Accurate evaluation of disease activity is essential for choosing an appropriate treatment and follow-up plan for patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Endoscopy is required for accurately evaluating disease activity, but the procedures are sometimes invasive and burdensome to patients. Therefore, alternative non-invasive methods for evaluating or predicting disease activity including...

We examine the usefulness of Bayesian statistical methods for the modeling of biochemical reactions. With simulated data, it is shown that these methods can effectively fit mechanistic models of sequences of enzymatic reactions to experimental data. These methods have the advantages of being relatively easy to use and producing probability distributions for the model parameters rather than poin...

The usefulness of Bayesian statistical methods for the modelling of biochemical reactions is examined. With simulated data, it is shown that these methods can effectively fit mechanistic models of sequences of enzymatic reactions to experimental data. These methods have the advantages of being relatively easy to use and producing probability distributions for the model parameters rather than po...

Since the 1825 there is Gompertz mortality function for estimation of mortality data. All the attemts of finding apropriate mortality function lead to functions that are not easy to fit with the actual mortality data. The most recent reasearches (Azbel) offer simple function for fit mortality tables. Common characteristic of all these functions are difficulty of fiting data. We need to use nume...

In this work, we used a simple and totally green method for synthesizing silver nanoparticles using kappa-carrageenan as reducing and stabilizing agent. The beads were prepared in aqueous medium by microwave heating, and then followed by cross-linking with K+ cations without using any additional toxic and expensive chemical agents. The preparation method of the carrageenan-based beads is easy, ...

Grid computing can be considered large-scale distributed cluster and parallel network processing. The two most important issues in managing user work are resource allocation scheduling of required resources. When jobs submitted, they managed by intermediaries who find allocate the right After stage, scheduled on existing resources according to user's In grid systems with traditional scheduling,...

In this paper, we examine the evolution of the impact of older scholarly articles. We attempt to answer four questions. First, how often are older articles cited in scholarly papers and how has this changed over time. Second, how does the impact of older articles vary across different fields of scholarship. Third, is the change in the impact of older articles accelerating or slowing down. Fourt...

that is as easy as playing cards. Let Vn denote the Vandermonde matrix with (i, j)th entry vi j = x j i (0 ≤ i, j ≤ n). Since the determinant of Vn is a polynomial in x0, x1, . . . , xn , it suffices to prove the identity for positive integers x0, x1, . . . , xn with x0 ≤ x1 ≤ · · · ≤ xn . We define a Vandermonde card to possess a suit and a value, where a card of Suit i has a value from the se...

The LEXADV-project is a Scandinavian research project (2004-2006, financed by Nordplus Sprog) with the aim of extending three Scandinavian semantic lexicons building on the SIMPLE lexicon model (Lenci et al., 2000) with the word class of adverbs. In the lexicons of approx. 400 Danish, Norwegian and Swedish adverbs the different senses are described with a semantic type and a set of semantic fea...

There is increasing interest in computer applications that are aware of the user’s context. Currently these applications are normally hand-crafted. A lot of them consist of presenting information to users as they enter a given context, for example a tourist nearing a site within a city or a visitor moving round a building. The paper presents a new form of document, and the supporting software, ...