Robustness aspects of nested balanced incomplete block designs against missing data have been investigated using connectedness and efficiency criteria. Sufficient condition for robustness of a design has been obtained for the loss of any m observations, using connectedness criterion. Designs robust against the loss of any m observations belonging to one sub-block, loss of any two observations b...

a quantiatative structure property relationship (qspr) treatment was used to a data set consisting of diverse 3-hydroxypyridine-4-one derivatives to relate the logarithmic function of octanol:water partition coefficients (denoted by log p o/w )  with theoretical molecular descriptors. evaluation of a test set of 6 compounds with the developed partial least squares (pls) model revealed that this...

INTRODUCTION An ACR/EULAR task force released new criteria to classify rheumatoid arthritis at an early stage. This study evaluates the diagnostic performance of these criteria and algorithms by van der Helm and Visser in REACH. METHODS Patients with symptoms ≤12 months from REACH were used. Algorithms were tested on discrimination, calibration and diagnostic accuracy of proposed cut-points. ...

this paper presents a modified digital image watermarking method based on nonnegative matrix factorization. firstly, host image is factorized to the product of three nonnegative matrices. then, the centric matrix is transferred to discrete cosine transform domain. watermark is embedded in low frequency band of this matrix and next, the reverse of the transform is computed. finally, watermarked ...

In this paper, we propose formulations and algorithms for robust portfolio optimization under both aleatory uncertainty (i.e., natural variability) and epistemic uncertainty (i.e., imprecise probabilistic information) arising from interval data. Epistemic uncertainty is represented using two approaches: (1) moment bounding approach and (2) likelihood-based approach. This paper first proposes a ...

Biochemical networks are the backbones of physiological systems of organisms. Therefore, a biochemical network should be sufficiently robust (not sensitive) to tolerate genetic mutations and environmental changes in the evolutionary process. In this study, based on the robustness and sensitivity criteria of biochemical networks, the adaptive design rules are developed for natural selection in t...

Many theories have been proposed attempting to explain the origin of the genetic code. While strong reasons remain to believe that the genetic code evolved as a frozen accident, at least for the first few amino acids, other theories remain viable. In this work, we test the optimality of the standard genetic code against approximately 17 million genetic codes, and locate 29 which outperform the ...

Uncertain parameters appear in many optimization problems raised by real-world applications. To handle such problems, several approaches to model uncertainty are available, such as stochastic programming and robust optimization. This study is focused on robust optimization, in particular, the criteria to select and determine a robust solution. We provide an overview on robust optimization crite...

the aim of this paper is to investigate the existence of the new non-ricardian regime policy in iranian economy. we detected signs of the non-ricardian regime from quarterly data of 1369 to 1391. to investigate further a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model is designed to estimate the fiscal and monetary parameters using a bayesian approach. our results indicated a passive monetary poli...