a basic assumption of madm methods such as saw and topsis is the statistical independence of criteria. violating this assumption would result in erroneous decisions. however, there are many cases in which criteria are dependent and based on this situation decision has to be made. in this paper, an approach based on the property of principal component analysis (pca) in producing independent vari...

The Computing Accreditation Commission (CAC) has proposed changes in the structure of the criteria used to accredit information systems programs. The new structure combines so-called “general criteria,” criteria that apply to any computing program, and additional program criteria that apply to IS, IT, or CS programs. This new format allows an emergingcomputing-discipline (e.g., bioinformatics) ...

Ann Rheum Dis September 2010 Vol 69 No 9 1577 1Department of Rheumatology, Jan van Breemen Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2Department of Rheumatology, VU Free University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Correspondence to Dirkjan van Schaardenburg, Department of Rheumatology, Jan van Breemen Institute, Jan van Breemenstraat 2, Amsterdam 1056 AB, The Netherlands; d.v.schaardenbur...

Using data from 1387 lakes collected over three decades, we found a wide range in the concentrations of total phosphorus (TP), total nitrogen (TN) and chlorophyll in Florida lakes, and that edaphic factors as outlined by the USEPA’s Florida Lake Regions were the dominant factor in determining the concentrations of plant nutrients in the state’s lakes. The hypothesis that all eutrophic lakes in ...

In large vocabulary continuous speech recognizers the search space needs to be constrained efficiently to make the recognition task feasible. Beam pruning and restricting the number of active paths are the most widely applied techniques for this. In this paper, we present three additional pruning criteria, which can be used to further limit the search space. These new criteria take into account...

tendenza attuale è infatti quella di identificare in fase iniziale quei casi di artrite con potenziale evolutivo rispetto a forme autolimitanti non severe, piuttosto che classificare e trattare solamente pazienti con diagnosi certa di AR (3). Per sviluppare i nuovi criteri per l’AR sono stati considerati quindi pazienti con artrite all’esordio ed è stato applicato come criterio di classificazio...

We propose a solution on the stopping criterion in segmenting inhomogeneous DNA sequences with complex statistical patterns. This new stopping criterion is based on Bayesian information criterion in the model selection framework. When this criterion is applied to telomere of S. cerevisiae and the complete sequence of E. coli, borders of biologically meaningful units were identified, and a more ...

Most cancer patients suffering from some form of advanced or locally advanced cancer will be treated with anticancer agents to stop the natural evolution of the disease. Anticancer agents developed over the last four decades behave as cytotoxic drugs inducing tumor regression, sometimes also resulting in prolongation of survival. Historically, the direct therapeutic efficacy of such treatments ...

Th e goals of this review were to investigate the previously published criteria for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s dementia which are used in clinical practice. Today, we are able to explore environmental factors and genetic predisposition for developing Alzheimer’s dementia, to detect biomarkers in cerebrospinal fl uid, to fi nd neuroimaging characteristics of the disease, and eventually to noti...

As to the long standing debate about whether EMFs can cause cancer, researchers hope this study will add to the already substantial body of evidence. The most extensive study to date, released in late October by the National Resource Council, found no conclusive evidence that EMFs cause cancer. A team of EMF specialists will use a special meter to take spot measurements on electromagnetic field...