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... normal and ectopic beats and thus gave an accurate measure of the true fHR The case history highlights the usefulness of non-invasive fECG in the determination of foetal heart rate and ECG and its ... DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL HRV SOFTWARE Trang 14Development of a novel HRV software 1411 Introduction In collaboration with the Computer Science Department of National University of Singapore, a software ... high and low threshold values of 170 and 110 beats per minute (equivalent to mNN intervals of 353 and 545 milliseconds, respectively) This range of values was chosen because foetal heart rates...

Ngày tải lên: 15/09/2015, 17:11

... paper considers the problem of optimizing the burst format of packet transmission to perform enhanced-accuracy estimation of Doppler-shift and Doppler-rate of the carrier of the received signal, ... frequency rate-of-change (Doppler-rate) For signal model (2) to be valid, we assumed that the value of the Doppler-shiftν is much smaller than the symbol rate, and that the value of the Doppler-rate ... CARRIER-PHASE/DOPPLER-SHIFT AND DOPPLER-RATE ESTIMATION: 2P, 3P, 4P FORMATS This appendix addresses the optimal signal design for Doppler-shiftν and Doppler-rate α estimation in the case of joint phase/Doppler-shift and...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... interest rate volatility I use the historicstandard deviation of the same interest rates Section 4 describes formally how public information could impact forecasts ofinterest rates and interest rate ... 3 months and t + 12 months forms a direct measure of the accuracy of theindividual forecasts To measure the volatility of interest rates I calculate the standard deviation of interest rates using ... percentage ofGDP and current account as a percentage of GDP The components of …nancialrisk are foreign debt as a percentage of GDP, foreign debt service as a percentage of exports of goods and services,...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 13:20

... the distributions of [100],[110], and [111] crystallographic orientations at the insensitive area of strain rates, and the uncertainty of [100] at the transitional area of strain rates From microscopic ... [100], [110], and [111] plotted against strain rates, respectively (c) The first yield stress of [100], [110], and [111] plotted against strain rates (d) Young ’s modulus of [100], [110], and [111] ... because of local melted structures Figure 1 Schematic illustration of the theoretical models. Table 1 The applied strain rate and its absolute rate of the nanowires No Applied strain rate (%...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 04:20

... scouring, (duration of treatment, and a record of any samples collected for NIVR) o Age and speculative cause of death o Number weaned and date o Date of next service (an example of a sow card is ... 1Milestone 4: Identification of suitable high priority project interventions and selected smallholders for training and demonstration units and estimation of potential physical and financial impacts ... best and iron the worst option One shed had an iron roof covered with thatch and this seemed to work well Whether this will reduce the life span of the iron is unknown Figure 2 Ridge vents and...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 06:20

... ). Let us take the example of phase offset estimation and discuss the results and parameters of Figure 5. In this figure, the MSE curves of the HDD and the algorithm of (34)were obtained for N ... denotes the number of rows in the parity check matrix of the code, u k is the number of nonzero elements in the kth row of the parity check matrix and n iter is the number of iterations of the optimization ... run of Monte Carlo simulations, a CFO between −0.1/T s and 0.1/T s and a phase offset between −π/2andπ/2 were randomly chosen. Figure 8 shows the Mean Squared Error (MSE) curves of the proposed and...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 08:20

... if and only if for each ordered pair of vertices u, v (possibly, u = v) of G and for each g∈ Γ there exists a u − v walk of length ≤ k of net voltage g Proof For any two distinct vertices ug and ... Classification: 05C25. 1 Introduction The problem of finding, for given d and k, the largest order nd,kof a graph of maximum degree d and diameter≤ k is well known as the degree/diameter problem An obvious ... The objective of this paper is to show that, in fact, all the Cayley graphs of semidirect products of groups which appear in the tables of largest known graphs of given degree and diameter [11,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 06:22

... linear radii estimation, alog and blog: logarithmic crown area estimation, alin1 and blin2: linear crown area estimation, see text for equations and dimensions). Pure stands Mixed stands Spruce ... given diameter separated for tree species (beech: circles, spruce: triangles) and stand type (A: pure stands, B: mixed stands). Larger points and triangles indicate the 5% of relative largest ... Original article Estimation of crown radii and crown projection area from stem size and tree position Rüdiger GROTE* Chair for Forest Yield Science, Department of Ecology and Landscape Management,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:21

... (random, phenotypic and BLUP selection), two levels of heritability (0.20 and 0.50) and two levels of pedigree information (0% and 15% randomly missing) were considered Populations consisted of ... one of three schemes, i.e., random selection, selection on the basis of highest phenotypes, and selection on the basis of highest estimated breeding values The last two gave different degrees of ... Original article Comparison between estimation of breeding values and fixed effects using Bayesian and empirical BLUP estimation under selection on parents and missing pedigree information Flávio...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:21

... each year out of 59 candidates, and 49 dams were selected out of 169 candidates until generation 16. For the control line, on average, 11 sires out of 46 males and 55 dams out of 159 females ... addition of a l = the random animal effect (l = 1 to m, m = the total number of records), d ijk a random effect common to all the progeny of dam k, and e ijl = the random error. The expectation and ... Tixier-Boichard data of G6, G8 and G10 to G16 of the control line, the analysis showed a positive effect of the NA gene on the mean and on the coefcient of variation of the clutch...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:22

... School of Computing, Science and Engineering, University of Salford, England. School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, RMIT University, Australia. Department of Mechanical and ... different lengths of 1, and cm and a mean velocity of m/s Figures 8-10 display the deposition efficiency for a pipe with the length of 5cm and different mean velocity of 0.5, and m/s in compare ... with the length of 1cm and a mean velocity of m/s. Figure 4. Comparison of the deposition efficiency for the 1cm long pipe and a mean velocity of 1m/s between the present result and the analytical...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 10:06

... 1SHRINKAGE ESTIMATION OF NONLINEARMODELS AND COVARIANCE MATRIX JIANG QIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE 2012 Trang 2SHRINKAGE ESTIMATION OF NONLINEARMODELS AND COVARIANCE MATRIX JIANG QIAN (B.Sc and ... Cleveland, Grosse and Shyu (1991), assumes that of nonparametric modeling Trang 241.2 Research Objectives and Organization of the Thesis 11As for the estimation of the VCM model, Hastie and Tibshirani ... when c → 0 and attracts lots of applications in econometrics, finance andbiology See, e.g., Chapter 3 of Franses and van Dijk (2000) 1.1.3 Varying Coefficient Model As a hybrid of parametric and nonparametric...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 17:55

... valuable information to the field of invasive foetal ECG and to the understanding of the development of the foetal autonomic nervous system via measurement of heart rate variability, it has several ... Potratz J, Wiegand UK, Brandes A, Kluge N, Katus HA Circadian profile of cardiac autonomic nervous modulation in healthy subjects: differing effects of aging and gender on heart rate variability ... indexes and time and frequency domain measures of heart rate variability J Med Eng Technol 2001; 25(6): 240-8 64 Carter JB, Banister EW, Blaber AP The effect of age and gender on heart rate variability...

Ngày tải lên: 15/09/2015, 17:10

... the bias and its standard deviation widened as the magnitude of. .. addition to this, a filter with upper and lower threshold limits of fHRs of 170 and 110 bpm was incorporated to ... difference and the mean, and whether the assumption of constant standard deviation of the differences is satisfied. When the data points on the Bland-Altman plot spread out as the magnitude of measurements ... the standard deviation of the differences (indicated by the spreading out of Comparison of novel versus commercial HRV softwares 188 Table 11-2: Bland-Altman analysis (mean difference) of time-...

Ngày tải lên: 15/09/2015, 17:11

... scenario, the equal error rate of our scheme is 7%, while that of the reference scheme is 20%; and the minimum total error rate (i.e sum of false positive rate and false negative rate) is at 14% for ... component lengths False positives of AMS and RPM (noiseless) False positives of AMS and RPM (noisy) False positives of AMS and RPM by distance False positives of RPM 58 60 ... packet features and possibly features of web objects Flow logs preserve features and statistics of flows and possibly object features, too Identifying subnet structures and key servers of an organization...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 09:58

... Figure KSHV of a region12 the divergent locus B of a complete sequence CODEHOP strategy to determine themacaque homolog ofof CODEHOP strategy to determine the complete sequence of a region of the ... genomes Often the linear order of genes within the genomes of related viruses is maintained Thus, the spacing and orientation of specific genes can be predicted in the genomes of Page 15 of 24 ... the utility of this CODEHOP PCR primer strategy by identifying and characterizing14 previously unknown DNA polymerase sequences from members of the alpha, beta and gamma subfamilies of herpesviruses...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... am so grateful to you for believing in me and letting me pursue my dreams The person I am today is because of you To my dear uncle and my aunt Khem Kandel and Laxmi Kandel: your support and friendship ... experiments The Argonne National Laboratory is operated by the University of Chicago Argonne, LLC, for the United States Department of Energy Office of Biological and Environmental Research under Contract ... structure of ALDH3A1 with CB7 .72 Crystal structure of ALDH3A1 with CB25 81 G Expression and Activity of ALDH3A1 and ALDH1A1 in Cancer Cell lines .86 H Sensitization of tumor cells...

Ngày tải lên: 24/08/2014, 09:51

... cis-regulatory elements through comparisons of promoters and 5` flanking regions of γ-globin and ε-globin gene of several primates and other mammals [58] Thus alignment of orthologous nucleotide sequences ... accommodative of all our demands Thanks to Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore for funding my studies through the NUS research scholarship and for taking care of all ... The completion of a number of vertebrate genome sequences with its unprecedented coverage and resolution, as well as the concurrent development of genomic alignment, visualization, and analytical...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 08:40

... in Iceland and Japan and highest in USA and France The overall prevalence was the lowest in Northern Ireland, UK and Finland, and the highest in Italy, Spain and Martinique The burden of SLE ... humor, kindness, and help Thanks to all staff of Deparment of Rheumatology and Immunology, Singapore General Hospital for their help and friendship ii Thanks to all staff of Department of Clinical ... THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE YONG LOO LIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE 2007 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First of all, I would like to...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 12:42

... kidney, adrenal gland and spleen It was also shown that HSV-Tk caused depletion of the enteric glia and this resulted in severe inflammation and hemorrhagic necrosis of the jejunum and ileum (Bush ... promoter is that of the survivin gene Survivin is a member of the Inhibitor of Apoptosis (IAP) protein family and plays a vital role in the survival of cancer cells and the progression of malignancy ... tissues and is over expressed among a wide range of cancers including cancers of the oesophagus, pancreas, bladder, central nervous system, lung, prostrate gland, breast, uterus, melanoma and soft...

Ngày tải lên: 22/10/2015, 21:20