In order to further investigate the relationships of brain atrophy, age, and dementia, computed tomographic (CT) scans on two groups of subjects aged 65-80 years were rank-ordered according to ventricular and sulcal size. Each group contained subjects with mild senile dementia of the Alzheimer type (SDAT) and matched controls. In both experiments there was a strong correlation between these ran...

A decision-making body may utilize a wide variety of different strategies when required to make a collective decision. In principle, we would like to use the most effective decision rule, that is, the rule yielding the highest probability of making the correct decision. However, in reality we often have to choose a decision rule out of some restricted family of rules. Therefore, it is important...

Data mining systems semi-automatically discover knowledge by mining a large volume of data, but discovered knowledge is not always novel to users. We discuss a discovered rule filtering method to filter rules discovered by a data mining system into ones that are novel to the user by using information retrieval results from the Internet. We have two methods; the micro view and the macro view met...

Bergmann’s rule, which proposes a heat-balance explanation for the observed latitudinal gradient of increasing animal body size with increasing latitude, has dominated the study of geographic patterns in animal size since it was first proposed in 1847. Several critical reviews have determined that as many as half of the species examined do not fit the predictions of Bergmann’s rule. We have pro...

Contemporary scientific literature and strategic documents suggest the concept of polycentricity as a key factor aim regional development policies. One aims this study is to analyze spatial relations between nodal regions determine (calculate) level in region Vojvodina (Northern Serbia). By quantifying (using selected methods), we pointed out relevance policies, i.e., extent which proposed meas...

ZnFe2O4 mixed spinel ferrite nanoparticles obtained through a citrate-nitrate combustion method. Ignited products calcined at different temperatures in 600-900ºC range and effect of calcination treatment temperature investigated. Final Products characterized by X-ray Diffraction (XRD), Fourier-Transform Infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), and Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FESEM). The a...