There is a huge requirement for power systems to reduce losses. Adding distributed generators (DGs) the most common approach achieving lower However, several challenges arise, such as determining ideal size well location of utilized generators. Most existing methods do not consider variety load types, and DGs besides reducing convergence time enhancing optimization results. The paper performed ...

Prion diseases are classically characterized by the accumulation of pathological prion protein (PrP(Sc)) with the protease resistant C-terminal fragment (PrP(res)) of 27-30 kDa. However, in both humans and animals, prion diseases with atypical biochemical features, characterized by PK-resistant PrP internal fragments (PrP(res)) cleaved at both the N and C termini, have been described. In this s...

We propose a dual-threshold method based on a strategic combination of RGB and HSV color space for white blood cell (WBC) segmentation. The proposed method consists of three main parts: preprocessing, threshold segmentation, and postprocessing. In the preprocessing part, we get two images for further processing: one contrast-stretched gray image and one H component image from transformed HSV co...

Many previous papers have lamented the fact that the findings of past GSS research have been inconsistent. This paper develops a new model for interpreting GSS effects on performance (a Fit-Appropriation Model), which argues that GSS performance is affected by two factors. The first is the fit between the task and the GSS structures selected for use (i.e., communication support and information ...

PURPOSE To introduce a new method, derived from the Glaucoma Staging System (GSS), for classifying glaucomatous visual field defects. PATIENTS AND METHODS Four sample groups composed respectively of 471 (sample #1), 128 (sample #2), 185 (sample #3), and 131 (sample #4) patients with either ocular hypertension or chronic glaucoma were considered. The GSS 2 uses both the MD and CPSD/CLV or PSD/...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To prospectively explore the underlying regional homogeneity (ReHo) brain-activity deficit in patients with chronic primary insomnia (PCPIs) and its relationship with clinical features. DESIGN The ReHo method and Statistical Parametric Mapping 8 software were used to evaluate whether resting-state localized brain activity was modulated between PCPIs and good sleepers (GSs), an...

1 Introduction In a distant-talking environment, channel distortion drastically degrades speech recognition performance because of mismatches between the training and test environments. The current approaches focusing on robustness issues for automatic speech recognition (ASR) in noisy reverberant environments can be classified as speech enhancement, robust feature extraction, or model adaptati...

The leadership role facilitates group process by structuring group interaction. How leadership affects group performance in GSS settings remains one of the least investigated areas of GSS research. In this study, the presence of a group leader is found to make a significant difference in objective decision quality and satisfaction with the decision process. At the same time, perceived decision ...

of Section II Section II, "A Comparative Study of Heuristic Reliability Optimization Methods" investigates the effectiveness of a mixed-integer programming method. This method is a combination of the heuristic redundancy method and the sequential search method. The heuristic method determines the integer variables (number of redundancies) by assuming that the real variables (reliability level) ...