The aim of this study is to develop a new approach for delineating urban growth boundaries (UGBs) by applying the weight of evidence (WOE) method to land suitability assessments. Rapid urbanization is causing urban areas to encroach on agricultural land in China, posing a threat to national food security. Land use planning with clear delineation of UGBs is an effective method for controlling ur...

Uterine fibroids are smooth muscle tumors originating from myometrium of females between 30-50 years age. The presence does not lead to mortality, but it may be the cause serious morbidity as well greatly affect quality life affected females. Leiomyomas most significant pathological condition child-bearing age group globally, still options for treatment limited. Homoeopathy addresses this probl...

Groundwater resource is a very important water resource that has stable temperature, clear, tidy and confident. In recent years, population growth, industrialize and need to food and water, have exposed the groundwater resource on the risk. Reduction of water resources is a main problem in throughout the world. In this research groundwater potential mapping was obtained in Norabad plain, Lorest...

To improve the prevention and control of geological disasters in Shuicheng District, 10 environmental factors—slope, slope direction, curvature, NDVI, stratum lithology, distance from fault, river system, annual average rainfall, road land use—were selected as evaluation indicators by integrating factors such landform, basic geology, hydrometeorology engineering activities. Based on weight evid...

Almost all of the machine learning problems require data preprocessing. This stage is especially important for problems where the datasets contain features of mixed types (i.e. nominal and numeric). An often practice in such cases is to transform each nominal features into many dummy (i.e. binary) features. Also many classification algorithms have preference of numeric attributes over nominal a...

Intoxication as a result of chemical accidents is a major issue in industrial health. The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) provides a framework for hazard communication on chemicals using labelling or safety data sheets. The GHS will be expected to reduce the number of chemical accidents by communicating the hazards posed and prompting safety measure...

Open Information Extraction (IE) systems extract relational tuples from text, without requiring a pre-specified vocabulary, by identifying relation phrases and associated arguments in arbitrary sentences. However, stateof-the-art Open IE systems such as REVERB and WOE share two important weaknesses – (1) they extract only relations that are mediated by verbs, and (2) they ignore context, thus e...

There is no definitive method to determine if a novel food protein will become an allergen. For this reason, the allergenic risk of a novel food protein is currently evaluated using a weight-of-evidence (WOE) approach. The components of this WOE approach were arrived at based on expert opinion rather than evidential science. Digestive stability is considered a physiochemical property of food al...