In this paper, we extend our previous work on presenting a registration model for images having arbitrarily-shaped locally variant illuminations from shadows to multiple shading levels. These variations tend to degrade the performance of geometric registration and impact subsequent processing. Often, traditional registration models use a leastsquares estimator that is sensitive to outliers. Ins...

UNLABELLED Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular parasite that invades host cells and replicates within a unique parasitophorous vacuole. To maintain this intracellular niche, the parasite secretes an array of dense granule proteins (GRAs) into the nascent parasitophorous vacuole. These GRAs are believed to play key roles in vacuolar remodeling, nutrient uptake, and immune evasion whil...

This paper adopts two mathematical approaches, data envelopment analysis (DEA) and grey relation analysis (GRA) to measure DEA efficiency using the sample of 69 listed US internet companies. A total of 40 indicators were initially selected for the efficiency evaluation, with 21 related to DEA-input indicators and 19 to DEAoutput indicators. Eight representative indicators selected using GRA are...

The performance assessment of professional baseball starting pitchers is considered a multi-attribute decisionmaking (MADM) problem. This study develops an evaluation model based on the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and grey relational analysis (GRA) to evaluate starting pitcher performance for teams of the Chinese Professional Baseball League. The AHP is used to determine attribute weights,...

Weight gain and diabetes have been reported during treatment with atypical antipsychotic drugs (AAPDs). Patients treated with the glucocorticoid receptor antagonist (GRA) and the progesterone receptor antagonist (PRA) mifepristone [estra-4,9-dien-3-one, 11-[4-(dimethylamino)phenyl]-17-hydroxy-17-(1-propynyl)-(11β,17β)-(9CI)] experienced significant reduction in the weight gain observed when pat...

Abstract Accurate identification of fault source causing voltage sag is great significance to the governance and further research sag. In this paper, a method based on improved grey correlation analysis (GRA) proposed. view deficiency that traditional GRA only considers similarity, proposed geometric area slope sequence into calculation coefficient, so has attributes both similarity data closen...

The study aims to identify and evaluate the key criteria for food supplier selection in Indonesian hospitality industry. A survey was sent experts Indonesia based on their opinions were evaluated using Grey Relational Analysis (GRA). found that price is most important criteria, followed by quality, return-ability of problematic food. also reports variation distinguishing coefficient GRA influen...

OBJECTIVE Intestinal gamma/delta- intraepithelial lymphocytes (IEL) have increased in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). To further characterise intestinal immune activation in these children, we have quantitated cytotoxic lymphocytes in intestinal mucosa. METHODS We studied 23 children with JIA suffering from gastrointestinal symptoms with gastroduodenoscopy and colonoscopy. ...