... The characteristics of study responders (Additional file 1: table S2) Uni-variable analysis of responders and non-responders basedon their phase questionnaire responses showed Page of 12 (page ... the final response rate was 76% Analysis All statistical analyses were undertaken using the statistical software package STATA (version 10.0) [22] Weighted and unweighted (not shown) prevalence ... generalised anxiety disorder, somatoform disorder, and alcohol 'abuse' It has been used previously in both UK [16] and US military samples [4] Informationon educational attainment, childhood adversity,...
... post/comment/discuss anything without caring of the accuracy of the information Easy to get fake/ bias information + Books are reliable source because they must pass through a long researching of authors and ... restore valuable knowledge of human during generations + Internet contains which is updated constantly Internet and books have some significant differences in speed of searching information and the ... *Outline: A Intro - Today, information is more readily available than any other time in history As well as book, we can now look up information virtually things in the internet However, there are some...
... found only in written language – spoken language has no grammar or a least fluctuate so much that they are only partially grammatical In fact, grammar exists in both written and spoken forms as language ... structural approach to grammar teaching Learners learn the meanings of modals as a list and usually fail to understand properly the functions and also the factors that affect the functions that each ... Functional Grammar Functional Grammar (FG) a new but dominant school of grammar is basedon the traditional functional linguistics This theory of grammar is basedon the background that looks at...
... VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES MAI THI ̣ VÂN ANH “BE TO” AND “HAVE TO” + LEXICAL VERBS AND THEIR MODAL ... Modality and Modulation Table 3: Semi- modality distinction Table 4: The auxiliary verb- main verb gradient Table 5: Variant forms of the lexical verb be Table 6: Variant forms of have Table 7: ... modal meanings expressed by „be to‟ and „have to‟ 22 2.1.1 Conventional meanings of „be to” 22 2.1.2 Conventional meanings of “have to” 23 2.1.3 „Be to‟, „have to‟ and...
... A SOLID SHELL ELEMENTBASEDON RELATIVE DISPLACEMENTS CONCEPT: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS MA YONGQIAN B.Eng (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, P.R.China), M.Eng.(Zhejiang University, ... M.Eng.(Zhejiang University, P.R.China) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE 2006 ...
... organic phase was washed with water, followed by 1N-HCl and again water The organic layer was dried over Na2SO4 and evaporated The resulting residue was chromatographed on silicagel by elution ... (IMRT) and the use of heavy ions demands absolute reliability of new diagnostics and treatment planning for prostate and brain tumors By the fact that the rare earth metals trapped inside of the carbon ... (Magnevist) a T1 relaxation time of 1090.5 ms was determined In advance: The way froma MRI tomographical signal is still far froma contrast agent in MRI The first measurements could demonstrate: As...
... and Optimization, London: Springer, 2005 A Lisnianski, and G Levitin, Multi-state System Reliability: Assessment, Optimization and Applications Singapore: World Scientific, 2003 R M Barton, and ... the capacity of a battery is lower than 5700 mAh Suppose the capacity of the first branch is 5600 mAh and the capacity of other branches are all above 5800 mAh, the system is reliable because ... optimization in multi-state series-parallel systems: A heuristic approach,” IIE Transactions, 2007, Vol.39, pp.277–289 Y Liu, H.Z Huang, “Comment on ‘ A framework to practical predictive maintenance...
... molecules on silicon nanowires We demonstrated that carefully chosen organic compounds, such as dicarbonyl derivatives, selectively react with the silicon nanowires and form 1D organic nanowires along ... Leandri, G Le Lay, B Aufray, C Girardeaux, J Avila, M.E Davila, M.C Asensio, C Ottaviani, A Cricenti, Surf Sci 574 (2005) L9 [2] H Sahaf, L Masson, C Leandri, B Auffray, G Le Lay, F Ronci, Appl ... experimental work done by Fang et al and Hacker et al [13,14] as well as the first principle calculations performed by Hermann et al [15] on the adsorption of PQ on Si(0 1), we propose that an interaction...
... transcription was calculated from the ratios of signals for transporter mRNA and GAPDH mRNA With OCT1, OCT2, and CAT4 both vectors were analyzed alongside ona single blot OCT, organic cation transporter; ... K, Kanai M, Saya H, Kozu T & Berns A (2001) A novel tetracycline-dependent transactivator with E2F4 transcriptional activation domain Nucleic Acids Res 29, E23 14 Ivanova L, Brandli J, Saudan ... constructed from at least six standards which were prepared using control cell lysates as solvent Sample analyte content was calculated from the analyte response ratio and the slope of the calibration...
... interface a ordance (e.g., sort search results basedon different meta-data), or search paradigm (e.g., engage in an instant messaging conversation with a domain expert) to encourage them to stay ... easy manipulation and analysis, and also removes identifying information, protecting privacy without destroying the salient aspects of search behavior that are necessary for predictive analysis ... databases (Connections between frequent itemsets and generative models has already been established [7]) A mixture of generative models for transaction databases also has a wide range of applications...
... X.Huang (1988), "Semantic Analysis in XTRA¢ An English-Chinese Machine Translation System, in Computers and Translation, vol.3, no.2 Y.Wilks & A. Herseovits (1977), "An Intelligent Analyser and ... constraints and used to resolve ambiguity at parse time (of [Van Henteryck 1989]) However, such an approach would have meant too radical a change to the underlying Eurotra formalism In accordance ... user and applied by a post-processor We have in fact focussed ona method to express linguistically meaningful, preference statements rather than ona particular parsing strategy w e are aware...
... and event data is cached The highways act as rendezvous regions of the events and queries Our protocol, namely hexagonal cell -based data dissemination (HexDD), is faulttolerant, meaning it can ... three diagonal lines acting as rendezvous area instead of only one line -based region The simulations were carried out to evaluate routing performance and 36 the fault-tolerance performance of ... number of nodes having the packets ona border line In data dissemination and data transfer process, a node in each cell receives and transmits the data e 2NC packet along the diagonal line (i.e.,...
... regarding NEMO and MANET, are also introduced, such as Multihoming, Route Optimization, and MANEMO 2.1 VANET Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANET) are a particular case of MANET, but they are characterized ... works as an IPerf server and MNN2 is the client IPerf reports the amount of transferred data and used bandwidth Additionally, the GPS patch appends location information (latitude and longitude) as ... time, location and offset from the starting point, transferred data size and bandwidth in the last two seconds All the data can be shown at once with the Show Log button Users can also analyze the...
... Watershed Algorithm Basedon Rainfall Simulation The watershed transformation is basedon visualizing an image in three dimensions: two spatial coordinates versus grey levels The watershed transform ... transform This multiple bank memory has the same footprint as a single bank design The datapath and control architecture for the arrowing and labelling hardware have been described in detail, and ... chip area on the Spartan-3 FPGA Summary This paper proposed a fast method of implementing the watershed transform basedon rainfall simulation with a multiple bank memory addressing scheme to allow...
... USA, September-August 2006 [7] L Ma, T Tan, Y Wang, and D Zhang, “Personal identification basedon iris texture analysis,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol 25, no ... normalization, edge information extraction basedon phase congruency, and the infusion of edge and region information They proceeded to iris segmentation by simple filtering, edge detection, and ... Boles and Boashash [10], Daugman [5], Ma et al [7], and (b) Monro et al [15], Halligswroth et al [27] methods using Bath iris database addition, small standard deviation of our method is a proof...
... size i, and ZEROi× j is the null matrix of size i × j; (iii) ∝ N (param1, param2) is a random variable which follows a Gaussian law of mean param1 and of covariance param2; (iv) dZ/dt is a training ... coding, the hand motion is double: a global hand rigid motion associated to location and a local nonrigid fingers motion associated to configuration formation The global rigid motion of the hand is supposed ... The transition shapes are eliminated manually and the remaining shapes are labelled and stored in the database as binary images representing the nine configurations (Figure 18) The training and...
... size i, and ZEROi× j is the null matrix of size i × j; (iii) ∝ N (param1, param2) is a random variable which follows a Gaussian law of mean param1 and of covariance param2; (iv) dZ/dt is a training ... coding, the hand motion is double: a global hand rigid motion associated to location and a local nonrigid fingers motion associated to configuration formation The global rigid motion of the hand is supposed ... The transition shapes are eliminated manually and the remaining shapes are labelled and stored in the database as binary images representing the nine configurations (Figure 18) The training and...
... Inc., Japan Cover glass was purchased from Matsunami Glass Ind., Ltd., Japan A photoresist (OFPR-800) was purchased from Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd., Japan CNT immobilization on glass Fabrication ... its aggregation behavior is controllable by changing pH This SWCNT can be immobilized specifically on the APS layer in water For this study, we fabricated a nanotube FET device ona cover glass after ... to fabricate a nanotube device ona cover glass and to investigate its applications Regarding the fabrication process of the nanotube FET sensor, chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method has been...
... Euclidian geometry and Riemannian geometry: distance is a global invariant (for orthogonal transformations) for the former and a local invariant for the latter (under general coordinate transformations) ... That means, for instance, that discrete coordinate transformations (reflections) are not allowed As we know, the covariant and contravariant components associated with a vector in an orthogonal ... easier if one could associate and define an invariant scalar functional from which the equations could be derived Such an approach has been developed: the scalar functional is the Lagrangian and...