... to a simulated data set produced by the SIMAGE package [1] The data set is a simple comparison of two biological states on ten arrays, with dye-balance A number ofdata quality, normalisation and ... ensured that the variance in M values was consistent across arrays Data normalisation of gene expression analysis 675 Table II Summary of the 12 methods used for analysing the simulated dataAnalysis ... median log ratios and the range of log ratios across slides This data set was subject to a total of 12 different analysis methods, encompassing a variety of techniques for assessing data quality,...
... [25,26] Although several studies have focused on the localization, structural analysisand activation mechanism of TGase zymogen, not much information is available about the substrate specificity and ... methods and analyzed with a microscope, BZ-8100 (Keyence, Osaka, Japan) Acknowledgements We greatly appreciate Dr Masatoshi Maki and Dr Hideki Shibata in our laboratory for providing valuable suggestions ... of calcium ions in the activation and activity of the transglutaminase enzyme J Biol Chem 278, 23834–23841 30 Hitomi K, Presland RB, Nakayama T, Fleckman P, Dale BA & Maki M (2003) Analysis of...
... subtypes.[15] The collected data are intended to be publicly available, and can serve as a reference dataset and as a watch list for resistance surveillance programs and epidemiologic studies (see ... collect and analyze a robust database of sequences and clinical data to identify similarities and differences among HIV-1 subtypes with respect to drug resistance As treat- http://www.jiasociety.org/content/7/1/71 ... 2003, 33:8-14 Abstract Weidle PJ, Malamba S, Mwebaze R, et al.: Assessment ofa pilot antiretroviral drug therapy programme in Uganda: patients' response, survival, and drug resistance Lancet 2002,...
... v4.0 [11] and the BAMarray software [6] for Bayesian analysisof variance, respectively In the latter approach, genes are clustered into groups of equal variances anddata are rescaled to satisfy ... among the teams for the data quality control step than for the normalisation step Two main approaches were used for the statistical analysisof these data The first approach was based on ANOVA ... normalisation and analyses methods: the IDL team used a print-tip Loess normalisation and the Limma package, INRA_J used a global Loess normalisation and the structural model for variances, and...
... scales are available However, there is still a strong demand fora computational approach to implement the mechanical analysisfora macroscopic structure based on the micro-physical phenomena ... Chapter 1: Introduction and Literature Review Braided fabric can be regarded as the combination of filament winding and weaving It is normally integrated as a tubular form over a cylindrical mandrel ... Fiber yarns are interwound together in the braided performs The tubular form is available in biaxial and triaxial architectures The triaxial braided fabric consists of inserting an axial yarn between...
... Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-10) Graz (Austria, 2010) 36 T Dang, T Annaswamy, M Srinivasan, Development and evaluation of an epidural injection simulator with force feedback for medical training, ... shown) For example, Ajay Kapur has designed a robotic drummer that automatically plays along with real human performers, such as sitar players [4] Similarly, researchers at the Georgia Institute of ... neural oscillator for implementing force–feedback interaction A linear-only version of the mechanical analog model was proposed earlier by Claude Cadoz and Daniela Favaretto They presented an...
... followed a straightforward approach for extracting infobox relations: We downloaded a snapshot of the whole English Wikipedia database (images excluded), extracted the infoboxes for all articles if available ... topic graph in the final step Formally, a topic graph T G = (V, E, A) consists ofa set V of nodes, a set E of edges, anda set Aof node actions Each node v ∈ V represents a chunk and is labeled ... noun tags2 , and elements ofa verb Topic Graph Extraction We consider the extraction ofa topic graph as a specific empirical collocation extraction task However, instead of extracting collations...
... combination of photographs enhanced in Adobe Photoshop 7.0 and materials designed in Maya RESULTS Avirtual reality model of surgical superficial facial anatomy was created Included in this model are ... model illustrates the usefulness ofvirtual reality in the teaching and practice of aesthetic plastic surgery and can serve as a component of surgical educational and (eventually) planning systems ... patient’s anatomy, future applications may allow for the warping of the idealized anatomical models described here to best-fit landmarks of individual patients For example, if a three-dimensional model...
... Using Corpora for Generation A data- driven generation approach achieves a number of advantages over traditional approaches for our scenario First of all, corpus data can be used to learn directly ... the advantages ofa data- driven generation approach over traditional rule-based approaches and implemented a first-version application, which can be used as an initial prototype extensible for ... landmarks in the queried area as an XML file that specifies GPS coordinates and additional information The XML files are parsed using a JavaScript implementation ofa SAX parser The coordinates...
... Uganda: Ministry of Health, Republic of Uganda; 2003 Kamya MR, Mayanja-Kizza H, Kambugu A, Bakeera-Kitaka S, Semitala F, Mwebaze-Songa P, Castelnuovo B, Schaefer P, Spacek LA, Gasasira AF, Katabira ... research cohort database, validating the quality ofdata capture of OIs in the research cohort database Discussion In a large HIV observational clinic database of patients receiving ART in Uganda, ... Diseases Institute (IDI) in Kampala, Uganda, is a centre of excellence for HIV clinical care in the country, and maintains a large observational clinic database anda nested research cohort database...
... PRESENTATION ANDANALYSISOFA MULTI-DIMENSIONAL INTERPOLATION FUNCTION FOR NON-UNIFORM DATA: MICROSPHERE PROJECTION William Dudziak Thesis Approved: Accepted: Advisor Yingcai Xiao Dean of the ... clustered data, interpolation error will vary as the distance to the nearest sample or cluster of samples The current predominant methods for interpolating non-uniform data are not guaranteed to handle ... non-uniform interpolation methods and their implementations Chapter provides a detailed analysisof the Microsphere Projection algorithm In Chapter we present an analysisand comparison of various...
... conduct my appreciation to Dr Venugopalan Pallayil and Mr Mohanan Panayamadam for the administrative and field trip support, Mr Mandar Chitre and Dr Matthias Hoffmann-Kuhnt for proof reading the ... the acquisitions With this feature, we are able to perform dataacquisitionfor durations that are as long as the capacity ofdata storage harddisk could support 17 Figure 9: Dataacquisition card, ... shallow water is crucial Existing highbandwidth acoustic dataacquisition systems are large and complex This project has developed a novel stand-alone, portable, and compact cylindrical package...
... gain in the pass band region and the gain that is achieved in the stop band region or AMAX = APASS − ASTOP In the case where a filter has ripple in the pass band, the gain of the pass band (APASS) ... be an anti-aliasing filter that has a cut-off frequency of 1kHz anda stop band frequency of ~5kHz As a final alternative, a Butterworth filter design can be used in the filter implementation of ... the sampling system has a low pass analog filter prior to the sampling mechanism, high frequency signals will be attenuated and not sampled ANALOG FILTER REALIZATION Traditionally, low pass filters...
... States of America, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Ireland In fact, as the statistics show, information about the United Kingdom and the United States of America has the most coverage in the ... illustrations) are also employed foranalysis when and if appropriate The study just makes an initial attempt to conduct a small-scale cross-cultural analysisof the textbook and is not aimed at evaluating ... language knowledge The teaching of Language Focus consists of two parts: Pronunciation and Grammar-Vocabulary Material used in teaching Pronunciation, Grammar -Vocabulary is based on passages...
... on a coordinate transformation and an input transformation as well But the main advantage of the Park transformation is to define an internal state variable which is physically meaningful : that ... permanent magnets of the rotor : where L, and M, are the self-inductance and the mutualinductance of the stator coils Since we assume a constant airgap and no saturation, L, and M, are constant ara arb ... motor has the following typical features : - The airgap length is constant and large since the magnets are surface mounted and have the same permeability as air As a result, the armature reaction...
... contain it are so familiar to us We’ve been eating bread, potatoes, and rice all our lives, as have our parents and grandparents Indeed, many people can get away with eating large amounts of starch ... public health effort coincided with a rise in popularity of vegetarianism anda period of rampant inflation of meat and dairy product prices The result was an abrupt shift in eating patterns away from ... quickly transform carbohydrates to fat and fat to carbohydrates People can get just as fat eating carbs as they can eating fat In fact, unlike fat, carbohydrates stimulate your pancreas to secrete...
... glottalization is usually associated with fragments, not all fragments are glottalized In our database, 62% of fragments are not glottalized, and 9% of glottalized reparanda offsets are not fragments ... of change in f0 and energy for our data are unimodal; when we further test subclasses of Levelt and Cutler's error repairs and appropriateness repairs, statistical analysis does not sup- In addition ... reported here are for prediction on only TI repair utterances 6We performed the same analysisfor the last and first syllables in the reparandum and repair, respectively, andfor normalized f0 and energy;...
... evaluations of three h u m a n judges (El-E3) Evaluator E1 is a native Cantonese speaker, E2 a Mandarin speaker, and E3 a speaker of both languages The results are shown in Figure The average accuracy for ... N candidate evaluation is useful because in a machine-aided translation system, we could propose a list of up to, say, ten candidate translations to help the translator We obtained the evaluations ... Maryland FUNC, PASCALE & DEKAI WU 1994 Statistical augmentation ofa Chinese machine-readable dictionary In Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Workshop on Very Large Corpora, 69-85, Kyoto, Japan GALE,...
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