research interests have been focused on the concept of penalizing jobs both for being early and for being tardy because not only of modern competitive industrial challenges of providing a variety of products at a very low cost by smoothing productions but also of its increasing and exciting computer applications. here, sequencing approaches of the mixed- model just-in-time production systems is...

the data set employed in this study was comprised of a number of 6,800 records of lamb’s longevity and their survival rate, collected from 1989 through 2009, from the lori-bakhtiari experimental flock at the shooli station in shahrekord, iran. the data were analyzed using linear models and proportional hazard models with weibull function. these models included fixed factors and direct additive ...

Marrack, L., 0000. Incorporating groundwater levels into sea level detection models for Hawaiian anchialine pool ecosystems. Journal of Coastal Research, 00(0), 000–000. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. As sea levels rise, the distribution and community structure of coastal ecosystems are expected to change. In many coastal aquifers, fresher groundwater floats on top of denser saltwater...

This paper concerns temporal filtering in fMRI timeseries analysis. Whitening serially correlated data is the most efficient approach to parameter estimation. However, if there is a discrepancy between the assumed and the actual correlations, whitening can render the analysis exquisitely sensitive to bias when estimating the standard error of the ensuing parameter estimates. This bias, although...

Based upon a statistically trained speech translation system, in this study, we try to combine distinctive features derived from the two modules: speech recognition and statistical machine translation, in a loglinear model. The translation hypotheses are then rescored and translation performance is improved. The standard translation evaluation metrics, including BLEU, NIST, multiple reference w...

We investigate the impact of decisions in the second-level (i.e., over subjects) inferential process in functional magnetic resonance imaging on (1) the balance between false positives and false negatives and on (2) the data-analytical stability, both proxies for the reproducibility of results. Second-level analysis based on a mass univariate approach typically consists of 3 phases. First, one ...

Materials and Methods: This prospective study was approved by the institutional review board, and informed consent was obtained from the parents or guardians of all subjects. Functional MR imaging was performed during passive presentations of prerecorded speech in 15 control subjects (mean age 6 standard deviation, 12.1 years 6 4.3) and 12 languageimpaired, age-matched autistic subjects (mean a...

A generalized autoassociator model for face processing and sex categorization: From principal components to multivariate analysis. ABSTRACT In this paper we propose a generalized version of the classical linear au-toassociator that can be shown to implement a generalized least-squares approximation under linear constraints. The standard linear autoassociator is known to implement principal comp...