Several laser cylindrical reflectors were placed on the hill slopes, and their coordinates were defined by performing a GPS survey.
In the basic version of ABC algorithm, the neighborhood is defined by performing a small perturbation in only an optimization parameter through Equation 2, which makes convergence slower.
Then the spatial temporal phase congruency maps are divided into many non-overlapped spatial temporal blocks and a local block-based quality metric is defined by performing 3D zero-mean normalized cross-correlation on the relevant spatial temporal phase congruency maps of the input and fused videos.
University cardiac centers are defined by performing coronary revascularization procedures.
Assuming this propionyl-CoA* content as a constraint, the optimal feeding strategy required to obtain this copolymer was defined by performing FBA on the acetate enriched culture, where Eq. 12f was also used as a constraint.
These ROIs were defined by performing a whole-brain voxel-wise search contrasting the activity evoked during movement generation (i.e., movement planning [Plan phase] and execution [Execute phase]) vs the activity evoked during simple visual object presentation (Preview phase; when subjects had vision of the target object yet were unaware of which action [Grasp vs Reach] to perform).
Recognizing that circulating EPCs have historically been defined by CD34+/KDR+[13], [14] preliminary studies were performed looking at expression of KDR and CD117 cells which demonstrated that virtually all cells expressing KDR also co-expressed CD117.
Postbaseline clusters were defined by first performing a principal component analysis on the 10 health state measures for data at baseline and each postbaseline visit.
LV dysfunction was defined by echocardiograms performed simultaneously with the PiCCO™ measurements (N = 870 data pairs).
Major non-cardiac surgery was defined by procedures performed in the operating room requiring general, spinal or epidural anaesthesia, after exclusion of very low-risk surgeries such as dermatological, ophthalmological, nasal or auditory procedures.
