new statistic based models provide a wide area of prediction equipments for different science areas. among these fields biology have just entered the contest of interdisciplinary sciences. drug discovery is a long and expensive process which could be decreased with theoretical approaches. in this study, 500 reported assayed anti cancer molecules were extracted from science direct articles, sket...

purpose: the aim of the current study was to predict the high school students' academic burnout based on social adjustment, academic procrastination and academic hope. materials and method: current research method was descriptive and correlational. the study population included all high school students of the state female high schools of bojnourd. 350 students were selected as a sample emp...

Survey data of food consumption were analyzed utilizing stepwise logistic regression to investigate factors affecting consumer choice of shrimp as the most frequently consumed non-fish seafood in Taiwan. Demographic factors, consumer attention to food attributes, and consumer preferences for fish were considered in modeling. Results showed more people preferring shrimp than actually choosing sh...

Total Quality Management is not just an admirable phenomenon but it is any client’s right and can be done through contribution of the staff and the managers as well as the client’s of an organization. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the feasibility of TQM model and the attitude of the managers of health field of Yazd medical sciences university towards it. The present study w...

In this paper we continue our study on adaptive genetic programming. We use Stepwise Adaptation of Weights (saw) to boost performance of a genetic programming algorithm on simple symbolic regression problems. We measure the performance of a standard gp and two variants of saw extensions on two different symbolic regression problems from literature. Also, we propose a model for randomly generati...

Hedonic pricing models attempt to model a relationship between object attributes and the object’s price. Traditional hedonic pricing models are often parametric models that suffer from misspecification. In this paper we create these models by means of boosted CART models. The method is explained in detail and applied to various datasets. Empirically, we find substantial reduction of errors on o...

The objective of this paper was to develop a useful framework for estimating demand for tourism in emerging markets. Tourism has become one of the most crucial sectors in a large number of emerging countries. Moreover, the tourism industry in such markets is forecasted to keep increasing in the next decade. Hence, understanding and accurately forecast demand in the industry is essential in orde...

0957-4174/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2010.04.077 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +852 2616 8245; fax: E-mail addresses: [email protected] (G. Cui), mlw [email protected] (G. Zhang). Selecting good variables to build forecasting models is a major challenge for direct marketing given the increasing amount and variety of data. This study adopts the Bayesian variable sel...

The study was conducted to determine the constraints faced by the farmers in commercial cultivation of vegetables and to explore relationship between the selected characteristics of the farmers and constraints faced by them. Data were collected through personal interview from 142 randomly selected respondents out of 1422 vegetable growers of the three villages viz. Panchpara, Bagan and Rampur, ...

Just as cooperation in multi-agent systems is a central issue for solving complex decision problems, so too is the ability for an intelligent agent to reason about combined knowledge, coming from its background knowledge and the communicated information. Specifically, such an agent is confronted with three main difficulties: the prospect of inconsistency which arises when different beliefs are ...