A recent report by the National Research Council (NRC) declares neural networks “hold the most promise for providing powerful learning models”. While some researchers have experimented with using neural networks to model battlefield behavior for Computer Generated Forces (CGF) systems used in distributed simulations, the NRC report indicates that further research is needed to develop a hybrid s...

Campylobacter spp. may be responsible for unreported outbreaks of food-borne disease. The detection of these outbreaks is made more difficult by the fact that appropriate methods for detecting clusters of Campylobacter have not been well defined. We have compared the characteristics of five molecular typing methods on Campylobacter jejuni and C. coli isolates obtained from human and nonhuman so...

We introduce a new class of games, congestion games with failures (CGFs), which extends the class of congestion games to allow for facility failures. In a basic CGF (BCGF) agents share a common set of facilities (service providers), where each service provider (SP) may fail with some known probability. For reliability reasons, an agent may choose a subset of the SPs in order to try and perform ...

In vitro migration assays are a cornerstone of cell biology and have found extensive utility in research. Over the past decade, several variations two-dimensional (2D) assay improved our understanding this fundamental process. However, ability these approaches to capture functional heterogeneity during their accessibility inexperienced users has been limited. We downloaded published time-lapse ...

Os traços de personalidade determinam os comportamentos um indivíduo em diferentes aspectos da vida, incluindo sua intenção e uso tecnologias. Assim, este artigo teve como objetivo verificar as relações entre fatores do WhatsApp a participação grupos neste aplicativo. Realizou-se uma pesquisa survey, com 401 usuários Foram utilizados três modelos teóricos, o Inventário dos Cinco Grandes Fatores...

Hyperspectral images (HSIs) generally contain tens or even hundreds of spectral segments within a specific frequency range. Due to the limitations and cost imaging sensors, HSIs often trade spatial resolution for finer band resolution. To compensate loss maintain balance between space spectrum, existing algorithms were used obtain excellent results. However, these could not fully mine coupling ...

MRONJ is a serious drug-related side effect that most common in people using antiresorptive and/or angiogenic medications. Therapy options for this condition include conservative treatments, surgical procedures with varied degrees of invasiveness, and adjuvant therapies. The aim the present study to identify successful promising therapy alternatives available clinicians. PubMed, Cochrane, Scopu...

Background/Aim. Chronic periodontitis is an inflammatory disease. Oxidative stress important factor in progress, hence examining the antioxidative properties of antiseptics, such as chlorhexidine (CHX) and silver ions solution (SSI), a beneficial biomarker estimating recovery tissue impairment during periodontal disease treatment. Methods. This clinical trial was conducted on control group refe...

Cumin (Cuminum cyminum Linn.) is valued for its aroma and its medicinal and therapeutic properties. A supervised feedforward artificial neural network (ANN) trained with back propagation algorithms, was applied to predict fresh weight and volume of Cuminum cyminum L. calli. Pearson correlation coefficient was used to evaluate input/output dependency of the eleven input parameters. Area, feret d...

In this work, a novel scheme is proposed to compress human motion capture data based on hierarchical structure construction and motion pattern indexing. For a given sequence of 3D motion capture data of human body, the 3D markers are first organized into a hierarchy where each node corresponds to a meaningful part of the human body. Then, the motion sequence corresponding to each body part is c...