Many statistical studies report p-values for inferential purposes. In several scenarios, the stochastic aspect of p-values is neglected, which may contribute to drawing wrong conclusions in real data experiments. The stochastic nature of p-values makes their use to examine the performance of given testing procedures or associations between investigated factors to be difficult. We turn our focus...

Rate-distortion otpimization procedures are very often used in rate allocation problems encountered in source encoders. However , these procedures can be, depending on the number of quantizers considered, very time consuming. This paper describes a sim-pliied approach relying on statistical signal and noise modeling. The strategy presented leads to performances comparable to a classical rate-di...

The periodontal-restorative team is uniquely positioned to provide the esthetic procedures that today's sophisticated patient population has come to expect. Not only is health and function of great desire but also esthetics is in demand. Armed with periodontal-plastic procedures and technically advanced restorative materials, the periodontal-restorative team can provide these patient needs. The...

This paper deals with preference representation and decision-making problems in the context of multiattribute utility theory. We focus on the generalized additive decomposable utility model (GAI) which allows interactions between attributes while preserving some decomposability. We present procedures to deal with the problem of optimization (choice) and ranking of multiattribute items. We also ...

The production of radioisotopes for use in biomedical procedures such as diagnostic imaging and/or therapeutic treatments is achieved through nuclear reactions in reactors or from charged particle bombardment in accelerators. In reactors the nuclear reactions are initiated with neutrons while in accelerators the typical charged particle reactions utilize protons although deuterons and α−particl...

Documentation is very time consuming; conservators have to categorize photos, give detailed description of the procedures and justify decisions about materials. Every conservator delivers his/her own documentation to the respective monument administrations that archive it in their shelves, without any possibility to access them digitally. In this case, the access to already conducted procedures...

M&D will emphasize the procedures, or rules of play, that produce outcomes. By making precise properties that one wishes a voting or fair-division procedure to satisfy and by clarifying relationships among these properties, mathematical analysis can strengthen the intellectual foundations on which democratic institutions are based. But because there may be no procedures that satisfy all the pro...

As more new and improved vaccines become available, decisions on which to adopt into routine programmes become more frequent and complex. This qualitative study aimed to explore processes of national decision-making around new vaccine adoption and to understand the factors affecting these decisions. Ninety-five key informant interviews were conducted in seven low- and middle-income countries: B...

In nowadays wireless networks, mobile users frequently access context dependent Internet services. During handover procedures, the management of context related information introduces additional overheads to transfer context-aware service sessions. The overhead due to context transfer procedures may affect the quality of service perceived by mobile users making more difficult to realize seamles...