The support vector machine has been shown to be comparable to the state of the art for classification. In certain situations however, the convergence to a global optimum of the optimization problem can be very slow. It is shown that solutions suboptimal in terms of the optimization problem can still have very good performance. By using a heuristic stopping criterion (termed HERMES) these soluti...

Outcome assessment in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) includes measurement of physical function. We derived a scale to quantify global physical function in RA, using three performance-based rheumatology function tests (RFTs). We measured grip strength, walking velocity, and shirt button speed in consecutive RA patients attending scheduled appointments at six rheumatology clinics, repeat...

Recently, geometrically thick disks around black holes have been studied by many authors. I) These models may exist in the inner region of accretion disks and explain the generation of high luminosity and colliminated jets in quasers and active galactic nuclei. In such tori, there is no reason for the rotation law to be Keplerian as pressure force plays a role in the equilibrium structure. Thes...

Under certain constraints, the optimisation of position and number sectional switches in overhead lines distribution networks can improve reliability economy power supply. Therefore, a global combination criterion is proposed to simultaneously evaluate performance multiple switch positions, which avoids tedious traditional problem adjusting only one at time that possibly fall into local-optimum...