background one of the most painful experiences of women in life is labor. the use of non-drug methods for pain relief is on the increase. this study aimed to compare mono-stage and bi-stage acupressure at sp6 point on the severity of labor pain and the delivery outcome. methods this is a quasi-experimental single blind study from december 2010 to june 2011 in which 150 term pregnant women in la...

This paper develops a bi-objective portfolio selection problem that maximizes returns and minimizes a risk measure called conditional Drawdown (CDD). The drawdown measures include the maximal Drawdown and Average Drawdown as its limiting case. The CDD family of risk functional is similar to conditional value at Risk (CVaR). In this paper, the fuzzy method has been used to solve the bi-objec...

There is a strong correlation between relative mammographic breast density and the risk of developing breast cancer. As such, accurately modelling the percentage of a mammogram that is dense is a pivotal step in density based risk classification. In this work, a novel method based on manifold learning is used to segment high-risk mammograms into density regions. As such, finer details are prese...

Mass abnormality segmentation is a vital step for the medical diagnostic process and is attracting more and more the interest of many research groups. Currently, most of the works achieved in this area have used the Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) as texture features with a region-based approach. These features come in previous phase for segmentation stage or are using as inputs to class...

Elliptic curves find numerous applications. This paper describes a simple strategy to speed up their arithmetic in right-to-left methods. In certain settings, this leads to a non-negligible performance increase compared to the left-to-right counterparts.

‎The decomposition $Gamma=BH$ of a group $Gamma$ into a subset B ‎and a subgroup $H$ of $Gamma$ induces‎, ‎under general conditions‎, ‎a ‎group-like structure for B‎, ‎known as a gyrogroup‎. ‎The famous‎ concrete realization of a gyrogroup‎, ‎which motivated the emergence ‎of gyrogroups into the mainstream‎, ‎is the space of all ‎relativistically admissible velocities along with a binary ‎mbox{...

A national competition problem in business intelligence (BI) is considered to provide an understanding of this competition and the case study problem used. This competition utilizes a commercially available, hosted software application that includes a rich econometric data set. The data are accessed using spatial queries and produce more than four dozen views of the data through predefined repo...

‎In the present investigation‎, ‎we give the best estimates for the norm of the pre-Schwarzian derivative $ T_{f}(z)=dfrac{f^{''}(z)}{f^{'}(z)} $ for bi-starlike functions and a new subclass of bi-univalent functions of order $ alpha $‎, ‎where‎ ‎$Vert T_{f} Vert= sup_{|z|