background: there is an international emphasis on providing timely and high quality data to monitor progress of countries toward millennium development goals. iran’s multiple indicator demographic and health survey (irmidhs) aimed to provide valid information on population and health outcomes to monitor progress in achieving national priorities and health programs and to assist policy makers to...

Introduction: In radiation therapy, accurate dose determination and precise dose delivery to the tumor are directly associated with better treatment outcomes in terms of higher tumor control and lower post radiation therapy complications. The current study aims the development and clinical application of the Patient Specific Quality Assurance (PSQA) procedures for nasopharyngea...

In this paper, we present the need for specialized artificial intelligence (AI) counterfeit and defect detection of PCB components. Popular computer vision object techniques are not sufficient such dense, low inter-class/high intra-class variation, limited-data hardware assurance scenarios in which accuracy is paramount. Hence, explored limitations existing methodologies, as region based convol...

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Deriving weights from a pairwise comparison matrix (PCM) is a subject for which a wide range of methods have ever been presented. This paper proposes a common weight multi criteria decision analysis-data envelopment analysis (MCDA-DEA) approach with assurance region for weight derivation from a PCM. The proposed model has several merits over the competing approaches and removes the drawbacks of...