In this study, a standalone hybrid wind turbine (WT)/photovoltaic (PV)/biomass/pump-hydro-storage energy system was designed and optimized based on technical, economic, environmental parameters to provide the load demand with an objective function of minimum cost (COE). The constraints proposed approach are loss power supply probability, excess fraction. allows combination different sources bes...

Differentiating melanocytic from non-melanocytic (MnM) skin lesions is the first and important step required by clinical experts to automatically diagnosis pigmented skin lesions (PSLs). In this paper, a new clinically-oriented expert system (COE-Deep) is presented for automatic classification of MnM skin lesions through deep-learning algorithms without focusing on preor post-processing steps. ...

A new method for digital image watermarking which does not require the original image for watermark detection is presented. Assuming that we are using a transform domain spread spectrum watermarking scheme, it is important to add the watermark in select coe cients with signi cant image energy in the transform domain in order to ensure non-erasability of the watermark. Previous methods, which di...

In order to search for economically and environmentally optimized fusion reactors, physics properties, engineering designs and the cost of electricity (COE) are evaluated by the PEC (Physics-Engineering-Cost) system code for several magnetic confinement fusion reactors including tokamak (TR), helical (HR) and spherical tokamak (ST) reactors. The life-cycle CO2 emission amounts are also evaluate...

Wavelet transform coe cients are de ned by both a magnitude and a sign. While promising algorithms exist for e ciently coding the transform coe cient magnitudes [7, 13, 9, 8, 11], current wavelet image coding algorithms are not e cient at coding the sign of the transform coe cients. It is generally assumed that there is no compression gain to be obtained from entropy coding of the sign. Only re...

BACKGROUND There is a growing mandate for Family Medicine residency programs to directly assess residents' clinical competence in Care of the Elderly (COE). The objectives of this paper are to describe the development and implementation of incremental core competencies for Postgraduate Year (PGY)-I Integrated Geriatrics Family Medicine, PGY-II Geriatrics Rotation Family Medicine, and PGY-III En...

This paper reports on the preliminary findings of an indepth case study of the implementation of a computerized order entry (COE) system at a medium-sized, acute care hospital. In this paper, we propose a theoreticallygrounded framework, based on work by Barley [8] [9], for analyzing organizational changes that may result from COE introduction and use the framework to analyze findings at the re...

Choroidal neovascularization (CNV) is a common pathology in age-related macular degeneration. In this study, we evaluated in a rat model the effect of an extract of Cinidium officinale Makino and its bioactive compound, butylidenephthalide, on laser-induced CNV. Experimental CNV was induced in Long-Evans rats by laser photocoagulation. C. officinale extract (COE) and butylidenephthalide was int...

Celastrus orbiculatus Thunb. has been used as a remedy against cancer and inflammatory diseases for thousands of years in China. Maspin is expressed in normal cells and downregulated in prostate tumor cells. The underlying mechanisms between C. orbiculatus extract (COE) and maspin remain unclear. In the present study, 3 target-specific 19-25 nucleotide maspin small interfering RNAs were designe...

This paper examines the role of policy in coordination environments such as currency crises and bank runs by introducing signaling in a global game. While exogenous asymmetric information has been shown to select a unique equilibrium, we show that the endogenous information generated by policy interventions leads to multiple equilibria. Multiplicity obtains even in environments where the policy...