In this paper we deal with the problem of extending Zadeh's operators on fuzzy sets (FSs) to interval-valued (IVFSs), set-valued (SVFSs) and type-2 (T2FSs) fuzzy sets. Namely, it is known that seeing FSs as SVFSs, or T2FSs, whose membership degrees are singletons is not order-preserving. We then describe a family of lattice embeddings from FSs to SVFSs. Alternatively, if the former singleton vi...

PURPOSE Fatigue impairs the quality of life (QOL) of epilepsy patients, but few studies have investigated this issue and no systematic analysis of the predictors of fatigue in epilepsy patients has been performed. Thus, we investigated the degree and predictors of fatigue in epilepsy patients. METHODS We enrolled 270 consecutive adult patients with epilepsy and categorized them into three sub...

For the two dimensional classical XY model we present extensive high temperature -phase bulk data extracted based on a novel finite size scaling (FSS) Monte Carlo technique, along with FSS data near criticality. Our data verify that η = 1/4 sets in near criticality, and clarify the nature of correction to the leading scaling behavior. However, the result of standard FSS analysis near criticalit...

The security of ordinary digital signature schemes relies on a computational assumption. Fail-stop signature (FSS) schemes provide security for a signer against a forger with unlimited computational power by enabling the signer to provide a proof of forgery, if it occurs. Signing long messages using FSS requires a hash function with provable security which results in slow signature generation. ...

BACKGROUND Functional somatic symptoms (FSS), or symptoms without a clear medical explanation are a considerable challenge for health care systems. There is no general consensus as to which symptoms should be regarded functional. Few longitudinal studies on the development of FSS exist and these have mainly been based on the assumption that the factorial structure of a FSS scores variable remai...

OBJECTIVES This study was aimed at investigating whether a fractional flow reserve (FFR)-guided SYNTAX score (SS), termed "functional SYNTAX score" (FSS), would predict clinical outcome better than the classic SS in patients with multivessel coronary artery disease (CAD) undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). BACKGROUND The SS is a purely anatomic score based on the coronary ang...

The aim of this paper is to study a Novel shaped Compact Frequency Selective Surface in wireless dualband applications as a band reject filter. Two resonating frequencies are obtained at 3.2 GHz and 10.45 GHz in this proposed FSS which cover S band and X band respectively. The FSS is designed by cutting slits and slots in the 22mm x 22mm squareshaped patch keeping same periodicity (24mm x 24mm)...

Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) is a noninvasive imaging technique that does not use ionizing radiation, with application both in environmental sciences and in health. Image reconstruction is performed by solving an inverse problem and ill-posed. Evolutionary Computation and Swarm Intelligence have become a source of methods for solving inverse problems. Fish School Search (FSS) is a prom...

The following paper describes FSS-WASTL, a system for the acquisition of semantic knowledge within XTRA – a natural language access system to expert systems. Starting from user-supplied example utterances, hypotheses for lexical entries are induced, which then are refined top down through interactive classification. The refinement process of FSS-WASTL is a variant of the well-known KLONE classi...

We describe FSS-TimEx, a module for the recognition and normalization of temporal expressions we submitted to Task A and B of the TempEval-3 challenge. FSS-TimEx was developed as part of a multilingual event extraction system, Nexus, which runs on top of the EMM news processing engine. It consists of finite-state rule cascades, using minimalistic text processing stages and simple heuristics to ...