"... In PAGE 8: ...Portable microcomputer ( Table2 ): When the buyers were asked whether they received enough information via the Internet application to make a purchase decision, just over half (52%) said they did not. Additional information was wanted regarding technical specifications and warranties, as well as information on support and maintenance.... ..."

"... In PAGE 2: ... Since the signal intensi- ties of these tissue selective genes in the Mix1 and Mix2 samples fall into a wide range, they provide a simple and straightforward tool to use for platform evaluation. The results showed that the expression ratios of the tissue- selective genes under the manufacturer-recommended conditions were greatly compressed compared to the the- oretical input ratios (Figure 1; Table1 ). It was difficult to distinguish any ratios different from 1 even though the input ratios were 4, 2, 1.... ..."

"... In PAGE 6: ... Evaluation setup To evaluate the behaviour of our hybrid network resource allocation scheme we use a traffic mix that is representative for a future mobile communication network, also used in earlier works [6, 17, 5]. Connections can belong to one of the six application groups presented in Table1 . To create a diverse traffic mix, the maximum required bandwidth and connection duration are not fixed values, but follow a geo- metric distribution with the given minimum, maximum and mean values (columns 2 and 3).... In PAGE 6: ... For example, even though one might be ready to pay roughly three times more for a video-phone conversation (band- width demand of 256 Kbps), the utility per bit is almost three times higher for an audio-phone application (which requires only 30 Kbps). This information is shown in the rightmost column of Table1 . It represents the utility per bit associated with the maximum required bandwidth (e.... In PAGE 6: ...1. Accumulated utility as performance As our main performance metric we use the time- accumulated system utility, generated by all the connections 1The drop penalty was set using the following formula P dropi = 20% ureq i avg dur,whereureq i is the maximum required bandwidth, and avg dur is the average duration, see Table1 . Adaptation time was set... In PAGE 8: ...ince each QoS breach is penalised (e.g. drop penalty). A more detailed view for the hybrid-heuristic algorithm at load of 2:42 is presented in Table 2. The application groups refer to those in Table1 . We can observe that only connec- tions that have the lowest utility efficiency are blocked (new connections) or dropped (ongoing connections).... ..."

"... In PAGE 7: ... [11] and is representative for a future mobile communication network. The first 5 columns of Table1 are identical with the ones in the RBBS paper. As in their experiments, the maximum required bandwidth and connection duration are not fixed, but follow a geometric distribution with the given minimum, maximum and mean values (columns 2 and 3).... In PAGE 7: ... For example, the shape of the R-U function for application group 3 (the one representing interactive multimedia) is pre- sented in Figure 5. All R-U functions that we used, follow the minimum and maximum bandwidth requirements spec- ified in Table1 , originally taken from the RBBS experi- ments. Besides this, the utility of each application group had to reflect their relative importance.... In PAGE 7: ... For all the schemes the bandwidth allocation/reallocation has been performed with a period of 2 seconds. The drop penalty was set using the following formula P dropi = 20% ureq i avg dur,whereureq i is the maximum re- quired bandwidth, and avg dur is the average duration (see Table1 ). Adaptation time was set to 5 seconds.... In PAGE 8: ...2. The difference is that for TARA-normal we have used the average connection dura- tion (see Table1 ) to estimate the duration of each connec- tion when calculating the modifications (see Section 3.2), while for TARA-perf-estim we used the real duration from the traffic generator.... In PAGE 9: ... Connection dropping probability To compare the effects of a traffic mix more sensitive to duration estimation errors, we chose two application groups identical to group 3, but with a relative utility per bit of 0.7 to 1 (see Table1 ). The results are plotted in Figure 9.... ..."

"... In PAGE 21: ... Soil gas samples can be used to screen for contaminant concentration, oxygen, carbon dioxide and the presence of methane in soil. Groundwater should be sampled and analyzed for contaminants, their degradation products, terminal electron acceptors and other parameters that identify conditions of plume development (refer to Table1 , Section 3.2).... In PAGE 34: ... Monitoring groundwater for these compounds and assessing changes in these compounds over time and distance within the plume aids greatly in determining microbial processes likely taking place within the plume. Table1 summarizes the geochemical parameters most commonly monitored in groundwater at sites contaminated with chlorinated hydrocarbons. The existence of the patterns of degradation (geochemical footprints) does not mean that natural attenuation processes control the contaminant plume.... In PAGE 50: ...hose that measure degradation processes (e.g., chloride, methane, ethene/ethane, specific conductance, total inorganic carbon). Table1 in Section 3.2 lists the standard geochemical parameters that should be considered for sampling and analyses at sites contaminated with chlorinated hydrocarbons.... In PAGE 85: ...iodegradability of specific chlorinated compounds based on the recalcitrant rate (i.e., the percentage of studies where the compound was found not to degrade). Table1 (after Suarez and Rifai, 1999) summarizes the median half-life and recalcitrant rate for specific compounds according to degradation process. Table 1 points out that the efficiency of degradation varies greatly between pathways.... In PAGE 85: ... Table 1 (after Suarez and Rifai, 1999) summarizes the median half-life and recalcitrant rate for specific compounds according to degradation process. Table1 points out that the efficiency of degradation varies greatly between pathways. Even for compounds like vinyl chloride, which will degrade under almost all redox conditions, kinetic limitations can lead to its accumulation in certain settings.... ..."

"... In PAGE 10: ... These goals are considerations platforms must take into account. As shown in Table1 , several SAPs have been already been developed, but they are not implementation clones of one another. Instead, each SAP is designed to address a slightly different annotation need.... In PAGE 10: ... Instead, each SAP is designed to address a slightly different annotation need. Table1 shows some key considerations for developing a SAP, listed by platform. The document type shows the type of input typically presented to the platform.... In PAGE 19: ... For this reason, the IE approach of each platform is used to organize the platforms. Table1 in the previous section lists several semantic annotation platforms and the information extraction method used by each. As semantic platforms develop, it is anticipated that the classification structure will adapt to newer approaches as well.... In PAGE 38: ... Future Trends Semantic annotation platforms for the Web have only recently been developed, and they are not complete in their accuracy and elimination of manual effort. The precision and recall still vary widely depending on the platform used, IE methods, and data source type (unstructured, semi-structured, or structured), as shown in Table1 . There still exists opportunity to improve the performance of SAPs and reduce their required manual effort.... In PAGE 45: ...1.2 Integration of HMMs into Semantic Annotation Platforms With the number of available semantic annotation platforms currently available, as shown in Table1 , it is possible to extend existing SAPs with newer annotation implementations that may lead to improved annotation accuracy beyond what current platforms are producing. While work has been done to use HMMs in information extraction, as discussed previously, and related work has also been done to perform annotation in a domain search project, HMMs have not been integrated with any of the SAPs to date.... ..."

"... In PAGE 5: ... 4 DISCRETIONARY DECISION-MAKING IN E-GOVERNMENT SERVICES It is clear that the transformation from governmental manual-based to e-government services inevitably involves discretionary decision-making to a certain degree. To articulate the potentiality of discretion related applications in e-government services, Table1 illustrates examples of e-government applications based on each type of decisions classified by Galligan (1990). In addition, the type of ... ..."

"... In PAGE 4: ... Unix eventually evolved into a new form of open non-proprietary platform standard, often referred to as the open systems movement (Gabel, 1987). As with any other operating system, Unix was not a complete platform specification, because each hardware system might have different processor and peripheral interface standards ( Table2 ). However, Unix quickly evolved into a portable OS that tended to hide the differences between hardware from software applications, and so could present a set of common APIs across widely divergent hardware implementations.... ..."