In practice, it is often necessary to combine information from different sources. For this task, one of aggregation operators can be used. Probably the best-known of them are the weighted average and the OWA (ordered weighted average) operator. The weighted average makes it possible to assign importances to the individual information sources. On the other hand, with the OWA operator, the import...

Abstract: In the conventional data envelopment analysis (DEA), all the data assumes the form of crisp numerical values. However, the observed values of the input and output data in real-world problems are sometimes imprecise or vague. Some researchers have proposed various fuzzy methods for dealing with the imprecise and ambiguous data in DEA by constructing linear programming (LP) models with ...

The strategy may be represented by a strategic map (SM).According to Kaplan and Norton, SM are built up to obtain constant communication of the objec-tives to all employees. They have a simple layout, are general and consistent, and help achieve better implementation of strategies so that employees tolerate changes that they initially resisted and distrusted in their companies.This paper sugges...

Generalized predictive control with flexible constraints is investigated. To apply fuzzy technique, the flexible parts in the inequality constraints are fuzzified as fuzzy constraints. The optimization problem of the generalized predictive control with flexible inequality constraints is converted into two sub-problems to get the lower and upper bound of the objective values, and then the object...

CD20 is expressed in most B-cell lymphomas and is a critical molecular target of rituximab. Some B-cell lymphomas show aberrant CD20 expression, and rituximab use in these patients is controversial. Here we show both the molecular mechanisms and the clinical significance of de novo diffuse large B-cell lymphomas (DLBCL) that show a CD20 immunohistochemistry (IHC)-positive and flow cytometry (FC...

BACKGROUND In thalassemia patients, R2* liver iron concentration (LIC) measurement is a common clinical tool for assessing iron overload and for determining necessary chelator dose and evaluating its efficacy. Despite the importance of accurate LIC measurement, existing methods suffer from LIC variability, especially at the severe iron overload range due to inclusion of vessel parts in LIC calc...

AIM To obtain preliminary safety and efficacy data on intravenous (IV) administration of infliximab (IFX) and ferric carboxymaltose (FCM) to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients in a single treatment session. METHODS A two-phase non-interventional, observational, prospective pilot study was performed to evaluate safety and efficacy of FCM given immediately after IFX. IBD patients were re...

Abstract For text categorization, one kind of FCM, two-level FCM, is proposed. The FCM includes two kinds of nodes that are attribute nodes and class nodes forming two levels, and has the intelligence advantages of structured knowledge representing and numeric matrix inference. The FCM mining method combines mutual information and gradient descent, and considers two stable states in FCM learnin...