence of time- dependent ... to be Inthe following, the vector a will be split in two subvectors: a = ⎡ a′p a′np ⎤ ′ , where a p includes breeding ⎣ ⎦ values of all parents (informative), while a np includes breeding values...