A new and efficient intelligent collaboration scheme for fashion design

Technology-mediated collaboration process has been extensively studied for over a decade. Most applications with collaboration concepts reported in the literature focus on enhancing efficiency and effectiveness of the decision-making processes in objective and well-structured workflows. However, relatively few previous studies have investigated the applications of collaboration schemes to problems with subjective and unstructured nature. In this paper, we explore a new intelligent collaboration scheme for fashion design which, by nature, relies heavily on human judgment and creativity. Techniques such as multicriteria decision making, fuzzy logic, and artificial neural network (ANN) models are employed. Industrial data sets are used for the analysis. Our experimental results suggest that the proposed scheme exhibits significant improvement over the traditional method in terms of the time–cost effectiveness, and a company interview with design professionals has confirmed its effectiveness and significance

Stimuli-Responsive Hydrogels: An Interdisciplinary Overview

Stimuli-responsive hydrogels formed by various natural and synthetic polymers are capable of showing distinctive changes in their properties with external stimuli like temperature, pH, light, ionic changes, and redox potential. Some hydrogels are developed to exhibit dual responsiveness with external stimuli such as pH and temperature. The stimuli-responsive hydrogels find a wide variety of biomedical applications including drug delivery, gene delivery, and tissue regeneration. The advanced functionalities can be imparted to textile materials by integrating stimuli-responsive hydrogels into them and stimuli-responsive hydrogels including thermoresponsive, pH-responsive, and dual-responsive improve moisture and water retention property, environmental responsiveness, esthetic appeal, display, and comfort of textiles. Stimuli-responsive hydrogels loaded with various kinds of drugs are applied for textile-based transdermal therapy as these hydrogels as drug carriers show controlled and sustained drug release. In this chapter, drug delivery and textile applications of thermoresponsive, pH-responsive, and dual-responsive (pH and temperature) hydrogels are discussed and analyzed

Review of Application of Artificial Neural Networks in Textiles and Clothing Industries over Last Decades

2010-2011 > Academic research: refereed > Chapter in an edited book (author

An Optimization of (

Addressing the problems of a health care center which produces tailor-made clothes for specific people, the paper proposes a single product continuous review model and establishes an optimal policy for the center based on (Q,r) control policy to minimize expected average cost on an order cycle. A generic mathematical model to compute cost on real-time inventory level is developed to generate optimal order quantity under stochastic stock variation. The customer demands are described as compound Poisson process. Comparisons on cost between optimization method and experience-based decision on Q are made through numerical studies conducted for the inventory system of the center

Association between serum uric acid and prostate cancer mortality in androgen deprivation therapy: A population‐based cohort study

Objective This population-based study examined the association between baseline uric acid (UA) and prostate cancer (PCa)-related mortality amongst PCa patients receiving androgen deprivation therapy (ADT). Methods Adults with PCa who received ADT in Hong Kong between December 1999 and March 2021 were identified. Patients with missing baseline UA were excluded. Patients were followed up until September 2021. The outcome was PCa-related mortality. Results Altogether, 4126 patients (median follow-up 3.1[interquartile range 1.4–6.0] years) were included. A J-shaped association was observed between baseline UA level and PCa-related mortality risk, with a direct association in those with mean(0.401 mmol/L) or above-mean baseline UA levels (hazard ratio (HR) per standard deviation-increase 1.35 [95% confidence interval 1.21,1.51], p < 0.001), and an inverse association in those with below-mean baseline UA levels (HR 0.78[0.67,0.92], p = 0.003). The former remained significant on competing risk regression, but not the latter. Conclusions A J-shaped relationship between baseline UA level and PCa-related mortality risk was identified. This study was mainly limited by potential unmeasured and residual confounders. Further validation studies are warranted

Pequenas e médias empresas e disclosure obrigatório : efeitos da adoção do IFRS, auditoria e endividamento

Este estudo tem como objetivo verificar os efeitos da adoção do IFRS, da auditoria externa e do endividamento no nível do disclosure contábil das pequenas e médias empresas. Para tanto foram analisadas PMEs que publicaram suas demonstrações contábeis em Diário Oficial do Distrito Federal, Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso e São Paulo no período de 2012 a 2015. Para avaliar o nível do disclosure contábil obrigatório foram analisadas a quantidade de notas explicativas divulgadas pelas PMEs, a quantidade de demonstrações contábeis publicadas e a quantidade de contas em seus balanços patrimoniais. Por esse motivo este trabalho utilizou o método de Regressão Linear para Dados de Contagem. Os resultados encontrados indicam que PMEs que informaram em notas explicativas seguir como o padrão contábil o CPC (Completo ou para PMEs), que contrataram serviços de auditoria externa, especialmente de firmas Big Four e que apresentaram endividamento elevado, possuem uma tendência a publicar um maior número de notas explicativas. Além disso, PMEs que declararam seguir o CPC para PMEs e foram auditadas por Big Four indicaram tendência a reduzir o número de contas em seus balanços patrimoniais, o que não significa que o nível de disclosure contábil nessas empresas esteja comprometido, uma vez que essas PMEs também tendem a divulgar mais notas explicativas, sendo, portanto, mais transparentes dessa forma, reduzindo o número de contas patrimoniais e ampliando as informações nelas contidas.This study aims to verify the effects of the IFRS adoption, external auditing and leverage on the accounting disclosure level of small and medium-sized enterprises. In order to evaluate the level of the mandatory accounting disclosure, this study analyzes the quantity of information disclosed by SMEs on their financial statements reported in “Diário Oficial” of five Brazilian states: Distrito Federal, Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso and São Paulo. To evaluate the level of mandatory accounting disclosure, this study considers the number of notes, the number of published financial statements and the number of accounts in their balance sheets. For this reason, this research uses the Regression method with Count Data. The results indicate that SMEs that reported in their notes that they apply as accounting standard the IFRS (Full or for SMEs), that contracted external audit services, especially of Big Four firms and that had high leverage, have a tendency to disclose a larger number of notes. In addition, SMEs that have stated that they are applying the IFRS for SMEs and were audited by Big Four have indicated a tendency to reduce the number of accounts in their balance sheets, which does not mean that the level of accounting disclosure in these companies is compromised, they also tend to disclose more notes and are therefore more transparent in this way, reducing the number of equity accounts and expanding the information contained therein.CAPE

Assay of pleural fluid interleukin-6, tumour necrosis factor-alpha and interferon-gamma in the diagnosis and outcome correlation of tuberculous effusion

AbstractObjective: To assess the usefulness of interleukin-6 (IL-6), tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) and interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) in the diagnosis and prediction of outcome of pleural tuberculosis.Patients and methods: Pleural fluid from 32 TB and 34 non-TB patients was sent for assay of IL-6, TNF-α and IFN-γ. Clinical parameters at presentation and residual pleural scarring at completion of treatment were assessed for pleural TB cases.Results: The pleural fluid levels of IL-6, TNF-α and IFN-γ in TB patients were significantly higher than those with non-TB effusions (P values of <0.001, 0.018 and <0.001, respectively by independent t-test). Utility of these cytokines for diagnosis of pleural TB was evaluated using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis. The cut-off values for IL-6, TNF-α and IFN-γ determined in this analysis were 4000, 4 and 60pg/ml respectively, and their sensitivity and specificity were 90.6% and 76.5%, 90.6% and 79.4%, 100% and 100%, respectively. The pretreatment pleural fluid IL-6 levels had a positive correlation with the number of febrile days after treatment (Pearson correlation test: r=0.60, P=0.009). A negative correlation was found between the percentage reduction in pleural fluid cytokines after 2 weeks treatment and the extent of residual pleural scarring (IL-6: r=–0.62, P=0.041; TNF-α: r=–0.65, P=0.030; IFN-γ: r=–0.83, P=0.002).Conclusion: Pleural fluid IL-6, TNF-α and IFN-γ assays are useful in the diagnosis of pleural TB. The initial IL-6 level correlates with the number of febrile days. The percentage change of cytokines after 2 weeks of treatment also helps to predict residual pleural scarring

Introductory Notes to Algebraic Statistics

These are the notes of a short course on algebraic statistics, a new discipline across the fields of statistical modeling and computational commutativa algebra. The basics of the theory are provided together with brief reference to applications to design of experiments, to exponential and graphical models, and to computational biology

rad21 Is Involved in Corneal Stroma Development by Regulating Neural Crest Migration

Previously, we identified RAD21(R450C) from a peripheral sclerocornea pedigree. Injection of this rad21 variant mRNA into Xenopus laevis embryos disrupted the organization of corneal stroma fibrils. To understand the mechanisms of RAD21-mediated corneal stroma defects, gene expression and chromosome conformation analysis were performed using cells from family members affected by peripheral sclerocornea. Both gene expression and chromosome conformation of cell adhesion genes were affected in cells carrying the heterozygous rad21 variant. Since cell migration is essential in early embryonic development and sclerocornea is a congenital disease, we studied neural crest migration during cornea development in X. laevis embryos. In X. laevis embryos injected with rad21 mutant mRNA, neural crest migration was disrupted, and the number of neural crest-derived periocular mesenchymes decreased significantly in the corneal stroma region. Our data indicate that the RAD21(R450C) variant contributes to peripheral sclerocornea by modifying chromosome conformation and gene expression, therefore disturbing neural crest cell migration, which suggests RAD21 plays a key role in corneal stroma development