The polyphase IIR N-path structure based on the N-order allpasses is very attractive for high quality fractional-band filters, as high attenuation and small passband ripples can be achieved for much less coefficients than other filter structures. However its general form suffers from spikes in the stopband independent from the coefficient values. The paper presents alternative ways to those fou...

  Our study aimed to clarify the relationship between obesity and the risk of postoperative morbidity following LESS appendectomy. We performed a retrospective review of all patients who underwent LESS appendectomy from January 2013 to December 2016.LESS appendectomy was performed in 109 patients during the study period. Among these patients, 17 (15.6%) were obese.There were no significant diff...

This paper describes the implementation and the evaluation of a link aggregation system using Network Mobility (NEMO). The link aggregation system, called NEMO SHAKE, constructs a temporal network (called an alliance) between multiple mobile routers (MRs) carried by vehicles and aggregates external links between multiple MRs and the Internet to provide a fast and reliable transmission with mobi...

1 Biography 2 Life-Span Developmental Psychology 2.1 Overview 2.2 Lifelong Development 2.3 Multidimensionality and Multidirectionality 2.4 Development as Gain/Loss 2.5 Plasticity 2.5.1 Applications of Plasticity 2.6 Historical Embeddedness 2.7 Contextualism as a Paradigm 2.8 Field of Development as Multidisciplinary 2.9 Applications of Life-Span Developmental Psychology 2.9.1 Positive Youth Dev...

Enterprise integration projects link or merge artifacts across many functions, processes and management levels in a company or government agency. In the absence of methods generic enough to cover the diverse range of enterprise integration projects and adaptable enough to support specific projects effectively, integration services promise to constitute a suitable “middle layer”. Since patterns ...

Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP) are a collection of widely used stencils for integrating enterprise applications and business processes. These patterns represent a “de-facto” standard reference for design decisions when integrating enterprise applications. For each of these patterns we present the integration semantics (model) and the conceptual translation (syntax) to the Business Proces...

The Future Internet is becoming a reality, providing a large-scale computing environments where a virtually infinite number of available services can be composed so to fit users’ needs. Modern service-oriented applications will be more and more often built by reusing and assembling distributed services. A key enabler for this vision is then the ability to automatically compose and dynamically c...