The first APN polynomials EA-inequivalent to power functions have been constructed in [7, 8] by applying CCZ-equivalence to the Gold APN functions. It is a natural question whether it is possible to construct APN polynomials EA-inequivalent to power functions by using only EA-equivalence and inverse transformation on a power APN function: this would be the simplest method to construct APN polyn...

Enterprise architecture (EA) management is today a critical success factor for enterprises that have to survive in a continually changing environment. The embracing nature of the management subject and the variety of concrete goals that enterprises seek to pursue with EA management raises the need for management functions tailored to the specific demands of the using organization. The majority ...

The use of patterns and pattern languages in enterprise architecture (EA) is a relatively novel concept. Although both the concepts of patterns and EA are over 30 years old, the notion of design patterns is hardly applied to EA. There is a lack of pattern collections specifically devoted to EA: only a small number of patterns and pattern collections specifically aimed at enterprise architecture...

AIM Hypervascular intracranial tumors may cause serious bleeding in surgery. Though pre-operative endovascular embolization of tumor is a widely accepted method, sometimes despite embolization, an effective and safer intraoperative hemostatic technique is needed to prevent or at least decrease the massive bleeding from the tumors. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of the ethyl...

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) image processing can provide information about the uterine cavity structure, such as endometrial surface roughness, which is important for diagnosis of lesions. The accurate segmentation OCT images a key step processing. We proposed an EA-UNet-based model that uses U-Net network structure with multi-scale attention mechanism to improve accuracy images. E(ECA-C...

There exist optimization problems with the target objective, which is to be optimized, and several extra objectives, which can be helpful in the optimization process. The EA+RL method is designed to control optimization algorithms which solve problems with extra objectives. The method is based on the use of reinforcement learning for adaptive online selection of objectives. In this paper we inv...

We propose an effective admittance (EA) method to design antireflection structures for two-dimensional photonic crystals (PCs). We demonstrate that a compact and efficient antireflection structure, which is difficult to obtain by the conventional admittance matching method, can be readily designed by the EA method. The antireflection structure consists of an air slot resonant cavity that is con...

Background:Punica granatum var. pleniflora (PGP) has been used for thousands of years as an effective agent to treat various types of diseases. However, there are a few new evidences addressing its therapeutic effects and related mechanisms. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the cytotoxic, antioxidant, antibacterial, and anti-inflammatory effects of ethanolic (ET), dichloromet...

This paper aims to develop a new economic assessment (EA) method using the option to expand for Advanced Process Control (APC) and Real Time Optimization (RTO). The new EA criteria for investment decision for APC and RTO employ net present value of APC and call option of RTO. Calculation of call option adapts arithmetic measurement method to compute annualized volatility. The new EA applies sce...