Improving the qualities of software systems is an important issue in software engineering. Software engineers need to know the information about software quality as early as possible in software development. Measuring the program complexity of software systems is the most straightforward approach to analyze software quality. In this paper, we propose five Stack-based Markov (SBM) models to meas...

Intestinal inflammation, caused by impaired intestinal homeostasis, is a serious condition in both animals and humans. The use of conventional extracted soybean meal (SBM) in diets for Atlantic salmon and several other fish species is known to induce enteropathy in the distal intestine, a condition often referred to as SBM induced enteropathy (SBMIE). In the present study, we investigated the p...

The primary aim of this experiment was to evaluate the intestinal barrier permeability in vivo in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) fed increasing levels of soyabean meal (SBM). The relationship between SBM-induced enteritis (SBMIE) and the permeability markers was also investigated. Our results showed that the mean score of morphological parameters was significantly higher as a result of 37·...

PURPOSE To quantify microstructural abnormalities in the major association pathways of children affected by spina bifida myelomeningocele (SBM) and shunted hydrocephalus using whole-brain diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). MATERIALS AND METHODS The institutional review board approved this Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)-compliant study and written informed consent/ass...

Soybean meal (SBM), a commonly used protein source for animal feed, contains anti-nutritional factors such as trypsin inhibitor, phytate, oligosaccharides among others, which limit its utilization. Microbial fermentation using bacteria or fungi has the capability to improve nutritional value of SBM by altering the native composition. Both submerged and solid state fermentation processes can be ...

Leadership style has always been a controversial topic in educational administration and management. Following the recommendation of the Education Commission to introduce schoolbasedmanagement (SBM) into Hong Kong schools in the early 1990s, discussions about the kind of leadership style that is appropriate for SBM schools have never ceased. The government holds a continuing belief that SBM sch...

This study was carried out to investigate the nutritional values of soybean meals (SBM) from various geographic origins and the effects of their dietary supplementations on performance of broiler chicken. Nutritional values of dehulled SBM originated from USA, and nondehulled SBM from India (IND) and Argentina (ARG) were evaluated by analyzing chemical composition, urease activity(UA) and KOH s...

The stochastic block model (SBM) is a probabilistic model designed to describe heterogeneous directed and undirected graphs. In this paper, we address the asymptotic inference in SBM by use of maximumlikelihood and variational approaches. The identifiability of SBM is proved while asymptotic properties of maximum-likelihood and variational estimators are derived. In particular, the consistency ...