The importance of supplier selection is nowadays highlighted more than ever as companies have realized that efficient supplier selection can significantly improve the performance of their supply chain. In this paper, an integrated model that applies Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) is developed to select efficient suppliers based on their predicted efficiency sco...

comparing the performance of a set of activities or organizations under uncertainty environment has been performed by means of fuzzy data envelopment analysis (fdea) since the traditional dea models require accurate and precise performance data. as regards a method for dealing with uncertainty environment, many researchers have introduced dea models in fuzzy environment. some of these models ar...

As clock frequency increases and feature size decreases, clock distribution and wire delays present a growing challenge to the designers of singly-clocked, globally synchronous systems. We describe an alternative approach, which we call a Multiple Clock Domain (MCD) processor, in which the chip is divided into several (coarse-grained) clock domains, within which independent voltage and frequenc...

Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is commonly assessed by measurement of endogenous creatinine clearance (Ccr). Several formulae have been described to calculate Ccr from plasma creatinine. I have evaluated the effectiveness of four formulae in 35 healthy subjects (21M and 14F, 18-34 years) and in 41 patients (24M, 17F, 20-69 years) attending a renal clinic with diminished renal function (serum ...

This multicenter, randomized, open-label, phase 3 trial evaluated azacitidine efficacy and safety vs conventional care regimens (CCRs) in 488 patients age ≥65 years with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with >30% bone marrow blasts. Before randomization, a CCR (standard induction chemotherapy, low-dose ara-c, or supportive care only) was preselected for each patient. Patients then w...

AIM To evaluate the relationship between creatinine clearance rate (CCR) and the level of N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) in heart failure (HF) patients and their correlations with HF severity. METHODS AND RESULTS Two hundred and one Chinese patients were grouped according to the New York Heart Association (NYHA) classification as NYHA 1-2 and 3-4 groups and 135 cases ou...

In cyber-physical systems, it is advantageous to leverage cloud with edge resources distribute the workload for processing and computing user data at point of generation. Services offered by are not flexible enough against variations in size underlying data, which leads increased latency, violation deadline higher cost. On other hand, resolving above-mentioned issues devices limited also challe...

ccr encoding crotonyl coenzyme A (CoA) reductase (CCR), which catalyzes the conversion of crotonyl-CoA to butyryl-CoA in the presence of NADPH, was previously cloned from Streptomyces collinus. We now report that a complete open reading frame, designated meaA, is located downstream from ccr. The predicted gene product showed 35% identity with methylmalonyl-CoA mutases from various sources. In a...

BACKGROUND Rat male hypogonadisim (hgn/hgn) is accompanied by bilateral hypoplastic kidney (HPK). The HPK contains a reduced number of nephrons that progress to chronic renal failure. In this study, we describe the renal pathophysiology in adult HPK rats as a potential model of oligomeganephronic disease. METHODS Urine and blood samples were collected from adult male HPK rats and phenotypical...