... using the KPCA in comparison with conventional PCA, the second contribution of this paper is theanalysisofthe pertinence ofthe features extracted withthe KPCA in the construction ofthe extended ... (Meadow) and class (Gravel) For these classes, the original spectral information was not sufficient andthe morphological processing provided additional useful information Thematic maps obtained withthe ... After the PCA transformation, the dimensionality ofthe new representation ofthe University Area data set andthe Pavia Center is 3, if the threshold is set to 95% ofthe cumulative variance The...
... councils ofthe National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, andthe Institute of Medicine The members ofthe committee responsible forthe report were chosen for their special ... number of complexities, not the least of which is the need to understand the xi xii PREFACE basic biology ofbreast cancer The committee recognized the need for research on the natural history ofbreast ... 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in theexaminationof policy matters pertaining to the health ofthe public The Institute...
... energy and zero-crossing features relate to spectral information in the signals Each ofthe five features is described below Stationarity Weak stationarity implies that the mean and variance ofthe ... implementation and contributed to the hardware section ofthe paper She also characterized the accelerometer employed in the study MC spearheaded the set-up ofthe instrumentation and reviewed videofluoroscopic ... different candidate feature sets We also briefly describe one possible hardware implementation ofthe classifier The paper closes with a discussion ofthe merits and limitations ofthe classification...
... conception and design ofthe study andthe acquisition, theanalysisandthe interpretation ofthe data AP participated in the conception and design ofthe study andthe acquisition ofthe data ... participated in the conception and design ofthe study, the acquisition, theanalysisandthe interpretation ofthe data, the statistical analysisand drafted the manuscript GP participated in the conception ... participated in the conception and design ofthe study, theanalysisandthe interpretation ofthe data, the statistical analysisand supervised the study All authors read and approved the final manuscript...
... the result of Yau in [21] to see ew Ωds2 = +∞, M because ofthe minimality of M with respect to the metric ds2 This contradicts the assertion (4.2) The proof of Theorem is completed The proof ... PHAM HOANG HA AND NGUYEN VAN TRAO On the other hand, Fujimoto [8], [9] introduced the modified defects forthe Gauss maps of complete minimal surfaces He then gave the improvements ofthe above-mentioned ... we apply again the result of Yau in [21] to get ew Ωds2 = +∞, M because ofthe minimality of M with respect to the metric ds2 This contradicts the assertion (5.5) The proof of Theorem is completed...
... as the testing set, used to calculate predictive information quantity, predictive information gain, predictive information redundancy and predictive information summation The other 10% ofthe ... informationandthe heuristic informationof headword and modifier Through the experiment, we hope to find out what influence the exact headword information, the heuristic informationof headword and ... is composed of four concepts: predictive information quantity, predictive information gain, predictive information redundancy and predictive information summation z Predictive Information Quantity...
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... to the last date ofthe fiscal year.6 As of that date, the company sets assumptions and gathers the participant data used to measure its obligations and determines the fair value of assets in the ... participants only to the extent their total exceeds a corridor The corridor may be up to 10 percent ofthe greater ofthe plan’s PBO or MRVA The total ofthe above pieces ofthe NPPC can produce a negative ... benefits For pension funding, the law gives the plan’s actuary responsibility forthe selection of actuarial assumptions For pension accounting, the plan sponsor selects the actuarial assumptions, with...
... sensitivity to the system output and then which ofthe parameters are linearly independent The method iterates over the columns ofthe sensitivity matrix Z to select the column withthe highest sum of squared ... were performed for each of these methods The comparison ofthe parameter estimation methods is presented in Table and Figure In each case, the mean and standard deviation are calculated forthe 97 ... based on the model structure andthe measurement data One ofthe benefits in integrating estimation and identifiability is the reuse ofthe variance generated by the UKF forthe step size in the calculation...
... (19) The property of power conservation ofthe DFT precoder at the transmitter and invertibility of IDFT at the receiver leads to the conclusion that the mutual information is preserved Hence, the ... Pn,u is the power ofthe nth transmitted symbol ofthe uth user, and hn,u is the channel frequency response at the nth assigned subcarrier ofthe uth user The geometrical interpretation ofthe achievable ... subcarriers for some time slots and less forthe others, where the latter happens in the smaller bandwidth system with less frequency diversity On the other hand, in the OFDMA system, transmit power...
... of one clock After Ld + clocks, the output ofthe CumADD will contain the sum SM(n, k) that represents the final value ofthe SM The next two cycles are used forthe signals SMStore/STFTLoad and ... the Alexander von Humboldt foundation At the beginning of 2001, he spent a period of time at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, the Netherlands, as a Visiting Professor During the priod of ... Theory and Methods He is an Associate Editor ofthe IEEE Transactions on Image Processing He is a Member ofthe Yugoslav Engineering Academy, and a Member ofthe National Academy of Science and...
... using the Laplace transform Mathematical transformations of ECG data The 3DMP ECG analysis employs six mathematical transformations All these transformations are based on the power spectrum ofthe ... (V5 and II) The use of leads V5 and II has been empirically tested over many years and confirmed to provide theinformation required to build theanalysis software Following the principles of ... reflects the net disparity between the cross-power spectrum andthe product ofthe two power spectra of leads II and V5 It represents the correspondence ofthe amplitude, frequency, and phase shift of...
... [0.855-0.952] (Figure 2) The coordinates ofthe curve indicated that a cut-off of 4.0 provided the best combination of sensitivity and specificity forthe prediction of coronary stenosis from the 3DMP test ... order to assess the performance ofthe prediction of stenosis independent ofthe prevalence of stenosis the positive and negative likelihood ratios (LR) were calculated [24] A value of P < 0.05 was ... identical copy ofthe data was saved on the remote 3DMP machine for post-study verification purposes before the data analysis was carried out The quality ofthe tracing was visually rechecked and graded...
... for data analysisand interpretation, and wrote the manuscript MV and TJMS were responsible for both the set-up and performance ofthe experiments DMG was responsible for including patients and ... marker, but the variation was rather large An analysisofthe between patient variances and within patient variances is provided in Table The SDC, averaged forthe number of readings, for CD3+ lymphocytes ... and chemokines Conclusion In conclusion, the findings ofthe present study show the reliability of ST analysis using a DIA system forthe evaluation of serial synovial biopsy samples before and...
... between the genomes of coral and other animals were identified based on the position of each mapped coral sequence within a linkage group, andthe position of its best match in the other genome For ... comparison between the coral map and other metazoan genomes However, because ofthe number and positions of markers and their matching sequences within the two genomes, a substantial number of synteny ... resolution for QTL analysis (3.4 cM) and represents the first linkage map for a coral, as well as for any non-bilaterian multicellular organism The map will become the foundation for QTL analysis of...
... carried out the TILLING analysis, molecular and bioinformatic characterization of mutants and drafted the paper with FS and DL AHL collaborated to the optimization of HRM analysis AP provided the EMS ... permitted the elucidation ofthe role and functionality ofthe two different SBEII isoforms Silencing ofthe SBEIIa and SBEIIb homoeologous gene families in bread wheat showed that only the loss of ... of exon VI and at 3’ end of exon XIII, that would prevent a correct translation ofthe catalytic domain of SBEIIa enzyme by the introduction of premature stop codons The study ofthe effect of...
... occurred before domestication and not among the domestic breeds Unfortunately, due to the lack ofinformation on the mutation and recombination rates, as well as the effective population size for these ... are the variance in repeat number for population and population 2, respectively [10] The lnRH test is based on the calculation ofthe logarithm ofthe ratio of H for each locus for a pair of populations ... simulations are then performed to generate data sets with a distribution of θ centered on the empirical estimates Then, the quantiles ofthe simulated FST within which the observed FST’s fell andthe P-values...
... represent a single pathological entity and therefore there is no single strategy for their prevention Conflict of interest The author has declared that no conflict of interest exists References Czeizel ... termination of pregnancy after the prenatal diagnosis of severe fetal defects was also named as secondary prevention Recently the WHO and other international bodies have excluded this approach from the ... Hungary about 20% of major congenital abnormalities (8.7% in the total group) were terminated after the prenatal diagnosis of defects Tertiary prevention: complete recovery of congenital abnormalities...
... the scope ofthe study, the aims ofthe study, the methods ofthe study and finally the design ofthe study *Part II includes three chapters: + Chapter one is the literature review in which the ... learner’s performance in the language The development andthe use of language tests involve an understandingof the nature of communicative language use and language ability, on the one hand, andof measurement ... performance of each ofthe items comprising the test→ the difficulty level andthe level of discrimination Therefore all the 34 items ofthe reading test were analysed in terms of item difficulty and...
... a is the Q-H curve of which the pump runs withthe rated speed n0, b is the Q-H curve of which the pump runs at the speed of n1, n1=0.75n0, HS is the pump head which can be determined by the outlet ... the headloss ofthe kth pump SOLUTION AND REALIZATION OFTHE ESTABLISHED MODEL In view ofthe characteristic of global optimization ability and implicit parallelism, - 70 - Journal of Water and ... are the minimum and maximum outlet flow ofthe kth pump within the high efficiency area, Zi,j,k is the height difference between the water level ofthe ith impounding tank andthe kth pump shaft,...