BACKGROUND AND AIM tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α plays a significant role in the pathogenesis of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). A few studies have confirmed high TNF-α plasma protein levels in patients with NASH compared to healthy volunteers. We herein aimed to revisit these findings using other molecular techniques. METHODS a cross-sectional evaluation of patients newly diagnosed with...

This paper presents an alternative approach to the image segmentation problem. Similar to other recent proposals a graph theoretic framework is used: Given an image a weighted undirected graph is constructed, where each pixel becomes a vertex of the graph and edges measure a relationship between pixels. Our approach differs from previous work in the way we define the edge weights. Typically the...

Emotional dysregulation (ED) is related to problems in understanding, perceiving, and regulating emotions. The aim find the psychometric properties of an instrument that measures ED classifies high/low group membership with least possible error. For statistical purposes (factor analysis), two independent samples males females (n1 = 476) (n2 562) were obtained, ages sample 1 (15 -19 years; M= 15...

An M/G/1 retrial queueing system with breakdowns have been studied in fuzzy environment. The arrival rate,retrial rate, service rate,failure rate and repair rate of server are all fuzzy numbers. For this model we obtain some system characteristics such as mean orbit size ,mean normal queue size and mean system size. The α cut approach is used to transform fuzzy queues with an unreliable server ...

Variational problems, which are commonly used to solve lowlevel vision tasks, are typically minimized via a local, iterative optimization strategy, e.g. gradient descent. Since every iteration is restricted to a small, local improvement, the overall convergence can be slow and the algorithm may get stuck in an undesirable local minimum. In this paper, we propose to approximate the minimization ...

This paper extends and generalizes the Bayesian semisupervised segmentation algorithm [1] for oil spill detection using SAR images. In the base algorithm on which we build on, the data term is modeled by a finite mixture of Gamma distributions. The prior is an Mlevel logistic Markov Random Field enforcing local continuity in a statistical sense. The methodology proposed in [1] assumes two class...

It has been conjectured that the tachyonic lump solution of the open bosonic string field theory describing a D-brane represents a D-brane of one lower dimension. We place the lump on a circle of finite radius and develop a variant of the level expansion scheme that allows systematic account of all higher derivative terms in the string field theory action, and gives a calculational scheme that ...

Web administrators’ prioritization of several upgrading alternatives with respect to multiple contradictory criteria involve fuzziness and impreciseness of human’s subjective judgements in a Web server system. In this paper, fuzzy concepts are used to enhance the traditional Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) which are mainly applied in crisps decision environment. The entropy weight proposed by ...

The hub location problem arises in a variety of domains such as transportation and telecommunication systems. In many real-world situations, hub facilities are subject to disruption. This paper deals with the multiple allocation hub location problem in the presence of facilities failure. To model the problem, a two-stage stochastic formulation is developed. In the proposed model, the number of ...