This research addresses the problem of prediction of protein-protein interactions (PPI) when integrating diverse kinds of biological information. This task has been commonly viewed as a binary classification problem (whether any two proteins do or do not interact) and several different machine learning techniques have been employed to solve this task. However the nature of the data creates two ...

Screening for oral leukoplakia, an oral cavity cancer (OCC) precursor, could lead to earlier detection of OCC. However, the progression rate from leukoplakia to OCC and the benefits of leukoplakia screening for improving OCC outcomes are currently unclear. We conducted a case-cohort study of U.S. adults ages ≥65 years in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)-Medicare linkage. W...

BACKGROUND The most appropriate device for tracheal intubation in patients with potential cervical spine injury remains controversial. We hypothesized that the Lo-Pro GlideScope (LP-G) videolaryngoscope would not cause significantly greater cervical spine movement than fibreoptic bronchoscopy even in the non-immobilized spine. METHODS Twenty-eight healthy adults requiring intubation for radio...

We present new algorithms for the problem of multiple string matching of gapped patterns, where a gapped pattern is a sequence of strings such that there is a gap of fixed length between each two consecutive strings. The problem has applications in the discovery of transcription factor binding sites in DNA sequences when using generalized versions of the Position Weight Matrix model to describe...

the purpose of this research is to found the impact of built area and occupant number on winter gas consumption in the residential building sector of iran, shiraz.sothe annually and monthly gas consumption data through 19 houses were analyzed to achieve the heating energy consumption and operation month.the average operation months of gas heating consumption were from first of november up to en...

Differences in building operator strategies can significantly affect energy use and occupant comfort. However, it seems that the daily work of operators facility managers is still largely based on heuristics individual experiences. In this work, we have investigated current data collection methods during operation its buildings as well handling behavior, comfort, user complaints interviews with...

Given a set of spatial objects, our task is to assign all the objects to the minimum number of service sites and to find the regions for building these service sites. Each service site has a coverage region (i.e., an area of service) and a capacity (i.e., a maximum number of objects it can serve, called k-constraint). The service sites can provide service for objects located within the coverage...

In a real-time database system, it is difficult to meet all timing constraints due to the consistency requirements of the underlying database. Real-time database transaction scheduling requires the development of efficient concurrency control protocols that try to maximize the number of transactions satisfying their real-time constraints. Therefore transaction priorities should be taken account...

Although an optimistic approach has been shown to be better than locking protocols for real-time database systems (RTDBS), it has the problems of unnecessary restarts and heavy restart overhead. In this paper, we propose a new optimistic concurrency control protocol called OCC-DATI. In OCC-DATI the number of transaction restarts is minimized by dynamic adjustment of the serialization order of t...

We propose a new compressed text index built upon grammar compression based on induced suffix sorting [Nunes et al., DCC’18]. show that this exhibits locality sensitive parsing property, which allows us to specify, given pattern P, certain substrings of called cores, are similarly parsed in the whenever these occurrences extensible P. Supported by length m, we can locate all its \(\text {occ}\)...