background: a high prevalence of human t-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (htlv-1) infection among general population in the northeast of iran has been reported. multi-transfused patients are known as ‘at-risk’ group for the infection. this systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted to estimate the prevalence of htlv-1 infection among iranian multi-transfused patients. materials and method...

Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading “FPSO” have become a popular choice since 1980s for marginal and fast-track developments where subsea pipeline is not an economic or feasible solution for export. Field development usually starts with a concept selection procedure which is constituted from a sequence of multi-disciplinary decision making tasks. As limited data is availabl...

Authorship analysis is a challenging area that has been developed through centuries and with research done widely scattered across multiple disciples of mainly computational linguistics, text mining, data mining, stylometry and machine learning. Conventional techniques from the past relied heavily on stylometry and text-based content analysis of document text for authorship analysis. More recen...

in this study, the application of gray relational analysis (gra) and taguchi method in multi-criteria process parameters selection of turning operation has been investigated. the process responses under study are material removal rate (mrr) and surface roughness (sr); in turn, the input parameters include cutting speed, feed rate, depth of cut and nose radius of the cutting tool. the proposed a...

This paper presents a novel learning-based clothing deformation method to generate rich and reasonable detailed deformations for garments worn by bodies of various shapes in animations. In contrast existing methods, which require numerous trained models different garment topologies or poses are unable easily realize details, we use unified framework produce high fidelity efficiently easily. Spe...

Toxoplasma gondii invade host cells using a multi-step process that depends on the regulated secretion of adhesions. To identify key primary sequence features of adhesins in this parasite, we analyze the relative frequency of individual amino acids, their dipeptide frequencies, and the polarity, polarizability and Van der Waals volume of the individual amino acids by using cluster analysis. Thi...

Many applications see huge demands for discovering relevant patterns in dynamic attributed graphs, for instance in the context of social interaction analysis. It is often possible to associate a hierarchy on the attributes related to graph vertices to explicit prior knowledge. For example, considering the study of scientific collaboration networks, conference venues and journals can be grouped ...

Discretization is an important preprocessing technique in data mining tasks. Univariate Discretization is the most commonly used method. It discretizes only one single attribute of a dataset at a time, without considering the interaction information with other attributes. Since it is multi-attribute rather than one single attribute determines the targeted class attribute, the result of Univaria...

The attributes of Vehicle Routing Problems are additional characteristics or constraints that aim to better take into account the specificities of real applications. The variants thus formed are supported by a well-developed literature, including a large variety of heuristics. This article first reviews the main classes of attributes, providing a survey of heuristics and meta-heuristics for Mul...