As it is widely accepted, cycling tends to produce health benefits and reduce air pollution. Policymakers encourage people to use bikes by improving cycling facilities as well as developing bicycle-sharing systems (BSS). It is increasingly interesting to investigate how environmental factors influence the cycling behavior of users of bicycle-sharing systems, as users of bicycle-sharing systems ...

In Discrete Event Simulation the whole running time is mainly determined by the type of data structure intended to manage the pending event set. The Bounded Sequential Searching (BSS) Priority Queue is a pending event set implementation proposal for which empirical evidence of good performance, under the Hold Model, is shown. The complexity of BSS associated algorithms are assessed and some imp...

In order to deal with the uncertainties of wind power, wind farm and electric vehicle (EV) battery switch station (BSS) were proposed to work together as an integrated system. In this paper, the collaborative scheduling problems of such a system were studied. Considering the features of the integrated system, three indices, which include battery swapping demand curtailment of BSS, wind curtailm...

PURPOSE To characterize the rate of change of ocular surface temperature (OST) under lid manipulation after cooling the intact cornea with balanced salt solution (BSS). METHODS In a patient for refractive surgery, prior to the ablation, the temperature of the cornea was continuously recorded with a high speed infrared (350Hz) camera. Two millilitre of chilled BSS with a temperature of 8.6°Cel...

This paper considers the application of Blind Source Separation (BSS) to electromyographic (EMG) data as an approach to isolating individual motor unit potentials (MUPs). BSS was applied both to needle EMG (nEMG) and surface EMG (sEMG), and experimental results were obtained that demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach. BSS is proposed as a technique to be incorporated into EMG methodolo...

In this paper we investigate the application of Blind Source Separation (BSS) algorithms for the decoding of linearly precoded MIMO communication systems and for the design of limited feedback channels that send the Channel Status Information (CSI) from the receiver to the transmitter. The advantage of using BSS is that the MIMO channel can be continuously tracked without the need of pilot symb...

The problem of multiuser interference cancellation in wireless cellular communication systems accepts a blind source separation (BSS) model. The present contribution studies the closed-form solutions to BSS in the real-mixture case. Connections among a number of seemingly disparate methods are unveiled, new procedures are put forward, and their asymptotic (large-sample) performance is analyzed....

The performance of Blind Source Separation (BSS) using Independent Component Analysis (ICA) declines significantly in a reverberant environment. The degradation is mainly caused by the residual crosstalk components derived from the reverberation of the jammer signal. This paper describes a post-processing method designed to refine output signals obtained by BSS. We propose a new method which us...