OBJECTIVE This article describes the steps in the planning and development of the 2002 Feeding Infants and Toddlers Study. METHODS We describe the study's rationale, sampling methodology, survey questionnaire development, dietary methodology, field data collection, and data processing and analysis. A brief review of existing national nutrition surveys and studies of infants and toddlers, and ...

BACKGROUND FragKB (Fragment Knowledgebase) is a repository of clusters of structurally similar fragments from proteins. Fragments are annotated with information at the level of sequence, structure and function, integrating biological descriptions derived from multiple existing resources and text mining. METHODOLOGY FragKB contains approximately 400,000 conserved fragments from 4,800 represent...

In simulation studies in statistics, there are many situations that we need to generate data from a multivariate normal distribution. By multivariate normal data we mean joint observations of p variables Y1, Y2, . . . , Yp, in which each individual variable by itself is normally distributed, the variables are mutually correlated, and come from a joint multivariate normal distribution. The proce...

An important problem that arises when updating a knowledge base is related to integrity constraints maintenance. That is, given a consistent knowledge base and an update request, to obtain all possible ways of updating the base facts such that the request is satisfied and consistency is maintained. In this paper we present a new method for providing automatic support in these situations. Our me...

The study adopts the single-case-study method and applies the model of Homburg et al. (2002) to investigate the key account management practices within Company W, a laptop computer ODM. The study reveals two significant findings. One finding is that four elements, activities, actors, resources, and formalization within the model, are mutually correlated, because this four kinds of positive rela...

This document outlines an attempt to develop guidelines for a low-barrier unified distributed data system (“Virtual Archive”) based on modern standards. A prototype data system uses approach close to IVOA [1] but aims at a more general application area. Existing trends and standards in building distributed data systems are briefly discussed and Virtual Archive approach to specific issues laid out.

We investigate the impact of actors’ positions within regional innovator networks on their innovative performance. The networks of four selected regions are based on information on patent applicants and inventors. Count data regressions show positive effects on innovation of both the total number of relations and of access to a larger knowledge base. However, when looking at innovators that are...

ABSTRACT Large observational surveys, like those that will be conducted at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, are expected to discover up one million new asteroids in first year of operation. This more than double data base known asteroids. New methods needed handle large influx data. Here, we tested some these approaches by studying population on stable orbits inside ?6 secular resonance. resonanc...