We study the weapon-target assignment WTA problem which has wide applications in the area of defense-related operations research. This problem calls for finding a proper assignment of weapons to targets such that the total expected damaged value of the targets to be maximized. The WTA problem can be formulated as a nonlinear integer programming problem which is known to be NP-complete. There do...

Purpose Two interforaminal dental implants in is a common treatment option for denture retention in edentulous patients. Economic methods to assess the patient's quality of life include the willingness to pay (WTP) for implant treatment and willingness to accept (WTA) to forgo implant treatment. The purpose of this study was to assess the monetary value of implant retained complete dentures usi...

Staphylococcus aureus is the leading cause of skin and soft tissue infections. It remains incompletely understood how skin-resident immune cells respond to invading S. contribute an effective response. Langerhans (LCs), only professional antigen-presenting cell type in epidermis, sense through their pattern-recognition receptor langerin, triggering a proinflammatory Langerin recognizes β-1,4-li...

This paper focuses on the circuit aspects required for an on-chip, on-line SoC large-scale Field Programmable Analog Array (FPAA) learning for Vector-Matrix Multiplier (VMM) + Winner-Take-All (WTA) classifier structure. We start by describing the VMM+WTA classifier structure, and then show techniques required to handle device mismatch. The approach is initially explained using a VMM+WTA as a tw...

Large disparities between willingness to pay (WTP) and willingness-to-accept (WTA) are commonly encountered in empirical studies and raise some important controversies. Nevertheless, the relationships between WTA and WTP can help understand not only how a service is valued but also how it can be substituted or how its loss can be resisted. The purpose of this study was to examine cancer patient...

زمینه و هدف: بسیاری از عوامل محیطی جمله مداخلات غذایی می‌توانند التهاب را تعدیل کنند. پژوهش‌های قبلی تأیید کرده‌اند که وعده‌های چرب موجب افزایش فعال شدن نشانگرهای التهابی مانند IL-6 در مرحلة پس مصرف می‌شود. ازاین‌رو هدف این پژوهش بررسی اثر تمرین هوازی همراه با عصارة پوست سبز پسته بر بیان IL-6، IL-1 TNF-α بافت قلب موش‌های صحرایی تغذیه‌شده غذای بود.مواد روش‌ها: تحقیق مادة دوازده‌هفته‌ای وزن بین 1...

In this paper, a low-complexity current-mode Winner-Take-All circuit (WTA) of O(n) complexity with logical outputs is presented. The proposed approach employs a Quasi-FG Inverter as the key element for current integration and the computing of the winning cell. The design was implemented in a double-poly, three metal layers, 0.5m CMOS technology. The circuit exhibits a good accuracy-speed trade...

The design and simulation of Winner-Take –All Current Mode (WTA) circuit is proposed. The proposed novel current mode CMOS WTA operates at 0.7v, which makes the circuit appropriated for low voltage hardware computation. The circuit was designed and simulated using Cadence gpdk090, with resolution of 0.001fA and an input dynamic range 50nA-10fA and power dissipation during competition is of arou...