conclusions molecular assays in the early stages of the disease could help in elucidating the effectiveness of the mbp as a prognostic factor in ms. methods this study is convergence of three arms including in silico and in vitro (bioinformatics) with the in vivo (experimental). a novel methodology combining molecular techniques was used to confirm the antigenic properties of mbp and study its ...

We provide a unifying framework where artificial neural networks and their architectures can be formally described as particular cases of general mathematical construction---machines finite depth. Unlike networks, machines have precise definition, from which several properties follow naturally. Machines depth are modular (they combined), efficiently computable, differentiable. The backward pass...

I introduce axiomatically infinite sequential games that extend von Neumann and Kuhn’s classic axiomatic frameworks. Within this setup, I define a modified backward induction procedure that is applicable to all games. A strategy profile that survives backward pruning is called a backward induction equilibrium (BIE). The main result compares the sets of BIE and subgame perfect equilibria (SPE). ...

This paper, I have focused on the tax side of the fiscal policy to  investigate the past and future behavior of fiscal sustainability in Iran. To do so, I have employed two different forward-looking and backward-looking approaches. First, the backward-looking approach is the fiscal policy rule proposed by Daving & Leeper (2011). Precisely, this rule determines that whether the fiscal policy is ...

One of the most fundamental problems in large scale network analysis is to determine the importance of a particular node in a network. Betweenness centrality is the most widely used metric to measure the importance of a node in a network. Currently the fastest known algorithm [5], to compute betweenness of all nodes, requires O(nm) time for unweighted graphs and O(nm + n logn) time for weighted...

Several recently developed multisymplectic schemes for Hamiltonian PDEs have been shown to preserve associated local conservation laws and constraints very well in long time numerical simulations. Backward error analysis for PDEs, or the method of modified equations, is a useful technique for studying the qualitative behavior of a discretization and provides insight into the preservation proper...

AIM To explore the synergistic effect of MBP 68-86 and 87-99, on the inhibition of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) in Lewis rat by nasal administration. METHODS Three different MBP peptides(MBP 68-86, 87-99, and the non-encephalitogenic peptide 110-128) were synthesized and administrated nasally to Lewis rat on day-11, -10, -9, -8 and -7 prior to immunization with the guinea p...

Nowadays Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems have appeared in lots of identification and authentication applications. In some sensitive applications, providing secure and confidential communication is very important for end-users. To this aim, different RFID authentication protocols have been proposed, which have tried to provide security and privacy of RFID users. In this paper, we a...