We have developed a new scoring function, the template modeling score (TM-score), to assess the quality of protein structure templates and predicted full-length models by extending the approaches used in Global Distance Test (GDT)1 and MaxSub.2 First, a protein size-dependent scale is exploited to eliminate the inherent protein size dependence of the previous scores and appropriately account fo...

We study the curvelike structure of special measures on Rn in a multiscale fashion. More precisely, we consider the existence and construction of a sufficiently short curve with a sufficiently large measure. Our main tool is an L2 variant of Jones’ β numbers, which measure the scaled deviations of the given measure from a best approximating line at different scales and locations. The Jones func...

application of feed pellets in animal and aquatic farming industries has grown because of both the physical and the nutritional benefits it provides. development of feed pellets manufacturing industry is also considerable. steam conditioning process, which plays an important role in pelleting production, includes heating feed particles, adding moisture, and mixing the mash. pellets cooling and ...

We consider Vickrey–Clarke–Groves (VCG) auctions for a very general combinatorial structure, in an average-case setting where item costs are independent, identically distributed uniform random variables. We prove that the expected VCG cost is at least double the expected nominal cost, and exactly double when the desired structure is a basis of a bridgeless matroid. In the matroid case we furthe...

T   he completed MCI includes three main channels of interest rate, exchange rate and credit rate. In developing countries such as Iran, this indicator, which contains a credit channel, could be better used to illustrate the country’s monetary condition. This study has been done to calculate this index for the period of 1978–2012. For this purpose, the function of the total economy demand ...