background: rna plays key role in many aspects of biological processes and its tertiary structure is critical for its biological function. rna secondary structure represents various significant portions of rna tertiary structure. since the biological function of rna is concluded indirectly from its primary structure, it would be important to analyze the relations between the rna sequences and t...

Congestion is a wasteful stage of the production process where outputs are reduced due to excessive amount of inputs. There are several approaches in data envelopment analysis (DEA) literatures to treat congestion. The concept of strong and weak congestion first developed by Tone and Sahoo [Tone, K., Sahoo, B.K., 2004. Degree of scale economies and congestion: A unified DEA approach. European J...

nowadays, electricity is one of the most significant infrastructures required for economic development of countries. hence, predicting electricity demand is very important especially in industry as a major electricity-consuming sector. the majority of studies under the subject of electricity demand have been performed by econometrics and it is not possible to investigate the effect of different...