this paper peresents a mathematical model for the thin layer drying of the viliamz cultivar of soybean. the thin layer drying behaviour of soybean was experimentally investigated and the mathematical modelling performed by using thin layer drying models provided in the literature. experiments were conducted at inlet drying air temperatures of 30, 40, 50, 60 and 70ºc and at a fixed drying air ve...

2-aminothiazoles is a class of compounds capable of treating life-threatening prion diseases. QSAR studies on a set of forty-seven 2-aminothiazole derivatives possessing anti-prion activity were performed using multivariate analysis, which comprised of multiple linear regression (MLR), artificial neural network (ANN) and support vector machine (SVM). The results indicated that MLR afforded reas...

BACKGROUND Generalized linear models (GLMs) have recently been introduced into cost data analysis. GLMs, transformations of the linear regression model, are characterized by a particular response distribution from one of the exponential family of distributions and monotonic link function which relates the response mean to a scale on which additive model effects operate. OBJECTIVES This study ...

The objective of this study is to develop a method based on multivariate relevance vector regression (MVRVR) as a kernel-based Bayesian model for the estimation of above-ground biomass (AGB) in the Hyrcanian forests of Iran. Field AGB data from the Hyrcanian forests and multi-temporal PALSAR backscatter values are used for training and testing the methods. The results of the MVRVR method are th...

The new-shoot-growing stage is an important period of apple tree nutrition distribution. The objective of this study is to provide technical support for apple tree nutrition diagnosis by constructing quantitative evaluation models between the apple leaf nitrogen content during the new-shoot-growing stage and characteristic spectral parameters. The correlation coefficients between the original s...

INTRODUCTION This article is part of the Focus Theme of Methods of Information in Medicine on "Big Data and Analytics in Healthcare". BACKGROUND Depression is a common and often undiagnosed condition for patients with diabetes. It is also a condition that significantly impacts healthcare outcomes, use, and cost as well as elevating suicide risk. Therefore, a model to predict depression among ...

We describe a submission to the WMT12 Quality Estimation task, including an extensive Machine Learning experimentation. Data were augmented with features from linguistic analysis and statistical features from the SMT search graph. Several Feature Selection algorithms were employed. The Quality Estimation problem was addressed both as a regression task and as a discretised classification task, b...

introduction: estimation of cation exchange capacity (cec) with reliable soil properties can save time and cost. pedotransfer function (ptf) is a common method in estimating certain soil properties (e.g. cec) that has been wieldy used for many years. one of the common techniques that have been used to develop ptfs is multiple linear regressions. in this method, all easily obtained soil properti...