INTRODUCTION The utility of Cytokeratin-18 fragment, namely CK18Asp396 (M30), for the diagnosis of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is currently uncertain. We aimed to provide further data in this area among multi-ethnic Asian subjects with NAFLD. MATERIALS AND METHODS The accuracy of M30 for detecting NASH was compared with serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase...

I ntroduced by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern (1944), energized by the addition of John Nash’s (1950) equilibrium concept, and popularized by the strategic revolution of the 1980s, noncooperative game theory has become a standard tool in economics. In the process, attention has increasingly been focused on game theory’s conceptual foundations. Two questions have taken center stage: Shou...

This paper considers the advertising, pricing, and service decisions simultaneously to coordinate the supply chain with a manufacturer and a retailer. The amount of market demand is influenced by advertising, pricing and service decisions. In this paper, three well-known approaches to the game theory, including the Nash, the Stackelberg-retailer, and the cooperative game are exploited to study ...

metabolome analysis is used to evaluate the characteristics and interactions of low molecular weight metabolites under a specific set of conditions. in cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld) and non-alcoholic steatotic hepatitis (nash) the  liver  does not function thoroughly due to long-term damage. unfortunately the early detection of cirrhosis, hcc, na...

The linear complementarity problem, LCP (q,M), is defined as follows. For given M ∈ R , q ∈ Rm, find z such that q + Mz ≥ 0, z ≥ 0, z(q + Mz) = 0, or certify that there is no such z. It is well known that the problem of finding a Nash equilibrium for a bimatrix game (2-NASH) can be formulated as a linear complementarity problem (LCP). In addition, 2NASH is known to be complete in the complexity...