non-performing assets (npas) have been a major cause of concern for indian commercial banks in the recent past years. many studies have been reported on the different aspects of npas in indian banking system. however, there is a crucial lack of investigation on the comparative assessment of various types of banks such as public sector banks, private sector banks and foreign banks so that the tr...

microRNAs (miRNAs) are a large family of ˜ 22 nucleotides (nt) long RNA molecules that are widely expressed in eukaryotes (1). Complex genomes encode at least hundreds of miRNAs, which primarily inhibit the expression of a vast number of target genes post-transcriptionally (2, 3). miRNAs control a broad range of biological processes (1). In addition, altered miRNA expression has been associa...

Assume that we have an SQL query containing joins and a group by The standard way of evaluating this type of query is to rst perform all the joins and then the group by operation However it may be possible to perform the group by early that is to push the group by operation past one or more joins Early grouping may reduce the query processing cost by reducing the amount of data participating in...

This article investigates fundamental issues in scaling autonomous personal robots towards open-ended sets of everyday manipulation tasks which involve high complexity and vague job specifications. To achieve this, we propose a control architecture that synergetically integrates some of the most promising artificial intelligence (AI) methods that we consider as necessary for the performance of ...