Gene co-expression networks (GCNs) are graphic representations that depict the coordinated transcription of genes in response to certain stimuli. GCNs provide functional annotations of genes whose function is unknown and are further used in studies of translational functional genomics among species. In this work, a methodology for the reconstruction and comparison of GCNs is presented. This app...

This paper proposes a novel fast protein structure alignment algorithm and its application. Because it is known that the functions of protein are derived from its structure, the method of measuring the structural similarities between two proteins can be used to infer their functional closeness. In this paper, we propose a 3D chain code representation for fast measuring the local geometric simil...

Registration of a reference image to a secondary image extracted from a database of transformed exemplars constitutes an important image retrieval and indexing application. Two important problems are: specification of a general class of discriminatory image features and an appropriate similarity measure to rank the closeness of the query to the database. In this paper we propose a solution usin...

We construct a global higher education quality evaluation system by using the grey relation analysis method optimized based on TOPSIS method. According to data, we obtained normalized original data matrix and found optimal worst solutions. Then respectively calculated distance between each object solutions, relative closeness of solution, as basis for evaluation. used gray correlation degree si...

AIM Studies have provided insights into factors that may facilitate or inhibit parent-infant closeness in neonatal units, but none have specifically focused on the perspectives of senior neonatal staff. The aim of this study was to explore perceptions and experiences of consultant neonatologists and senior nurses in five European countries with regard to these issues. METHODS Six small group ...

This study aimed to explore the relationship of students’ happiness, stress, and emotional closeness to others to help move towards evidence-based practices for this population. Therefore, the primary purpose of this study was to examine whether college students’ perceived happiness differed significantly based on stress, frequency of stress management techniques, and emotional closeness to oth...

Document ranking is well known to be a crucial process in information retrieval (IR). It presents retrieved documents in an order of their estimated degrees of relevance to query. Traditional document ranking methods are based on different measurements of similarity between documents and query. Due to information explosion and the popularity of WWW information retrieval, the increased variety o...

Citation matching is the problem of finding which citation occurs in a given textual corpus. Most existing citation matching work is done on scientific literature. The goal of this paper is to present methods for performing citation matching on Sanskrit texts. Exact matching and approximate matching are the two methods for performing citation matching. The exact matching method checks for exact...

Over the years, several theoretical graph generation models have been proposed. Among the most prominent are: the Erdős–Renyi random graph model, Watts–Strogatz small world model, Albert–Barabási preferential attachment model, Price citation model, and many more. Often, researchers working with real-world data are interested in understanding the generative phenomena underlying their empirical g...