Contingency ranking in power system transient stability is a complicated and time consuming task. To prevail over this difficulty, various indices are used. These indices are based on the concept of coherency and three dot products of the system variables. It is well known that some indices work better than others for a particular power system. This paper introduces an innovative composite seve...

Generally, an industrial product has more than one quality characteristic. In order to establish performance measures for evaluating the capability of a multivariate manufacturing process, several multivariate process capability indices have been developed based on the assumption of normality. Quality characteristics of many manufacturing processes in the chemical, pharmaceutical and electronic...

With rapid advances in the analysis of data from single-case research designs, the various behavior-change indices, that is, effect sizes, can be confusing. To reduce this confusion, nine effect-size indices are described and compared. Each of these indices examines data nonoverlap between phases. Similarities and differences, both conceptual and computational, are highlighted. Seven of the nin...

The chemical structure indices have a significant role in providing direction to the design of chemotherapeutic agents. These indices come from the experimental domain as well as through the computations. While the experimental properties of compounds have practical value, the indices from computational domain offer fast and economic inputs to simulations. This review article discusses various ...

OBJECTIVES Anemia is independently and strongly associated with an increased risk of mortality in older people and is also strongly associated with obesity. The objectives of the present study were to examine the associations between the hemoglobin level and various anthropometric indices, to predict low and normal hemoglobin levels using combined anthropometric indices, and to assess differenc...

Spatial join is a very expensive operation in spatial databases. In this paper, we propose an innovative method for accelerating spatial join operations using Spatial Join Bitmap (SJB) indices. The SJB indices are used to keep track of intersecting entities in the joining data sets. We provide algorithms for constructing SJB indices and for maintaining the SJB indices when the data sets are upd...

The paper is devoted to the investigation of imprecision indices, introduced in [8]. They are used for evaluating uncertainty (namely imprecision), which is contained in information, described by fuzzy (non-additive) measures, in particular, by lower and upper probabilities. We argue that there exist various types of uncertainty, for example, randomness, investigated in probability theory, impr...

Interest in the sustainability of farming practices has increased in response to environmental problems associated with conventional agricultural management often adopted for the production of herbaceous crops, ornamentals, and fruit crops. Availability of measures of the status of the soil ecosystem is of immediate importance, particularly for environmental assessment and monitoring programs. ...