Pooling Peripheral Information: Averages Versus Extreme Values*

Workshop on Information Systems and Economics ‘98 Restoring Pooling in a Market with Extreme Information Asymmetries: Bundling as a Strategy in the Individual Health Insurance Market

Mean Platelet Volume (MPV) in Thrombocytopenia

Background: The platelet volume parameters have been widely available as part of full blood count profile on automated haematology analyzers. However, the mean platelet volume (MPV) and other platelet indices are used less often and are poorly understood. Platelet volume data is generated at no extra cost as part of full blood count profile. Low platelet counts can have myriad cause which can b...

برآورد صحت انتخاب ژنومی در جوامع کوچک ژنتیکی- مطالعه‌ شبیه‌سازی

In the present study two genetically connected small and large populations were simulated and the effect of different sources of information from foreign populations on the accuracy of predicted genomic breeding values of young animals of the small population was investigated. A large population consist of 200000 animals over 15 generations and a small population consist of 5000 animals over 3 ...

A Convolutional Neural Network based on Adaptive Pooling for Classification of Noisy Images

Convolutional neural network is one of the effective methods for classifying images that performs learning using convolutional, pooling and fully-connected layers. All kinds of noise disrupt the operation of this network. Noise images reduce classification accuracy and increase convolutional neural network training time. Noise is an unwanted signal that destroys the original signal. Noise chang...

Selective DNA pooling for determination of linkage between a molecular marker and a quantitative trait locus.

Selective genotyping is a method to reduce costs in marker-quantitative trait locus (QTL) linkage determination by genotyping only those individuals with extreme, and hence most informative, quantitative trait values. The DNA pooling strategy (termed: "selective DNA pooling") takes this one step further by pooling DNA from the selected individuals at each of the two phenotypic extremes, and bas...