TRUBAC (Testing with RUle-BAse Coverage) is rule-base testing method which evaluates the effectiveness of test sets in covering relationships within the rule-base and identifies sections of the rule-base which have not been tested. This facilitates selection of additional test cases and can lead to a more accurate prediction of system reliability in real use (Barr 1995; 1996; 1997; 1998). Howev...

catheterization study. Circulation 2013;128:S235–S242. 18. Dumesnil JG, Pibarot P. Letter by Dumesnil and Pibarot regarding article, ‘Outcome of patients with low-gradient ‘severe’ aortic stenosis and preserved ejection fraction’. Circulation 2011;124:e360. 19. Cueff C, Serfaty JM, Cimadevilla C, Laissy JP, Himbert D, Tubach F, Duval X, Iung B, Enriquez-Sarano M, Vahanian A, Messika-Zeitoun D. ...

BACKGROUND Caries excavation is a noninvasive technique of caries removal with maximum preservation of healthy tooth structure. AIM To compare the efficacy of three different caries excavation techniques in reducing the count of cariogenic flora. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixty healthy primary molars were selected from 26 healthy children with occlusal carious lesions without pulpal involvement...

One benefit of fuzzy systems (Zadeh, 1965; Ruspini et al., 1998; Cox, 1994) is that the rule base can be created from expert knowledge, used to specify fuzzy sets to partition all variables and a sufficient number of fuzzy rules to describe the input/output relation of the problem at hand. However, a fuzzy system that is constructed by expert knowledge alone will usually not perform as required...

Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: In an observational study,a group of patients with membranous nephropathy showed correlation of anti-PLA2R antibodies with disease activity and presence of primary MN. Please cite this paper as: Yachha M, Sharma RK, Mehrotra S, Prasad N, Gupta A, Kaul A, Bhadauria DS. Anti-phospholipase A2 receptor antibody in membranous nephrop...

Dr Mavriplis states that it is often difficult to dedicate time for preventive care in a busy family practice. According to McWhinney,1 if every patient in a practice of 2000 had a 20-minute annual health examination, it would occupy the physician full-time for 22 weeks of every year. Another study estimated that more than 40% of all direct patient time for primary care physicians is taken up b...

In the last decade, digital imaging has experienced a worldwide revolution of growth in both the number of users and the range of applications. The amount of digital image content produced on a daily basis is still increasing drastically. As from the very beginning of photography, those who took pictures tried to capture as much information as possible about the photograph and in today's digita...

Capital One Financial Corporation is a major supplier of credit products in the US market. A key part of their growth and success over the last decade has been an Information Based Strategy collecting large quantities of data and performing advanced analysis to leverage the information obtained to make good business decisions. The ability to continue this successful strategy is contingent on tr...

The Semidefinite Program (SDP) has recently attracted much attention of researchers in various fields for the following reasons: (i) It has been intensively studied in both theoretical and numerical aspects. Especially the primal-dual interior-point method is known as a powerful tool for solving large-scale SDPs with accuracy. (ii) Many practical problems in various fields such as combinatorial...

Classical models of product market competition maintain that firms maximize their profits regardless of their financial condition. Yet over the last two decades a growing theoretical literature has examined whether a firm’s capital structure impacts competition in the market for the firm’s products. In this paper we ask whether a firm operating under bankruptcy protection significantly reshapes...