Artificial neural network is considered one of the most efficient methods in processing huge data sets that can be analyzed computationally to reveal patterns, trends, prediction, forecasting etc. It has a great prospective in engineering as well as in medical applications. The present work employs artificial neural network-based curve fitting techniques in prediction and forecasting of the Cov...

Previous in vitro work on rabbit knee joint vessels showed that vasoconstrictor effects of nerve stimulation and administration of α-adrenoceptor agonists were mediated predominantly by α1-adrenoceptors5,9 The present experiments were performed to assess the nature of α-adrenoceptor subtypes within these blood vessels in vivo. Dose/response relationships for adrenaline and noradrenaline pr...

We construct genomic predictors for heritable and extremely complex human quantitative traits (height, heel bone density, and educational attainment) using modern methods in high dimensional statistics (i.e., machine learning). Replication tests show that these predictors capture, respectively, ∼40, 20, and 9 percent of total variance for the three traits. For example, predicted heights correla...

ll~tONEY SERVES AS A medium of exchange for transactions involving financial instruments as well as real goods and services. Unfortunately, the total volume of tt-ansactions iti the economy is not observable. As a result, economic analyses of rnomiev demand typically focus on the t-elationship between the quantity of money demanded and the production of new goods and services, measured by eithe...

Bayesian or likelihood-based approaches to data analysis became very popular in the field of Machine Learning. However, there exist theoretical results which question the general applicability of such approaches; among those a result by Robins and Ritov which introduce a specific example for which they prove that a likelihood-based estimator will fail (i.e. it does for certain cases not converg...

1 UMR6197, Laboratoire de Microbiologie des Environnements Extrêmes, IFREMER, Technopôle Brest Iroise, Plouzané, France, 2 Laboratoire de Microbiologie des Environnements Extrêmes, UMR6197, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Plouzané, France, 3 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire de Microbiologie des Environnements Extrêmes, UMR6197, Technopôle Brest Iroise, Plouzané, Fra...

We report the in-vitro susceptibility of 27 clinical isolates of Scedosporium apiospermum and 43 of Scedosporium prolificans. S. apiospermum was resistant to fluconazole and flucytosine, with variable susceptibility to amphotericin B, itraconazole, ketoconazole and susceptible to miconazole. Voriconazole was much more active than fluconazole and flucytosine, more active than amphotericin B, itr...

A new UEP technique for image transmission using trellis code based on Hamming distance criterion has been proposed. The simulation results comparing the image quality and bit-rate for UEP and EEP have been provided. The results show that UEP performs better than EEP in terms of bit-rate without any significant depreciation in image quality. key words: trellis code, unequal error protection, Ha...

During July and August 2004 we visited various applied science and middleware groups in the U.K. in order to gather basic information on the services and functionality these projects are using. Our motivation was to help guide the development of future activities and priorities within the U.K.’s Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute [OMII] and the Globus Alliance [Globus] and to inform the w...

1 The Effect of Functional Hearing Loss and Age on Longand Short-term Visuospatial 1 Memory: Evidence from the UK Biobank Resource 2 3 Jerker Rönnberg*, Linnaeus Centre HEAD, Swedish Institute for Disability Research, 4 Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Linköping University, Sweden. 5 6 Staffan Hygge, Environmental Psychology, Faculty of Engineering and Sustainable 7 Development,...