The artificial bee colony algorithm (ABC), a population based algorithm, provides solutions with better accuracy compared to other competitive population based algorithms. However, it suffers from slow convergence speed. We suggest modifications in search strategy of ABC to improve overall performance and named this modified algorithm, Efficient ABC algorithm (EABC). The performance of EABC is ...

The study examines the perception of activity based costing (ABC) in Australian universities. Using a questionnaire survey, data was collected from twenty-six finance directors and/or chief financial officers in Australian universities. The perception of ABC implementation in Australian universities depends on many variables including the understanding of ABC, consideration of ABC as a strategi...

We develop abc-logitboost, based on the prior work on abc-boost[10] and robust logitboost[11]. Our extensive experiments on a variety of datasets demonstrate the considerable improvement of abc-logitboost over logitboost and abc-mart.

BACKGROUND Meaningful change criteria help determine if function has improved or declined, but their magnitudes may vary across clinically relevant subgroups. We estimate meaningful decline in four common measures of physical performance in subgroups of older adults based on initial performance, demographics, chronic conditions, and health status. METHODS We used baseline (Year 1) and Year 4 ...

Economic analysis plays a pivotal role in the management of medical store. The main objectives of this study were to consider always better control-vital, essential and desirable (ABC-VED) analysis with economic order quantity (EOQ), comparison of indexed cost and the actual cost, and to assess the expenditure for the forthcoming years. Based on cost and criticality, a matrix of nine groups by ...

This work proposes an improved artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm, called the rank-based ABC algorithm, which includes a rank-based selection mechanism in the onlooker bees phase and a modified abandonment mechanism in the scout bees phase for solving unconstrained and constrained optimization problems. In the onlooker bees phase, the probability that an onlooker bee selects a food source is...

Lichtenstein technique requires identification of the iliohypogastric, ilioinguinal, and genital branch of the genitofemoral nerves.The aim of the study was to verify if the transverse incision is suitable for identification of the iliohypogastric, ilioinguinal, and genital branch of the genitofemoral nerves.This study included 29 patients who underwent hernioplasty, and also 10 dissections of ...

BACKGROUND ageing is highly associated with neurodegeneration and atrophy of the brain. Evidence suggests that personality variables are risk factors for reduced brain volume. We examine whether falls-related self-efficacy is independently associated with brain volume. METHOD a cross-sectional analysis of whether falls-related self-efficacy is independently associated with brain volumes (tota...

The goal of image segmentation is to cluster the pixels of an image into several regions. This article describes the method of image segmentation using Artificial Bee Colony Optimization (ABC). This optimization technique is motivated by intelligent behaviour of honey bees and it provides a population based search procedure. In this article Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) is used and each pixel cl...