This paper can reasonably identify the connection weight and threshold of NN and improve capability of true problem solution. This paper also applies PSO-BP NN model into classification of fabric flaws, decomposes the fabric image at single layer and extract the sub-image in horizontal and vertical direction to represent longitudinal and latitudinal texture by using orthogonal wavelet transform...

I provide a critical overview of the literature on political decentralization. After reviewing firstand second-generation theories of federalism, I describe recent empirical studies focusing mainly on determinants of capture and local government accountability emphasized by second-generation theories. The article concludes by describing emerging new issues that deserve more attention in future ...

This paper presents an implementation of multilayer feed forward neural networks (NN) to optimize CMOS analog circuits. For modeling and design recently neural network computational modules have got acceptance as an unorthodox and useful tool. To achieve high performance of active or passive circuit component neural network can be trained accordingly. A well trained neural network can produce m...

Conventional methods of pear breeding, largely based on intra- and inter-specific hybridization, are difficult because pear is highly heterozygous, polygenic and has a long juvenile period. Genetic improvements of pear cultivars are possible through induction of mutations and gene transfer by genetic engineering. A general prerequisite for these approaches is to establish an efficient plant reg...

Extended Abstract In recent years, multimedia content-based retrieval has become an important research problem. In order to provide effective and also efficient access to relevant data stored in large (often distributed) digital repositories, advanced software tools are necessary. Content-based retrieval works on the idea of abstracting the contents of an object, for example color or shape in t...

Nearest neighbor (NN) methods include at least six different groups of statistical methods. All have in common the idea that some aspect of the similarity between a point and its NN can be used to make useful inferences. In some cases, the similarity is the distance between the point and its NN; in others, the appropriate similarity is based on other identifying characteristics of the points. I...

Reports of how different countries are responding to the need to develop more integrated health and social care services for older adults can provide useful lessons for other health systems. However an understanding of how the wider structural, political, economic and cultural context affects implementation of these models of care is essential when considering the potential for models to be sca...