The effect of passing electric current on the electrical and optical properties of indium tin oxide (ITO) films in air has been studied. Resistivities of the ITO films deposited by direct current magnetron sputtering on glass substrates were about 10.5 × 10-4Ωcm (group A) and 4.3 × 10-4Ωcm...

In this paper, we study the relation between the energy consumption and the stability in several typical car-following traffic models considering the effects of many-neighbor and non-locality and relative velocity, respectively. The comparison of energy consumption with respect to the stable...

In this paper we study the integer-valued autoregressive model, which belongs to the class of thinning models with count data.We mainly focus on the random coefficient integer-valued autoregressive (RCINAR) model and propose a conditional least absolute deviation (CL1) method to estimate the...

This paper presents experimental studies on a solar-assisted ground coupled heat pump (SAGCHP) system for space heating. The system was installed at the Hebei Academy of Sciences in Shijiazhuang (lat. N38°03′, long. E114°26′), China. Solar collectors are in series connection with the...

Past studies of the relationships between economic activity and geography have been hampered by limited spatial data on economic activity. This study presents revised data on global economic activity, the G-Econ database, which measures economic activity for the entire globe, measured at a 1°...

Pathway or gene set analysis has become an increasingly popular approach for analyzing high-throughput biological experiments such as microarray gene expression studies. The purpose of pathway analysis is to identify differentially expressed pathways associated with outcomes. Important...

Methods for gene set analysis test for coordinated changes of a group of genes involved in the same biological process or molecular pathway. Higher statistical power is gained for gene set analysis by combining weak signals from a number of individual genes in each group. Although many gene set...

Morphological transformations are efficient methods for shape analysis and representation. In this paper two morphological shape descriptors are described for object feature representation. Neural networks are then employed for object recognition and classification. Various coding schemes and...

A competitive implicit finite-difference method will be developed and used for the solution of a non-linear mathematical model associated with the administration of highly-active chemotherapy to an HIV-infected population aimed at delaying progression to disease. The model, which assumes a...