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... sentences, resulting in a total training set of 4,040k sentences. We believe that our result is quite promising for thefutureof unsupervised parsing. In putting our best f-score in table 4 into perspective, ... domain or the LA Times domain. Although the effect of adding LA Times data is weaker than adding WSJ data, it is noteworthy that the unsupervised induction of trees from the LA Times domain ... 3 indicates that there is a monotonous increase in f-score on the WSJ test set if NANC text is added to our training data in both cases, independent of whether the sentences come from the...
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... cross-contamination. Although the exact etiology of BSE is uncertain, the transmission ofthe disease has been evaluated as though it arises from an infectious agent. The exact nature ofthe infectious ... United States beginning in 1986 following the first confirmatory diagnosis of BSE inthe United Kingdom, has resulted in no cases of BSE found in U S cattle nor have any cases of the human form, ... results. The oral challenge consisted of 5 grams of infective BSE brain tissue administered via esophageal tube into the crop at 4, 5 and 6 weeks. Again no infectivity was found in tissues or...
... know the price of a mousetrap?Customers no longer need to know the price of servers, software and the rest ofthe parts making up the IT service stack. This knowledge is as useful as knowing the ... undertaking a Return on Investment (ROI) without taking into consideration the time value of money, or where applicable, foreign currency exposure. The title of this ebook hints at the error in this ... against their cloud services costs. This is best seen as a ‘generation one’ performance measure. This measure is no longer suitable for the assessment of value from cloud services. It is akin...
... from the aforementioned groups, organizing the logistics of mail-outs and meetings, and sharing inthe writing and editing ofthe many versions of the FMEC Collective Vision.Thank you,Nick Busing, ... list ofthe keypriorities they had identified. The lists were then compared and discussed. The high degree of consistency among the three made it possible to merge them into an integrated list ... Residency.9All of thesehave informed the FMEC process. Building on Success: AFMC and the Faculties of Medicine A starting point for implementing this vision can be found inthe efforts ofthe CanadianFaculties...
... dramatically in recent years, driven in large partby the increasing integration oftheinformationtechnology (IT) sectors of Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China. This report examines the economic ... the opening of direct links between Taiwan andChina.Implications for Export Controls The rise oftheinformationtechnology sector in China, combinedwith concerns about the modernization of ... traveldirectly between the two offshore islands and the mainland. As part of that expansion ofthe mini-three links, the Taiwanese government alsoexpanded the list of products that the offshore islands can...
... smoking, drinking, ex-ercising and the body mass index - contribute to explaining the gradient. The size of this contribution is larger when we consider the entire history of behaviors ratherthan ... behaviors inthe immediate past. Inthe former case, we find that the effects of education on smoking, drinking, exercising and eating a proper diet account for atmost 23% to 45% ofthe entire effect of ... countries.Defining P (D) as the probability of reporting a condition, this probability is the product ofthe probability of undergoing screening P (S) and the probability of havinga condition...
... on what entails success inthe microfinance industry also makes a systematic review of the evidence ofthe impact of microfinance timely.And inthe latter half of 2010 the microfinance industry ... Details of 35 studies included inthe map 83Appendix 4.1: Further details of 15 studies included inthe in- depth synthesis 85Appendix 4.2: Narrative synthesis of findings relating to the impact of ... Robinson 1995). One aspect ofthe commercialisation ofthe microfinance industry is its formalisation, i.e. microfinance institutions (MFIs) transforming themselves into banks and turning...
... of Engineering. The Institute of Medicine was established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of ... outcomes ofthe teaching that is taped is critical to mak-ing use ofthe observations, others noted that the link itself may be amisleading goal. For Joseph Tobin, for example, the comparison of achievement ... its administration and inthe selection of its members,sharing with the National Academy of Sciences the responsibility for advising the federal government. The National Academy of Engineering...
... loss of condence inthe fairness of markets may result in them reducing their participation in lit markets, or in shifting their trading into dark pools. If this effect is indeed occurring ... ã Information: the existence of excessive nonlinear sensitivities can be due to informational issues: in other words, who knows what and when. Theinformation structure of a market has the ... computing technology means that the speed of light is now a signicant limiting factor in determining how trading systems interact with one another. Even with the best technology imaginable, information...
... It is therefore, in my view, preferable to examine measures of that kind inthe light ofthe Treaty rules rather than to remove them from the scope ofthe Treaty.79 In the light of these ... but this is nothing more than whatthe Treaty on the Functioning ofthe European Union (and previously the EC Treaty) actually envisages, and isthe logical consequence of a finding that the ... access plays the central role inthe argumentation, the intention ofthe ECJ is not to revise its view ofthe certain selling arrangements as expressed in Keck, nor to revise the conditions...
... series of case studies of nine ofthe SSI projects. In a report of a secondary analysis of all nine case studies, Clune (1998) identified the goals ofthe study astesting the central thesis of systemic ... perspective ofthe landscape, I believe this is afair representation ofthe state of knowledge inthe field. Adding further pieces of high-quality work wouldcertainly influence the details ofthe story ... is at these other levels one must look to deter-mine the impact ofthe NSES on the science curriculum inthe nation’s schools. 82 WHATISTHE INFLUENCE OFTHE NSES?Student AccountabilityThe...