In automata theory, Büchi’s and Elgot’s fundamental theorems [6, 7, 25] established the coincidence of regular and ω-regular languages with languages definable in monadic second-order logic. At the same time, Schützenberger [57] investigated finite automata with weights and characterized their behaviours as rational formal power series. Both of these results have inspired a wealth of extensions...

the aim of this study is quantity determining and evaluating of the quality position of teaching and learningprocess. so, the artificial neural networks were used for modeling nonlinear relationships to inspect and evaluate different models of service quality evaluation. the statistical population include 1070 peoples, which were master and phd students of faculty of agriculture of ferdowsiuniv...

BACKGROUND Identification and treatment of unrecognised asthmatics in the community is important for improving the health of the individual and minimising cost and quality of life burden. It is not practical to offer clinical diagnostic assessment to whole communities, and a simple tool such as a questionnaire is required to identify a smaller target group. Conventional questionnaire screening ...

BACKGROUND Deprivation indices are useful measures to analyze health inequalities. There are several methods to construct these indices, however, few studies have used Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Multi-Criteria methods to construct a deprivation index. Therefore, this study applies Multi-Criteria Evaluation to calculate weights for the indicators that make up the deprivation index ...

Recall the online learning model we discussed in the previous lecture: N = # experts For t = 1, 2, . . . , T rounds: 1) each expert i, 1 ≤ i ≤ N , makes a prediction ξi ∈ {0, 1} 2) learner makes a prediction ŷ ∈ {0, 1} 3) observe outcome y ∈ {0, 1} (a mistake happens if ŷ 6= y) With this framework in hand, we investigated a particular algorithm, Weighted Majority Algorithm (WMA), as follows: N ...

BACKGROUND Malaria remains an important public health concern in China and is particularly serious in Yunnan, a China's provincial region of high malaria burden with an incidence of 1.79/105 in 2012. This study aims to examine the epidemiologic profile and spatiotemporal aspects of epidemics of malaria, and to examine risk factors which may influence malaria epidemics in Yunnan Province. METH...

Hospital networks, formed by patients visiting multiple hospitals, affect the spread of hospital-associated infections, resulting in differences in risks for hospitals depending on their network position. These networks are increasingly used to inform strategies to prevent and control the spread of hospital-associated pathogens. However, many studies only consider patients that are received dir...