Insufficiency of pancreatic anastomosis with leakage from the pancreatic stump and the development of fistulas account for the majority of surgical complications following pancreatic resection, which are often life threatening. The cause of pancreatic fistulas of the remnant tissue on a molecular level remains unclear. Thus, the aim of the present study was to investigate risk factors associate...

We discuss higher-order approximations to the marginal posterior distribution for a scalar parameter of interest in the presence of nuisance parameters. These higher-order approximations are obtained using a suitable matching prior. The proposed procedure has several advantages since it does not require the elicitation on the nuisance parameter, neither numerical integration or MCMC simulation,...

OBJECTIVE This study focuses on the relation between objective voice quality and the self-perception of a voice handicap. PATIENTS AND METHODS The study group consisted of 86 German-speaking patients (51 women, 35 men) suffering from benign dysphonia. The test persons completed the German version of the Voice-Related Quality of Life (V-RQOL) Questionnaire without prior information about their...

Laser beam machining (LBM) is one of the most widely used thermal energy based non-contact type advance machining process. In recent years, researchers have explored a number of ways to improve the LBM process performance by analyzing different factors that affect the quality characteristics of LBM process such as kerf width, kerf taper, surface finish etc. It is revealed from the literature th...

Evolutionary multi-objective optimization (EMO) has received significant attention in recent studies in engineering design and analysis due to their flexibility, wide-spread applicability and ability to find multiple trade-off solutions. Optimal machining parameter determination is an important matter for ensuring an efficient working of a machining process. In this paper, we describe the use o...

This paper deals with fuzzy goal programming approach to bilevel multi-objective programming problem with fuzzy parameters. In the proposed approach, the tolerance membership functions for the fuzzily described objective functions are defined by determining individual optimal solution of the objective functions of each of the decision makers. Since the objectives are potentially conflicting in ...