Epistasis that may explain a large portion of the phenotypic variation for complex economic traits of animals has been ignored in many genetic association studies. A Baysian method was introduced to draw inferences about multilocus genotypic effects based on their marginal posterior distributions by a Gibbs sampler. A simulation study was conducted to provide statistical powers under various un...

Restricting the randomization of hard-to-change factors in industrial experiments is often performed by employing a split-plot design structure. From an economic perspective, these designs minimize the experimental cost by reducing the number of resets of the hard-tochange factors. In this paper, unbalanced designs are considered for cases where the subplots are relatively expensive and the exp...

a New Class of Unbalanced CAST Ciphers X. Zhu and H. M. Heys Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, A1B 3X5 Email: [email protected] Abstract The original CAST cipher is an e cient and secure private-key block cipher designed to be an alternative to DES. In this paper, we present a new class of unbalanced CAST ciphers wh...

At the present, several applications need to classify high dimensional points belonging to highly unbalanced classes. Unfortunately, when the training set cardinality is small compared to the data dimensionality (‘‘small sample size’’ problem) the classification performance of several well-known classifiers strongly decreases. Similarly, the classification accuracy of several discriminative met...

In this paper we consider the problem of balancing a three-phase load and how to optimize the TCR operation. For an unbalanced load change a VAT technique is developed by the authors to determine the three compensating susceptance values and then the unsymmetrical firing angles of TCR, which are necessary for a balanced load operation. An objective function (THD) is determined to measure the di...

Although total knee arthroplasty has a high success rate, poor outcomes and early revision are associated with ligament imbalance. This multicenter evaluation was performed in order to provide 1-year followup of a previously reported group of patients who had sensor-assisted TKA, comparing the clinical outcomes of quantitatively balanced versus unbalanced patients. At 1 year, the balanced cohor...

In Group Decision Making (GDM) the automatic consensus models are guided by different consensus measures which usually are obtained by aggregating similarities observed among experts’ opinions. Most GDM problems based on linguistic approaches use symmetrically and uniformly distributed linguistic term sets to express experts’ opinions. However, there exist problems whose assessments need to be ...

Processing quantities such as the number of objects in a set, size, spatial arrangement and time is an essential means of structuring the external world and preparing for action. The theory of magnitude suggests that number and time, among other continuous magnitudes, are linked by a common cortical metric, and their specialization develops from a single magnitude system. In order to investigat...