Metadata is an emerging approach to organizing digital collections in order to enhance retrieval, preservation, and interoperability. The various issues confronting digital library projects that aspire to adopt metadata create the need for a systematic methodology. The Metadata Lifecycle Model (MLM), proposed in this paper, consists of ten steps: 1) acquiring basic metadata needs, 2) assessment...

OBJECT The authors conducted a cadaveric anatomical study to quantify and compare the area of surgical exposure and the freedom available for instrument manipulation provided by the following four surgical approaches to the extracranial periclival region: simple transoral (STO), transoral with a palate split (TOPS), Le Fort I osteotomy (LFO), and median labioglossomandibulotomy (MLM). METHODS...

Abstract In this article, we analyze the convergence rate of modified Levenberg-Marquardt (MLM) method under Hölderian local error bound condition and continuity Jacobian, which are more general than Lipschitz Jacobian. Under special circumstances, MLM coincides with results presented by Fan. A globally convergent algorithm trust region technique will also be given.

Recruitment estimates for yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) in the western and central Pacific Ocean (WCPO), derived from a stock assessment model, are highly variable seasonally, interannually, and over decadal periods. A generalized linear model (GLM) was developed that predicts the variation in yellowfin tuna recruitment in response to a range of oceanographic variables. The GLM model accou...

Three strains of facultatively anaerobic thermotolerant and moderately halophilic bacteria were isolated from two Jordanian hot spring locations. The novel Bacillus strains were short rods, Gram-positive, motile and spore formers. The strains were capable of anaerobic (but not aerobic) growth at 63C, moderately halophilic, able to grow at NaCl concentration range of 12 15 % and at temperatures ...

One of the central concerns of the multi-level modelling (MLM) community is the hierarchy of classifications that appear in conceptual models; what these are, how they are linked and how they should be organised into levels and modelled. Though there has been significant work done in this area, we believe that it could be enhanced by introducing a systematic way to investigate the ontological n...

BACKGROUND Type 2 diabetes is a well-established risk factor for cardiovascular disease and is common among patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI). The extent to which patients with first-time MI develop diabetes requiring glucose-lowering medications (GLM) is largely unknown. The aim of the study was to investigate temporal trends in the initiation of GLM among patients discharged afte...

The paper directly compares two versions of a medical speech translation system, one with a grammar based language model (GLM) recognizer and the other with a statistical language model (SLM) recognizer. We construct the GLM using a corpus-based method, so that both the GLM and the SLM can be derived from the same corpus; evaluation is carried out with respect to performance on the speech trans...

Covariant tensor representations of glm|n occur as irreducible components of tensor powers of the natural (m + n)-dimensional representation. We construct a basis of each covariant representation and give explicit formulas for the action of the generators of glm|n in this basis. The basis has the property that the natural Lie subalgebras glm and gln act by the classical Gelfand–Tsetlin formulas...