A combined wavelet transform (WT) and multiple linear regression (MLR) based technique to forecast price profile in a single settlement real time electricity market has been presented. The historical price and load data has been decomposed into better-behaved wavelet domain constitutive subseries using WT and then combined with other time domain variables to form the set of input variables for ...

Over the years development of selective estrogen receptor (ER) ligands has been of great concern to researchers involved in the chemistry and pharmacology of anticancer drugs, resulting in numerous synthesized selective ER subtype inhibitors. In this work, a data set of 82 ER ligands with ERα and ERβ inhibitory activities was built, and quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) method...

The current study examined the chronic toxicity of lead (Pb) to three invertebrate species: the cladoceran Ceriodaphnia dubia, the snail Lymnaea stagnalis and the rotifer Philodina rapida. The test media consisted of natural waters from across North America, varying in pertinent water chemistry parameters including dissolved organic carbon (DOC), calcium, pH and total CO(2). Chronic toxicity wa...

1-[4-(2-Alkylaminoethoxy)phenylcarbonyl]-3,5-bis(arylidene)-4-piperidones are a novel class of potent cytotoxic agents. These compounds demonstrate low micromolar to submicromolar IC50 values against human Molt 4/C8 and CEM T-lymphocytes and murine leukemia L1210 cells. In this study, a comparative QSAR investigation was performed on a series of 3,5-bis(arylidene)-4-piperidones using different ...

in this paper, the quantitative structure activity-relationship (qsar) of the ccr2b receptor inhibitors was scrutinized. firstly, the molecular descriptors were calculated using the dragon package. then, the stepwise multiple linear regressions (sw-mlr) and the genetic algorithm multiple linear regressions (ga-mlr) variable selection methods were subsequently employed to select and implement th...

A characterization of nitrocompounds activation by cell-free extracts (CFE) of wild-type (AB(+)), SnrA deficient (B(+)), Cnr deficient (A(+)) and SnrA/Cnr deficient (AB(-)) Salmonella typhimurium strains has been done. The Ames mutagenicity test (S. typhimurium his(+) reversion assay) was used, as well as nitroreductase (NR) activity determinations where the decrease in absorbance generated by ...

BACKGROUND Few studies of laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) outcome have used longitudinal data for more than two years. Moreover, no studies have considered group differences in factors other than outcome such as age and nonsurgical treatment. Additionally, almost all published articles agree that the essential issue of the internal validity (reproducibility) of the artificial neural network (...