... no gold standard available. Luckily, the Bayesian approach allows us to automatically select valuesfor the hyperparameters by treating them as addi-tional variables in the model. We augment the ... vari-ables in the model are then chosen based on thelearned parameterization. Here, we propose a dif-ferent approach based on Bayesian statistical prin-ciples: rather than searching for an ... input), and some latent vari-ables t (the hidden structure). The goal is to as-sign appropriate values to the latent variables. Stan-dard approaches do so by selecting values for themodel parameters,...
... primary roles only,thus making it a partial ordering.1 Introduction Unsupervised semanticroleinduction has gainedsignificant interest recently (Lang and Lapata,2011b) due to limited amounts ... sequence (A0 , P REDICA T E, A1 ) and sentence b is in passivevoice with sequence (A1 , P R EDICAT E, A0 ). Addi-tional global preferences, such as arguments A0 and A1 rarely repeat in a frame (as seen ... [ Mark ] A0 drove [ the car ] A1 (b.) [ The car ] A1 was driven by [ Mark ] A0 This simple example also shows that while certainlocal syntactic and semantic features could provideclues to the...
... Nga K 1 1A 30 Graduation paperDeclarationTitle: A new approachtosemantic and syntactic functions of English adjectives A contrastive– analysis with their Vietnamese equivalents (Graduation ... stative or dynamic contrast, as it related to adjectives, is largely asemantic one, though as we have seen it also has syntactic implications. 2.2.2 Gradable and non- gradable adjectivesAccording ... subject at most language universals.According to C. James (1980;19), C .A is a form of inter-language study and a central concern of applied linguistic. As a matter of fact, C .A has had much to...
... of variation and bias inrelation to monitoring of animal disease incidence onherd and national level, causal analysis on national level,as well as estimation of validated treatment criteria.Monitoring ... into potential errors (bias andrandom error) related to data based on clinical examina- Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2009, 51:36 http://www.actavetscand.com/content/51/1/36Page 8 of 10(page ... mastitis in Danish dairyherds based on qualitative research interviews. J Dairy Sci2002, 85:992-1001.2. Baadsgaard NP, Jorgensen E: ABayesianapproachto the accu-racy of clinical observations....
... international normalized ratio (INR), and a liver panel. Although the serum aminotransferase level correlates poorly with liver histology, the ratio of aspartate aminotransferase (AST) to alanine ... HCC, and mortality. In addition, HCV infection has been linked toa variety of extra-hepatic manifestations such as autoimmune diseases, lymphoma, monoclonal gammopathies and cryoglobulinemia. ... Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Evaluating for potential treatment candidacy is an important initial step in the management of chronic HCV infection as not all individuals may need or qualify...
... normal transaminases. ALT Levels For many years, ALT has been used as a standard surrogate for the activity of CHB. Thus, ALT level in combination with HBV DNA level and histological activity ... quantitation and three approved drugs for HBV treatment, and presents an updated and practical clinical approachto managing CHB. Highly sensitive PCR-based quantitation of HBV DNA makes it ... treatment. Overall, LAM and ADV are probably more favorable due to convenient administration, better tolerance, and less cost. When planning a LAM treatment, medical adherence and regular follow-up...
... Feyn-man soon learned that there was a great obstacle to this delayedaction-at -a- distance theory: namely, if a radiating electron, say inan atom or an antenna, were not acted upon at all by ... xn (a) and which leaves the action invariant(for example, the transformation may be a rotation). The trans-formation is to contain a parameter, a, and is to be a continuousfunction of a. Fora ... isdetermined by saying her whole space-time path has a certaincharacter. For the action [with advanced and retarded terms]the equations are no longer at all easy to get back into Hamil-tonian form....
... the team. The database analysts and theprogrammers are unable to agree on the proper ways to pass informationback and forth between the interface and the database, and the require-ments analysts ... packages),ã hardware and software implementation (implementing new computers orsoftware),ã database management and revision (ensuring proper data storage andaccess),ã hardware and software upgrades ... by this approach. It willalso be useful to track organizations using this approach over a period of years,and to compare their performance to those with different approaches. Orga-nizations...
... that managers and administrators face when attempting to impose a transformational change into their organizations (Slavin and Woodard 2006, 23):We close with a caution and a challenge. Transformation ... change initiatives, and they serve as approaches to framing the planned change to fit into the technical and human aspects of the change.The Social and Behavioral Perspective in Transformationis ... transformation actions.e literature of organizational change clearly reveals that transformation ini-tiatives are not always successful. When administrators fail to involve the entire organization...
... can be mappedacross the entire organization. Accenture’s approach to efficiency contains a portfolioof tools and assets—the Accenture HighPerformance Bank Framework—that can help a bank achieve ... investmentcapital to tackle structural costreduction initiatives that have a longer paybackã Absolute executive buy-in ofclear financial objectives andoperating modelã An incontestable fact base andcost ... simplification,standardization and improvement. Withapproximately 4 million procurement trans-actions spread across nearly 200 differentbusiness areas each year, the bank wanted to gain greater...
... 2003,p.56).Infact, the model seems to include a decision phase only as an approach to laboratory settings, where participants are usually asked to state theirpreferences or make decisions about a certain ... 444ChapterTwentyOnepresented atthe11'hannual meetingofHuman Brain Mapping, Toronto,ON, Canada.Vartanian,0.,& Gael,V.(200 4a) . Emotion pathwaysinthe brain mediateaesthetic preference.Bulletin ... than before,again including the occipital, temporal, and the frontal lobes, butinparticularbilateral orbital frontal corlex.Whatdothe resultsofKawabata and Zeki (2004) and Skovefal....