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This paper addresses the issue of potential bias in VAA generated data. Specifically, we report the findings from a study whereby a VAA questionnaire was administered through two different modes. One group consisted of participants who filled an online version of the VAA while the other consisted of participants elicited through a traditional survey. We find that there is differential respondent behaviour...
A cellular source model for key generation is proposed and studied, in which a central terminal χ0 wishes to generate K1 with terminal χ1 and K2 with terminal χ2, respectively, via public discussion. Each terminal observes a component of a correlated source sequence. The K1 is required to be concealed from an eavesdropper that has access to the public discussion, while the key K2 needs to be concealed...
This paper considers interactive transmissions in the presence of omniscient Byzantine attacks. Unlike prior papers, it is assumed that the number of transmissions, the number of erroneous transmissions therein, and the direction of each transmission are predetermined. Besides, the size of the alphabet in each transmission is unequal and predefined. Using these transmissions, two nodes communicate...
Engine as a typical reciprocating power machinery, its complex structure determines its fault complexity and diversity, from the operating environment, system noise and sensor accuracy brings the uncertainties effect, results in accuracy rate lower of engine fault diagnosis, taking into account the limitations of traditional DS evidence theory, weighted DS evidence theory are studied. Finally, the...
In [1], [2] it is shown that the minimum broadcast rate of a linear index code over a finite field Fq is equal to an algebraic invariant of the underlying digraph, called minrankq. In [3], it is proved that for F2 and any positive integer k, minrankq(G) ≤ k if and only if there exists a homomorphism from the complement of the graph G to the complement of a particular undirected graph family called...
In this paper, we derive a new iterative method of order five to solve the system of nonlinear equations. The new method is based on the two-step iterative method of order three proposed by Sharma and Gupta in [5]. The efficiency index is used to compare the efficiency of the new method with those of other ones. Numerical examples are given to show that the proposed method has higher efficiency than...
Concave region partitioning is valuable for object modeling and recognition. A key issue to the design of an efficient partitioning method is on the selection of cut points. In this paper, we propose to use imbalanced points in a region to characterize cut points in the contour of the region, motivated by the good corner nature of imbalanced points. Specifically, we formulate a concave region as a...
Mental State Transition Network (MSTN) is a basic concept of approximating to human psychological and mental responses. A stimulus calculated by Emotion Generating Calculations (EGC) method can cause the transition of mood from an emotional state to others. In this paper, the agent can interact with human to realize smooth communication by an adaptive learning method of the user's personality trait...
Obesity is one of the leading health concerns in the United States. Researchers and health care providers are interested in understanding factors affecting obesity and detecting the likelihood of obesity as early as possible. In this paper, we set out to recognize children who have higher risk of obesity by identifying distinct growth patterns in them. This is done by using clustering methods, which...
Objective: This study aims to investigate the effect of Chinese herbs treatment of Kidney-strengthening therapy, Spleen-invigorating therapy and Liver-regulating therapy on monoamine neurotransmitters in ovariectomized female rats. Methods: 54 female rats were divided into six groups by random: control group, sham operation group, model group, Spleen-invigorating group, Kidney-strengthening group...
We propose a semi-informative aware approach using the topic model on query expansion problem in the biomedicine domain. the demographics and disease information is applied to semi-structure the topic model as the “known” label, compared to the traditional latent topics in topic modelling. Then, we suggest to select three terms from the top ranked documents to expand the query, based on the assumption...
There are many statistics to measure a batter performance including a batting average and the RBI of the professional baseball. In this paper, we introduce some modification of OPS to represent the characteristic and change of the condition of the player and develop visualization methods and the Web based system of these visualization.
File format used for images in embedded devices is mostly determined by limited available resources and performances. This paper proposes a new file format named ERLE which is adapted for usage in embedded devices. The format is presented by explaining the benefits of using this file format on embedded devices and drawbacks of using the standard image formats for image processing on small footprint...
Algerian investment in ICT has increased dramatically. This commitment has led to a boom in the sector, especially during the last decade. Many administrations are now extensively using new technologies in the conduct of their business and their interactions with citizens. Nevertheless, we observe a slowdown in the growth momentum. Algeria, which before 2008, was regarded as a model country (in Africa)...
With the importance of blood as a crucial factor in life saving situations, it becomes critical to set up blood bank optimization and Evaluation criteria system. The purpose of the paper is to explore the performance evaluation model. This paper develops an evaluation model based on order performance by similarity to ideal solution, VIKOR and Fuzzy VIKOR, to help the industrial practitioners for the...
Base distributed database technology has been widely used in missive data processing. The problem of the efficiency of multi-dimensional data query which is caused by its single primary key indexing becomes more apparent. This paper proposed and implemented a multi-dimensional query method based on Hilbert space-filling curve. Using the Hilbert space filling curve to make the multi-dimensional data...
The traditional financial time series forecasting methods use accurate input data for prediction, and then make single-step or multi-step prediction based on the established regression model. So its prediction result is one or more specific values. But because of the complexity of financial markets, the traditional forecasting methods are less reliable. In this paper, we transform the financial time...
This poster contributes a novel application of social network visualization techniques to the motion picture industry. We make the case and illustrate with examples that a visualization approach based on k-cores helps alleviate otherwise inextricable memory issues in analyses of the IMDb co-starring network, which contains more than 2.6 million actors displaying over a billion links, with degrees...
Training effect evaluation is an essential step of enterprise training management. The article, by introducing the evaluation index system, attempts to evaluate enterprise training effect with grey correlation analysis method. By empirical analysis of an enterprise, it analyzes the staff training effect with the evaluation result, and further assesses the enterprise training effect. Accordingly, the...
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