This paper advances the use of ranked nodes method (RNM) to portray probabilistic relationships continuous quantities in Bayesian networks (BNs). In RNM, are represented by with discrete ordinal scales. The quantified conditional probability tables (CPTs) generated expert-elicited parameters. When formed discretizing scales, ignorance about functioning RNM can lead discretizations that make gen...

in this research,  300  pairs of lymph nodes; prescapular, prefemoral and popliteal were collected from lori – bakhtiari sheep in shahrekord abattoir. the specimens divided in two age groups (6 -12 month and 13 – 18 months) and then length, width and thickness of them were recorded using by caliper. for histological studies, lymph nodes were processed through routine tissue preparation techniqu...

a mathematical modelling for more-winding single-phase transformer is presented. the incidence matrix-which gives the informations about the connection of the ends of the windings between the nodes-is multiplied leftside and rightside with the inverse of the inductance matrix of the more winding transformer. the result is a matrix which gives the relationship between nodes potentials and nodes ...

mobile-ad-hoc-networks (manets) are self-configuring networks of mobile nodes, which communicate through wireless links. the infrastructure of a mobile ad hoc network (manet) has no routers for routing, and all nodes must share the same routing protocol to assist each other when transmitting messages. the main issues in manets include the mobility of the network nodes, the scarcity of computati...

Grey scale and power Doppler sonography play an important role in assessment of cervical lymphadenopathy. However, before examination of pathological nodes, a clear understanding of the anatomy of cervical nodes, scanning technique and sonographic appearances of normal cervical nodes is essential. This article reviews these topics in order to provide a baseline for sonographic examination of ce...

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) consist of spatially distributed wireless sensor nodes. Each sensor node cooperate with each other to monitor and collect data pertaining to physical or environmental conditions such as temperature, pressure, motion, sound, and other phenomena. Localization is an essential issue in wireless sensor networks because many applications require the sensor nodes to kno...

We consider the problem of graph matchability in non-identically distributed networks. In a general class of edge-independent networks, we demonstrate that graph matchability is almost surely lost when matching the networks directly, and is almost perfectly recovered when first centering the networks using Universal Singular Value Thresholding before matching. These theoretical results are then...

BACKGROUND Any sentinel lymph node that receives lymph drainage directly from a primary melanoma site, regardless of its location, may contain metastatic disease. This is true even if the sentinel node does not lie in a recognized node field. Interval (in-transit) nodes that lie along the course of a lymphatic vessel between a primary melanoma site and a recognized node field are sometimes seen...

Many appealing multicast services such as on-demand TV, teleconference, online games and etc. can benefit from high available bandwidth in multi-radio multi-channel wireless mesh networks. When multiple simultaneous transmissions use a similar channel to transmit data packets, network performance degrades to a large extant. Designing a good multicast tree to route data packets could enhance the...

results of the 53 neck dissection specimens, histopathology showed metastases in 16 cases. the overall accuracy of usgfna, us and palpation was 96%, 68% and 70%, respectively. the specificity of usgfna was superior to palpation and us alone. usgfna had the highest sensitivity, predictive value and accuracy in detecting cervical metastases compared with other performed tests. conclusion in our s...