This study investigates the prediction model of compressive strength of self–compacting concrete (SCC) by utilizing soft computing techniques. The techniques consist of adaptive neuro–based fuzzy inference system (ANFIS), artificial neural network (ANN) and the hybrid of particle swarm optimization with passive congregation (PSOPC) and ANFIS called PSOPC–ANFIS. Their perf...

There is an urgent need for molecular marker studies of adenocarcinoma (AC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the uterine cervix. This study utilized oligomicroarray and pathway analyses to characterize a transcriptomic signature with molecular networks associated with AC and SCC. A 10K oligomicroarray was used to identify potential transcripts that were differentially expressed in cervical ...

Previous studies indicate a sex chromosome complement (SCC) effect on the angiotensin II-sexually dimorphic hypertensive and bradycardic baroreflex responses. We sought to evaluate whether SCC may differentially modulate sexually dimorphic-induced sodium appetite and specific brain activity due to physiological stimulation of the rennin angiotensin system. For this purpose, we used the "four co...

BACKGROUND Changes in host tumor genome DNA methylation patterns are among the molecular alterations associated with HPV-related carcinogenesis. However, there is little known about the epigenetic changes associated specifically with the development of anal squamous cell cancer (SCC). We sought to characterize broad methylation profiles across the spectrum of anal squamous neoplasia. METHODOL...

This paper presents the EPFL proposal to MPEG-4 video coding standardization activity [1]. The proposed technique is based on a novel approach to audio-visual data compression entitled dynamic coding. The newly born multimedia environment supports a plethora of applications which can not be covered adequately by a single compression technique. Dynamic coding o ers the opportunity to combine sev...

aspects of cancer management including early detection or diagnostic confirmation of cancers, predicting prognosis and/ or response of specific treatment, and disease monitoring after primary treatment. Because the most of tumor markers have showed variable sensitivity and specificity in various conditions of specific cancers, there has been no ideal tumor marker in current clinical practice in...

111 recent years there has been increasing interest in nonlinear speech modeling. In our approach, a speech signal is modeled as a sum of jointly amplitude ( A M ) and frequency (FM) modula.ted cosines with slowly-varying ce~lt~er frecluencies. The key problem is to extra.ct the center frequency ancl the a.inplitucle and frecluency modu.lations for each forma,nt in t,he nlodel from the inea,sur...

Value numbering is an optimization that assigns numbers to values in such a way that two values are assigned the same number if and only if the compiler can prove they are equal. When this optimization discovers two computations that produce the same value, it can (under certain circumstances) eliminate one of them. There are two competing techniques for proving equivalences: hashing and partit...