Sample average approximation is a popular approach to solving stochastic optimization problems. It has been widely observed that some form of robustification these problems often improves the out-of-sample performance solution estimators. In estimation problems, this improvement boils down trade-off between opposing effects bias and shrinkage. This paper aims characterize features more general ...

Density functional theory methods(DFT) and natural bond orbital (NBO) analysis were used to investigate the effects of isomerism and side chain mutation at a microscopic level on the stability, binding energy and NMR/NQR tensors of structural isomers, L- methionylasparagine (Met-Asn) and L- asparagylmethionine (Asn-Met) in the gas phase. The results represented that the isomerism and side chain...

Because the ovarian response to FSH stimulation in assisted reproduction is variable, ranging from hyporesponse to hyperresponse, with the possible complication of ovarian hyperstimulation, it would be of great benefit to predict the response of the patients to FSH. To date, no clear-cut predictors of ovarian responsiveness to FSH have been identified. In this study, we investigated the role of...

Spiking neural P systems with anti-spikes (shortly named ASN P systems) are a class of distributed and parallel neural-like computing systems. Besides spikes, neurons in ASN P systems can also contain a number of anti-spikes. Whenever spikes and anti-spikes meet in a neuron, they annihilate each other immediately in a maximal manner, that is, the annihilation has priority over neuron’s spiking....

The Rho/Rho kinase (ROCK) pathway is implicated in experimental hypertension. We, therefore, explored the role of ROCK2 genetic variation in human blood pressure (BP) regulation, exploiting the advantages of a human twin sample to probe heritability. The focus of this work is the common nonsynonymous variant at ROCK2: Thr431Asn. Cardiovascular and autonomic traits displayed substantial heritabi...

A sharp upper bound on the average distance of a graph depending on the order and the independence number is given. As a corollary we obtain the maximum average distance of a graph with given order and matching number. All extremal graphs are determined.

Vector control in huanglongbing management has been conducted on a calendar basis resulting high production costs. We addressed this issue and proposed sequential sampling plan to support decision making for intervention against Diaphorina citri Kuwayama, which is involved the transmission of bacteria Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus, associated with such lethal disease. analyzed 3,264,660 rec...

The motivation of this paper is to bring into notice the establishment two topologies: enhanced boost-quasi Z source inverter (EB-QZSI) and boost QZSI with an active switched network (EB/ASN-QZSI) which have poor performance than Extended capacitor quasi (ESC-qSBI). However, ESC-qSBI has been developed before EB-QZSI EB/ASN-QZSI. utilizes lesser number inductors (EB/ASN-QZSI). In presence paras...