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As the techniques for manufacturing touch panels continue to advance, the more large-sized touch panels are being produced. However, the conventional multi-touch tracking algorithm becomes time-consuming to handle the applications of large-sized touch panels. In this paper, we employ advanced techniques, such as clustering and partitioning, to partition a large-sized tracking problem into smaller...
MapReduce has been a worldwide accepted framework for solving data-intensive applications. To prevent MapReduce jobs from being interrupted by node failures which occur frequently in a large-scale MapReduce cluster, current MapReduce implementations, e.g., Hadoop, employ a task re-execution policy (TR policy for short) for MapReduce jobs, i.e., when a map/reduce task of a job fails due to node failure,...
Cervical spondylotic myelopathy(CSM) is one kind of refractory diseases, with high rate of disability. Chinese medicine treatment has certain effects on delaying the process of CSM or its palindromia, and herbs are one of the most effective methods of conservative treatment. This paper presents a study on using data mining to explore the association rules among herbs used to treat CSM. By analyzing...
A web-based telehealthcare system was integrated with the mobile application for diet people. In order to comprehensively deal with the over-weight problem, the user interface with four important aspects on weight, diet, exercise and sleep records is implemented. In addition, online courses and knowledge of diet are provided in the system. The electronic medical record of National Taiwan University...
We verified the variance of Wnt signaling pathway among different subtypes of breast cancer. Gene expression profile data of breast cancer (series number GSE19536) were obtained from Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database of National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). Breast cancer samples were served as study materials. Gene expression data of Wnt signaling pathways were analyzed by variance...
A nonogram puzzle is played on a rectangular grid of pixels with clues given in the form of row and column constraints. The aim of solving a nonogram puzzle, an NP-complete problem, is to paint all the pixels of the grid in black and white while satisfying these constraints. This paper proposes an efficient approach to solving nonogram puzzles. We propose a fast dynamic programming (DP) method for...
Multi-valued Neuron with Periodic activation function (MVN-P) was proposed for solving classification problems. The boundaries between two distinct categories are precisely specified in MVN-P, which may cause slow convergence in learning or low classification accuracy in generalization. In this paper, we propose a revised model, MVN-PFT, in which a fuzzy tolerating buffer is provided around a boundary...
This study aims to derive meaningful implications on the antecedents and consequence of consumers' satisfaction towards Apps usage. Both utilitarian and hedonic views are incorporated into the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). Further discussions and results will be provided for theoretical and practical implications.
It is hardly possible to obtain rare earth doped CaWO4 thin films directly through electrochemical techniques. A two-step method has been proposed to synthesize CaWO4:(Eu3+, Tb3+) thin films at room temperature. X-ray diffraction, energy dispersive X-ray analysis, spectrophotometer were used to characterize their phase, composition and luminescent properties. Results reveal that (Eu3+, Tb3+)-doped...
Modern logistics industry has been playing striking role in the national economy. The capacity of value creation has become the important symbol of core competence of enterprises. The activities of value chain may be divided into four modules such as acquirement, achievement, holding and enhancement. The paper analyzes the breakthrough modules to capacity of value creation through Integration of resources...
Instructional pervasive game (IPG) is an innovative way in accomplishing m-learning. It has been introduced by various literatures in the past few years. An important critic of IPG is that most game strategy does not take into consideration the anthropological data pertaining to the specific context of use. In response to this issue, we proposed a prototype of a meta-model which puts together several...
M-Learning has been practiced for decades with success research results in various fields and levels. In order to enhance the quality of instructional activities in terms of students¡¦ learning motivation, human association, as well as the linkage between the students and the learning context and materials, instructional pervasive gaming (IPG) is integrated as the approach. This paper draws a learning...
Epilepsy is a common chronic neurological disorder characterized by recurrent unprovoked seizures. The electroencephalogram (EEG) signals play an important role in the diagnosis of epilepsy. In addition, multi-channel EEG signals have much more discrimination information than a single channel. However, traditional recognition algorithms of EEG signals are lack of multichannel EEG signals. In this...
SCILAB as an open source software is now becoming more and more popular among students, engineers, and scientists. Its powerful computation and simulation function provide a great convenience for its users. But because of people's unfamiliarity about its internal formalism, there still come out some problems when people using it. This paper, based on the construction of the DES (Data Encryption Standard)...
This study aimed at exploring whether the web 2.0-based note-sharing cooperative learning method worked more effectively than classroom cooperative learning with Student's Team Achievement Division (STAD) method and the traditional lectures in teaching Chinese rhetoric comprehension. The variables examined were students' achievement and learning motivations on Chinese rhetoric comprehension. The web...
A high-numerical-accuracy multidomain Legendre pseudospectral time-domain (PSTD) method is utilized to study the three-dimensional problem of light scattering by coupled metallic nanospheres and associated plasmonic resonances. With the multidomain technique, the simulation environment is partitioned into curvilinear hexahedral subdomains that well match the geometrical profile and material interfaces,...
As a kind of reasoning technique of artificial intelligence, case-based reasoning (CBR) has been successfully applied in many engineering field. Similar case retrieval is a key technology in CBR system. In order to improve the case retrieval efficiency, a case reasoning model based on gray relation and synthesize weight was proposed, applying the gray relational analysis in case reasoning and combining...
Water resource security is a globally environmental problem. This study examines three stages through which the rivers and lakes in Jianghan Plain has gone. 1) Before Holocene, merely affected by climate and Geologic structures, the lake water and river water exchanged freely. 2) In early and middle Holocene, water exchange between the lakes and rivers remained unrestrained, but the minor impact from...
The discrete cosine transform (DCT), introduced by Ahmed, Natarajan and Rao, has been used in many applications of digital signal processing, data compression and information hiding. There are four types of the discrete cosine transform. In simulating the discrete cosine transform, we propose a generalized discrete cosine transform with three parameters, and prove its orthogonality for some new cases...
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