A new comprehensive procedure for statistical analysis of two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (2D PAGE) images is proposed, including protein region quantification, normalization and statistical analysis. Protein regions are defined by the master watershed map that is obtained...

The hydrogenation activity and sulfur-tolerant ability of nano-NiMo catalysts prepared by sol–gel method were investigated by hydrogenation of ethylbenzene containing thiophene. The results show that the adding of molybdenum has a profound effect on the structure and the sulfur-tolerant...

A general model is proposed for flexibly estimating the density of a continuous response variable conditional on a possibly high-dimensional set of covariates. The model is a finite mixture of asymmetric student-t densities with covariate dependent mixture weights. The four parameters of the...

We investigate the use of a warrant-pricing approach to incorporate employee stock options (ESOs) into equity valuation and to account for the dilutive effect of ESOs in the valuation of option grants for financial reporting purposes. Our valuation approach accounts for the jointly determined...

Geothermal energy has been successfully applied in many district heating systems. In order to promote better use of geothermal energy, it is important to analyze the operation strategy of geothermal heating system. This study proposes a comprehensive and systematic operation strategy for a...

Fault diagnosis for wind turbine transmission systems is an important task for reducing their maintenance cost. However, the non-stationary dynamic operating conditions of wind turbines pose a challenge to fault diagnosis for wind turbine transmission systems. In this paper, a novel fault...

On the basis of our former work and by means of the decomposition-decimation method, we study the splitting rules for the second hierarchy of the electronic energy spectra for two-dimensional Fibonacci-class quasicrystals with one kind of atom and two bond lengths. It is found that every line of...

This paper examines the evolution of internet banking in the UK. Today, most banks have adopted the so-called multi-channel strategy where the internet is one of many channels through which customers can conduct their banking. However, this strategy can be implemented through different business...

This paper presents an improved simulation method for solving the train scheduling problem to reduce the total travel time on the single-track railway. An algorithm based on the global information of the train is designed to obtain a more effective travel advance strategy of the train than the...