... number of components in subsystem i ; M i is the number of possible states of subsystem i Gm is the performance of subsystem i ; qm is the corresponding Assume that the component has M possible states, ... multistate monotone coherent systems IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 1994, Vol 43, No.2, pp.242– 250 J Huang, M J Zuo, and Y Wu, “Generalized multi -state k-out -of- n:G systems,” IEEE Transactions ... is the performance of the component, l = 1, , M Then the universal generating function of the component is: M ∑q z probability; U ( z ) is the universal generating function of the , qM } , where...
... aggregation of several channels of information sources into one state has not considered the contribution variation of individual channels of information to that state The remainder of this paper ... environment conditions such as monotony of road (MR), and the number of lanes (NL) The inferring of fatigue basedon these features is developed by first collecting feature data through questionnaire ... principle for solutions to these challenges is to “fuse” multiple kinds of signals of information about persons’ contexts, situations, goals, and preferences [12] Along this line of thinking, a few...
... Protein concentrations were determined by the Bradford method [26] or the modified Lowry method [27] Electrophoretic analysis of DNA on agarose gels, restriction endonuclease analysis, ligation of DNA ... phenotype of the yeast strains with deletions of genes encoding various subunits of the bc1 complex was determined by plating the cells on solid media containing fermentable or nonfermentable carbon ... composition of mitochondrial membranes from yeast mutants with single deletions of genes for each of the nuclear encoded supernumerary subunits Yeast strains were grown on YPD medium and mitochondrial...
... , and orthogonal, i e x x = 0, ˙ ´ N.S Han / VNU Journal of Science, Mathematics - Physics 24 (2008) 111-118 118 Conclusion The equationsof motion, of the boundary conditions and of the energy ... string are reconserved Certain consequences of the equationsof motion are presented We also point out that in Hamilton description of the rigid string the usual time evolution equation ˙ F = {F, ... solving for q˙2 The function q˙2 is unique because we have fixed the gauge The equationsof motion (13) are equivalent to the following set of Hamilton equationsof motion: ¯ H = −p1aq2a − p2aq2a...
... evolutionary tree This provides a basis for the joining of the two CBMs into a common clan Results and Discussion Location of SBD modules in CBM20 and CBM21 With regard to the location of the ... evolution of starchbinding domain FEBS Lett 456, 119–125 Janecek S, Svensson B & MacGregor EA (2003) Relation between domain evolution, specificity, and taxonomy of the a-amylase family members containing ... structural, functional, and evolutionary relationships Proteins 29, 334–347 65 Williamson MP, Le Gal-Coeffet MF, Sorimachi K, Furniss CS, Archer DB & Williamson G (1997) Function of conserved tryptophans...
... alterations occurring at the key transition from hyperplasia to dysplasia include loss of expression of MLH1 in group CRC and loss of expression of MGMT and ⁄ or aberrant expression of p53 in ... MSI-H144 but (and consistent with the rarity of medullary carcinoma) mutation of this gene was observed in only 3.2% of Lynch syndrome CRC.145 Loss of expression of CDX2 was strongly associated ... then be considered representive of all CRC At one level this may still be true, insofar as the acquisition of the full malignant phenotype probably depends upon the combined disruption of all the...
... manner basedon human intuition Therefore, we believe the hierarchy that we have built is consistent with human intuition, at least around the top level of hyperonymic concepts Conclusion We have ... 2004 Extraction of Hyperonymy of Adjectives from Large Corpora by using the Neural Network Model In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Volume ... second vector or vice versa OVLP of F and T is defined as OVLP( F , T ) = EDR consist of hypernymic concepts represented by sentences On the other hand, our extracted hierarchies consist of hypernyms...
... for the economy than failure of a large nonbank, but that assumption has become less and less defensible Nonbanks now provide a larger share of financial intermediation in the United States than ... business conduct and consumer protection regulator Reform We need an international agreement on liquidity standards for banks and large investment banks Much of this crisis has been about liquidity ... while the Fed can control short-term policy interest rates, they don’t control risk premiums or interest rates on long-term securities With high-commodity prices, nontrivial inflation risk, and turbulence...
... classification 96.10 NEC adjusts semiconductor production downward I 96.12 NEC postpones semiconductor production plant construction 97.1 97.4 NEC invests ¥ 40 billion for next generation semiconductor ... classification and navigation W ~ W I H Classification and Navigation X~; Conventional keyword -based retrieval does not consider logical relationships between keywords For example, the condition, "NEC ... Multi-dimensional Classification The 5WlH index has seven-dimensionai axes for classification Texts are classified into categories on the basis of whether they contain a certain combination of 5WlH...
... Components, Physical Constants equationsofstate and pvt analysis fundamentals of hydrocarbon phase behavior continued TABLE 1–1 equationsofstate and pvt analysis fundamentals of hydrocarbon ... y 100% Mole fraction of more v olatile component Geometrical interpretation ofequations for the amount ofliquid and vapor in the two-phase region FIGURE 1–13 equationsofstate and pvt analysis ... 331 Equilibrium Ratios 331 Flash Calculations 335 Equilibrium Ratios for Real Solutions 339 Equilibrium Ratios for the Plus Fractions 349 Vapor- LiquidEquilibrium Calculations 352 Equationsof State...
... conjunction with Pitch Determination Algorithms (PDA) in which the V/UV decision is made as part of the pitch determination problem, whereas the second includes solutions basedon the value of ... the stateof art are: the adaptation of V/UV as a function of background noise and SNR, the use of a large initial set of features,s and the use of Genetic Algorithms (GAs)for feature selection ... “Voiced/unvoiced determination of speech signal in noisy environment using harmonicity measure basedon instantaneous frequency,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech,...
... expectation maximization (EM) method In this paper, we introduce the utilization of the GMM of the acoustic transfer function basedon the ML estimation approach to deal with a room impulse response ... talker localization process For test data, the talker position θ is estimated basedon discrimination of the acoustic transfer function, where the GMMs of the acoustic transfer function are used First, ... 50.4 40 42.6 30 10 50 Number of training data (words) 3-position 5-position 7-position 9-position Figure 7: Comparison of the different number of training data function is trained by (16) using...
... procedures configurations, procedures configurations, moisture, shortcoming reliability conventional traditional of composite that temperature, for these Consider, design conservative assumes concepts, ... beendonein the areaof definingProbabilityof Detection(POD) curvesfor variousforms of Non-Destructive Evaluation(NDE), andmost of this work hasbeenconcentrated the area in of crack detectionin ... functionsand operational requirements 3.4 Collection A critical detected of Flaw component damage size in the Data on Existing determination distributions po(a) Structures of "Level based 23 of...
... a consensus of a number of whole-genome trees basedon gene-content comparison among all archaeal genomes does not recover the monophyly of Euryarchaeota, as Halobacteriales are at the base of ... grouping basedon the structure of these operons, except for the confirmation of closely related species Coefficient of correlation R = 0.88 Translation 44 29 14 0.00 0.00 14 29 Transcription 44 ... information The comparison of the percentages of amino-acid differences in transcription and translation fusion datasets for each pair of species is shown in Figure A strong correlation between...
... performance of electromagnet requests high magnetic induction and low temperature A complex-objective function basedon maximization of magnetic induction and minimization of entransy dissipation rate ... optimization results of Ref [66] were obtained with fixed magnetic induction Complex-objective function of minimization of entransy dissipation rate and maximization of magnetic induction For the ... those basedon maximum temperature difference minimization The constructs basedon entransy dissipation rate minimization could reduce the mean temperature more effectively than the constructs based...
... Class of Comparison Similar Models Bag -of- words Model Representation Figure 3.1 Overview of Retrieval and Categorization of 3D Models basedon Bag -of- words Representation As bag -of- words model ... capture extensions as a projection of the function onto a set of orthonormal basis functions within the unit ball. Papadakis et al [20] decomposed a 3D model into set of spherical functions represented ... more on the retrieval tasks and Chapter put the emphasis on the categorization system Retrieval Categorization 3D Models One vs one A Number of Comparison Similar Models One vs class A Class of...
... application are studies basedon applications of theory to real life situation A sizable fraction of articles investigated the factors contributing to the success of Six Sigma implementation For ... sector issues, while others offered general contributions A common feature of articles was mentioning 3.4 defects per million opportunities in relation to the definition of Six Sigma Following Zain ... affect the implementation of Six Sigma in service organizations Chapter Introduction Chapter is about the discussion and framework consolidation The discussion is basedon CSFs, CTQs, KPIs, and...
... number of chronic diseases in this sample was 2.1 (+0.04) Only 13.6% of the elderly individuals reported no chronic condition, while 45.7% reported three or more The prevalence of chronic conditions ... to count on some form of support from family and society (33, 34) One of the limitations of the present study was that it used self-reported information on chronic diseases The accuracy of such ... interventions that consider the impact of disease on the different dimensions of health-related quality of life, with special attention to elderly people with comorbidities The impact of disease on...
... section, the cost of substitutions is less than that of insertions and deletions Here, we assume that the cost of substitutions is basedon the similarity of the two words Then with the help of ... substitution from state j to state i The equation means the minED ofstate i can be computed by the accumulated minEDcost ofstate j in the phase p The state j belongs to the have-been-calculated state ... combination of the weights of insertion, deletion and substitution The relation is shown in equation (2), where ins, del and sub are the appearance times 55 • The Continuous Match Value(CMV): Continuous...