An occurrence of a classical pattern p in a permutation π is a subsequence of π whose letters are in the same relative order (of size) as those in p. In an occurrence of a generalized pattern, some letters of that subsequence may be required to be adjacent in the permutation. Subsets of permutations characterized by the avoidance—or the prescribed number of occurrences— of generalized patterns ...

High order networks, studied over the past few yeam, have been shown to improve learning rates, increase storage capacity and ~uce the number of layem ~uircd in com~rison with fimt order nets. One issue which usually remains in the background, is the relative ~t-performance of such nets. In this ~per we address this issue in a more general framework, which we define, namely generalized high ord...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the association between concentrations of air pollutants and admissions for respiratory causes in children. METHODS Ecological time series study. Daily figures for hospital admissions of children aged < 6, and daily concentrations of air pollutants (PM10, SO2, NO2, O3 and CO) were analyzed in the Região da Grande Vitória, ES, Southeastern Brazil, from January 2005 to Decemb...

For entire functions, the notions of their growth indicators such as Ritt order are classical in complex analysis. But the concepts of relative Ritt order of entire functions and as well as their technical advantages of not comparing with the growths of $exp exp z$ are not at all known to the researchers of this area. Therefore the studies of the growths of entire functions in the light of thei...

In the present paper, the analytical solution for an exact second order fuzzy initial value problem under generalized Hukuhara differentiability is obtained. First the solution of first order linear fuzzy differential equation under generalized Hukuhara differentiability is investigated using integration factor methods in two cases. The second based on the type of generalized Hukuhara different...

Sentential adverbs are often assumed to be situated in front of the verb phrase in arbitrary order. In a recent monograph, however, Cinque (1999) claims that the relative order of sentential adverbs may, in principle, be universally fixed. In this paper I first give a brief presentation of Cinque’s proposal. Then I present a pilot study of sentential adverbs in English and Swedish. This study i...

The pancake problem is a famous search problem where the objective is to sort a sequence of objects (pancakes) through a minimal number of prefix reversals (flips). The best approaches for the problem are based on heuristic search with abstraction (pattern database) heuristics. We present a new class of abstractions for the pancake problem called relative-order abstractions. Relative-order abst...

Relative worst-order analysis is a technique for assessing the relative quality of online algorithms. We survey the most important results obtained with this technique and compare it with other quality measures.

background: c-reactive protein (crp) is an acute phase reactant and has been proved to be a significant predictor of future cardiovascular events. recent studies have demonstrated a correlation between periodontitis and elevated crp levels. however, comparison between the levels of crp in two main forms of periodontitis is ambiguous. this study aims at determining and comparing the relative lev...