Background: Valuation studies of preference-based health measures like SF6D have been conducted in many countries. However, the cost conducting such countries with small populations or low- and middle-income (LMICs) can be prohibitive. There is potential to use results from readily available countries’ valuations produce better valuation estimates. Methods: Data Lebanon UK SF-6D value sets were...

We show that Horrocks' criterion for the splitting of rank two vector bundles in P 3 can be extended, with some assumptions on the Chern classes, on non singular hypersurfaces in P 4. Extension of other splitting criterions are studied.

We show that Horrocks' criterion for the splitting of rank two vector bundles in P 3 can be extended, with some assumptions on the Chern classes, on non singular hypersurfaces in P 4. Extension of other splitting criterions are studied.

This paper describes a methodology based on 40 criterions as well as a mixture of MCDM methods to evaluate different technologies applied in modern training systems. The criterions are grouped in a threedimensional (3D) model in accordance with their use and application in training processes. The proposed 3D model includes the Management (M), the Technological (T) and the Instructional (I) dime...

Due to global conditions there is a demand for more economically and ecologically driven ships. The development of autopilots with optimization criterions on essential parameters will therefore be an important research field in the future. In this effort the use of artificial intelligence (AI) methods will have a central position. Aalesund University College (AUC) has taken the consequence of t...

Multi-leader multi-follower games are a class of hierarchical games in which a collection of leaders compete in a Nash game constrained by the equilibrium conditions of another Nash game amongst the followers. Much of the extant research on this topic is either model specific or relies on weaker notions of equilibria. We observe that when this original game is modified to ensure that the leader...

We introduce some notions of variation using the statistical convergence with respect to power series method. By use variation, we prove criterions that can be used verify without limit value. Also, results give relations between P-statistical variations are studied.

the purpose of this research is to study the effects of board of director structure on financing constraints for the companies listed on tehran stock exchange (tse). for this purpose, indigenised kaplan and zingales (kz) index  has been used as a proxy for financing constraints. the population consists of 56 companies of tse spanning 2007-2013 and the multivariate logistic regression is used. t...

The acceleration form of constraint equations is utilized in this paper to solve for the inverse dynamics of servoconstraints. A condition for the existence of control forces that enforce servo-constraints is derived. For overactuated dynamical systems, the generalized Moore-Penrose inverse of the constraint matrix is used to parameterize the solutions for these control forces in terms of free ...