In 2003, the United States launched a pre-emptive strike against Iraq which was largely defended by the Bush Administration as an act to protect national security. In the months leading up to the attack, however, the US was still in the decision-making process — should we work with the UN on enforcing sanctions? go in only with Allied support? launch a pre-emptive strike with mainly US forces? ...

PURPOSE to explore the clinical value of 3.0T magnetic resonance (MR) imaging compared with computer-aided MR diagnosis (MR-CAD) in differential diagnosis of benign and malignant breast tumors. MATERIALS AND METHODS MRI method and MR-CAD method was used in the diagnosis of a total of 93 breast lesions of 78 patients, based on the morphological and time-intensity-curve (TIC) analysis. The accu...

Background: Diabetes mellitus as a chronic disease is the most common disease caused by metabolic disorders and it is one of the most important health issues all around the world. Nowadays, data mining methods are applied in different fields of sciences due to data mining methods capability. Therefore, in this study, we compared the efficiency of data mining methods in predicting type 2 diabete...

automation of tractors due to their widespread use in different sectors e.g. agriculture, construction and industry have been seriously considered by researchers. in this study a tele-steering system for tractor was designed and constructed to controling and steering so the operator can control the tractor even far away from the stressful condition of tractor cab, . a cctv camera and an electri...

Predictive accuracy has been widely used as the main criterion for comparing the predictive ability of classiication systems (such as C4.5, neural networks, and Naive Bayes). Most of these classiiers also produce probability estimations of the classiication, but they are completely ignored in the accuracy measure. This is often taken for granted because both training and testing sets only provi...

We have trained a two-layered feed-forward neural network on a non-redundant data base of 130 protein chains to predict the secondary structure of water-soluble proteins. A new key aspect is the use of evolutionary information in the form of multiple sequence alignments that are used as input in place of single sequences. The inclusion of protein family information in this form increases the pr...

We present a new CRT characterization technique that improves the accuracy of the characterization. This is achieved by optimizing the linear transformation matrix of the two stage model in the uniform CIE/Lab space. We also introduce an approach to improve the characterization performance for low luminance colors. These methods are used to calibrate two CRT monitors and better accuracies are o...