the comprehensive assessment model considers the financial and non-financial aspects as balanced scorecard. also, for more comprehensive results of the investigation, four aspects of the balanced scorecard were used and then by using fuzzy delphi technique and experts' opinions, the standard aspects of each were achieved in two stages. to determine the importance of each aspect of bsc, the proce...

Hierarchical clustering method was applied for division of stages of old-field succession of loess area of Northern Shaanxi, and the similarity among different communities in abandoned field of different abandoned year and site condition can be learnt quantitatively, and stages or sequence of old-filed succession can be determined. The result revealed that the stages of old-field succession are...

Meta-analysis is often undertaken in two stages, with each study analysed separately in stage 1 and estimates combined across studies in stage 2. The study-specific estimates are assumed to arise from normal distributions with known variances equal to their corresponding estimates. In contrast, a one-stage analysis estimates all parameters simultaneously. A Bayesian one-stage approach offers ad...

MOTIVATION The increasing use of microarray technologies is generating large amounts of data that must be processed in order to extract useful and rational fundamental patterns of gene expression. Hierarchical clustering technology is one method used to analyze gene expression data, but traditional hierarchical clustering algorithms suffer from several drawbacks (e.g. fixed topology structure; ...

We study the role that parallelism plays in time complexity of variants of Winfree’s abstract Tile Assembly Model (aTAM), a model of molecular algorithmic self-assembly. In the “hierarchical” aTAM, two assemblies, both consisting of multiple tiles, are allowed to aggregate together, whereas in the “seeded” aTAM, tiles attach one at a time to a growing assembly. Adleman, Cheng, Goel, and Huang (...

I investigate bag-of-feature model for object recognition. The baseline method uses difference of Gaussian as key point detector, SIFT as descriptor, k-means as quantization method, and naive Bayesian classifier. I also explore other methods occurring at different stages in this model. They include random sampling, hierarchical k-means, and support vector machine. Experiment and performance eva...

The present paper explores the issue of corpus prosodic parsing in terms of prosodic words. This question is of importance in both speech processing and corpus annotation studies. We propose a method grounded on both statistical and symbolic (phonological) representations of tonal phenomena and we have recourse to probabilistic grammars, whithin which we implement a minimal prosodic hierarchica...

A detailed description of the sap beetle Brachypeplus glaber LeConte (Nitidulidae) is provided, including egg, larval, pupal and adult stages. Rearing and DNA barcoding were used to confirm life stage identifications. This is the first New World Brachypeplus species for which larval and pupal descriptions are available. Characters and character states for larvae, pupae, and adults are discussed...

Cultivated and wild species of wheat are valuable breeding resources used for the development new cultivars with superior root traits suited to drought non-stressed conditions. The present study aimed determine genotypes phenotypic variability among intergeneric hybrids Triticum Aegilops in early vegetative (Z11) stem elongation (Z31) growth stages. Results indicated that rooting depth was 3.2-...