... capable of contracting the disease and becoming infective, • (I), the infective class, i.e., the class of those individuals who are capable of transmitting the disease to others, • (R), the removed ... epidemic models, it is naturally important to know whether the models tend to a disease free state or the disease will survive permanently For the deterministic model (1.1), the asymptotic behavior ... total variation of the transition probability to the invariant measure (see [6, 15]) As a result we have the following theorem for the model (1.2) Theorem 3.2 Let (S(t), I(t)) be the solution to...
Ngày tải lên: 12/10/2015, 10:41
... though they use the Internet at libraries 22% of adults 65 and older have access to the Internet Of the 22% of the US adults aged 65 and over using the Internet, it is estimated that 66% use the ... was one of the most popular past-times of the elderly interviewed in his study The majority of them used the library to rent books, audio, videos and participate in library programs If the elderly ... time they have with their doctor count Complicating the results of other studies that indicate the elderly prefer communication with their doctors to gather medical information, the Gladden study...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Improving the Performance of the Random Walk Model for Answering Complex Questions" pptx
... cases where the query is composed of two or more sentences, we compute the similarity between the document sentence (s) and each of the query-sentences (qi ) then we take the average of the scores ... although the two STs of Figure share most of the subtrees rooted in the ST node, the kernel defined above computes no match The critical aspect of the TK function is that the productions of two evaluated ... v)) The denominators in both terms are for normalization C is the set of all sentences in the collection The value of the parameter d which we call “bias”, is a trade-off between two terms in the...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 17:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Characterization of recombinant prolidase from Lactococcus lactis – changes in substrate specificity by metal cations, and allosteric behavior of the peptidase pdf
... evaluate the structure–function relationship of this prolidase The Lc lactis model was superposed on the P furiosus model by comparison of their a-car˚ bons, yielding a root mean square deviation of ... molecular model of Lc lactis prolidase The initial model was derived based on the crystal structure of P furiosus (Protein Data Bank accession number 1PV9 [16]) using the default parameters of the ... is the length of the loop structure that is contributed by the other subunit and covers the S1 site (yellow ribbon for P furiosus and cyan ribbon for Lc lactis in Fig 5) The crystal structure of...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 04:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Predictors of quality of life: A quantitative investigation of the stress-coping model in children with asthma" pptx
... aspects of the extended stress-coping model Despite the exclusion of some of the aspects of the model, the power to detect a model without a good fit remained small; < 0.20 [27] As a consequence, the ... illness are described by several theories of stress and emotion [7] One of these theories is the cognitive-appraisal model of Lazarus and Folkman [8] With their theory they show that a person confronted ... decided to keep the non-significant associations in the model In the present study, most support was found for the axis of the stress-coping model Disease characteristics, appraisal of the disease,...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20
Báo cáo hóa học: "Global behavior of the solutions of some difference equations" pptx
... and rewarding, and the results about these equations offer prototypes towards the development of the basic theory of the global behavior of nonlinear difference equations of a big order, recently, ... investigated the behavior of the solutions, HAE-M found the solutions of the special cases and EMEls carried out the theoretical proof and gave the examples All authors read and approved the final ... and every solution of Equation converges to x ¯ Proof: As the proof of Theorem and will be omitted Theorem The equilibrium point x of Equation is global attractor if c ≠ a ¯ Proof: Let p, q are...
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 00:20
Báo cáo hóa học: "Research Article Global Behavior of the Components for the Second Order m-Point Boundary Value Problems" potx
... , the bifurcation structure of the nodal solutions of 1.8 , 1.9 becomes more complicated: the component of the solutions of 1.8 , 1.9 from the trivial solution at λk /f0 , and the component of ... 1.9 , and use the global bifurcation theorems from Section to analyze the global behavior of the components of nodal solutions of 1.8 , 1.9 Preliminary definitions and eigenvalues of corresponding ... eigenvalues of the linear problem Lu λu, u ∈ E 2.5 We call the set of eigenvalues of 2.5 the spectrum of L, and denote it by σ L The following lemmas can be found in 3, 4, 12 Lemma 2.3 Let (H0) hold The...
Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 06:20
BEHAVIOR OF THE POSITIVE SOLUTIONS OF FUZZY MAX-DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS G. STEFANIDOU AND G. pptx
... completes the proof of the proposition Behavior of the positive solutions of fuzzy equation (1.1) In this section, we study the behavior of the positive solutions of (1.1) Firstly, we study the periodicity ... order to study the behavior of a parametric fuzzy difference equation we use the following technique: we investigate the behavior of the solutions of a related family of systems of two parametric ... Existence and uniqueness of the positive solutions of fuzzy difference equations (1.1) and (1.2) In this section, we study the existence and the uniqueness of the positive solutions of the fuzzy difference...
Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 00:20
Consumer Acceptance of online banking: an extension of the technology acceptance model
... Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited without permission Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited without ... permission Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited without permission Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited without ... permission Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited without permission Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited without...
Ngày tải lên: 16/07/2014, 16:54
Báo cáo toán học: "A Note on the Asymptotic Behavior of the Heights in b-Tries for b Large" ppt
... bounded, then the height distribution Derivation of Results We establish the five parts of Theorem Since the analysis involves a routine use of the saddle point method (cf [1, 12]), we only give the ... for large b (cf Theorem 2) The proof is delayed until Section It is based on an asymptotic evaluation of a certain integral Summary of Results We let Hn be the height of a b-trie of size n We denote ... better understood by viewing the problem as first fixing k and b, and then varying n (cf Section 4) Theorem For b → ∞ the distribution of the height of b-tries has the following asymptotic expansions:...
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 06:20
Báo cáo toán học: "The asymptotic behavior of the average Lp−discrepancies and a randomized discrepancy" docx
... then yields the result 3.2 (λ([0, x])(1 − λ([0, x])))p/2 The proof of Theorem Proof The proof is completely analogous to the proof of Theorem 1, due to the fact that the entire structure of the ... |g(a) − g(b)| dadb The result then follows from Theorem and ess sup0 3.5 x ∗ |g(x)| = DN (P) The proof of Theorem P Proof We go back to our definition of DN as the expected value of the random variable ... suitable decompositions of the unit cube (i.e bounds on the volume of the set A from the proof) The second way seems to lead to a very technical path while the first way seems to be the more manageable...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 12:22
Báo cáo khoa học: "The effect of light acclimation of single leaves on whole tree growth and competition – an application of the tree growth model ALMIS" doc
... carbon than the first leaves of either of the other types Subsequent differences between the carbon gain of the first leaves of the sun type and the adaptive type reflected the interplay between increasing ... than the shade type, so that mutual shading within their crowns increased more than in the crown of the shade type Therefore, the first leaf of the shade type still assimilated more carbon than the ... each other decreased to less than 50% of the external level The first leaf of the adaptive type then switched its gas exchange from sun to shade characteristics Thereafter, the sun type and the...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:22
Báo cáo y học: "Preliminary study into the components of the fear-avoidance model of LBP: change after an initial chiropractic visit and influence on outcome." pps
... follow up Page of Several models exist to explain the influence of nonphysical factors on the development of chronicity and treatment resistance Amongst the more widely investigated is the fear-avoidance ... scale of the Coping Strategies Questionnaire (CSQ) The catastrophising sub-scale of the Coping Strategies Questionnaire developed by Rosenstiel and Keefe [52] asks patients to rate the frequency of ... that has made all the difference This has advantages over other outcome tools in asking about the impact of any improvement within the context of individual patient’s lives It therefore measures...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20
Báo cáo y học: " Advantages of the single delay model for the assessment of insulin sensitivity from the intravenous glucose tolerance test" doc
... B of Figure Because of the non-uniformity of the variance (the differences between each pair of insulin sensitivity indices depend on the values of the computed indices), the logarithms of the ... estimate an index of IR is, of course, crucial for any model aiming at being useful to diabetologists Part of the problem of the lack of identifiability of the SI from the MM may reside in the MM being ... degree of variability in the estimation of the parameters of the MM, compared with a very good numerical stability in the corresponding estimation of the SDM parameters The instability of the SI...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20
On behavior of the Lannes Zarati homomorphism
... investigate the behavior of the Lannes-Zarati homomorphism in the ranks five and six The vanishing of the fifth Lannes-Zarati homomorphism is given in the following theorem Theorem 5.1 The homomorphism ... other words, the diagram Exts,t A (F2 , F2 ) Sq ϕs P Rs / Exts,2t (F2 , F2 ) A ϕs Sq / P Rs commutes The detail description of the action of Sq i s on the dual of the Dickson algebra and the ... Then the Dyer-Lashof algebra is defined as the quotient of lambda algebra by the two-sided ideal generated by all monomials of negative excess / R A Denote by Qi is the image of λi through the...
Ngày tải lên: 16/10/2015, 09:20
NEUTRALITY EFFECTS ON THE PHASE STRUCTURE OF THE LINEAR SIGMA MODEL WITH THE NON ST ANDARD SYMMETR y BREAKING TERM
... THU the renormalization prescription, the thermodynamic consistency and the preservation of the Goldstone theorem Besides, in [18], making use of this method we considered the phase structure of ... considered the neutrality effects on the phase structure of the linear sigma model with the non-standard symmetry breaking term by means of the CornwallJackiw-Tomboulis effective potential The paper ... NEUTRALITY EFFECTS ON THE PHASE STRUCTURE OF 73 In the tree approximation u and v are determined from the minimization of the potential energy of (4), namely, they fulfill the equations −m2 +...
Ngày tải lên: 30/10/2015, 20:54
Factors influencing borrower’s behavior and decision making patterns in the success of a micro finance model
... Pakistan, the loan size is not as per the expectation of the borrowers who requires the loan majorly for the inventory storage enhancement of the business Majority of the total respondents in both the ... investigate the significance of borrowers’ behavior in the success of MFI model Within the framework of qualitative research, case study approach is adopted to conduct the research Yin (1984) defines the ... respondents insisted that they are at the mercy of the MFIs and they not have any idea about the merits of the loan products They will have higher satisfaction and confidence if the said MFIs are supported...
Ngày tải lên: 06/09/2013, 05:48
Báo cáo khoa học: "What’s There to Talk About? A Multi-Modal Model of Referring Behavior in the Presence of Shared Visual Information" potx
... we examined the performance of the models using hand-processed evaluations of the PUZZLE CORPUS data The following presents the results of the three different models on 10 trials of the PUZZLE ... they were last ‘touched’ by the Worker 11 5.3 The Integrated Model We used the salience list generated from the language-only model and integrated it with the one from the visual-only model The ... “Worker.” It is the goal of the task for the Helper to successfully describe a configuration of pieces to the Worker, and for the Worker to correctly arrange the pieces in their workspace The puzzle...
Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 03:20
Báo cáo y học: " Adjuncts or adversaries to shared decision-making? Applying the Integrative Model of behavior to the role and design of decision support interventions in healthcare interactions" pps
... years [21] These include the Theory of Reasoned Action, the Theory of Planned Behavior, the Health Belief Model and Social Cognitive Theory [31-34] Implicit in the combination of these theories ... [21]? The ability of these constructs to predict behavior depends upon how well the behavior is defined and upon the degree of correspondence between the measure of behavior and the measures of the ... the Integrative Model (IM) for several reasons First, this model of behavior combines the primary constructs of four theories of behavior that have been applied in many health contexts over the...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21
báo cáo khoa học: " Adjuncts or adversaries to shared decision-making? Applying the Integrative Model of behavior to the role and design of decision support interventions in healthcare interactions" doc
... years [21] These include the Theory of Reasoned Action, the Theory of Planned Behavior, the Health Belief Model and Social Cognitive Theory [31-34] Implicit in the combination of these theories ... [21]? The ability of these constructs to predict behavior depends upon how well the behavior is defined and upon the degree of correspondence between the measure of behavior and the measures of the ... the Integrative Model (IM) for several reasons First, this model of behavior combines the primary constructs of four theories of behavior that have been applied in many health contexts over the...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20