background:growth is one of the most important indices in child health. the best and most effective way to investigate child health is measuring the physical growth indices such as weight, height and head circumference. among these measures, weight growth is the simplest and the most effective way to determine child growth status. weight trend at a given age is the result of cumulative growth e...

The computation required for a switching Kalman Filter (SKF) increases exponentially with the number of system operation modes. In this paper, computationally tractable graph representation is proposed linear dynamic (SLDS) along solution minimum-sum optimization problem clustering to reduce mode cardinality offline, before collecting measurements. It shown that upon perfect detection, induced ...

To estimate dynamic functional connectivity for magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data, two approaches have dominated: sliding window and change point methods. While computationally feasible, the approach has several limitations. In addition, existing methods assume a Gaussian distribution linear dependencies between fMRI time series. this work, we introduce new methodology called Vine Copula C...

In the current study, the effects of Casimir force and squeeze film damping on pull-in instability and dynamic behavior of electrostatically actuated nano and micro electromechanical systems are investigated separately. Linear elastic membrane theory is used to model the static and dynamic behavior of the system for strip, annular and disk geometries. Squeeze film damping is modeled using nonli...