multiple diagnostic tools are used by emergency physicians, every day. in addition, new tools are evaluated to obtain more accurate methods and reduce time or cost of conventional ones. in the previous parts of this educational series, we described diagnostic performance characteristics of diagnostic tests including sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values, and likeliho...

MOTIVATION Optimizing HIV therapies is crucial since the virus rapidly develops mutations to evade drug pressure. Recent studies have shown that genotypic information might not be sufficient for the design of therapies and that other clinical and demographical factors may play a role in therapy failure. This study is designed to assess the improvement in prediction achieved when such informatio...

The core issues of mass customization (MC) are to provide more and more conveniences to meet customer’s customized requirements and to ensure near mass production efficiency and quality in manufacturing processes. Since the MC provides to the customer, in the footwear sector, the possibility to choose shoes with different materials, colours, sizes and performances, the shops need big stocks in ...

among different models for runoff estimation in watershed management, the soil conservation services-curve number (scs-cn) method along with its modifications have been widely applied to ungauged watersheds because of quickly and more accurate estimation of surface runoff. this approach has been widely accepted by hydrologists, water resources planners, foresters, and engineers, as well. theref...

In receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis, the sampling variability can result in uncertainties of performance measures. Thus, while evaluating and comparing the performances of algorithms, the measurement uncertainties must be taken into account. The key issue is how to calculate the uncertainties of performance measures in ROC analysis. Our ultimate goal is to perform the significan...

To achieve the same level of security, hyperelliptic curve cryptosystems (HCC) use a smaller field than elliptic curve cryptosystems (ECC). HCC has a more potential application to the product that has limited memory and computing power, for instance Smart cards. We discussed how to represent the domain parameters of HCC in a compact way. The domain parameters include the field over which the cu...