This paper presents a new application of Hidden Markov Model (HMM) as a forecasting tool for the prediction of the currency exchange rate between the US dollar and the euro. The results obtained show that the difference between price gaps which consists open, high, and low price can be selected to produce the best model parameter of Hidden Markov Model. Three model parameters based on Akaike In...

BACKGROUND Many instruments exist to assess mental disorders and anxiety, such as the hospital anxiety and depression scale (HADS). Nothing has been evaluated on the HADS factor structure for use with orthopedic trauma patients. The aim of this study was to validate the underlying structure of the HADS. Specifically, we sought to understand which of the factor structures found in the literature...

Check pointing has been widely adopted in support of fault-tolerance and job migration, with checkpoint files preferably kept also at remote storage to withstand unavailability/failures of local nodes in networked systems. Lately, I/O bandwidth to remote storage becomes the bottleneck for check pointing on a large-scale system. This paper proposes an adaptive incremental check pointing (AIC), a...

The body underlies our sense of self, emotion, and agency. Signals arising from the skin convey warmth, social touch, and the physical characteristics of external stimuli. Surprising or unexpected tactile sensations can herald events of motivational salience, including imminent threats (e.g., an insect bite) and hedonic rewards (e.g., a caressing touch). Awareness of such events is thought to d...

We here investigate the possibility that the ultra-high-energy cosmic-ray (UHECR) events observed above the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin (GZK) limit are mostly protons accelerated in reconnection sites just above the magnetosphere of newborn millisecond pulsars that are originated by accretion-induced collapse (AIC). We formulate the requirements for the acceleration mechanism and show that AIC puls...

This study compared seven growth models using body weight measurements from 300 progeny obtained from unselected random bred parents. The study which lasted for 20 weeks was carried out at the University of Maiduguri Livestock Teaching and Research farm. R 2 values for the Asymptote regression, Exponential, Gompertz, Logistic, Monomolecular, Richards and Weibull models were 0.994, 0.935, 0.997,...

Introduction. Amiodarone has been used for more than 5 decades for the treatment of various tachyarrhythmias and previously for the treatment of refractory angina. There are multiple well-established side effects of amiodarone. However, amiodarone-induced cirrhosis (AIC) of liver is an underrecognized complication. Methods. A systematic search of Medline from January 1970 to November 2012 by us...

In recent years, various model selection procedures (criteria) that can be used for the selection of the best possible model have been proposed. The AIC criterion (Akaike, 1973) is considered the most popular tool for model selection although many competitors have been introduced over the years. One of the main drawbacks of AIC is its tendency to favor high dimensional models namely to overesti...

This communication presents some aspects of an on-going research on a class of indicators of scientific visibility. Relying on a new usage of classic citation distribution studies, the "activity index in citation classes" (AIC) describes the "relative citation profile" or distribution of actors' articles among quantile classes of citations defined by the world reference. AIC exists in multiple ...

The Akaike information criterion (AIC) has been successfully used in the literature in model selection when there are a small number of parameters p and a large number of observations N . The cases when p is large and close to N or when p > N have not been considered in the literature. In fact, when p is large and close to N , the available AIC does not perform well at all. We consider these ca...