ABSTRACT: Candidiasis is a fungal infection caused by Candida albicans. Allium sativum (garlic) and Curcuma longa (turmeric) have been used as antifungal agents. The main aim of this study was to identify the effectiveness of these natural products towards C. albicans and on their pharmacological and toxicity aspects. Thus, agar disc diffusion method was used to study the antifungal activity of...

There are many information and divergence measures exist in the literature on information theory and statistics. The most famous among them are Kullback-Leiber’s [17] relative information and Jeffreys [16] J-divergence, Information radius or Jensen difference divergence measure due to Sibson [23]. Burbea and Rao [3, 4] has also found its applications in the literature. Taneja [25] studied anoth...

the spontaneous generation of inertia–gravity waves (igws) in the idealized simulation of vortical flows is investigated using the isentropic two-layer model on a sphere. the contour-advective semi-lagrangian (casl) algorithm is applied to solve the primitive equations using the potential vorticity (pv), velocity divergence, and acceleration divergence as the prognostic variables. the casl algo...

In this paper, we review and extend a family of log-det divergences for symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrices and discuss their fundamental properties. We show how to generate from parameterized Alpha-Beta (AB) and Gamma log-det divergences many well known divergences, for example, the Stein’s loss, S-divergence, called also Jensen-Bregman LogDet (JBLD) divergence, the Logdet Zero (Bhattac...

In this paper, we seek for a single best representative of a set of statistical multivariate normal distributions. To define the “best” center, we consider either minimizing the average or the maximum relative entropy of the center to the given set of normal distributions. Since the relative entropy is an asymmetric divergence, this yields the notion of leftand right-sided, and symmetrized entr...

Graph-based applications are essential in emerging domains such as data analytics or machine learning. Data gathering a knowledge-based society requires great processing efficiency. High-throughput GPGPU architectures key to enable efficient graph processing. Nonetheless, irregular and sparse memory access patterns present graph-based induce high divergence contention, which result poor efficie...

Background: Radon and its short-lived decay products are considered as the important sources of public exposure to natural radioactivity. The synergistic interaction between tobacco smoking and radon is known to be an actual problem. This study has provided a mathematical description and prognosis of the carcinogenic effects after combined action of radon with smoking. Materials and Me...

This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of different extraction solvents, including hydro-alcoholic (H-A), ethanolic (Et-OH), and methanolic (Me-OH), on chemical composition and synergistic antibacterial activity of Frangula alnus extract against Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli. The chemical composition of the F. alnus bark extract was eval...

Abstract We examine the role of information geometry in context classical Cramer–Rao (CR) type inequalities. In particular, we focus on Eguchi's theory obtaining dualistic geometric structures from a divergence function and then applying Amari–Nagoaka's to obtain CR inequality. The deterministic inequality is derived Kullback–Leibler (KL) divergence. show that this framework could be generalize...

Vajda (1972) studied a generalized divergence measure of Csiszar's class, so called "Chi-m divergence measure." Variational distance and Chi-square divergence are the special cases of this generalized divergence measure at m = 1 and m = 2, respectively. In this work, nonparametric nonsymmetric measure of divergence, a particular part of Vajda generalized divergence at m = 4, is taken and charac...