In this paper various restrictions are proposed in the construction of hierarchical fuzzy rule bases by using Genetic and Bacterial Programming algorithms in order to model black box systems defined by input-output pairs, i.e. to solve supervised machine learning problems. The properties (learning speed, accuracy) of the established systems are observed based on simulation results and they are ...

Six inhalable aerosol samplers were evaluated experimentally as area samplers using monodisperse solid particles with aerodynamic diameters ranging from 5 to 68 mm. Sampler performance and inside particle loss at two test wind speeds (0.55 and 1.1 m/sec) and three wind orientations (0, 90, and 180 degrees) were investigated. The six inhalable aerosol samplers tested were a RESPICONTM sampler, a...

BACKGROUND Intuitively, cardiac dyssynchrony is the inevitable result of myocardial injury. We hypothesized that radial dyssynchrony reflects left ventricular remodeling, myocardial scarring, QRS duration and impaired LV function and that, accordingly, it is detectable in all patients with heart failure. METHODS 225 patients with heart failure, grouped according to QRS duration of <120 ms (A,...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To identify factors predisposing cystic fibrosis (CF) patients to Stenotrophomonas maltophilia infection and to determine whether coinfection with S maltophilia affects the clinical response to therapy with tobramycin solution for inhalation (TSI), 300 mg bid. DESIGN Retrospective review of data collected from two identical, 6-month, randomized, placebo-controlled trials. S...

Top surface imaging (TSI) has had an interesting history. This process showed great promise in the late 1980’s and several attempts were made to introduce it to full-scale manufacturing. Unfortunately, defect density problems limited the process and it fell from favor. TSI emerged again as an important part of the EUV and 193 nm strategies in the early stages of those programs because it offere...

In the past two decades, an increasing number of equity market anomalies have been reported in the literature, thus raising doubts about the applicability of the efficient market hypothesis and the capital asset pricing model. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Capitalization Weighted Stock Index Option (TXO) was introduced by the Taiwan Futures Exchange on December 24, 2001. Since the underlying asset ...

This paper proposes a new design strategy for optimizing MRI pulse sequences for T1 relaxometry. The design strategy optimizes the pulse sequence parameters to minimize the maximum variance of unbiased T1 estimates over a range of T1 values using the Cramér-Rao bound. In contrast to prior sequences optimized for a single nominal T1 value, the optimized sequence using our bound-based strategy ac...

A sample of female U.S. Navy recruits (N = 1,051) was surveyed for histories of childhood abuse and current trauma symptomatology. Victims of only childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and victims of both CSA and childhood physical abuse (CPA) had significantly higher scores on all 10 Trauma Symptom Inventory (TSI) clinical scales than did participants who did not report a history of childhood abuse. Vi...

To figure out the torrefaction characteristics and weight loss dynamics of microalgae residues, the thermogravimetric analyses of two microalgae (Chlamydomonas sp. JSC4 and Chlorella sorokiniana CY1) residues are carried out. A parameter of torrefaction severity index (TSI) in the range of 0-1, in terms of weight loss ratio between a certain operation and a reference operation, is defined to in...