... 4) The vertical axis in Figure represents the ratio of errors in the set of low scored translations according to a given metric The horizontal axis represents the ratio of errors over the set of ... standard ontology are not enough to deal with them This conclusion motivates the incorporation of linguistic processing into automatic evaluation metrics In order to check the robustness of these ... instance, Table shows the best 10 metrics in CE05 according to their correlation with human judges at the system level, and then the ranking they obtain in the AE05 testbed There are substantial...
... [13,14] To assess thecontributionof histidines 119 and 111 tothe conduction of protons through Nox2, the ability of CHO91H111/115L, CHO91H115/119L and CHO91H111/119L cells to conduct protons ... cells in the presence of a transmembrane gradient for the efflux of protons exhibited a very small conduction of protons following the addition of arachidonate (Fig 4E) The efflux of protons was ... enters the cells via endocytosis The M2 protein proton channel is opened by the acidic pH environment ofthe endosomes, resulting in a fall in pH ofthe viral particle, leading to dissociation of the...
... private sector The concept of “cost-sharing,” though not the term, was used by Harris (1964) who predicted that in the U.S the private share ofthe total costs of HE would exceed the public share ... rate of return studies did not, however, diminish the force ofthe argument in favor of a mixed system of financing for HE, for this rests on the concept of cost-sharing (the subject ofthe next ... Europe and the question of affordability ofthe current patterns of finance was becoming urgent Johnstone (1986, 6) started from the premise that regardless ofthe size or characteristics ofthe HE...
... tend to use special character or patterns related to monetary matters, such as “$$$” or “%” Therefore, we also measured the ratio of special characters, the number of emoticons, and the number of ... feature vector x, the filter learns a vector of feature weight parameters w Given a test sample X with its feature vector x, the filer outputs the conditional probability of predicting the data as ... first created the idea of counting word lengths to judge the authorship of texts, followed by Yule (1939) and Morton (1965) with the use of sentence lengths In this paper, we measure the overall...
... attempted to address certain aspects of these problems, but our study is the first to integrate these questions and address whether specific cytokine combinations and forms of Ab42 are capable of increasing ... ~300% of control at 24 h and stayed relatively constant for the duration ofthe experiment (96 h) BACE1 levels, on the other hand, took longer to increase and gave no indication of leveling off ... although the cytokine combinations increased both mature and immature APP forms, the magnitudes ofthe elevations tended to be larger for mature than immature APP (Figure 1A) Together these results...
... estimators ofthe Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FAPAR), an indicator ofthe state and photosynthetic activity of vegetation Gobron et al [37] have shown that the vegetation ... the water content of soil, because the aerodynamic roughness ofthe tree canopy is high and the high tree cover fraction does not allow for a contributionofthe understory [11] In the case of ... combining the annual clear cut map with ground inventory plots In April 2000, IFN used the clear cut mapping method for assessing the damages ofthe 1999 storm over the northern part ofthe Landes...
... maximum values ofthe annual decay rates are the double ofthe default values (and, consequently, the lifetimes were reduced to half ofthe default values) The minimum values ofthe annual decay ... to estimate the total volume of stem The conversion factors and the bark fractions are those used by Winjum et al [45] and are given in the “default” column of Table I The carbon content in the ... order to assess the effect of modifying these default values, and to identify those contributing tothe major changes in the estimates of carbon sequestration MATERIALS AND METHODS In the stock-change...
... isoforms Indeed, the effect of lowering ofthe expected number of events would only further increase if unequal expression of isoforms would be taken into account and would therefore strengthen ... [13,14] The main goal of our study was to determine whether thecontributionof AS events to proteome diversity as predicted using transcriptomics data, is indeed observed at the proteome level The ... can be understood by considering the total amount of peptides produced from a single locus, whatever the relative expression level ofthe two underlying isoforms is: the amounts ofthe constitutive...
... view ofthe growing incidence of forest fires and the resulting haze throughout the world, 13 there is need for a greater understanding ofthe various aspects of these phenomena, including their ... that the addition of iron to N and P rich water mass can result in marked increases in phytoplankton activity Estimates ofthe atmospheric fluxes of nutrients tothe ocean suggest that the atmosphere ... phenomenon that is linked tothe periodic warming of water across the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean The severity ofthe fires episodes was linked tothe occurrence of ENSO creating conditions...
... framework and hypotheses: The impact ofrisk factors to production and business performance in Vietnam 2.6.1.1 Conceptual framework and hypotheses: The impact ofrisk factors to production performance ... mitigate the impacts of weather 5.1.1.5 Solutions to mitigate the impacts of pest 5.1.1.6 Solutions to mitigate the impacts of working capital 5.1.1.7 Solutions to mitigate the impacts of production ... factor: KMO = 0.45; p-value = 0.00; total variance explained by factors = 80.56%; data is fitted tothe research model (2) Independent factor: results from exploratory factor analysis for factors...
... care tothe mother and reduce the likelihood of MTCT of HIV ‘ The core goal of all medical therapy is to bring the patient’s viral load to an undetectable level When that goal is reached, the ... efforts to develop their services in tandem, they could ensure that together they reach the main groups at riskof STIs as well as HIV Lastly, what about the formal or informal private sector for ... important degree of success Moreover, as these services are directly concerned with the outcomes of sexual relationships, it is logical to expect them to be at the forefront of efforts to prevent sexual...
... dangerous to excellent The effect of a career decrease in training hours of 10 percent led to a 10 percent increase in the number of unsatisfactory landings, from 14 percent to 24 percent ofthe total, ... NEWCREW to define the percentage of personnel with less than one year in the Navy; and TIME_CO to be the number of months that the ship’s commanding officer has had command ofthe ship The authors ... recruits In their model, the cost of new recruits is equal tothe recruiting cost, the salaries of instructors, the costs associated with Permanent Change of Stations (PCS), and the costs of paying...
... function, the determination of actual strengths appears to depend on the interaction ofthe intrinsic strength of a boundary with the strengths of other boundaries in the sentence, as well as the distance ... such as the "trace" of whmovement In general, the grammar is consistent with the government and binding framework of Chomsky (1981), as adapted tothe needs of a parser The input tothe parser ... constituent tothe elements ofthe core sentence Hence the relative clause is not attached to any other syntactic node in the tree We were initially attracted tothe Gee and Grosjean model because of...
... Results are the average of two experiments G1 cells The FACS profiles allowed us to estimate the total cycle to about 13 h of which about h correspond to G1 phase, about 3.5 h to S phase and another ... raises the question of how their levels decrease at the end of M-phase We have to assume a prolonged period of transcription inhibition to explain the decay of an mRNA that fluctuates 10-fold in the ... amplification of their coding sequences The GAPDH probe template was the EcoRIHindIII fragment ofthe coding region [30] To detect long transcripts of cyclins A2 and B1, we amplified by PCR the 3¢UTR of...
... countries, making the most ofthe willingness of (young) professionals from these countries to integrate a period of work overseas within their career plan Preparatory work for the U.S President's ... not-for-profit sector The discussions focused on their perceptions ofthe effects and usefulness ofthe deployment of international health volunteers in their work setting More specifically themes ... findings ofthe surveys, the telephone interviews with HR managers of sending organizations, and the discussion group findings Results ofthe surveys Table gives an overview of a number of features of...
... depending on the part ofthe root considered By contrast tothe post-apex ofthe tap root (TRPA) and tothe apex ofthe lateral roots (LRA), the apex ofthe tap root (TRA) seemed to be protected: ... contributed to 65-84 % of cell n (table I) 3.3 Effect of deficiencies on thecontributionof solutes tothe osmotic pressure In TRA, none ofthe deficiencies changed the osmotic pressure and the frac- ... contributions tothe osmotic pressure similar everywhere in the root system? iii) What are the effects of a potassium deficiency on the distribution ofthe solutes in the different parts ofthe root...
... [13] In the present work, using a flow-cytometric-based assay that directly measures the NPA of MMPs in SF, we provide new insights into the overall contributionof these enzymes tothe proteolytic ... since the levels of MMP-9 in SF have been shown to vary according to several factors, such as the disease state, the local concentration of inflammatory cytokines, and the number of infiltrating ... levels of MMP9 Implication of matrix metalloproteinases in proteolytic reactivity found in synovial fluids of RA patients To further assess thecontributionof MMP-9 and other members ofthe MMP...
... demonstrate that the presence of 7SL RNA in immune complexes of myctagged APO3G was due tothe presence of APO3G and not caused by non-specific binding ofthe RNA tothe myc antibody Finally, the RT-PCR ... as the characterization of cellular RNAs associated with intracellular APO3G [19,23] Our goal was to test the possible contributionof these or other host RNAs towards the packaging Page of 11 ... fractions: 30% ofthe transfected cells were used to isolate total cellular RNA as described in Methods; the remaining 70% ofthe cells were lysed in Triton X-100 lysis buffer A sample ofthe lysate...