Halophile proteins can tolerate high salt concentrations. Understanding halophilicity features is the first step toward engineering halostable crops. To this end, we examined protein features contributing to the halo-toleration of halophilic organisms. We compared more than 850 features for halophilic and non-halophilic proteins with various screening, clustering, decision tree, and generalized...

In this paper we describe our methodology and results for the Classifying Heart Sounds PASCAL Challenge. We present our algoritm and results for segmentation and classification of S1 and S2 heart sounds.

the concept of intelligently controlling the search process of gravitational search algorithm (gsa) is introduced to develop a novel data mining technique. the proposed method is called fuzzy gsa miner (fgsa-miner). at first a fuzzy controller is designed for adaptively controlling the gravitational coefficient and the number of effective objects, as two important parameters which play major ro...

this study proposes a modified version of cultural algorithms (cas) which benefits from rule-based system for influence function. this rule-based system selects and applies the suitable knowledge source according to the distribution of the solutions. this is important to use appropriate influence function to apply to a specific individual, regarding to its role in the search process. this rule ...

this study presents empirical evidence concerning the effect of different accounting standard on earnings management. prior studies have shown that accounting standards influence earnings management. tighter accounting standards regime restricts management’s descretion to manipulate accruals, and at the same time, induce more costly real earnings management activities. to investigate this iss...

Direct marketing is an important tool in the promotion mix of companies, amongst which direct mailing is crucial. One approach to improve direct mail targeting is response modeling, i.e. a predictive modeling approach that assigns future response probabilities to customers based on their history with the company. The contributions to the response modeling literature are three-fold. First, we in...

Background and Objective: This study was conducted to shed light on the hidden relationships, trends, and patterns of the teenagers’ mental health dataset based on data mining techniques. Materials and Methods: The proposed method has four parts as follows: data preprocessing, data cleaning, target class selection, and extracting rules. The classes included inappropriate, moderate, and accepta...

Several activity-based transportation models are now becoming operational and are entering the stage of application for the modelling of travel demand. Some of these models use decision rules to support its decision making instead of principles of utility maximization. Decision rules can be derived from different modelling approaches. In a previous study, it was shown that Bayesian networks out...

This paper addresses the problem of the validity of weighted automata in which the presence of ε-circuits results in infinite summations. Earlier works either rule out such automata or characterise the semirings in which these infinite sums are all well-defined. By means of a topological approach, we take here a definition of validity that is strong enough to insure that in any kind of semiring...