Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractImprovement on the Design of a Cabinet Grain DryerAdzimah K. Stephen, Seckley EmmanuelProblem statement: Grains are routinely seen dumped in villages and major cities during the peak of harvest. Therefore it is necessary that these grains are properly dried and stored to ensure availability and wholesomeness throughout the year. Advancements have taken place in the practice of drying since the first world war. Manufacturing methods have greatly improved production rate and the … …American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 2, Issue 1 · 31 Mar 2009 · 8,720 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractThe Relationship Between Location and Prognosis in Brain-Stem TumorsN. Fayed, P. J. Modrego, J. EirasThe objective of this study was to establish a correlation between histopathology and radiological characteristics as well as location of brain stem tumors. Results of therapy were also analysed in relation to the radiological characteristics. Forty four patients were evaluated from a clinical and neuroradiological viewpoint (CT and MRI). In 14 of them we ruled out a surgical therapy. However … …OnLine Journal of Biological Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 2 · 31 Dec 2007 · 6,839 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractNelson and Plosser Revisited: Evidence from Fractional ARIMA ModelsGuglielmo Maria Caporale, Luis A. Gil-AlanaIn this study fractionally integrated ARIMA (ARFIMA) models are estimated using an extended version of Nelson and Plosser[1]’s data set. The analysis employs[11]’s maximum likelihood procedure. Such a parametric approach requires the model to be correctly specified in order for the estimates to be consistent. A model-selection procedure based on diagnostic tests on the residuals, together with several likelihood criteria, … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 2, Issue 4 · 30 Apr 2005 · 6,715 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordSimulation Study for Evaluating a New Three Stages Procedure for Selecting the Right Multivariate Regression ModelAli Hussein AL-MarshadiProblem statement: This article considers the analysis of multivariate regression experiment that is used frequently in variety of applications research such as psychiatric epidemiologic studies. Our study concerned with multivariate regression model in which the responses were correlated in particular ways for both standard and non-standard multivariate model structures. Our objective is to find reliable procedure that can be used … …Current Research in Biostatistics, Vol. 1, Issue 1 · 30 Jun 2010 · 7,814 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordCorpus Design for Malay Corpus-based Speech Synthesis SystemTian-Swee Tan, Sh-HussainProblem statement: Speech corpus is one of the major components in corpus-based synthesis. The quality and coverage in speech corpus will affect the quality of synthesis speech sound. Approach: This study proposes a corpus design for Malay corpus-based speech synthesis system. This includes the study of design criteria in corpus-based speech synthesis, Malay corpus based database design and the concatenation … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 6, Issue 4 · 30 Apr 2009 · 8,302 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordA Note on Model Selection in Mixture ExperimentsKadri Ulaş AkayIn mixture experiments, determination of the best model for modeling the mixture system is significant in both understanding and interpreting the system. For obtaining the best model in mixture experiments, different methods have been used. Most commonly used methods are the stepwise type methods. However, the models obtained with these methods are not always the best model depending on the … …Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Vol. 3, Issue 3 · 30 Sep 2007 · 6,939 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordSparse Sliced Inverse Quantile RegressionAli Alkenani, Tahir R. DikheelThe current paper proposes the sliced inverse quantile regression method (SIQR). In addition to the latter this study proposes both the sparse sliced inverse quantile regression method with Lasso (LSIQR) and Adaptive Lasso (ALSIQR) penalties. This article introduces a comprehensive study of SIQR and sparse SIQR. The simulation and real data analysis have been employed to check the performance of … …Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Vol. 12, Issue 3 · 10 Sep 2016 · 7,131 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordA ROBUST OPTIMIZATION APPROACH FOR INDEX TRACKING PROBLEMMohsen Gharakhani, Forough Zarea Fazlelahi, S. J. SadjadiIndex tracking is an investment approach where the primary objective is to keep portfolio return as close as possible to a target index without purchasing all index components. The main purpose is to minimize the tracking error between the returns of the selected portfolio and a benchmark. In this study, quadratic as well as linear models are presented for minimizing … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 10, Issue 12 · 26 Dec 2014 · 8,872 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordEVALUATION OF SERVICE TRANSACTIONS AND SELECTION OF QUALITY OFFERED SERVICES IN A BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTM. Alamelu, A. M.J. Mohamed Zubair RahmanThe application of service oriented architecture in business is to meet the best quality requirements to the customers and providers. Where, service evaluations are carried out based on the quality attributes of scalability, usability, security, performance. In past many evaluation systems have been proposed for business applications with different criteria. However, security metric to be considered this study proposes a … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 2 · 20 Dec 2013 · 6,702 accessesView PDFCite