... happens to be the corner-stone of the logdomain filtering technique It is the key eiement for converting linear signals into their compressed form for signal processing, and expanding them to restore ... Chapter 1: Introduction LOG operator EXP opemtor Figure 1-4: Signal companding by LOG and E X operators represent the log-domain inputs and output, respectively Dueto the LOG-linear-EXP format ... implement a variety of functions Then we would simply need to join these blocks together according to the specific topology, add the inverse operators at the input and output, m d the desired linear...
... secondary contamination dueto storage, as some of the storage tanks had been used for a long time without cleaning However, hand washing practices appeared to contribute to DALYs lost and constituted ... morbidity (Murray et al 2002) DALYs, dueto premature mortality, are calculated using standard expected YLL from model life tables and, dueto disability from age a to age (a + L), consists of the ... We thank Dr Yoshitaka Matsumoto for his contribution to this study We are grateful to Prof Yasushi Sakamoto and Prof Futaba Kazama for their scientific suggestions, to Rezina Ashraf, MBBS, who...
... in the total product output by 25% to 28% [2] Despite of the clear advantage of daylighting, artificial lighting is an attractive alternative to architects who believe that they have total control ... compared to other buildings They are required to provide better environmental quality to enhance occupants' productivity and performance, but at the same time consuming a large proportion of the total ... consequently the associated cooling load dueto artificial lighting The combined effect of daylight integration has resulted in a total reduction of about 13% of the total building energy consumption,...
... explore what factors caused the errors, i.e dueto Interlingual errors and first language interference (FLI) or intralingual and developmental errors (IDE) 4.1 ERRORS RELATED TO THE USE OF SPATIAL ... Identification (Recognition) of Errors (3) Description of Errors (4) Explanation of Errors (5) Evaluation of Errors (6) Prevention of Errors 2.6 CAUSES OF ERRORS 2.6.1 Interlingual errors and first language ... Analysis of errors Types of error No of No of 42 Percent error Substitution Deletion Addition 749 67 error dueto MTI 379/1280 error due 29.6 % to IDE 370/1280 -67 28.9% -5.2% Table 4.4 Errors...
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... from sunflower into strain MS51 By contrast to the endogenous stearoyl-CoA desaturase, the heterologous D12-desaturase converts exclusively lipid-bound 18:1 to 18:2 [25,26] Dueto the nature of ... in subsequent experiments To differentiate between free fatty acids and esterified fatty acids, the cellular lipid extracts were subjected to two different protocols to achieve either methylation ... might contain residual acyl-CoA synthetase activity dueto the presence of Fat1p, which was shown to possess this enzymatic activity also To address the question of whether fatty acid transport...
... Nation THE FRAMEWORK TO ELIMINATE THE SUFFERING AND DEATH DUETO CANCER BY 2015 Leading the Nation to Eliminate the Suffering and Death Dueto Cancer Our Strategic Objectives To Preempt Cancer at ... Tai Baker, Director’s Message E arly in 2003, as the Director of the National Cancer Institute, I announced our Challenge to the Nation to eliminate the suffering and death dueto cancer by 2015 ... person stops smoking, the risk of lung cancer begins to decrease After ten years, the risk drops to one third to one half the level of people who continue to smoke Many of the chemicals in tobacco...
... in this study had history of previous TB infections of which 20 (83.3%) of the retreatment cases were reportedly dueto relapse, (8.3%) dueto default and another (8.3%) dueto treatment failure; ... facility, level of education and occupation were found to be significant predictors of the total income lost (by patients and household) dueto TB disease AFB sputum-smear test result and hospitalisation ... were found to be significant predictors of the total time spent Age, gender, AFB sputum-smear results, level of education, HIV status and occupation were not significant predictors of the total time...
... Integration of field equipment (e.g actuator, sensor or pump) and small scale (unit) automation systems to the control centre computer system Transparent view for an operator on a complex process environment ... monitoring slack line control b) Pipeline Integrity requirements Integrated control and safety system (e.g PSHH interlocks) SCADA built in monitoring mechanism (e.g LDS, PCM) Programmed automatic ... monitoring mechanism (e.g LDS, PCM) Programmed automatic ESD-Sequences (e.g ESD-Pushbutton, Shut-Down dueto Communication Failure) U N Functional Design Criteria for the SCADA System c) Operational...
... pollution levels dueto traffic are likely to be lower than in Europe This is shown in more detail in Table 6.2 The total mortality for both air pollution dueto vehicles, and dueto accidents, ... mortality dueto road toll and air pollution affecting over 30 year olds, per million people Pop (m) Mortality dueto (1996) traffic accidents for all ages 58.3 153 per million France Mortality dueto ... relationship to the Hi-Vol standard has not yet been fully investigated Proportion dueto vehicles The measured data reflects concentrations dueto all sources The purpose of this study is to examine...
... assessment of health costs dueto air pollution reduces the costs by a factor of 3.6 (in Switzerland) up to a factor of 9.1 (in France) compare to the willingness to pay based results The differences ... in adults to road traffic-related air pollution 5.2 Health costs dueto air pollution based on the willingness -to- pay approach Based on the willingness -to- pay approach, in 1996 the total air ... EUR) the total air pollution related health costs reach a similar level Dueto the much larger population, the French costs amount to 38’800 million EUR 22 Table 12 Health costs dueto road traffic-related...
... experiments (Stohl et al., 1998) and was used previously to study the transport of BB emissions to downwind continents (Forster et al., 2001; Damoah et al., 2004) and into the Arctic (Stohl et al., ... correspond to2 6 April todata Two periods (28 April–1 May, 5–7 May) are ˚ cropulse April to May Alesund measured during the period missing May 2006 White not shown because of poor correspond to missingto ... would lead to 60% lower total emissions Additional uncertainties are associated with the factors B, α and β, such that the overall uncertainty of the BB emission estimate is at least a factor of...
... the use of drugs to treat childhood diarrhoea.” Information by itself is not enough It has to be communicated It has to be received It has to be understood It has to be used to make the desired ... all to a toilet facility While the Indian government is making great strides in the availability of toilets, increased advocacy and education will be necessary to convince people to use the toilets, ... until age ten, but drops to 54% from ages 15-17, the time when reproductive rates begin to soar (women aged 15-19 account for 26% of total fertility) These numbers speak to a great need for partnerships...
... DNA was hybridized to a probe complementary to a sequence in BSSL exon 11 (probe A; Fig 3) According to the published BSSL sequence [7±10] this probe was expected to hybridize to a 731-bp PstI ... 3.0 kb in size, respectively To exclude the possibility that probe A had failed to detect any possible truncated BSSL mRNA we used another probe, complementary to exon to exon in the BSSL cDNA (probe ... MD, USA) To improve ampli®cation of the extremely GC-rich repeats, betaine was added to each reaction to a ®nal concentration of M (Sigma, St Louis, MO, USA) A pair of primers, referred to as BSSL...
... above results also show an influence of stock markets on FIIs In order to know whether FIIs cause stock markets to rise or fall or stock markets cause FIIs to purchase or sell, Granger Causality ... Prior to performing regression analysis, it is important to be confirmed whether the data is stationery or not Therefore, Augmented Dickey Fuller test (Hamilton, J., 1994) was conducted to check ... results in appreciation of stock price which is followed by inflows from foreign investors [Bekaert and Harvey (1998a, b), Henry 1997)] The stock market shows more reaction to foreign investment as...