Approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) methods can be used to evaluate posterior distributions without having to calculate likelihoods. In this paper, we discuss and apply an ABC method based on sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) to estimate parameters of dynamical models. We show that ABC SMC provides information about the inferability of parameters and model sensitivity to changes in parameters, an...

Prior research into the extent to which operating units have considered activity-based costing (ABC) has either examined the extent to which operating units have considered or not considered ABC. This paper uses logistic ordinal regression analysis to examine the impact of the level of competition, product customization, manufacturing overhead costs and operating unit size on the level of consi...

Approximate Bayesian Computational (ABC) methods, or likelihood-free methods, have appeared in the past fifteen years as useful methods to perform Bayesian analysis when the likelihood is analytically or computationally intractable. Several ABC methods have been proposed: MCMC methods have been developed by Marjoram et al. [2003] and by Bortot et al. [2007] for instance, and sequential methods ...

ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters are a ubiquitous class of integral membrane proteins of immense clinical interest because of their strong association with human disease and pharmacology. To improve our understanding of these proteins, we used membrane yeast two-hybrid technology to map the protein interactome of all of the nonmitochondrial ABC transporters in the model organism Saccharo...

Paper analyses the present situation in application of Activity-Based Costing method in hospital management. Primary objective of the paper is to analyze the worldwide use of this method in healthcare sector and predict the possibilities of application of hospital wide ABC system. First part of the paper analyzes the ways of ABC implementation in published foreign studies. Second part outlines ...

This paper reviews the results of two U.K. surveys of activity-based costing (ABC) in the U.K.’s largest companies. These provide an opportunity to assess the changes that have occurred in the ABC adoption status of companies over a recent 5-year period. For the ABC users, some comparative information is provided on the nature of the ABC systems in use, their designers, the uses to which they h...

Recently, Tao et al. presented a new simple and efficient multivariate pubic key encryption scheme based on matrix multiplication, which is called Simple Matrix Scheme or ABC. Using linearization equation attack, we propose a polynomial time algorithm, which directly recovers an equivalent private key from the public key of ABC. Furthermore, our attack can also be applied to the variants of ABC...

ABC v2 is a software-efficient stream cipher with 128-bit key. In this paper, we apply a fast correlation attack to break ABC v2 with weak keys. There are about 2 weak keys in ABC v2. The complexity to identify a weak key and to recover the internal state of a weak key is low: identifying one weak key from about 2 random keys requires 6460 keystream bytes and 2 operations for each random key. R...

This paper deals with the problem of automatic rule generation for fuzzy systems design. The proposed approach is based on hybrid artificial bee colony (ABC) optimization and weighted least squares (LS) method and aims to find the structure and parameters of fuzzy systems simultaneously. More precisely, two ABC based fuzzy modeling strategies are presented and compared. The first strategy uses ...

aneurysmal bone cyst (abc) is an expansile bone lesion that usually involves the long bones. skull base involvement is rare. hereby, we describe a 17-year-old man with hoarseness, facial asymmetry, left sided sensorineural hearing loss and left jugular foramen syndrome. ct scan and mri showed a skull base mass that was confirmed as abc in histopathology. the case was unusual and interesting due...