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Palliative care is a comprehensive and professional medical service aimed at providing holistic health care to patients with terminal conditions, the objective of which is to improve the quality of end-of-life care. In Taiwan, the quality of life of patients is often disregarded under the influence of cultural factors and a lack of medical knowledge; in particular, when patient survival is extended,...
This paper studies the distributed blocking flow shop scheduling problem (DBFSP) using meta-heuristics. A mixed integer programming model for solving the problem is proposed, and then three versions of the hybrid iterated greedy algorithm (HIG1, HIG2, and HIG3) are developed, combining the advantages of an iterated greedy algorithm with the operators of the variable Tabu list, the constant Tabu list,...
This paper examines the uniform parallel-machine scheduling problem in which the objective aims to minimize the total resource consumption (TRC) with a bounded makespan. A matheuristic is proposed to deal with this strongly NP-hard problem. The performance of the proposed matheuristic is compared with that of the state-of-the-art particle swarm optimization (PSO) meta-heuristic and the lower bound...
This study compares the back bias modulation rates of ultra-thin body and buried oxide, fully depleted silicon on insulator (UTBB FDSOI), bulk FinFET, and SOI FinFET Results show that UTBB FDSOI exhibits a two-order higher modulation rate for threshold voltage and considerably higher for transconductance modulation rate than that that of bulk FinFET. The SOI FinFETs generate an insignificant modulation...
JPEG-LS is the latest coding standard for lossless and near-lossless still image compression issued by ITU/ISO. In this paper, a high performance encoder architecture for the regular mode in the lossless scheme of JPEG-LS is proposed and implemented on an ALTERA SOPC platform. The encoder is designed in a fully pipelined architecture with thirteen stages. The proposed encoder architecture can have...
Flip-chip packaging is an integrated circuit packaging technique that uses solder bumps to connect chip with substrate. The underfill process uses epoxy encapsulant to solve this problem and improves the reliability of flip-chip packaging. The encapsulant is filled into the gap between the chip and substrate by the capillary force so that the thermal stresses may disperse into the underfill materials...
The position sensor-less brushless DC (BLDC) motor driver was proposed in this work. The three-phase BLDC fan motors are utilized for cooling the computer products. Generally, the Hall sensor is used to extract the rotor position information. However, the sensor component is very sensitive to heat and noise signals. Therefore, the sensor-less control technique was developed. The proposed sensor-less...
With the advances of digital technologies and participative webs of services, knowledge-intensive digital services have thrived on a rapidly expanding platform-based network economy. There is a great need for a comprehensive research on knowledge based analysis on social network and business network evolution to facilitate collaborative development of digital services. This research aims to develop...
A typical microarray data of ovarian cancer consists of the expressions of tens of thousands of genes on a genomic scale. To avoid higher computational complexity, we want to find the most likely differentially expressed gene that best explain the effects of tumor/cancer for ovarian cancer. In this paper, we derive a hybrid approach for extracting and evaluating informative genes from microarray data...
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