Multi-class pattern recognition has a wide range of applications including handwritten digit recognition (Chiang, 1998), speech tagging and recognition (Athanaselis, Bakamidis, Dologlou, Cowie, Douglas-Cowie & Cox, 2005), bioinformatics (Mahony, Benos, Smith & Golden, 2006) and text categorization (Massey, 2003). This chapter presents a comprehensive and competitive study in multi-class neural ...

This paper studies how the conversion of a waste stream into a useful and saleable by-product affects a firm’s optimal operating strategy. We determine whether local implementation can be optimal, i.e., continuing business-as-usual to produce the original product and merely converting the collaterally generated waste stream into by-product, or whether global implementation – that re-optimizes t...

Fishing spider: evolutionary by-product Sexual cannibalism, per se, need not be adaptive for either sex. In a recent study of the fishing spider, Arnqvist and Henriksson4 argue that sexual cannibalism is a by-product of strong selection for female 'rapacity', or willingness to attack prey items. In this species, female fecundity is determined by the size that the female achieves in her final ju...

given a graph $g$, let $g^sigma$ be an oriented graph of $g$ with the orientation $sigma$ and skew-adjacency matrix $s(g^sigma)$. then the spectrum of $s(g^sigma)$ consisting of all the eigenvalues of $s(g^sigma)$ is called the skew-spectrum of $g^sigma$, denoted by $sp(g^sigma)$. the skew energy of the oriented graph $g^sigma$, denoted by $mathcal{e}_s(g^sigma)$, is defined as the sum of the n...

amonge other things we give sufficient and necessary conditions for the lau product of banachalgebras to be biflat or biprojective.

In this experimental work, nitrogen-doped carbon quantum dots were successfully synthesized with hydrothermal of the milk. The product was composed of a powder and a stable colloid. The structure of the product was examined by XRD, EDS and FT-IR analysis. Also the particle size of the product was investigated by SEM and TEM images and the results showed the product is mainly composed of the par...

The theory of constraints is an approach to production planning and control that emphasizes on the constraints to increase throughput by effectively managing constraint resources. One application in theory of constraints is product mix decision. Product mix influences the performance measures in multi-product manufacturing system. This paper presents an alternative approach by using of goal pro...