Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has been long employed as a popular methodology to evaluate the performance of various production activities with multiple inputs and outputs. However, an important issue is that the production process in the real world inevitably generates undesirable outputs (like wastes and pollutants) along with desirable outputs. Therefore, the undesirable outputs should be ...

the missing of any tooth is due to undeveloped dental lamina that possible is caused by genetic factors such as ectodermal dysplasia,local infection and systemic diseases.in some cases,the lack of teeth is so wide that causes undevelopment in all premanent teeth which is known as comlete anodontia.the lack of lateral incisors causes speech defect,difficulty in breathing,spacing in other teeth,d...

The approach to instrument surveillance and calibration verification (ISCV) through plant wide monitoring proposed in this paper is the use of an autoassociative neural network (AANN) which will utilize digitized data presently available in the Safety Parameter Display computer system from Florida Power Corporations Crystal River #3 nuclear power plant. An autoassociative neural network is one ...

BACKGROUND Estimating maternal mortality level is constantly challenging researchers and planners both in rich and poor countries. In developing countries, particularly in Burkina Faso where the registration system is not working properly, censuses and surveys are the main providers of maternal mortality estimates. However, censuses provide more reliable data about maternal mortality especially...

Discriminative language modeling (DLM) aims to choose the most accurate word sequence by reranking the alternatives output by the automatic speech recognizer (ASR). The conventional (supervised) way of training a DLM requires a large amount of acoustic recordings together with their manual reference transcriptions. These transcriptions are used to determine the target ranks of the ASR outputs, ...

Congenitally missing of maxillary lateral incisors is one of the most common patterns of hypodontia. This paper presents a nine year old boy with congenital missing of lateral incisors. Familial history showed that, his mother, aunts, uncle and grandmother have also congenital absence of lateral incisors.

Reading out analog sensor outputs can be a challenging task at low frequencies because of the frequency noise. To obtain signal clearly, special interface circuits are required. By using such circuits, signals cleaned from offset, drift and 1/f Besides, if circuitry is configurable, it possible to inputs different ranges. At block, output moved band where noise effects not dominant by chopping ...