... elements that vary according to the design variable, the more the CPU time thatcanbe saved using PSA approach Table Cooling operation conditions Coolant temperature, Tc (1C) Ambient air temperature, ... sensitivity analysis (DSA) has gained importance as a major component of the optimal design process in recent years Considerable economy canbe achieved by calculating the accurate sensitivities in order ... obtains the following system of equations in matrix form after taking all the nodes into consideration [18]: HT ¼ Gq (9) T is a vector containing temperatures at all the nodes and q is a vector...
... expressed In cause linked stories, this is presumably because the audience may be assumed to have heard a first story, such as "Charles won Paris from Saladin" and be able to infer from it that Saladin ... which in turn refer to the facts stored in the Story World database, until the terminal symbols are reached Recursion allows for repeated attempts at a goal before final success or failure, and ... would beto attempt to incorporate a mapping from the level of discourse, to the textual level: work by Ashby (1976) and Heinemann (1973) indicates such a mapping tobe achievable for at least a...
... technique, so thatineach step the beamvectors associated toa concrete user are designed assuming that the beamvectors of all the other users are fixed, that is, assuming that the noise plus interferences ... based on a joint beamforming approach has been proposed The objective was the joint design of the beamvectors associated to all the established communications or links, taking as the optimization ... as it has been already said, the main drawback of this family of algorithms is that they may converge to local suboptimum designs In order to compare the SA with other classical approaches, in...
... (e.g., finding a scene that exhibits death or injury beautiful), there was activation ina somewhat different network than before, again including the occipital, temporal, and the frontal lobes, ... VIsual arts so that different cues become more or less important in giving meaning to the'artwork (parsons, 1987) In the final stage referred to as evaluation we appraise the meaning or interpretation ... had rated as beautiful or ugly prior to viewing, and rated them again in the scanner It is important to note that although beauty has affective and cognitive components, it draws more heavily...
... within a branch-and-bound framework Adhya et al (1999) proposed another Lagrangian approach for generating valid relaxations for the pooling problem that are tighter than LP relaxations Tawarmalani ... these works SECTION I: INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION (In collaboration with Dr Hassan Alfadala from Qatar University and Mr Omar I Al-Hatou from Qatargas Operating Company; Data and models related to this ... bilinear and concave univariate terms This approach employs the fact that all factorable algebraic functions involve one or more unary and /or binary operations Transcendental functions, such as...
... in cardiac regeneration Cell migration and cell invasion assays measure the ability of certain cell types to move through a porous membrane toward a chemoattractant or growth factor In contrast ... stemcell-based products may originate in academic laboratories where researchers are unfamiliar with the applicable regulations As new stem-cell-based therapies are developed, the regulatory framework ... biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, need an increased awareness of the questions that must be answered before a stem-cell-based product canbeused clinically Unlike pharmaceutical products, many...
... showing complete replacement of ascending aorta and aortic arch, the FET in the descending thoracic aorta and the saphenous vein grafts originating from the ascending aorta (b.) Axial CT image ... stent-grafting of the aortic arch and descending aorta was unsuitable for our patient due to aneurysmal dilatation of the entire thoracic aorta and concomitant cardiac pathology Kokotsakis et al ... thoracic aortic disease involving the ascending aorta, the aortic arch and the descending aorta still represents a challenge for the cardiothoracic surgeon It requires either a two-stage approach...
... someone, to assign blame or responsibility for something arrival of a guest at a formal social occasion, or give information 4.2 SYNTACTIC FEATURES OF SAYING VERBS about transport ina station or airport ... something in order to obtain an answer or some information, talk to different people in order to find out something, enquire about the health or well-being of, say to someone that one wants them toor ... Hoa [10] defined meaning plays an important part in ‘saying’ has tobe interpreted ina rather broad sense; it covers any communication because language without meaning is meaningless kind of symbolic...
... In another approachto modal semantics, Dixon (1991: 170) points out thateach modal has a fair semantic range, extending far beyond the central meanings that are indicated There is in fact considerable ... in language B He considers CA as a form of interlanguage study and as a central and substantial component of applied linguistics As a matter of fact, CA has had much to offer to practical teaching ... as an auxiliary of permission than may In asking and giving permission, can and may are almost interchangeable, the main difference being that may is more formal, and is sometimes felt tobe more...
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... some guidelines for the nomenclature may be different for publication in journals from thatina database, as further information cannot be readily called up Ina database, one can always consult ... the advantages are thata unique name canbe assigned to the locus by the typing laboratory which does not have tobe changed with chromosome assignment, or assigned by the database manager ora ... and in supplementary tables thatcanbe called up ina database The locus name canbe clarified in publications by adding a code for the type of probe in upper case letters in parentheses F for...
... ED and AH AH, ED and JC wrote the manuscript All authors have read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests AH is a Director of Adjuvantix Ltd and also holds some stock in Adjuvantix ... this article as: Bhagawati-Prasad et al.: CD40mAb adjuvant induces a rapid antibody response that may be beneficial in post-exposure prophylaxis Journal of Immune Based Therapies and Vaccines ... Efficacy of human papillomavirus (HPV)-16/18 AS04-adjuvanted vaccine against cervical infection and precancer caused by oncogenic HPV types (PATRICIA): final analysis of a double-blind, randomised...
... contact canbe any kind of interaction between two individuals that is sufficient to exchange body fluids thatcan carry infectious particles However, for reasons of manageability and measurability, ... disease spread and combining them with an a posteriori, statistical approach: Often data is available that allows fitting a simulation model that includes such mechanistic elements to empirical ... contact intensity ina qualitative way Information on shedding rates and inter-individual differences is available for many diseases (e.g., influenza cf [14]) However, as we are more interested in...
... grammar, they are independent…It means, in effect, thatin disjunctive language a sentence need not contain a finite predicator, and this in turn means thata single nominal group ora single adverbial ... declaratives and imperatives in the corpus are presented hereafter 40 Example 14: We all adore a Kia-Ora (Kia-Ora soft drinks) In example 14, a declarative sentence is usedto make a claim that ... to add new words to vocabulary Advertising texts take advantage of using made- up words or adapted words and expressions so as to enhance the creativeness and attraction of advertising language...
... typical feature of interrogatives in advertising is that they are often rhetorical Declaratives It canbe said that declarative sentences widely appear in advertising language since they are ... primarily usedto convey information and the ultimate aim of advertising is to inform customers of the quality of a certain product or the profit it may bring Exclamatory sentences Exclamatory ... advertising because they are usedto “add prestige and desirability and approval for the consumer” (Dyer, 1982:149 In general, adjectives can appear in basic, comparative and superlative forms in advertising...
... pieces of anetworkcan interact and a ect security These are reasoning rules thatcan simulate what an attacker canin the network, given the configuration information in the analysis database The ... the labor involved in implementing a scanning tool canbe minimized The model should also bemodular so that when new information is needed from the scanner, its scanning ability canbe added incrementally ... executed Datalog has a clear declarative semantics and it is a monotone logic, making it especially suitable for network attack analysis Datalog is popular in deductive databases, and several decades...
... user to state plan goals, launch the planner and view the attack plans generated For example, a user can state the goal “An external user with no initial access gains administrator/root access to ... indicates it is a specialization of ConceptualWork, the collection of deliberately created things that lack a location in space but have a beginning in time and an associated abstract information ... to run on a dedicated machine It handles all user interaction and KB interaction tasks Each client machine on the network runs a daemon (or Sentinel) that gathers information about the software,...
... GAL genes in response to galactose The GAL genetic switch The GAL regulatory network is composed of three regulatory proteins: a transcriptional activator Gal4p, a negative regulator Gal80p and ... in cytoplasm Gal3p Activated Gal3p Operator of genes with one binding site for Gal4p Operator of genes with two binding site for Gal4p Molar balance equations The following are the molar balance ... total component concentrations as model parameters, which canbe obtained through simpler experiments Thus, steady-state analysis canbeused as a tool to establish the actual mechanism prevalent...
... the underlying principle of searching databases containing analytical characteristics that serve as a basis for comparative forensic examinations applies also to other kinds or categories of scientific ... respects nor to oppose competing approaches As a starting point, it suffices to note that the prevalent and most well-supported viewpoint is thata database search tends to strengthen a case against a ... providing general information about Bayesian networks and explains the rationale behind their use as a methodology in the study reported here As an introductory example and an initial finding,...