... management algorithms and middleware platforms and improve flexibility (iii) Design of a framework determines its performanceand applicability The design of key modules and entities of the resource ... planners are designed and built to solve mission goals and not perform such platform/middleware-specific operations (ii) Design- time: Cadena [32] is an integrated environment for developing and verifying ... include (1) standardized interfaces for application component interaction, (2) model- based tools for deploying and interconnecting components, and (3) standards-based mechanisms for installing,...
... Veeravalli, for all the advices, suggestions and recommendations he has given me during the course of my research I would also like to thank him for the patience and understanding that he has shown for ... like to show my appreciation to my employer, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2 R), and Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), for their support in allowing me to pursue my Ph.D degree ... like to thank Dr Sivakumar Viswanathan for his guidance and feedback in the project, as well as Dr Liu Yanhong and Mr Sivanesan Kailash Prabhu for their help and cooperation during the course of...
... responses for the wideband and narrowband signals, respectively The transmitted symbols for the wideband and narrowband signals, x1 (l) and x2 (l), are modulated using balanced QAM In the signal model ... narrowband and wideband signals: (1) unknown and known CFOs; and (2) unknown and known cycle frequencies of the wideband signal (i) The case of an unknown CFO: for this case, TSSQRC is utilized for ... filter 100 PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS 6.1 Computer simulation setup 10−1 Average bit error rate The bit-error rate (BER) performance of the wideband and narrowband signals is evaluated for the assumed...
... responses for the wideband and narrowband signals, respectively The transmitted symbols for the wideband and narrowband signals, x1 (l) and x2 (l), are modulated using balanced QAM In the signal model ... narrowband and wideband signals: (1) unknown and known CFOs; and (2) unknown and known cycle frequencies of the wideband signal (i) The case of an unknown CFO: for this case, TSSQRC is utilized for ... filter 100 PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS 6.1 Computer simulation setup 10−1 Average bit error rate The bit-error rate (BER) performance of the wideband and narrowband signals is evaluated for the assumed...
... are shown, for the first time, to perform better in a peak optical power limited environment Performance- optimized spectrum-sliced WDM systems have potential use in both local loop and long-distance ... is investigated for both OOK and FSK transmission, assuming the system (de)multiplexer filters to be N’th order Butterworth bandpass Although narrower filters are recommended for improving power ... of forward error correction coding (FEC) System capacity (for BER = 10 −12 ) is shown to be 23 Gb/s without coding, and 75 Gb/s with a (255,239) Reed Solomon...
... IPIs and patterns tested (Figs 8c, 8e, and 8g) In contrast, at -25°/s the model underestimated the peak forces at IPIs of 30 and 50 ms for both the CFTs and VFTs and at IPIs of 50 and 70 ms for ... -125°/s (e and f), and -200°/s (g and h) jects of force-time integrals of -25°/s (a and b), -75°/s (c and d, f, and h) of experimental versus predicted forces for six subPlots at Plots of force-time ... c, e, and g) and peak forces (b, d, f, and h) of experimental versus predicted forces for six subjects at shortening velocities of -25°/s (a and b), -75°/s (c and d), -125°/s (e and f), and -200°/s...
... ASUC and SUCC) and Mg2+ ions Our model is consistent Page of 11 (page number not for citation purposes) Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2007, 4:11 with a fully random mechanism The model ... Wyngaarden and Greenland [6] The comparison of the model output and experimental data [6] is presented in Fig 5, lines andFor comparison, the values of the constants obtained here and elsewhere ... Rudolph and Fromm [7] at 28°C, Wyngaarden and Greenland [6] at 25°C, and Kang and Fromm [9] at 22°C However, in the present work we did not look at temperature as a factor Conclusion The proposed model...
... durations and different concentrations both in the presence and absence of external calcium We note that Heinze et al, [2], created a mathematicalmodelfor LH release that reproduces some data for ... the same as in our earlier model [1] The abbreviations for the physiological components of the model are listed in Table and all the rate constants for the current model are listed in Table Table ... results of the current modeland the dashed lines show the results of the earlier model in [1] Page of 17 (page number not for citation purposes) Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2004, 1:9...
... enhance the hydrogen permeation and promote WGS reaction to forward reaction The catalyticmembranereactor is a combination of catalyst andmembrane into a single reactor unit which poses several ... and Ni) and noble metal (Pt, Pd, Au and Rh) For noble metal supported catalyst, this catalyst is generally applied for low temperature WGS andfor non-noble metal supported catalyst is used for ... HOLLOW FIBER MEMBRANEREACTORFOR HIGH TEMPERATURE WATER GAS SHIFT REACTION Figure 8.1 Schematic diagram of catalytic hollow fiber membranereactor Figure 8.2 SEM images of Al2O3-YSZ membrane support...
... Education and Self Management for Ongoing and Newly Diagnosed Collaborative: Effectiveness of the diabetes education and self management for ongoing and newly diagnosed (DESMOND) programme for people ... (0 and at month 1, were baseline visits; and to 9, were follow-up visits, every months) Baseline data were collected during visits and 1, and during visits to assigned models were applied and ... min/week in the PRECEDE modeland 22 min/week in the conventional model) However, the PRECEDE model was better than the conventional model in percentage of subjects on-target for cardiovascular risk...
... p (position i − l), and select for position i a N -best list of candidate results from all these candidates When we derive a candidate result from a word-POS pair p and a candidate q at prior ... 60736014 and 60573188, and 863 State Key Project No 2006AA010108 (W J., Q L., and Y L.), and by NSF ITR EIA-0205456 (L H.) We would also like to Hwee-Tou Ng for sharing his code, and Yang Liu and ... outside-layer linear model We used SRI Language Modelling Toolkit (Stolcke and Andreas, 2002) to train a 3gram word LM with modified Kneser-Ney smoothing (Chen and Goodman, 1998), and a 4-gram POS...
... cluster encodes functions for synthesis and export of A-band O polysaccharide [21,22], and contains genes for the expression of GMD and RMD homologs, gmd (originally called gca) and rmd, respectively ... shown in aqua and light sand, respectively; the APPR portion of the cofactor (dark gray) and the ligand analog GDP-DMan (light gray) are represented as space-filling models Termini and secondary ... before each run by washing with 0.2 m sodium hydroxide, water, and running buffer, each for Samples were introduced by pressure injection for s (for reaction composition analysis) or 24 s (for...
... 93.67 94.02 Table 7: F-score performance on the test data Conclusion and Future Work This paper has described a stacked sub-word modelfor joint Chinese word segmentation and POS tagging We defined ... several paradigms to globally represent and process such data: linear models for structured prediction, graphical models, constrained conditional models, and reranking, among others A general expressivity-efficiency ... on and search for the next possible word This word-by-word method for segmentation was first proposed in (Zhang and Clark, 2007), and was then further used in POS tagging in (Zhang and Clark, 2008)...
... results on CTB 3.0 Our baseline model outperforms all prior approaches for both Seg and Seg & Tag, and we hope that our error-driven model can further improve performance not learn the error-correcting ... guidelines and ensuring consistency for chinese text annotation In Proceedings of LREC John Lafferty, Andrew McCallum, and Fernando Pereira 2001 Conditional random fields: Probabilistic models for segmenting ... Therefore, we used our baseline policy in this setting and fixed r = for all cross validation runs Table compares the F1 results of our baseline model with Nakagawa and Uchimoto (2007) and Zhang and...
... following in form of a neurocognitive modelfor environment recognition, decisionmaking, and action execution Neuro-Cognitive Modelfor Environment Recognition, Decision Making, and Action Execution ... symbol alphabet of the level above and therefore allow a flexible reuse of defined structures Besides recognition and action performance, neurosymbols can also serve for the representation of emotions ... Section For facilitating perception and resolving ambiguous perceptual information, knowledge stored in the semantic memory is needed It contains facts and rules about the environment, for example,...
... we perform a thorough analysis on the system performanceand obtain a simple closed form expression for the bit-error rate (BER) of the APIC receiver Furthermore, under the unified signal model, ... APIC receiver with pre- and post-MRC combining Section analyzes the performance of the receiver and derives the corresponding closed form BER expression Numerical results and discussions are presented ... the transmission interval for each block of data, pτ (t) is defined as the rectangular pulse waveform with unit amplitude and duration τ, ωq and φq are the frequency and random phase of the qth subcarrier,...
... DESIGN, ANALYSIS, ANDPERFORMANCEEVALUATIONFOR HANDSHAKING BASED MAC PROTOCOLS IN UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC NETWORKS NG HAI HENG (B.Eng (Hons), MMU ) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE ... MAC protocols for underwater Shahabudeen and Chitre [28] study the performance of both Aloha and handshaking-based protocols, along with orthogonal and non-orthogonal physical layer models In [29], ... achieve stable performance with varying propagation delays In their model, however, a node does not employ backoff algorithm They not focus on saturation performance, and their model is for a unidirectional...
... space (a land area of 712.4 sq km) and limited natural resources, and heavily depends on imported energy and water For instance, it imported 99.84% of energy (The World Bank, 2009) and 40% of ... attitude (utility and risk preference) before adaptation, housing obsolescence, prospective impacts (positive and negative) associated with adaptation, building sustainability performanceand urban planning ... repair) (Johnson and Wilson, 1982; Rosenfeld and Shohet, 1999), and Rebuilding’ (demolition and redevelopment) (Rosenfeld and Shohet, 1999) It is noted, however, that both retaining and renovating...