... Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela); CABEI in Belize, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama; and Argentina and Colombia outside ... this, we use a great amount of quantitative data from the annual reports and financial databases of MDBs that the FORO Nacional Internacional research program has been tracking periodically. The ... subregion, and; CDB in Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St....
... structures andinteractions of feedback loops, and consists of variablesfor cause and effect, and causal links. A causal link con-nects a cause variable with an effect variable by a linkwith a positive ... 2000.16. Mable A, Marriott J: Steady State. Finding a Sustainable Balance PointInternational Review of Health Workforce Planning Health Human ResourcesStrategies Division. Health Canada; 2001.17. ... num-ber of simulation steps along the time axis. System Dynamics makes extensive use of diagrams,especially of two types: causal loop, and stock and flow.Causal loop A causal-loop diagram identifies...
... of multilateral voluntary agreements between landowners of a region.Landscape planningTaking Germany as a case landscape planning is aimedat (1) describing the present state and uses of naturalareas ... uses of naturalareas and landscapes, (2) defining objectives of natureprotection and landscape preservation, (3) evaluate thefactual situation and (4) elaborate measures in view of the defined ... theagricultural planning;2. because the non-GMO farmer must tolerate a cer-tain amount of contamination by GMO pollen, bearsthe burden of proof with regard to economicaldamages through a GMO farmer and...
... power system and the batteries are binary, but they are all multi -state actually. The performance of the batteries can degrade, which results in performance degradation of the power system. ... than 5700 mAh. Suppose the capacity of the first branch is 5600 mAh and the capacity of other branches are all above 5800 mAh, the system is reliable because the required capacity is reached. ... Reliability Analysis ofa Power System Based on the Multi -State System Theory Chunyang LI College of Mechatronics Engineering and Automation National University of Defense Technology Changsha,...
... of galactose signal transduction (Eur. J. Biochem. 271) 4073 A steady- state modeling approach to validate anin vivomechanism of the GAL regulatory network inSaccharomyces cerevisiaeMalkhey ... detail ed mechanisms include thetryptophan and arabinose systems of Escherichia coli andthe phage lambda switch in bacteriophage.The GAL regulatory network in Saccharomyces cerevis-iae is a ... performance of the network. A similar experimentalevaluation of the roles of individual elementary mechanismsin vivo is very difficult and tedious to obtain.Among modeling strategies, steady- state...
... orcan result in cleavage of the inhibitor and release of activeenzyme. A decreased overall inhibition rate can thus be theresult ofa shift of the rate constants of the branched part of mechanism, ... rate at which TPdisappears in time at steadystate after the rapid initialincrease. The pronounced biphasic character of the inhibi-tion profiles in Fig. 1A C is explained by the presteady state and ... of this interaction is an inactivation of the PAI-1 pool in thevascular wall by thrombin, making it no longer availablefor interaction with u-PA and VN, which can explain part of the effect of thrombin...
... per-formance of the GAL system. As KlGal1p plays a dualrole, as both inducer and galactokinase, our analysisindicates that only 10% of total KlGal1p translocatesinto the nucleus to act as inducer, ... used a steady- state modeling approach to quan-tify the underlying molecular mechanism for the GAL system of K. lactis and to obtain a systems’ levelunderstanding of its behavior. The steady- state ... GAL systemof K. lactis was validated experi-mentally by obtaining steady- state protein expressionlevels in a wild-type strain and in a mutant strain lack-ing gene KlGAL80. The steady- state...
... been of interest withregard to the fact that practical systems have a limiteddynamic range. However, the synthesis of test signalsthat allow enforcing a signal feature like modulation hasonly ... via a digital-to-analog and an ana-log-to-digital converter. This is omitted for simplici ty inFigure 2.NLMS-based measurement As an improvement of theleast mean squares (LMS) algorithm that ... can also verify that theenvelope of the signal in the bottom subfigure is attenu-ated compared to cases with an inactive noise reductionsubsystem. The additional amount of attenuation shallbe...
... and pupil. Authors of [6, 7] use the fact that the iris and pupil are darker than skin and white part of the eye. Authors of [11] proposed an algorithm based on the cascade AdaBoost classifier. ... first part of this system containing IMAGE_RAM, PV_RAM, and Adder1. All elements of each column of the image, IMAGE_RAM, are added together, by ADDER1, and the result is stored into vertical projection ... acceptance. Fully formattedPDF and full text (HTML) versions will be made available soon.Design and implementation ofa real time and train less eye state recognition system EURASIP Journal on Advances...
... canal. Here, we used a so-called 2cc-coupler. A digital playback and recording system can playMATLAB-created stimuli via a digital-to-analogue converter(D /A) and the loudspeaker of the measurement ... separately, such that the signal processing can reactby applying different amounts of attenuation in differentfrequency ranges. The idea is to attenuate signals that lackthe characteristic modulation ... hearing instrument’s output via the mea-surement microphone and an analogue-to-digital converter (A/ D). The recorded digital data is stored in a MATLAB-readable file on a hard disk. The sampling...
... separate data area is reserved for this purpose.The separate data area of these database systems meansthat they do not need the segment cleaning mechanisms of the Sprite LFS to reclaim log space. ... illustrates the fact that a log-structured file system produces a different form of locality on disk thantraditional file systems. A traditional file system achieveslogical locality by assuming certain ... The bandwidth of each of the five phases isshown separately. Sprite LFS has a higher write bandwidth andthe same read bandwidth as SunOS with the exception of sequen-tial reading ofa file that...
... in nature to a data manager which fails to freedata, but is easier to detect and prevent.• Data manager changes data. A malicious data manager may change the value of its data on each cacherefresh. ... data. It is usually madein response to a pager_data_request call made to the data manager by the kernel.Typical data managers will only provide data upon demand (when processing pager_data_request ... itinitiates a cache replacement. A data manager may restrict the use of cached data by issuing a pager_data_lock request, specifying the types of access (any combination of read, write, and execute)...
... slots–Each user is assigned the entire frequency for the transmission•For a fraction of time on a fixed, rotating basis–Advantages•Uses the bandwidth more efficiently•Allows both data and ... ofa radio system •Describe how different factors affect the design ofa radio system •Explain the radio frequency spectrum 17Multiple Access (continued)9Antennas•Transmit or receive an ... 25Signal Strength (continued)19Multiple Access (continued)•Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) (continued)–Advantages•Can carry up to three times the amount of data as TDMA•Transmissions...