... Management AgencyINEEL Idaho National Engineering and Environmental LaboratoryNASA National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNIST National Institute of Standards and TechnologyNOAA National ... R. WalkerOperations Director-Strategic DevelopmentAon Re AustraliaSydney, AustraliaPete ZellAmes Research CenterNational Aeronautics and SpaceAdministrationMoffett Field, CaliforniaSYNTHESIS ... National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the DOE, the National Institute of Standards andTechnology, and several universities to gather wind data, measure structural loading, and...
... order to establish and maintain a certain standard. In addition, Mc Namara (2000) stated that test writers should draw out atest specification before writing a test. Test specification is resulted ... instruction, and time allowance. - Factors affecting students’ test performance involve test characteristics, testee characteristics and test administration characteristic. Test characteristics ... test Measure people’s abilities in a language regardless of any training they may have had in that languageDiagnostic testCheck students’ progress for their strengths and weaknesses and what...
... Keller, Sebastien Malangeau, Hans Manhave, Scott Martin, Darren Miguez, Shawn Moore, Eden Rabatsch, Jeff Rasar, Susan Ray, Darren Richley, K.C. Saniga, Pierre-Alexandre Sicart, Brian Sniffen, ... Locke’s guard, to see that Snow does not return to Oldcastle safely. Celia may ask a loyal player character to aid her in dispatching this potential rival claimant as well. The player characters ... A RMOUR: 3 (Ringmail) BASE ATTACK/GRAPPLE: +4/+4 A TTACK: Longbow +8 (1d8) (+1 attack and damage in short range), Dagger +1 (1d4) FULL ATTACK: Longbow +8 (1d8) (+1 attack and damage...
... HLT, pages 81–88,Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 2008.c2008 Association for Computational LinguisticsPhrase Table Training For Precision and Recall: What Makes a Good Phrase and a Good Phrase Pair?Yonggang ... of extracting phrase trans-lation is formulated as an information retrieval pro-cess implemented with a log-linear model aiming for a balanced precision and recall. We have presented a generic ... approaches ofbuilding a phrase translation table and show the fi-nal translation results. We measure translation per-formance by the BLEU (Papineni et al., 2002) andMETEOR (Banerjee and Lavie,...
... maps and spatializations have notbeen produced fora general audience, having been created astools to aid specialist analysts in their work.Data quality and availabilityMaps and spatializations ... technologies. A singlestrand of fiber-optic cable can carry great volumes of data – for example the latest cable across the North Atlantic, laid in 2000and called TAT-14, can carry the equivalent of ... Isbell Jr, Marty Lucas,Ernest Luk, Paul Kahn, Kate McPherson and family, CarlMalamud, Jessica Marantz, Fumio Matsumoto,TamaraMunzner, Bonnie Nardi, Marcos Novak, Linda Peake, LarryPress,...
... Cayman not blacklisted by FATF ã AIFMD compliant (except for depositary and annual report) ã Cooperation arrangements between UK and Cayman Islands AIFMD Implications for Investment Managers ... PB cannot act as (1) a counterparty and (2) a depositary to the AIF unless it has functionally and hierarchically separated these activities from one another and conflicts of interest are properly ... UK Manager is granted passport to market to EU professional investors* appoints Irish Fund or Management company UK Manager AIFMD Implications for Investment Managers Scenario 1: UK Manager...
... extremespeed cars that can travel 5 meters in less than a second, youmust learn about some of the different variables that affect the performance of a mouse-trap car. For example, how does friction affect ... between the axle and the chassis is called the bearing. A plain bearing can be as simple as an axleturning in a drilled hole. A bushing is a smoothsleeve placed in a hole that gives the axle a smotherrubbing ... forces:the force of gravity pulling straight down and the normal force of the ramppushing back (Formula #4). As the angle of the ramp is increased, the normalforce decreases (Formula #5). The force...
... search mechanism fora complex database. ã Provide graphical and contextual information for annotation. Annotation is a problem because it still takes a human. ETE offers flexible and easy ... components: a common relational database that houses the test results and a GUI program that manages and displays the test resources and results. The central database is stored on a file server PC and ... easy access to the intermediate data within and across batch runs. For instance, when grading a semantic analysis, the analyst can bring up the lexical and syntactic analyses of the same sentence,...
... aboutreproductive health matters based on literature review.The questionnaire was translated to Kiswahili as a lan-guage familiar to most Tanzanians. Data was gatheredby an anonymous questionnaire.The ... 8:21http://www.reproductive-health-journal.com/content/8/1/21Page 8 of 9 RESEARC H Open AccessEvaluation of a reproductive health awarenessprogram for adolescence in urban Tanzania -A quasi-experimental pre -test post -test ... was to evaluate a reproductive health awareness program for theimprovement of reproductive health for adolescents in urban Tanzania.Methods: A quasi-experimental pre -test and post -test research...
... WhatDoes Transformation Mean for Military Manpower and Personnel Policy? 5(“shape”) them. Capabilities-based planning recognizes that because threats are unknowablebeforehand, it is advantageous ... the RAND quality assurance process, visit http://www.rand.org/standards/. 36 WhatDoes Transformation Mean for Military Manpower and Personnel Policy?pate potential threats and to prepare for ... medical, aviation),specialty-related risks (hazardous material), location disparities (domestic and overseasCOLAs), persistent separation (sea pay, family separation allowance), hardship (recoveringthe...
... CCR5-delta32 status appears to have several beneficial effects onthe alloHSCT setting: previous analyses revealed that theCCR5-delta32 allele appears to protect against acute graftversus host disease ... homozygous carriers is in the range of1% to 3% among caucasians. Future approaches to HIV therapy by CCR5-negative alloHSCT may thus be limitedby the availability of HLA-matched donors in general andin ... 2006,91(12):1628-1634.9. Bogunia-Kubik K, Jaskula E, Lange A: The presence of functionalCCR5 and EBV reactivation after allogeneic haematopoieticstem cell transplantation. Bone Marrow Transplant 2007,40(2):145-150.10....
... Alan Tennant* - alantennant@compuserve.com; Ayse A Kỹỗỹkdeveci - ayse@tepa.com.tr; Sehim Kutlay - skutlay@medicine.ankara.edu.tr; Atilla H Elhan - ahelhan@yahoo.com* Corresponding author AbstractBackground: ... ofDIF by age and education on each subtest. Irrespective ofdistributional aspects associated with age and educationallevels, this analysis provides a formal test of the invarianceof the subtest ... groups, data (based on pass-fail for eachsubtest) were fitted to the Rasch measurement model. DIFwas found for certain subtests by age and education, butnot by gender. For example, the 'fragmented...