(AA)AI More than the Sum of Its Parts

Correlation between the severity of alopecia areata and its risk factors

Background: Alopecia Areata (AA) is a recurrent non-scarring type of hair loss that can affect any hair-bearing area. Prognosis of AA is unpredictable and most patients experience more than one episode of hair loss. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the severity of AA with respect to age of onset, nail involvement, family history, number of recurrences and du...

The Knowledge Translation Complexity Network (KTCN) Model: The Whole Is Greater Than the Sum of the Parts - A Response to Recent Commentaries

The qualitative and quantitative analysis of Nepeta eremokosmos Rech.f. in its natural habits (Semnan province) during the phenological stages

Background: The genus Nepeta comprise various annual and perennial plants with 250 species in different parts of the world. 67 species of Nepeta have been reported in Iran in which 39 ones are endemic to Iran. Nepeta eremokosmos Rech.f. is an endemic plant growing in the Semnan of Iran. Objective: The present study was conducted to assess the quantitative and qualitative properties of Nepeta er...

Entropy accumulation

We ask the question whether entropy accumulates, in the sense that the operationally relevant total uncertainty about an n-partite system A = (A1, . . . An) corresponds to the sum of the entropies of its parts Ai. The Asymptotic Equipartition Property implies that this is indeed the case to first order in n — under the assumption that the parts Ai are identical and independent of each other. He...

A multi-objective genetic algorithm (MOGA) for hybrid flow shop scheduling problem with assembly operation

Scheduling for a two-stage production system is one of the most common problems in production management. In this production system, a number of products are produced and each product is assembled from a set of parts. The parts are produced in the first stage that is a fabrication stage and then they are assembled in the second stage that usually is an assembly stage. In this article, the first...