objectives in order to increase the classification accuracy of airs, this study introduces a new hybrid system that incorporates a support vector machine into airs for diagnosing tuberculosis. background tuberculosis (tb) is a major global health problem, which has been ranked as the second leading cause of death from an infectious disease worldwide. diagnosis based on cultured specimens is the...

We assume there is a slight difference in the average value of the gene expression for a group of genes between two strata/time periods. There is no prior knowledge on which genes where the gene expression differs between the two strata. We test out the power of a large number of test statistics in order to identify whether the observed difference between the averages is significant. Secondly, ...

Adjusting to the U.S. Quickly and Comfortably I. Explore Get familiar with your environment. Explore the campus and Ann Arbor on foot or by bus. ● U-M busses (blue busses) are free. Public busses (AATA) are free with your M-Card. ❍ U-M bus routes and schedules [1] ■ AATA bus routes and schedules [2] ■ You can sign up for a guided campus tour [3] or use the Campus Tour Map [4] to take a self-gui...

Personalized consultation in large-scale businesses like found in electronic shops is getting more and more important. To provide customers with adequate product information, an automated, dynamic, customer-adaptive dialog has to be carried on that simulates a real sales talk between a sales person and a customer. The task of an electronic sales system is to gain very quickly as much informatio...

Objective A great number of customers spend much more time than expected on shopping because of a lot of reasons like variety in products. Thus, they may feel confused and disappointed. Such confusion can influence purchasing procedure and determine purchasing behavior. Such customers fail to purchase wisely and may face difficulty choosing appropriate and reasonable products. However, if the ...

Conventional distribution system supplies loads radially, and often relies on tied adjacent feeders to provide alternative supply during outage. This results in customer outages of varying duration while the fault is located and isolated and restored, which can be very costly to the impacted customers. This paper describes one unique distribution automation scheme implemented in BC Hydro which ...

In recent years, Internet pharmacies have emerged in Canada, primarily to supply US customers with lower-cost drugs. The pharmacies use e-commerce and other technologies to reach large numbers of potential customers and to exploit the sizeable price difference that exists for prescription drugs in the two countries. The resulting cross-border trade in drugs grew rapidly from 2001. Despite rapid...

Churning is the movement of customers from a company to another. For any company, being able to predict with some time which of their customers will churn is essential to take actions in order to retain them, and for this reason most sectors invest substantial effort in techniques for (semi)automatically predicting churning, and data mining and machine learning are among the techniques successf...