OBJECTIVE Scavenger receptor BI (SR-BI) is a cell surface receptor that promotes the selective uptake of cholesteryl esters from high-density lipoprotein (HDL) by the liver. In mice, SR-BI deficiency results in increased plasma HDL cholesterol levels and enhanced susceptibility to atherosclerosis. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of SR-BI deficiency on platelet function. METH...

In this paper, the common centralized DEA models are extended to the bi-level centralized resource allocation (CRA) models based on revenue efficiency. Based on the Karush–Kuhn–Tucker (KKT) conditions, the bi-level CRA model is reduced to a one-level mathematical program subject to complementarity constraints (MPCC). A recurrent neural network is developed for solving this one-level mathematica...

The approach of Business Intelligence (BI) as a support function for management decisions is established in practice and theory. BI can not just be considered as a simple sequence of isolated single projects. Its coordination requires permanent efforts to keep the BI function and the business organization in alignment. In the context of the present empirical study, BI organizations have been an...

in this paper, we introduce and study the prime, strongly prime,semiprime and irreducible fuzzy bi-ideals of a semigroup. we characterize thosesemigroups for which each fuzzy bi-ideal is semiprime. we also characterizethose semigroups for which each fuzzy bi-ideal is strongly prime.

We study the degrees of bi-hyperhyperimmune (bi-hhi) sets. Our main result characterizes these degrees as those that compute a function that is not dominated by any ∆2 function, and equivalently, those that compute a weak 2-generic. These characterizations imply that the collection of bi-hhi Turing degrees is closed upwards.

The purpose of the present paper is to introduce two new subclasses of the function class ∑m  of bi-univalent functions which both f  and f-1  are m-fold symmetric analytic functions. Furthermore, we obtain estimates on the initial coefficients for functions in each of these new subclasses. Also we explain the relation between our results with earlier known results.