... estimate the sparsity ofa large sparse covariance matrix Here, loosely speaking, sparsity is interpreted as the proportion of parameters taking the value In Section 1.1, the literature on estimating ... HDLSS data is very challenging and possibly intractable in some instances Fortunately in many situations, the data can be assumed to have some particular structures One ofthe commonly used assumptions ... for the covariance matrix The other case, which is also the main concern of this thesis, is the case when p and n are both very large, including the case n < p Since the dimension of parameters...
... Kindergarten( America) 18 International school( Vietnam-America) 19 The Australian International Shool Saigon 20 Horizon International Bilingual Shool 21 APU( Amercia) 22 Saigon International College ... levels of educational attainment and the growth of certain occupations such managers, professionals, technicians and associated professionals Despite an increasing concentration on lessskilled intensive ... participate inthe globalization of services production Arora and Gambardella (2004) examine the expansion ofthe software industry in India, Ireland, Israel and Brazil The growth inthe first...
... compensating in part the anatomical residual variability As a matter of fact, inspection ofthe residual variance image, that partly reflects the spatial distribution ofthe inter-individual anatomical ... cross-sectional analysis, showing that when a larger period of time (3 to years) separates two MRI examinations ofa longitudinal study, higher age-related effectson brain atrophy rates are found in longitudinal ... contrast, the rate of GM losses appeared marginal in areas such as the lateral and medial surfaces ofthe superior frontal gyri, the median cingulate gyrus, and the inferior temporal gyrus Interestingly,...
... pcDNA3.1-HSP70DATP-BD Antisense of pcDNA3.1-HSP70DATP-BD AAAAGGATCCAAATGGCCAAAGCCGCGGCG TCGGGTACCGGATCTACCTCCTCAATGGTG CTGATGGGGGACTCCTACGCCTTCAACATGAAGAGC GAAGGCGTAGGAGTCCCCCATCAGGATGGCCGCCTG AAAAGGATCCAAAGTCCGAGAACTGGCAGGAC ... compilation ª 2009 FEBS B Jiang et al The ATP-binding domain of HSP70 is important for the interaction of HSP70 with apoptosis signalregulating kinase (ASK1) and the inhibition of ASK1-induced apoptosis ... respect to the role of HSP70 inthe inhibition ofthe release of Smac and apoptosis GAPDH Ratio of HSP70 to GAPDH 14 # 12 # 10 * The role ofthe ATP-binding domain of HSP70 inthe prevention of the...
... change inthe conformation of this loop Changes inthe conformation ofthe backbone at this point and changes inthe orientation of other side chains, as a result ofthe introduction ofthe large ... with the aim of determining whether any ofthe observed effects were a result of changes inthe size and charge ofthe amino acid at these positions Results Preliminary characterization The G157D ... Structural and Functional Genomics) for running many ofthe analytical ultracentrifugation samples, A Padovani for making the W56F variant and J A Kornblatt for encouragement and advice Financial...
... Persian transliteration During a training phase, both methods derive rules for transforming character combinations (segments) inthe source language into character combinations inthe target language ... The results indicate that creating a collection used for the evaluation of transliteration systems, based ona “gold standard” created by only one human transliterator may lead to word accuracy ... English All ofthe participants held at least a Bachelors degree Table summarizes the information about the transliterators and their perception ofthe given task Participants were asked to scale the...
... that BiP has a negative effect onthe folding of TSHR The interaction of this receptor with BiP leads to an increase inthe degradation of TSHR and also to a decrease inthe amount of TSHR able ... TSHR are degraded than inthe parent cells In addition, the fact that a smaller proportion ofthe TSHR is able to reach the Golgi apparatus indicates that interactions between TSHR and BiP not contribute ... CRT and the glycoprotein substrate At the end ofthe pulse and at each chase time, cells were lysed and immunoprecipitation was carried out using mAb A1 0 The data obtained indicate that CST enhances...
... coordination and the variability of trunk coordination and stride parameters Flexible adaptations in trunk coordination to, for instance, changes in walking velocity are considered a hallmark of ... aggravation of this behavior Ina sense, the secondary task can be considered a perturbation ofthe information processing system, which is already highly active in maintaining the abnormal gait pattern ... contributions CJCL was the main investigator ofthe study, analyzed the gait data and was involved in revising the manuscript JFS drafted the manuscript, was involved inthe design ofthe study and in...
... in which the SHAKE algorithm is used to constrain the bond length and angle ofthe water molecules The interactions between the carbon atoms and the oxygen atoms ofthe water molecules are calculated ... changes inthe configuration can well explain the anomalous increments ofthe relative viscosity inthe transition region Furthermore, it should be noted that the structural configuration ofthe ... bonds of water confined in SWCNTs with the diameter The relative amount is the ratio ofthe amount ofthe hydrogen bonds ofthe confined water to the amount inthe bulk water In this study, the...
... indicates an interaction between spatial and temporal variability The temporal variability mainly consisted in seasonal cycles and inthe eect of clear-cutting (decrease in concentrations and disappearance ... Rainfall The mean value for the sum of concentration of cations was 142 àmolc L1 (Tab II) The ionic balance, before and after the clear-cutting, was dominated by an excess of cations, varying ... II) The ionic balance was dominated by cations with an excess of 318 àmolc L1 over anions Again, the decit ofthe ionic balance can be explained by organic anions (DOC of 3.2.4.1 Gravitational...
... participation in social life and environmental factors was obtained in further interviews using a questionnaire based onthe WHO International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health ... Vergara A, Agani F, Gotway CA: Mental health, social functioning, and attitudes of Kosovar Albanians following the war in Kosovo Jama 2000, 284(5):569-577 13 American Association for the Advancement ... cooperative report by the Central and East European law initiative ofthe American Bar Association and the Science and Human Rights Program ofthe American Association for the Advancement of Science...
... dissolved easily in water It could be inferred that the rate of interaction between sodium alginate and the Ca2+ was very rapid and the affinity of alginate for Ca2+ was much greater than the other ... cross-linking The use ofof an ion ofa larger atomic radius, such as Ca2+, as opposed to a smaller atomic radius such as K+, can disrupt the molecular conformation of κ-carraggenan by reducing chain ... cross-linked matrices maintained their integrity in water The carrageenans increased the hydrophilicity ofthe alginate matrix and would most likely promote diffusion of drug across the alginate matrix...
... Production of alginate microspheres by the emulsification/internal crosslinking method B1 Determination ofthe amount of CaCO3 and volume of glacial acetic acid needed Calcium carbonate was added ... glutaraldehyde and isopropyl alcohol were added Glutaraldehyde had been used as a crosslinking agent inthe preparation of calcium alginate beads (Kulkarni et al., 2000) as well as a hardening agent ... When insoluble calcium salts are used, the Ca2+ must be released for crosslinking action at pH values above the pKa of alginates Immersion of alginates in media with a pH lower than the pKa value...
... weight ofthe alginate polymer was found to have an influence onthe tensile properties ofthe alginate matrix (Tables and 9) The molecular weight of sodium alginate appeared to have a greater ... LH and FL, the smaller % difference in elongation at break before and after cross-linking in lower molecular weight alginates revealed the formation ofa more flexible alginate matrix with alginates ... ofthe influence of crosslinking for each type of sodium alginate used In this study, the tensile strength and the elastic modulus ofthe alginate matrix increased after cross-linking, indicating...
... [34] Based onthe bandstructure calculations, the variations ofthe bandgap energy at gamma point caused by the spatial quantum confinements are extracted, as shown in Fig 1 0a Four important information ... states overlap appreciably, molecular orbitals (MO) arise, which can be approximated as linear combinations ofthe atomic states, also known as Linear Combination of Atomic Orbitals (LCAO) In ... [26] approach in order to accurately capture the orientation as well as quantum effectsinthe nano-scale system Then, based onthe calculated E-k dispersion relations, a semi-classical topof-barrier...
... to a value of 7.3 dramatically altered the effect of phosphate and activation was seen only at low concentrations with a maximal 1.7-fold activation at mm phosphate At 121 Temperature effectson ... to vary with temperature so that the pH at °C was 7.5 and the pH at 37 °C was 7.2 The concentration of Mg.ATP was held at 0.5 mM All other assay conditions are detailed inthe Materials and methods ... hibernator PFK allostery J A MacDonald and K B Storey Fig Effectsof pH and inorganic phosphate concentration onthe activity of S lateralis phosphofructokinase at °C Activities are expressed relative...
... accumulation of physical and human capital While many questions are raised, only a few are answered II THE QUALITY OF LABOR AND GROWTH ACCOUNTING ONE ofthe earliest responses to the appearance ofa large ... differences in wages and income, even holding many other things constant.8 Also, rational behavior onthe part of employers would lead to the allocation ofthe labor force in such a way that the value of ... manufacturing, the quality variable is based on an occupation-by.industry rather than education- • • • by-industry distribution, since the latter was not available at the state level Onthe other...
... structure ofthe criminal norm contains only valid conditional clauses A valid conditional clause that is part ofthe criminal norm contains the components necessary to impose criminal liability onthe ... offenses: Offenses against the National Security, Offenses against the Public Policy and Legal Administration, Offenses against the Human Body and Offenses against Property 12 WAYNE R LAFAVE, CRIMINAL ... legality in U.S criminal law is the linkage between the courts and the legislator through application ofthe criminal law One ofthe basic rules ofthe principle of legality in American law is that a...
... Memory-based learning treats a set of labeled (pre-classified) training instances as points ina multi-dimensional feature space, and stores them as such in an instance base in memory (rather than ... chunk 2.2 Data preparation To formulate the task as a machine-learnable classification task, we use a representation that encodes the joint task of chunking and function-tagging a sentence in per-word ... POS as input for the combined chunking and functiontagging task depends onthe amount of training data available The absolute performance of words depends onthe treatment of rare words The additional...