ASSESSMENT OF ELECTRICITY DEMAND IN IRAN'S INDUSTRIAL SECTOR USING DIFFERENT INTELLIGENT OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES M. A. Behrang a , E. Assareh a , M. R. Assari b & A. Ghanbarzadeh c a Department of Mechanical Engineering, Islamic Azad University, Dezful Branch, Iran b Department of Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Faculty, Jundi Shapour University, Dezful, Iran c Department of Mechanical Engi...

We give the first analysis of a systematic scan version of the Metropolis algorithm. Our examples include generating random elements of a Coxeter group with probability determined by the length function. The analysis is based on interpreting Metropolis walks in terms of the multiplication in the Iwahori-Hecke algebra.

This paper presents a geometric approach to estimating subspaces as elements of complex Grassmann-manifold, with each subspace represented by its unique, complex projection matrix. Variation between the subspaces is modeled by rotating their projection matrices via the action of unitary matrices [elements of the unitary group U( )]. Subspace estimation or tracking then corresponds to inferences...

We give the first analysis of a systematic scan version of the Metropolis algorithm. Our examples include generating random elements of a Coxeter group with probability determined by the length function. The analysis is based on interpreting Metropolis walks in terms of the multiplication in the Iwahori-Hecke algebra.

We show that sampling with a biased Metropolis scheme is essentially equivalent to using the heatbath algorithm. However, the biased Metropolis method can also be applied when an efficient heatbath algorithm does not exist. This is first illustrated with an example from high energy physics (lattice gauge theory simulations). We then illustrate the Rugged Metropolis method, which is based on a s...

BACKGROUND DNA fingerprinting of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) based on IS6110 has been shown to be a powerful epidemiologic tool. Restriction enzyme analysis (REA) is a fingerprinting technique, which is used for differentiation and investigation of genetic diversity among mycobacterial species. AIMS To investigating the genetic heterogeneity in MTB isolates in Ahvaz, Iran. SETTINGS AND...

School of Veterinary Medicine, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, USA [email protected] Medizinische Tierklinik der Universität Leipzig, Germany Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Assiut University, Egypt Dept of Veterinary Clinical Medicine, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA Dept of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Selcuk, Konya, Turkey Faculty of...

Background: Clinical decision-making and self-efficacy are essential parts of nurses' professional work, which includes information analysis, proper implementation decisions in the clinical field. Objectives: The present study investigated perspectives anesthesia nursing students on skills. Methods: This cross-sectional was done 70 undergraduate at Jundishapur University Medical Sciences Ahvaz,...

This paper gives geometric tools: comparison, Nash and Sobolev inequalities for pieces of the relevent Markov operators, that give useful bounds on rates of convergence for the Metropolis algorithm. As an example, we treat the random placement of N hard discs in the unit square, the original application of the Metropolis algorithm.