Human rhinoviruses (HRVs), a major cause of common cold and upper respiratory infections, may trigger severe respiratory complications like asthma and COPD. To date, no drugs are available in the market which are designed as novel HRV inhibitors despite the involvement of some pharmaceutical...

Data maintained at various sectors, needs to be mined to derive useful inferences. Larger part of the data is sensitive and not to be revealed while mining. Current methods perform privacy preservation classification either by randomizing, perturbing or anonymizing the data during mining. These...

Short-termism among firms, the tendency to excessively discount long-term benefits and favour less valuable short-term benefits, has been a prominent issue in business and public policy debates but research to date has been inconclusive. We study how managers frame, interpret, and resolve...

This thesis is based on research on financial time series analysis using pattern recognition methods. The first part of this research focuses on univariate time series analysis using different pattern recognition methods. First, probabilities of basic patterns are used to represent the features...