Measuring Library Performance: Principles and Techniques

A Review of Biopsy in Dentistry: Principles, Techniques, and Considerations

Biopsy is a useful technique for definitive diagnosis of abnormal oral conditions and it must be performed carefully since any error may result in histopathologic misidentification of the lesion. Present study evaluated the most relevant literatures published between 1982 and 2012 in order to review existed guidelines of correct biopsy performance using scientific database sources such as PubMe...

Tools and Techniques for Measuring and Improving Grid Performance

JInterval Library: Principles, Development, and Perspectives

This paper presents a Java library for interval computations. The design of the bottom layers of the library follows the structure prescribed in the IEEE P1788 Interval Standard draft. The library provides a user with the possibility to choose interval flavor (classic, set-based, Kaucher), interval bounds representation (extended rational, IEEE 754-2008 floating point) and associated rounding p...

Measuring retail company performance using credit scoring techniques

This paper proposes a theoretical framework for predicting financial distress based on Hunt’s (2000) ‘Resource-Advantage (R-A) Theory of Competition’. The study focuses on the US retail market. Five credit scoring methodologies –Naïve Bayes, Logistic Regression, Recursive Partition, Artificial Neural Network, and Sequential Minimal Optimization— are used on a sample of 195 healthy companies and...

Measuring the performance of lot-sizing techniques in uncertain environments

Cost-e!ectiveness and computational time are the traditional criteria for evaluating lot-sizing techniques. However, in evolving environments, frequent revisions of demand forecasts may induce various degrees of instability in planned orders, depending on the selected lot-sizing technique. In poorly #exible production systems, the cost of implementing these alterations may overcome the bene"ts ...