... guidelines and criteria of acceptance for the CRS consolidation test had been introduced by many researchers. The aim of this research is to establish new criteria ofacceptance for the CRS ... CRITERIA OFACCEPTANCE FOR CONSTANT RATE OF STRAIN CONSOLIDATION TEST FOR COHESIVE SOIL LAM CHEE SIANG A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the award of ... Allowable Ratio of Excess and Applied Pore Pressure Pressure (ua/σv) 30 2.4.3 Dimensionless Normalized Strain Rate, β 31 2.5 Tabulation of CRS Data 31 2.6 Criteria ofacceptanceof constant...
... women in the form of the right to an abortion asan instrument of care-giving not to the fetus, of course, but to others. We cansee a good example of the use of a traditional model of motherhood ... withhomicide of the inhabitants of the farm house, he can rightly point out that the object of the law of homicide is to save life, and that by his conduct he has eVected a netsaving of innocent ... model of motherhood and abortion rightsUnderlying the problem deWnition of abortion rights is a traditional view of motherhood – one that rests upon a relational view of women, deWned interms of...
... dominantmode of inheritance, account for < 2% of all ADcases. Onset is most often before 65 years of age, andthe penetrance is nearly always complete. The purifica-tion and partial sequencing of Ab ... 120–130.Animal modelsof Alzheimer’s disease O. Philipson et al.1402 FEBS Journal 277 (2010) 1389–1409 ª 2010 The Authors Journal compilation ª 2010 FEBSTransgenic animal models Models devoid of any ... Tg2576[54]. A substantial amount of CAA is often found intransgenic mice with the Swedish mutation, which islikely to be because of the high rate of synthesis andaccumulation of Ab1-40.In Tg2576, more...
... modelsof the yield curve. Many of these mod-els are arbitrage-free latent factor models. Unfortunately, there are many technical difficultiesinvolved with the estimation of AF latent factor models, ... Economics Discussion Series, No. 48,Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.291 IntroductionThe evolution of economic ideas and models has often been altered by economic events. TheGreat ... Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 12, 383–398.Campbell, John and John Cochrane, 1999, “By Force of Habit: A Consumption-BasedExplanation of Aggregate Stock Market Behavior,” Journal of Political...
... In Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of theACL.Julia Hockenmaier. 2003. Data and Models for StatisticalParsing with CCG. Ph.D. thesis, School of Informatics, Uni-versity of Edinburgh.Adwait ... (Hockenmaier and Steedman, 2002b),include modelsof bilexical dependencies definedin terms of local trees. However, this paperdemonstrates that such models would be inadequatefor languages with ... th argument of the lexicalfunctorin question, divided by the number of times theth argument of is instantiatedwith a constituent whose lexical head category is:The probability of a functor...
... Economic Modelsof Medical Diagnostic Devices in Development | Page | 46 B. Probability distribution of TNR based on 14 radiologists Figure 14 Probability distribution of estimations of TNR of ... often associated with enhanced blood vessel supply. An important application of this technology includes breast cancer visualization. The proof of principle of PA imaging in the detection of ... Nevertheless, in an early stage of development, developers are often too optimistic about the performance of their product and are often tended to estimate the value of their device to be higher...
... Bal1,21Faculty of Chemistry, University of Wroclaw, Poland;2Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences,Warsaw, PolandA comparative study of thermodynamic and kinetic aspects of ... wavelength of 420 nm, and sampling interval of 5 s . For control purposes the spectra were also recorded inthe range of 300–900 nm before and after reaction. In aseparate experiment, a titration of ... studies of the Ni(II)complex of HSA [6].Due to different protonation patterns, the stabilityconstants of particular complexes of model peptidescannot be compared d irectly. There are two ways of circumventing...
... reason is the existence of the Mozart Programming System.Panorama of computation models This book presents a broad overview of many of the most useful computation mod-els. The models are designed ... (including improved versions of Java).The kernel language approachPractical programming languages scale up to programs of millions of lines of code.They provide a rich set of abstractions and syntax. ... semantics of a program can be given interms of an abstract machine.• The logic-based approach presents programming as a branch of mathemat-ical logic. Logic does not speak of execution but of program...
... applications of topic models. Section 3 describes the models used in our exper-iments. Section 4 provides details of the experi-mental design. Section 5 presents results for our models on the task of ... top-ical structure of documents can be adapted tolearn probabilistic modelsof selectional prefer ence.These models are especially effective for estimat-ing plausibility of low-frequency items, ... given by inspection of the DUAL-LDAmodel is that it has problems with mixing and doesnot manage to learn a good model; we have trieda number of solutions (e.g., blocked sampling of argument and...
... underlying word space models; e.g.,the modelsof Widdows (2008) and Giesbrecht(2009) feature dimensionality reduction while that of Mitchell and Lapata (2008) does not. In thelight of these findings, ... combinea variety of distributional and symbolic aspects of natural language. This nourishes the hope that ma-trix models can serve as a kind of lingua franca forcompositional models. This having ... a vector v of numerical values; one might, e.g., think of thelevel of excitation of neurons. Then, an externalstimulus or signal, such as a perceived word, willresult in a change of the mental...
... efficiency of parameter-setting acquisition models. We have recently run experiments of seven parameter-setting (P&P) modelsof acquisition on the domain. What follows is a brief discussion of ... comprehensive study of parameter-setting algorithms or acquisition algorithms in general. There is a large number of models that are omitted; some of which are targets of current investigation. ... LDD without its derivation. 3.1 A Measure of Feasibility As a simple example of a learning strategy and of our simulation approach, consider a domain of 4 binary parameters and a memoryless...
... these techniques are capable of relatively high levels of performance. While hidden understanding models are based primarily on the concepts of hidden Markov models, we have also shown their ... states of each of the two models are unseen and must be inferred from the words. The problem of language understanding, then, is to recover the most likely meaning structure given a sequence of ... techniques. Empirical results, including the results of an ARPA 31 HIDDEN UNDERSTANDING MODELS OF NATURAL LANGUAGE Scott Miller College of Computer Science Northeastern University Boston,...
... features of credit risk models; from a practical point of view a link be tween the different types ofmodels enables us to applynumerical and statistical techniques for s olving and calibrating the models, ... maximum likelihoo d fitting of Bernoulli mixture models is a feasible method of obtaining estimates of model parameters and the precise choice of the mixing distributionis of lesser importance. Moreover, ... denote Ctν,R) can be thought of as containing the standard6Dependent Defaults in Modelsof Portfolio Credit RiskR¨udiger Frey∗Department of MathematicsUniversity of LeipzigAugustusplatz 10/11D-04109...
... understanding of disease mechanism. In this minireview, we discuss the contributions of animal models to our growing understanding of the biology of cavernousmalformations, including the elucidation of ... developing animal models of CCM disease. Classically, a CCM consists of a cluster of dilated blood vessels [12,13]. Each vessel in the clus-ter is grossly dilated, earning the name of a cavern; eachvessel ... equivalents of human disease[35–38].An important role for mouse modelsof genetic dis-ease is to identify essential roles for protein functionin vivo, especially in development where the proof of essential...