... can observe the evolution of the proportion of the different economic classes Figure Example of indicators: Differentiation of economic conditions for the full set of agents PERSPECTIVES This ... observe some aggregated indicators For instance it is possible to observe the economic differentiation for the full set of farmers or for specific set of farmers For instance in the following figure, ... scenarios of management of the sluices It has been validated and is used on the field: for given needs the model helps the management ofdifferent sluices The main potential input of multi-agent...
... subclasses The same order of fit for the fixed regression Covariance functionsfor early growth 491 on age was considered throughout, making REML likelihoods fordifferent orders of fit of RR directly comparable ... criteria (AIC: Akaike Information Criterion, BIC: Bayesian Information Criterion, both −90 800 for Polled Herefords and −98 200 for Wokalups) for analyses with different orders of polynomial fit (k, ... “best” for PH and WOK, respectively Covariance functionsfor early growth 497 Table II Log likelihood values (log L, +45 400 for Polled Hereford and +49 100 for Wokalup) and corresponding information...
... registries are designed for purposes other than research and have been criticised due to their lack of important clinical information [4] Trauma researchers, therefore, often rely on evidence ... However, quality assurance of the regional trauma systems require data collection beyond the sum of information gathered at individual trauma centres [12] To assess the management of patients who are ... from a majority of the services that make up a trauma system The Page of feasibility of doing this prospectively may therefore limit the extent of the studies conducted In addition, an unstructured...
... WITH STEREO MATCHING For a stereovision-based object detection system, two images (left and right) sequences can be simultaneously acquired This enables acquisition of a pair of motion fields by ... a mean value of zero and a standard deviation of 0.03, therefore, processing noise covariance ∂2 = ∂2 = ∂2 ≈ 0.001 Initial values of the state ax ay az vector SV and the variance of the estimation ... object grouping issues, and therefore are difficult to apply in real scenarios Tirumalai et al [15] presented an approach for incremental refinement of disparity maps for a mobile robot They utilized...
... Leptinotarsa isoforms Such quantitative differences may prove important for in vivo functions In Manduca, the presence of a B-isoform increases transcriptional activity normally mediated by the A-isoform ... quantitative level of transcription for a given isoform, it had no effect on relative ligand responsiveness Importantly, the relative induction by individual agonists was species-specific for all of the tested ... quantitative level of transcriptional activity, with both its own EcR isoforms, and with the two L decemlineata EcR isoforms Discussion 10 B 40 3.0 A controlled assessment and comparison of the Leptinotarsa...
... the level of compliance, safety of products and functioning of the internal market for the product categories you know? B11.1 Impact of the following elements of Action on the level of non-compliance ... impacts of the three elements of Action recalled below on the performance of Notified Bodies, safety of products, functioning of the internal market and operational costs/administrative burdens for ... fulfilled before notification NA in different EU countries not put the same efforts in 48 monitoring performance of NB after notification Other (please specify) Requested records (76) (57.9%) % of total...
... rather than profitably Thus, public practices are often very different from private-sector practices They entail different risks, different operating environments, and different management systems ... Outsourcing Management Functionsfor the Acquisition of Federal Facilities http://books.nap.edu/catalog/10012.html OUTSOURCING MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONSFor activities deemed to be management functions, the ... measures of effectiveness of the entire effort and of individual projects should relate to cost, schedule, and safety of the projects, as well as the functionality and overall quality of the acquired...
... “In order for the shelter to continue providing these services, please inform the public about the effort of these workers to provide for all sorts of animals and the desperate need for more volunteers.” ... complexity ofresponse has been considered 23 Student Exemplar – Proficient 24 Student Exemplar – Proficient 25 Student Exemplar – Proficient 26 Student Exemplar – Proficient 27 Rationale for Student ... Functional Writing Address Information Address Information Use the following information for your letter and to address the envelope below Use the following information for your letter and to address...
... demonstrated that none of the amino acid replacements significantly affected the utilization of NADPH as a source of reducing equivalents for activation of the cofactor to its reduced form Chorismate ... binding of the cofactor (Table 1) Note that for the wild-type E coli protein, its dissociation constant for flavin decreases by three orders of magnitude when the flavin becomes reduced [15] Binding of ... those of the wild-type protein The two-step chromatographic procedure developed for the purification of wild-type enzyme yielded similar amounts of the mutant proteins (3 mg of protein per gram of...
... the point of view of enthalpy, but unfavored from the point of view of entropy A 25 °C, the higher entropy of the linear form is likely due to its higher flexibility, the higher mobility of the hydration ... in need of a particular DNA dynamic status of the bent form allowing the core-SRF to lock this transient conformer into a specific stable bent form [23,24] Thus, the dynamics of the bent form determine ... deoxyribose e In case of overlapping Raman bands of several vibrational modes, the dominating mode is underlined Abbreviations for vibrational modes: str ¼ stretching, def ¼ deformation, breath ¼...
... 78 percent of the costs of all injuries and 70 percent of the costs of negligent injuries (Table 3) The proportion of costs externalized varied among hospitals from less than zero (for one hospital ... a Who Pays for Medical Errors? 853 claim In the previous study of this sample of injuries, 27 percent of injuries were judged to be the result of negligence, but only 2.5 percent of patients ... business case for safety? Health-care practitioners may question the necessity of demonstrating a business case for patient safety, arguing that the imperative for safety is a matter of professional...
... backbone; GIZA++, TER, CLA, IHMM stand for scores of systems for four word alignment methods MBR decoding slightly improves the performance over the best single systemfor both tasks This suggests that ... 3: Results (BLEU% score) of combined systems based on direct word alignments Performance improvement by intersection word alignment: Table reports the performance of the system combinations based ... the results of TER-based systems with or without fuzzy matching We can see that the fuzzy matching improves the performance for all cases This verifies the effect of fuzzy matching for TER in...
... investigation on the cutaneous expression of each of the components of the P450scc enzymatic system In addition, we tested reconstituted and mitochondrial P450scc systems for their ability to convert 7-DHC ... isolation of RNA followed the manufacture’s protocol The synthesis of first-strand cDNA was performed using the Superscript preamplification system (Invitrogen) Either lg of total or 0.05 lg of poly(A) ... mixture was heated to 94 °C for 2.5 min, and then amplified for 30 cycles as specified: 94 °C for 30 s (denaturation), 55 °C for 20 s (annealing), and 72 °C for 40 s (extension) For nested PCR an aliquot...
... comparable performance to the DUC-04 best system Combining L1 (S) and R1 (S), our system outperforms the best system in DUC-04 significantly, and it also outperforms several recent systems, including ... summaries of at most 250 words for each cluster For each cluster, a title and a narrative describing a user’s information need are provided The narrative is usually composed of a set of questions ... the best performing system in DUC-04 As for the diversity reward objective, we define the singleton reward as ri = N j wi,j , which is the average similarity of sentence i to the rest of the document...
... of Georgia has to make further efforts to tackle the health workforce problems for public health 10 Conclusion After ten years of health system reforms in Georgia, the current public health system ... current status of the public health system by analysing the influence of Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Human Resources for Health 2008, 6:8 multiple factors of human resources ... training and continuing education needs of an evolving workforce, a clearer understanding of the functions and composition of the public health workforce both now and for the future is required [6] Under...
... delivery of large intensity of training and longitudinal measurements of performance and limb use However, the design of ADAPT departs from that of most other current robotic systems In these systems, ... Page of 12 large, amount of force for most tasks The difficulty of current tasks was mostly proportional to torque or force to be exerted for manipulation Although strength is beneficial for stroke ... optimization of error and effort J Neurophysiol 2007, 97(6):3997-4006 56 Choi Y, Gordon J, Kim D, Schweighofer N: An Adaptive Automated Robotic Task-Practice Systemfor Rehabilitation of Arm Functions...
... Figure Flow diagram ofsystem dialog Flow diagram ofsystem dialog Page of 11 (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2009, 6:26 for voice enabled ... This is beneficial for testing different dialogs easily and allows for seamless customization of the system: a dialog for a user in a nursing home (who might want to be prompted for the nursing ... the system can be easily executed with any dialog specified in the XML format Stage – Selection and validation of hardware For a speech-based communication system, it is vital that the quality of...
... passive, more differentiated testing of the functionsof the cervical spine by the examining physician (additional file 1) One hand of the physician fixes the axis of rotation on top of the head, ... Figure inatus of Position7 the examiner for isometric testing of m infraspPosition of the examiner for isometric testing of m infraspinatus 4.2 Functional diagnostic examination of the arm-hand ... the end of the range of movement ("drawer") is evidence of a lesion of the cruciate ligament [22] For reasons of practicability, occupational medicine dispenses with the large number of similar...
... stage of infection These empirical estimates for coital frequency were then used in Goodreau et al [27] for the three of their four transmission models that were built off of published estimates for ... upon for decades by a large number of researchers General theory and tools for dynamic network modelling simply have not existed in the same way Dynamic network models, and other forms of agent-based ... dependence that is of core interest, not merely something to control forFor their series of concurrency modelling papers, Morris and Kretzschmar developed an elaborate set of computer code to...
... means with respect to system (1) that a(r) vanishes as r ® not faster than any power of r.) Hence, the order ofsystem (3) is strongly degenerate at the point x = because of a > Let S be a non-degenerate ... s − 1, is the outspread form of (9) = R \{x = 0} Let ||v|| be the Euclidian norm of a vector v We propose the two following statements of the Dirichlet type problem to system (9) Denote R Problem ... is bounded in R ∪ SR of Equation 9, such that it R The properties of particular solutions of Equation m Let Hn (x) be mth the harmonic of a homogeneous harmonic polynomial of degree n,a m m m...