The information in the quarterly Aberdeen Housing Market Reports is based on transaction data provided by the Aberdeen Solicitor’s Property Centre (ASPC) to the Centre for Real Estate Research, University of Aberdeen. The data is used to compute quality-adjusted indices for different areas and different types of dwellings. Such indices control for the observed characteristics of the transacted ...

The paper discusses the enhancement of inherent safety by index methods. The aim is to study, how well the safety index methods can evaluate inherent safety compared to expert evaluations and Dow Fire and Explosion index values. Studies on four levels of scope from process concept selection to equipment design were done and correlations between indices and expert values calculated. It was found...

although precipitation is the most important factor which effects rangeland production, but there is little information on the relationship between production and the interactions of climatic factors and specially drought indices. .in this research, the relation between production and climatic factors of rainfall, temperature, evapo- transpiration, and as well as drought indices of standardized...

The support vector machine is used as a data mining technique to extract informative hydrologic data on the basis of a strong relationship between error tolerance and the number of support vectors. Hydrologic data of flash flood events in the Lan-Yang River basin in Taiwan were used for the case study. Various percentages (from 50% to 10%) of hydrologic data, including those for flood stage and...

Clustering is an unsupervised machine learning and pattern recognition method. In general, in addition to revealing hidden groups of similar observations and clusters, their number needs to be determined. Internal clustering validation indices estimate this number without any external information. The purpose of this article is to evaluate, empirically, characteristics of a representative set o...

Although traditional social network analysis operates on the assumption that the observed relationships represents the true social network, this assumption is dangerous, especially in noisy environments. This assumption is especially problematic given the lack of robustness with respect to missing or erroneous information that has been found for node-level network indices such as degree central...

Title: Dynamical seasonal prediction of tropical Indo-Pacific SST and Australian rainfall with improved ocean initial conditions. CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology advise that the information contained in this publication comprises general statements based on scientific research. The reader is advised and needs to be aware that such information may be incomplete or unable to be used in any sp...

Several indices based on the receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC curve) have previously been found to possess probabilistic interpretations. However, these interpretations are based on some unrealistic diagnostic scenarios. In this paper, the author presents a new approach using the Lorenz curve. The author found that the summary indices of the Lorenz curve, that is, the Pietra index a...

In collecting and analyzing information about recent research papers, authors, and journals with their citation and indices, we noticed that in many cases such indices fail to reflect reality and are incapable to distinguish between different authors in some cases while they clearly have different research profiles. There are many research papers that can be found in literature that discussed t...