use of dummy variables in regression

... normal law Qunying Wu1,2 1College of Science, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541004, P R China 2Guangxi Key Laboratory of Spatial Information and Geomatics, Guilin 541004, P.R China Email ... self-normalized partial sums of random variables in the domain of attraction of the normal law Journal of Inequalities and Applications 2012, 2012:17 doi:10.1186/1029-242X-2012-17 Qunying Wu (wqy666@glite.edu.cn) ... reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Trang 2A note on the almost sure limit theorem for self-normalized partial sums of random variables in the domain of attraction of

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 21:20

... o Income statement o Statement of retained earnings o Statement of cash flows • Differences of use of Financial statements in Accountancy vs Finance Trang 3Definition of Financial statementsFinancial ... want to use the information in financial statements about the effectiveness of using retained earnings by:  measuring return on investment  answer the question of whether the retained earnings ... F inancing activities ( CFF )= Change in Cash Trang 17Relationship of Financial StatementsTrang 18Differences of use of Financial statements in Accountancy vs FinanceDIFFERENCES ACCOUNTANCY FINANCE

Ngày tải lên: 12/07/2014, 14:20

... number of alleles per marker. With totally informative markers, the benefits of using an increasing number of them followed the law of diminishing returns. The use of one ... retained at generation 15, whereas if the number of initial alleles was two, both of them were retained (n a = 1.91). A way of diminishing genotyping costs is to use ... studied issue is the usefulness of markers in delaying the inevitable loss of genetic variability in a population of limited size in the generations following its foundation Monte...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:21

... 200/50) used, the number of offspring can be much larger With ten offspring per dam and recording before selection,... certainty In particular, when there is little recombination within marker ... probability instead of using one marker that is linked to a QTL; 2) the inclusion of marker information... that in the case of selection before recording, non-MAS genetic gain is higher ... 64%. If recording was after selection, additional genetic gains increased markedly with increasing numbers of offspring per dam, because markers rendered within-family selection

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:22

... pain near the side of heart Infections Infected wounds, skin wounds, wounds, infection, infection diseases Pain Headache, stomachache, rheumatism, body pain, leg pain, backbone pain, joint pain, ... Traditional medicine in Nepal is used extensively by majority of the population, and includes Ayurveda, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), Unani and various forms of indigenous medicine including Tibetan ... traditional method of maintaining the good quality of herbal medicine is unique. For centuries, Amchi have been stor- ing herbal medicine in a bag created from the skin of M. chrysogaster skin, which

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:21

... Corresponding author Abstract The mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) is an intracellular serine/threonine protein kinase positioned at a central point in a variety of cellular signaling cascades ... development of resistance to these agents The results of ongoing clinical trials with mTOR inhibitors, as single agents and in combination, will better define their activity in cancer Competing interests ... to initiate ribosomal translation of mRNA into protein mTOR activation leads to increased synthesis of multiple proteins, including several that have been impli-cated in the pathogenesis of multiple

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 22:20

... the role of masculinity in influencing African men’s use of HIV services Our findings suggest that HIV service uptake in this context is deeply intertwined with hegemonic masculinities, intensified ... shortages In mapping out the social representations of masculinity that limit men’s uptake of services, we draw on a study of the user-service interface, involving 78 participants - including male ... constructions of masculinity interact and conflict with AIDS treatment? Gendering of therapeutic citizenship The concept of therapeutic citizenship provides a useful frame for our investigation of the interface

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... index for monitoring studies [23], supporting the views of an expert panel [15] However, notwithstanding this finding, the data indicate that differences in inspiratory level have a greater influ-ence ... disconProlas-tinued prematurely, resulting in a median of 127 weeks of expo-sure to Prolastin and 108 weeks to placebo The study was completed by 92% of patients in the Prolastin group and 82% of patients ... the design of the study, in the analysis and interpretation of data, and drafting of the manuscript AD was responsible for the Danish arm of EXACTLE and reviewing/contributing to writing the manuscript

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20

... resurgence of interest in the clinical use of inert gases In the present paper we review the use of inert gases as anesthetics and neuroprotectants, with particular attention to the clinical use of xenon ... binding of the co-agonist glycine at the glycine site on the NMDA receptor (Figure  2a) Based on protein crystallographic data, the binding of glycine is proposed to result in domain closure of ... preventing channel opening Interestingly, recent crystallographic data on the bind-ing of xenon to the Annexin V protein suggest that xenon may disrupt conformational changes in this protein [33] Consistent

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:22

... cryobank bulls used was 7, in scenario b3 (instead of 6.6, in the first cryobank sampling method), and 0, in scenario d3 (instead of 0.3, in the first cryobank sampling method) ... one used in the Netherlands), where the semen of all young bulls is stored in the cryobank. In the simulations performed here, we investigated the impact of a one-time use (i.e. during a single ... rates of inbreeding greater than the desired values [7]. In these cases, the use of stored semen from male ancestors has seldom been investigated, although breeding organisations could be interested

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:21

... the increase of the inbreeding coefcients during t generations Since t/2NX can be viewed as the evolution rate in population X, no phylogeny can be inferred from the tree in cases of. ... can be considered as quasi-linear functions of t. In addition γ L , being independent of founder allele distributions, has the desirable advantage of being directly linked to the divergence time ... number of genes in sample X (resp. Y). In the second section we will review the behaviour of genetic distances under the classical model of evolution of neutral markers assuming combined effects of

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:21

... file and a linked list Absorption of a row entails: reading the row from the exterior file; merging the input with the linked list; and absorbing the row in the linked list When the linked list ... order of the row is maintained by adjusting the pointers (illustrated in Table I). Because matrices such as Q and G- are sparse, they lend themselves to this form of storage To store a matrix of ... absorbing any equations, it is useful to link the unoccupied space in the vectors into a separate linked list As space is released, it can be added to the list of free space for reuse. Because

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 20:20

... plastic shrinkage cracking All of these factors need to be taken into account in the finishing portion of the project... paste to the fibers, the influence of a combination of fibers ... reflect the increasing body of knowledge and use of silica fume in concrete. Copyright © 2000, American Concrete Institute. All rights reseved including rights of reproduction and use any form ... Pistilli, Wintersteen and Cechner, 1984. (4) 8 samples. USE OF SILICA FUME IN CONCRETE 234R-9 According to Mindess (1988), silica fume increases the strength of concrete largely because it increases

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2014, 15:48

... number of factors: properties and proportions of fly ash, cement, fine aggregate, length of mixing or agitating time, and type of air-entraining admixture used (Gaynor, 1980; Meininger, ... technology in the use of fly ash in the concrete industry. Fly ash is now used in concrete for many reasons, including reduced cost, improvements in workability of fresh concrete, reduction in temperature ... SiO 2 content of fly ash results mainly from the clay minerals and quartz in the coal. Anthracite and bituminous coals often contain a higher percentage of clay minerals in their incombustible

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2014, 17:44

... events of the US Presidents - The differences in the uses of dominant and non-dominant hands of the US presidents in relation with their valances to the good or bad things The findings in this ... bark or grind as the signals of communicating In another example of the birds, they may sing to call for help or dating of their kind Each type of create has its own specific type of language, ... the non-dominant hands in describing the bad things with negative valances In the this study, the author made summary of the main findings of this research, as well as the emphasis of the different

Ngày tải lên: 28/02/2015, 11:54

... meaning in context and linguistics is the study of how people exchange meanings through the use of language Metaphor is one of the most interesting phenomena in this language system and users ... Metafunction (Technical name) Definition (Kind of meaning) Corresponding status of clause Favoured type of structure Trang 15Experiential Construing a model of experience Clause as representation segmental ... its main objective of investigating the use of grammatical metaphor in Barack Obama’s Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, it is a descriptive research which reexamines the senses in which

Ngày tải lên: 28/02/2015, 11:54

... researchers Intralinguas strategies involve the use of linguistic means of the target language such as synonyms, definitions, or linguistic contexts Interlingual strategies utilize the L1 in the form of ... Aims of the study The issue this paper examined in more detail is in what ways the use of students‟ L1 in the classroom hinders or facilitates their learning of vocabulary of second language (in ... roles in teaching students of different levels Therefore, the study is mainly concerned with teacher‟s use and allowing the use of Vietnamese in teaching vocabulary to non-majored students of English

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:17

... movement of promoting the use of the mother tongue in the language classroom Professionals in second language acquisition have become increasingly aware of the roles of the mother tongue in the ... gone far as saying the use of L1 in the classroom is necessary (Schweers, 1999, p6) Additionally,, new empirical findings of bilingual research have recently supported the use of L1 in the classroom ... make use of L1: eliciting language, checking comprehension, giving instruction, discussion of classroom methodologies, checking for sense, presentation and reinforcement of language, and testing

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2015, 10:32

... strategies As can be seen in the definition of listening, listeners make use of two kinds of information to identify the meaning of listening text: their prior knowledge and linguistic knowledge Those ... The sequence of units is determined solely by principles of linguistic complexity Sequencing consideration of context, function, or is determined by any meaning that maintains interest The ... This type of competence reveals an understanding of the social context in which language is used, of the roles of the participant, of the information they share and of the function of the interaction

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2015, 08:50

... reference instead of comparative one The high frequency of occurrence of personal and demonstrative reference can illustrate features of narrating instead of comparing or discussing in the story ... 3325 focuses on describing scene, actions or human's thoughts Analyzing these following examples: (22) The motion of all things was a drifting in the heart of the Canyon (…) The hum of the bees ... of systemic functional linguistics Then I will look at the system of cohesion in English, presenting in some detail the sub-types of grammatical cohesion 2 Overview of systemic functional linguistics

Ngày tải lên: 15/07/2015, 12:57