During the last decade, several clustering and association rule mining techniques have been applied to identify groups of co-regulated genes in gene expression data. Nowadays, integrating biological knowledge and gene expression data into a single framework has become a major challenge to improve the relevance of mined patterns and simplify their interpretation by the biologists. The GenMiner a...

The influence of ethylene and CO(2) on pollen germination and tube growth was investigated employing ventilated culture systems. Ethylene had no effect on pollen germinability or tube growth. Germinating pollen did not produce a detectable amount of ethylene (less than 0.1 nl/g.hr). Supplementing the cultures with CO(2) caused a marked increase in germination and tube growth. The half-maximal r...

This study aims to test the validity of tourism-led growth hypothesis. For this purpose, ten countries with highest tourism income (USA, China, Australia, France, Italy, England, Spain, Germany, Japan, Thailand) are included in analysis covering period 1995-2018. Pedroni cointegration, panel Dynamic Ordinary Least Square (DOLS) and Fully Modified (FMOLS) methods utilized by using economic growt...

This study aimed at providing a systematic method to analyze the characteristics of customers’ purchasing behavior in order to improve the performance of customer relationship management system. For this purpose, the improved model of LRFM (including Length, Recency, Frequency, and Monetary indices) was utilized which is now a more common model than the basic RFM model apt for analyzing the cus...

Imagine you have traveled to an unfamiliar city. Before you start your daily tour around the city, you need to know a good route. In Network Theory (NT), this is the traveling salesman problem (TSP). A dynamic programming algorithm is often used for solving this problem. However, when the road network of the city is very complicated and dense, which is usually the case, it will take too long fo...

We present a set of problem frames specialized to the area of geographic applications. Problem frames describe the elements of common problems, and help a specifier understand and decompose a complex problem into simpler subproblems for which a solution is often known. We provide an overview of the main issues in geographic applications, and present twelve frames that address many of the proble...

The present article argues for what is essentially a return to the functionalist approach to investigation of memory. Two experiments demonstrate that the effects of level of processing depend on scaled meaningfulness of the material and study time. Data from those experiments along with data currently in the literature are then reanalyzed to examine the effect of repetitions. Of particular int...

In this paper, we consider portfolio selection problem in which security returns are regarded as fuzzy variables rather than random variables. We first introduce a concept of absolute deviation for fuzzy variables and prove some useful properties, which imply that absolute deviation may be used to measure risk well. Then we propose two mean-absolute deviation models by defining risk as abs...

Using annual time series data from 1983 to 2019, this study examines the impact of economic growth, exports, energy consumption, and financial development on environmental deterioration in Bangladesh. The long-run cointegration variables is investigated using Dynamic Ordinary Least Squares (DOLS) Fully Modified OLS (FMOLS) approaches. co-integration demonstrates a long-term relationship between...