Accurate incidence forecasting of infectious disease provides potentially valuable insights in its own right. It is critical for early prevention and may contribute to health services management and syndrome surveillance. This study investigates the use of a hybrid algorithm combining grey model (GM) and back propagation artificial neural networks (BP-ANN) to forecast hepatitis B in China based...

Figure 1. Map of trip with stops (numbers) superimposed on glacial map showing two major units. Tioga is the LGM glacial advance recognized throughout Sierra Nevada. Washington advance is a local name that is not correlated beyond the study area. Dashed road lines (light grey) are unpaved. Figure 2. Location of trip and study area in NW Sierra Nevada, California. Late Pleistocene Glaciations in...

The grey systems theory aims at the objects that their information is inadequate and this situation is general in reality. It has been urgent work to study the uncertain problems using the missing information. With the help of the simple introduction of grey systems theory, we further study the covered operation and get some calculation rules about grey number. The definition of grey matrix (GM...

ISO/TC130 is responsible for international printing standards development. Normative requirements for process control have been centered on solid coloration and TVI. Grey balance and grey reproduction are being addressed in the revision of ISO/WD1 12647-2 (2011). In this regard, the ISO/WD1 12647-2 (2011) takes paper color into consideration when defining grey reproduction aims, but there is a ...

the zarankiewicz number z(b; s) is the maximum size of a subgraph of kb,b which does not contain ks,s as a subgraph. the two-color bipartite ramsey number b(s, t) is the smallest integer b such that any coloring of the edges of kb,b with two colors contains a ks,s in the rst color or a kt,t in the second color.in this work, we design and exploit a computational method for bounding and computin...

•One of the more well-known examples of hybridization in birds is the frequently documented occurrence between sexually dimorphic Mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) and several closely related nondimorphic species in the mallard complex. In New Zealand, the Grey Duck (Anas superciliosa superciliosa) is the indigenous, nondimorphic Mallardlike species, and extensive hybridization with introduced Mall...

Voxel-based morphometry (VBM) is commonly used to study systematic differences in brain morphology from patients with various disorders, usually by comparisons with control subjects. It has often been suggested, however, that VBM is also sensitive to variations in composition in grey matter. The nature of the grey matter changes identified with VBM is still poorly understood. The aim of the cur...

Grey systems and interval valued fuzzy sets appear to be similar concepts. This abstract provides a brief introduction to grey systems and compares them to interval valued fuzzy sets. We argue that grey system is similar to an interval fuzzy set, but has different properties. Grey systems focus on the interval range of the system property itself, but interval fuzzy sets consider the fuzzy membe...

First, this paper presents a new methodology for determining the comprehensive weights of attributes under the intervalvalued intuitionistic fuzzy (IVIF) environment based on some method for determining the subject and objective attribute weights. Second, based on the concept of the grey relative closeness coefficients, a pair of fractional programming models is constructed. This model can be u...

data obtained in association with many real-life random experiments from different fields cannot be perfectly/exactly quantified.hspace{.1cm}often the underlying imprecision can be suitably described in terms of fuzzy numbers/values. for these random experiments, the scale of fuzzy numbers/values enables to capture more variability and subjectivity than that of categorical data, and more accura...