Assessment of periapical health is important for the diagnosis, treatment planning and evaluation endodontic outcome. Radiographic status teeth most common modality used assessing condition. Therefore, different radiographic indexes have been developed, which are widely in clinical epidemiological studies. With advances imaging, three-dimensional imaging techniques using cone beam computed tomo...

Selecting construction schemes of the building engineering project is a complex multiobjective optimization decision process, in which many indexes need to be selected to find the optimum scheme. Aiming at this problem, this paper selects cost, progress, quality, and safety as the four first-order evaluation indexes, uses the quantitative method for the cost index, uses integrated qualitative a...

The paper examines the evaluation of scientific productivity. It analyzes the metrification of the evaluation of scientific production, as well as the historical construction, and current uses of scientific evaluation. It argues that this process contains a paradox: the more that metrics become impersonal, the less they are recognized by scientists. The study is divided into five sections: cont...

The photocatalytic and plasmonic photothermal cancer cell-killing activity of the metallic Au-capped TiO(2) (Au@TiO(2)) composite colloidal nanopellets has been investigated on HeLa cells under UV-visible (350-600 nm) light irradiation. The Au@TiO(2) composite nanopellets with the uniform Au-capped TiO(2) structure were successfully synthesized by simple reduction of HAuCl(4) on the surface of ...

Electronic commerce depends on credit system much more than traditional commerce. Credit problem becomes the bottleneck in the development of electronic commerce. Since it is the research basis and object for wholly credit evaluation, how to design the Indexing system of enterprise credit evaluation in B2B is very important. The paper tries to establish the Indexing system with consideration th...

0957-4174/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2009.01.005 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +886 33412500x6103 E-mail addresses: [email protected], whydec6 [email protected] (G.-H. Tzeng), j02255@ji-ee The paper proposed a Fuzzy Multiple Criteria Decision Making (FMCDM) approach for banking performance evaluation. Drawing on the four perspectives of a Balanced Scorec...

Introduction. Human resources are the most important source. It has a basic role in our country especially as a developing country. Postgraduate entrance exams are difficult exams due to fewer universities’ capacity, its costs and length, it can train our future builders as well. This study will describe & explain the statistical and evaluation criteria of Ph.D. entrance nursing exam in 1379. ...

Although various types of path indexes – indexes on path expressions – have been proposed for efficient processing of object-oriented queries, conventional join algorithms do not effectively utilize them. We propose a new join algorithm called OID join algorithm that effectively utilizes (multiple) path indexes in object-oriented databases. When (multiple) path indexes are available for a query...

Graphene is widely used in nanotechnologies to amplify the photocatalytic activity of TiO₂, but the development of TiO₂/graphene composites imposes the assessment of their risk to human and environmental health. Therefore, reduced graphene oxide was decorated with two types of TiO₂ particles co-doped with 1% iron and nitrogen, one of them being obtained by a simultaneous precipitation of Ti3+ a...

As the number of applications that rely on XML data increases, so does the need for performing efficient XML query evaluation. A critical part of the solution involves providing new techniques for designing XML indexes and lookup algorithms. In this paper, we leverage the results of our research on coupling the partitions induced by fragments of XPath algebra and those induced by the structural...