... impoverishment ofthe media; a sequence of stock-market scandals;
the poisoning ofthe food chain in the pursuit of profit; and the displace-
ment of aesthetic values in theart world. The chief villains ... intimation ofthe hoax,
but has concealed the knowledge for forty years, partly to protect the repu-
tation of his mentor Lionel Stokesay, father ofthe perpetrator ofthe hoax.
As Middleton uncovers the ... Middleton uncovers the truth ofthe scandal, so does his professional
star rise until, at the end ofthe novel, he accepts the Chair ofthe History
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wondering if his...
... staff of lawyers,
scientists, and other environmental specialists, NRDC combines the power of law, the power
of science, and the power of people in defense ofthe environment. NRDC, which has offices
in ... the least industrial-
ized parts ofthe state) , and some of which result from industrial activities (and
are found in the most urbanized parts of California)—represent a range of human
and other ... half of all the wells
used by all the large public water systems in thestate at the time.
The results ofthe tests were published in 1986, in a paper entitled “Organic
Chemical Contamination of...
... challenge thestate rather than the professions. New
regulatory models may increase the instability of regulation and
dissatisfaction ofthe users.
The third part ofthe book links the findings ... controversies between market, state and professional
self-regulation. It highlights the role ofthe professions as mediators
between the interests ofthe body of citizens /state and the individual
(research ... circles
of physicians, new professionalisation strategies and the use of
professionalism by the health occupations, and the inclusion of the
users in the regulatory system; these key arenas of change...
... the suggestions of scientific literature
on the advantages ofthe compactness, reliability, ease
of use and affordability ofthe 980 nm Diode Lasers,
we evaluated the efficacy and safety of ... reduced
[17,18].
The lasers normally adopted offer the enormous
advantage of being conveyed in a fibre, which serves
as the working tip at the end ofthe handpiece. The
use of flexible, length-adjustable ...
On the basis ofthe results obtained in the treat-
ment of benign facial pigmented and vascular lesions,
while recognising the physical limitations ofthe 980
nm wavelength compared to the...
... match to the three parts of the
word BIO-SEN-SOR. The first section ofthe book is focused on the principles and techni‐
ques of bio-selective recognition of different compounds and the immobilization ... YK, Shusta EV. Development of GFP-based biosensors possessing
the binding properties of antibodies. Proceedings ofthe National Academy of Sciences of
the United States of America 2009;106(29): ... the
most out of collected information. Regarding the first sections as BIO and SEN accordingly,
the last section SOR could be considered as the “Smart Organization of Results”.
The division of...
...
and closing ofthe ligand binding site. When stabilized by p23, the opening time is
State oftheArtof Therapeutic Endocrinology
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nonrandom regions within the nucleus as the steroid receptor. ... 13602-13610
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transcriptional activation. In an analysis ofthe relative contribution ofthe different
phosphorylation sites within the GR, it ...
W.B. (1994). The hsp56 immunophilin component of untransformed steroid receptor
complexes is localized both to microtubules in the cytoplasm and to the same
State oftheArtof Therapeutic...
... reviews the current stateof tech-
nology and research progress in the Thai
language processing. It resumes the charac-
teristics ofthe Thai language and the ap-
proaches to overcome the difficulties ... etc. Furthermore the
similar problem also occurs in the levels of sen-
tence and paragraph.
2 Word and Sentence Segmentation
The first and most obvious problem to attack is
the problem of word ... cases, they depend on the individual
judgement. This causes a lot of difficulties in the
Thai language processing. To illustrate the
problem, we employed a classic English exam-
ple.
The segmentation...
... demonstrate the contexts
in which the triple occurs.
The number of relations marked will depend on
the time available to the lexicographer, as well as
the complexity ofthe sense division to be made.
The ... just
one ofthe word's senses. The user then has the
task of associating, by selecting from a pop-up
menu, the required sense for unambiguous clues.
Reference can be made at any time to the actual
corpus ... total of twenty-six
distinct relations. These relations provide a flexi-
ble resource to be used as the basis ofthe compu-
tations of
WA S PB EN CH .
The relations contain a substantial number of...
... using a “good”, i.e. near state- of -the- art, sys-
tem. For state- of -the- art performance on the MUC
data sets see, e.g. Yang et al. (2003); for state- of-
the- art performance on the ACE data sets see, ... slightly from Ta-
ble 3 because this part ofthe work did not use the OPTIONAL
field ofthe key, employed by theof cial MUC scorer.
5 Related Work
The bulk ofthe relevant related work is described
in ... NY
cardie@cs.cornell.edu
Ellen Riloff
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
riloff@cs.utah.edu
Abstract
We aim to shed light on the state- of -the- art in NP
coreference resolution by teasing apart the differ-
ences in the MUC...
... definition of “perceived difference”;
•1
st
approach: minimize the sum of distances between colors and the
centers of color clusters resulting in the quantization process (Ù minimize
the sum of distances ... processing & analysis
State oftheart in color image
processing and analysis
Lecturer:
Assoc. prof. Mihaela GORDAN
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca,
Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications ... attributes of color.
The perceptual attributes of color = the HVS specific attributes in the perception
and description of a color: Brightness; Nuance (Hue); Saturation (Purity).
• Note: the RGB...
... images ofthe same subject far apart than images
of different subjects [13]. Hence we used estimates of albedo
in the hope of mitigating the illumination effect. Albedo is the
fraction of light ... EVALUATION OF STATE- OF -THE- ART ALGORITHMS FOR REMOTE FACE
RECOGNITION
Jie Ni and Rama Chellappa
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Center for Automation Research, University
of Maryland, ... conveniently select the desired images
for their experiments.
We evaluated two state- of -the- art FR algorithms on this
remote face database including a baseline algorithm and the
recently developed...
... in
the testing phase.
The memory requirements ofthe PCA+LDA and BDPCA+LDA frameworks mainly depend
on the size ofthe projector and the total size ofthe feature prototypes. The size ofthe ... training sample of
the ith class, and n
i
is the number of samples ofthe ith class, C is the number of classes. The
sample x
ij
is a one-dimensional vector or a vector representation ofthe corresponding ...
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Annika Kuhl, Tele Tan and Svetha Venkatesh
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correctness of these assumptions. The size ofthe training...