The proliferative indices of non-Hodgkin's lymphomas are useful prognostic indicators and provide information independent of other histological and clinical variables. However, proliferative indices alone do not suffice to characterise cell growth. A high cell production rate may be compensated, almost or fully, by a high cell deletion rate. A re-evaluation of parameters of cell kinetics in vie...

TIMSS collects a vast amount of information aimed to provide a context to better understand education systems around the globe. This paper discusses how this background information can be reported using three real examples from the 1999 assessment. These examples illustrate the main concepts and steps involved in reporting background data, while presenting methods and statistical techniques tha...

As machine is designed, special design requirements are influenced by various restraint factors in the practice. The evaluation of its scheme usually features multi levels, multi attributes and a mixed type of both qualitative and quantitative indices. Therefore this paper researches on the evaluation of the machine design scheme and provides an evaluation method of the machine design scheme ba...

During the search for new structural descriptors we have defined the information-theory operators U(M), V(M), X(M), and Y(M), that are computed from atomic invariants and measure the information content of the elements of molecular matrices. Structural descriptors computed with these four information-theory operators are used to develop structure-property models for the boiling temperature, mol...

This paper presents a technique for real-time predictionof stability/instability of a power system based on synchrophasor measurements obtained from phasor measurement units (PMUs) at generator buses.For stability assessment the technique makes use of system severity indices developed usingbus voltage magnitudeobtained from PMUs and generator electrical power. Generator power is computed using ...

Nutritional biomarkers--biochemical, functional, or clinical indices of nutrient intake, status, or functional effects--are needed to support evidence-based clinical guidance and effective health programs and policies related to food, nutrition, and health. Such indices can reveal information about biological or physiological responses to dietary behavior or pathogenic processes, and can be use...

Process capability indices are considered as an important concept in statistical quality control. They have been widely used in the manufacturing industry to provide numerical measures on process performance. Moreover, some incapability indices have been introduced to account the process performance. In this paper, we focus on the one proposed by Chen ~cite{Che:Stat}. In today's modern world, a...

Rough inclusion functions are mappings considered in the rough set theory with which one can measure the degree of inclusion of a set in a set (and in particular, the degree of inclusion of an information granule in an information granule) in line with rough mereology. On the other hand, similarity indices are mappings in cluster analysis with which one can compare clusterings, and clustering m...

We consider the problem of finding an optimal set of indices for a file. A general model for a file is assumed together with a probabilistic model of the transactions conducted with it: Queries, Updates, Insertions and Deletions. I t is shown that all the information assumed for each attribute can be condensed into two parameters and that properties of the optimal solution can be derived from t...