BACKGROUND High ATP-binding cassette (ABC) protein expression leads to intrinsic drug resistance of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The aim of this study was to investigate the potential chemosensitizing effects of sorafenib on the multi-drug resistance (MDR) phenotype. MATERIAL AND METHODS The ABC-protein gene expression and the cellular survival were determined by RT-PCR analysis and MTT as...

This paper introduces a comparison of training algorithms of radial basis function (RBF) neural networks for classification purposes. RBF networks provide effective solutions in many science and engineering fields. They are especially popular in the pattern classification and signal processing areas. Several algorithms have been proposed for training RBF networks. The Artificial Bee Colony (ABC...

This paper seeks the critical factors for a correct choice in the components set up along the supply chain. ABC classification was made for all the suppliers according to the supplied items for the company. After a demand analysis, the seasonal nature and trend during the timeline, we used the last four years registers where is shown a decreasing behavior in 30% of the items; Economic Order Qua...

The k-Nearest Neighbor (kNN) method of forest attribute estimation and mapping has become an integral part of national forest inventory methods in Finland in the last decade. This success of kNN method in facilitating multi-source inventory has encouraged trials of the method in the Great Lakes Region of the United States. Here we present results from applying the method to Landsat TM and ETM+ ...

A modified Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) metaheuristics optimization technique is applied for cancer classification, that reduces the classifier’s prediction errors and allows faster convergence by selecting informative genes. Cuckoo search (CS) algorithm was used in onlooker bee phase (exploitation phase) of ABC to boost performance maintaining balance between exploration exploitation ABC. Tuned...

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