BACKGROUND The measurement of progress in maternal and newborn health often relies on data provided by women in surveys on the quality of care they received. The majority of these indicators, however, including the widely tracked "skilled attendance at birth" indicator, have not been validated. We assess the validity of a large set of maternal and newborn health indicators that are included or ...

Nowadays, due to the competitive conditions of global market, corporations try to outsource their extraneous processes to third-party suppliers. So, selecting a proper supplier play a significant role in organization success. The supplier selection problem can be viewed as a group decision-making problem with multiple criteria. Since in previous researches the inter relationship between cri...

Nowadays, due to the competitive conditions of global market, corporations try to outsource their extraneous processes to third-party suppliers. So, selecting a proper supplier play a significant role in organization success. The supplier selection problem can be viewed as a group decision-making problem with multiple criteria. Since in previous researches the inter relationship between cri...

We consider the task of speech source localization using binaural cues, namely interaural time and level difference (ITD & ILD). A typical approach is to process binaural speech using gammatone filters and calculate frame-level ITD and ILD in each subband. The ITD, ILD and their combination (ITLD) in each subband are statistically modelled using Gaussian mixture models for every direction durin...

This paper presents an optimum design of constant-stress partially accelerated life test (PALT) plan in which each item runs either at use or accelerated condition and product life follows Truncated Logistic distribution truncated at point zero under type-I censoring. Truncated distributions arise when sample selection is not possible in some sub-region of sample space. The optimal sample propo...

In this paper an approach is described for solving propositional Satisfiability problems, which makes use of an adaptive technique. Its main feature is a new enumeration scheme, which is able to identify, at an early stage, hard sub-formulae. This scheme is based on a simple and easy computable criterion, whose merit function is updated by a learning mechanism, and guides the exploration of a c...

The lifting scheme is used as a motivational tool for designing a better temporal subband scheme in video coding. The new subband coding scheme replaces the typical Haar filterbank. A simple criterion is used for the detection of scene changes in video sequences, and a modification to the Haar lifting scheme is developed that allows for adjusting the filterbank near a scene change. The new edge...

There are a large number of dynamic objects, for the management which it is advisable to apply principles adaptation. The reasons applying adaptation can be combined into two main groups: variability and complexity characteristics objects environment; growing requirements accuracy technical economic systems. difference between adaptive systems optimal ones that while in quality indicator provid...