Accurate demand forecasting is one of the most key issues in inventory management of spare parts. The problem of modeling future consumption becomes especially difficult for lumpy patterns, which characterized by intervals in which there is no demand and, periods with actual demand occurrences with large variation in demand levels. However, many of the forecasting methods may perform poorly whe...

Inter-Cell Interference is an important factor that effects the system performance predominantly in multi-cell scenario of the future mobile communication systems. Future (4G/5G) systems are designed to provide very high data rates to all types of services (voice, data, and video) and to meet the promised Quality of services (QoS) to the users. Conventional schemes have approached this problem ...

With the development of social network, people start to pay attention to its internal information diffusion and propagation process. However, most state-of-the-art works mainly analyzed single-phased and single-layered network. In our project, we study the information spread on multilayered network. We focus on one specific event the information of the discovery of a new particle spreading in T...

Foams, and particularly the polypropylene foam, are more and more often used in the area of injury protection and passive safety for its energy absorption capacity. This multi-scale material is constituted of mesoscopic beads with a large variability of the material properties. To study the effects of these mesoscopic heterogeneities on both the macroscopic and the local behaviors, numerical si...

In this paper, we explore the computational potential and limitations of the multi-layered con-nectionist models [Minsky and Papert, 1968]. We found that the number of layers and the width are two crucial parameters for the multi-layered connectionist models. If each layer has the same size n and we increment the number of layers by 1, then the number of problems solved will increase 0{n 3) tim...

OBJECTIVE To develop a general method for using the alerting function of an electronic health record (EHR) system to warn prescribers when a drug order may be in conflict with the restrictions of a patient's research protocol. METHODS We examined a sample of clinical research protocols at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to identify the frequency with which drugs were excluded by proto...

In this paper, a hierarchical autoregressive model (HAR) method is proposed for image compression. The suggested techniques, looks at improving the compression ratio along with preserving the image quality by involving a multi-layered modeling concept. In comparison with traditional predictive coding or autoregressive model on a series of tested images it shows that the suggested method is bett...

The Multilayer Model (MLM) has been used for many years to infer dry deposition fluxes from measured trace species concentrations and standard meteorological measurements for national networks in the U.S., including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Air Status and Trends Network (CASTNet). MLM utilizes a resistance analogy to calculate deposition velocities appropriate for whole ...

Two series of reinfection experiments were carried out using C57BL mice. In the first series, the mice were inoculated with Mycobacterium lepraemurium (MLM) in one hind footpad and reinoculated in the contralateral footpad, two or four weeks later. Compared with normal mice of the same strain, the mice reinoculated after four weeks showed an increased local reaction to the bacilli and the bacil...