methodological statistical and measurement issues

... production, storage and electrical energy generation system, control and measurements He is the author of more than 70 publications and has patents Pr Agbossou is also a PES-IEEE member and former Chair ... Canada and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada E-mail address: Florent.Breque@mdacorporation.com Julien Ramousse received the B.Sc and M.Sc degrees in energetics and ... of Energy and Environment (IJEE), Volume 1, Issue 1, 2010, pp.1-20 the proton transport from the anode to the cathode, and which acts in addition to the usual convection and diffusion And fourth,...

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... allocations and employee performance appraisals), it is essential to understand the uses and explore the limitations of this type of measurement References Dillman, D (1978) Mail and telephone ... produce statistical summaries We at the Census Bureau also decided that none of the identifying information would be released to the agencies How to handle the issues of confidentiality and identifying ... careful methodological and statistical work that still needs to be done to ensure that customer surveys are designed to yield meaningful comparisons of customer satisfaction across industries and...

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... the actual measurements would We have seen one histogram and obtained some idea of the way this collection of measurements is distributed around an Figure 25 Ln - 20 Histogram for 95 measurements ... the development of the laws of measurement Let’s return to our measurements of paper thicknesses and investigate some of the properties of this collection The measurements in the collection should ... is that each of the four measurements made by a student should be a really independent measurement By that we mean that no measurement is influenced by any following measurement Another requirement...

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... reproductive age HYPERANDROGENISM The primary androgen produced by the ovaries is androstenedione, and the primary androgen from adrenal glands is dehydroepiandrostene sulfate (DHEAS) Androgen production ... a-reductase), an even more potent androgen than testosterone The sebaceous glands are very sensitive to androgens, and oily skin and acne are early signs of hyperandrogenism The hair follicle is ... responsive CHAPTER 29 INFERTILITY AND RELATED ISSUES 787 to androgens, and hirsutism is a further response to increasing androgenicity Finally, with marked androgenicity, signs of masculinization...

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... 1940s and 50s; legalised abortion, contraception, medicalisation of pregnancy and birth in the 1960s and 70s (including ultrasound screening for Down’s Syndrome and Spina Bifida); and IVF and related ... individuality and freedom because genes and biological origins are essentially irrelevant Indeed, for liberals, emphasising the importance of genes and biology immediately smacks of prejudice and right-wing ... would be a minority pursuit, in the medium- and longterm demand could be considerable Firstly, according to the claims of the Raelians and Professors Zavos and Antinori, there are already hundreds...

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... understanding and management of soil fertility, pest management, livestock production and health, development and evaluation of adapted cultivars and breeds, and improved post-harvest handling ... organic food sales were handled through supermarkets and grocery stores, mass merchandisers, and club stores Meanwhile, independent natural product and health food stores and natural grocery chains ... production occurs in fruits and vegetables, rice, grapes and dairy as well Further expansion is hindered by the limited government support in research and outreach, and by the long and complex marketing...

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... and Smith and Smith [1977] and have since been echoed and extended in works such as Abiteboul and Hull [1987], Brodie [1984], King and McLeod [1985b], and Tsichritzis and Lochovsky [ 19821 Historically, ... [1976] by Tsichritzis and Lochovsky [1982], and the collection of articles that comprise Brodie et al [1984] Also, Afsarmanesh and McLeod [ 19841, King and McLeod [ 1985b], and Semantic Database ... mechanisms for viewing and accessing the schema at different levels of abstraction [Hammer and McLeod 1981; King and McLeod 1985a; Smith and Smith 1977; Su 1983; Tsichritzis and Lochovsky 19821...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 05:22

... Current policy initiatives and programmes are diverse and include both supply-side and demand-side measures A more comprhensive understanding of the interaction of supply and demand for eco-innovation ... characteristics and impacts are often obscure to both policy makers and companies Quantitative measurement of eco-innovation activities would improve understanding of the concept and practices and help ... KTNs are monitoring and reporting on technologies, applications and markets, high-quality network opportunities, and identifying and prioritising key innovation-related issues and challenges Given...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 09:20

... measurement and control system Measurement object under feedback control M(t) X(t) T(t) Direct measurement chain S(t) B(t) Return chain Measurement and control system Figure 1.2 Control and measurement ... objects and maintain retroactive control of a process In this sense, Fundamentals of Instrumentation and Measurement instruments and systems of measurement constitute the “tools” of measurement and ... Chapter Measurement Instrumentation The purpose of this chapter is to review the essential definitions and characteristics of measurement We discuss measurement systems and the roles and classifications...

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... differences in units and so is not comparable across sources Analytical Issues In this section we review a number of methodological and interpretation issues in the construction and use of the WGI ... indicator and year to zero, and the standard deviation to one In particular, for each indicator and year, we subtract the sample mean (across countries) from each country, and divide by the sample standard ... possible more detailed and nuanced sources of country-level data and diagnostics on governance issues 20 References Efron, Bradley and Carl Morris (1971) “Limiting the Risk of Bayes and Empirical Bayes...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20

... Goerge and Bong Joo Lee ix 197 x CONTENTS Access and Confidentiality Issues with Administrative Data Henry E Brady, Susan A Grand, M Anne Powell, and Werner Schink Measuring Employment and Income ... researcher access to and use of confidential administrative data Hotz and Scholz review the measurement of employment and income from administrative data and discuss why and whether measures ... matching and cleaning of administrative data; (2) issues of access and confidentiality; (3) problems in measuring employment and income with administrative data compared to survey data; and (4)...

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... recognition and measurement of pension liabilities and certain aspects of accounting for financial instruments Management has considerable scope for estimation in discretionary areas McNichols and Wilson ... position taken by Ruland (1984) and compare it to Revsine's analysis, we note that Ruland distinguishes between the deontological view whereby moral rules apply to actual actions and the teleological ... domain, and therefore demanding their ethical judgement, while the manipulation of transactions falls within the domain of management and so is not subject to the same ethical code Merchant 13 and...

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... respect to ICANN and the DNS, and examine to what extent ICANN is positioned to ensure Internet stability and security, competition, private and bottom-up policymaking and coordination, and fair representation ... November 25, 1998, DOC and ICANN signed an official Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), whereby DOC and ICANN agreed to jointly design, develop, and test the mechanisms, methods, and procedures necessary ... Background and Policy Issues • Ensuring accountability, transparency and the interests of global Internet users—the panel will evaluate ICANN governance and assess transparency, accountability, and...

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... two top-level commands At the bottom is a zoomed-in view for the “Flight” sub-network State and state are called precommands State and state are called postcommands States 2, 5, and represent slots ... leaving no hidden variables and resulting in a CRF Here, PAC stands for “preamble for arrival city,” and PDC for “preamble for departure city.” The command prior and state transition features ... models for segmenting and labeling sequence data ICML Nocedal, J and S J Wright 1999 Numerical optimization, Springer-Verlag Povey, D and P C Woodland 2002 Minimum phone error and I-smoothing for...

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... project: the corpus providers (LPL and RALI) and the (RALI, LOILIA, ISSCO, IRMC and LIA) General coordination was handled by J V~ronis (LPL); a discussion group was set up and moderated by Ph Langlais ... (s2, t3)} Sentencelevel recall and precision for this example are therefore 2/3 = 0.66 and respectively, as compared to the alignment-level recall and precision, 0.50 and 0.33 respectively The F-measure ... Quebec M Simard, G.F Foster, and P IsabeUe 1992 Using Cognates to Align Sentences in Bilingual Corpora In Fourth International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation...

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... forests and grasslands to pine plantations, South Island, New Zealand Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 84(1-2): 69-82 FAO 2001 The World's Forests 2000: resolution of km, based on 1992-93 and ... runoff is expected with afforestation on grasslands and shrublands (e.g Fahey and Jackson, 1997; Farley et al., 2005; Jackson et al., 2005; Wilk and Hughes, 2002) Large amounts of freshwater are ... Agudelo and A.Y Hoekstra – August 2001 The value of freshwater wetlands in the Zambezi basin I.M Seyam, A.Y Hoekstra, G.S Ngabirano and H.H.G Savenije – August 2001 ‘Demand management’ and ‘Water...

Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2014, 00:20

... people’s living standards are improving and increasing industrialization and development of more extensive and garbage are making more and more with the increasingly complex composition and diversity ... goods and services were less put into production and business decisions of companies According to economic experts, companies need to consider issues of environmental standards in production and ... of Commerce and Industry, Ministry of Labor-Invalids and Social Affairs, Vietnam Ministry of Industry and Trade since 2005, together with Vietnam Leather & Footwear Association, and The Vietnam...

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