Logistic regression analysis is used to model categorical dependent variable. It is usually used in social sciences and clinical research. Human thoughts and disease diagnosis in clinical research contain vagueness. This situation leads researchers to combine fuzzy set and statistical theories. Fuzzy logistic regression analysis is one of the outcomes of this combination and it is used in situa...

  Because of the piecewise linear nature of the data envelopment analysis (DEA) frontier, the optimal multipliers of the DEA models may not be unique. Choosing weights from alternative optimal solutions of dual multiplier models is one of the most frequently studied subjects in the context of DEA. In this paper, the authors have been inspired by the idea of Cooper et al. (2011) to propose a li...

We propose a hypothesis-free methodology for discovering genome-wide expression patterns specific to underlying biological processes from DNA microarray expression data. We apply linear and nonlinear independent component analysis (ICA) as a tool for decomposing microarray data into statistically independent components. Each component represents a gene expression pattern of a putative underlyin...

Polarimetric radar measurements are used to retrieve properties of raindrop distributions. While there has been extensive research conducted on microphysical retrievals such as hydrometeor classification or hail detection, there has not been much research into polarimetric radar based deduction of raindrop shape even though the shape of raindrops plays a critical role in rainfall estimation fro...

Surface modeling is a fundamental issue in 3D images, shape synthesis and recognition. Recently, a surface model called the fibre bundle model is proposed (Chao et al., 2000; Chao & Kim, 2004; Chao et al., 2004; Chao & Li, 2005; Suzuki & Chao, 2002). The fibre bundle model becomes powerful in its full generality however still needs much information, the information of these two curves at all po...

Surface modeling is a fundamental issue in 3D images, shape synthesis and recognition. Recently, a surface model called the fibre bundle model is proposed (Chao et al., 2000; Chao & Kim, 2004; Chao et al., 2004; Chao & Li, 2005; Suzuki & Chao, 2002). The fibre bundle model becomes powerful in its full generality however still needs much information, the information of these two curves at all po...

The success of assisted reproduction, although gradually increasing over the years, is still less than satisfactory. Many couples have benefited from this treatment; many have also been left frustrated following multiple failed attempts (Bulent Urman et al. 2005). Repeated implantation failure (RIF), defined as three or more failed IVF attempts or failure of IVF after cumula- Abstracts of the 5...