Following our previous work on metamaterial high-impedance surfaces made of Hilbert curve inclusions, here we theoretically explore the performance of the high-impedance surfaces made of another form of spacefilling curve known as the Peano curve. This metamaterial surface, formed by a 2-D periodic arrangement of Peano curve inclusions, is located above a conducting ground plane and is shown to...

OBJECTIVES Our aims were to investigate discrepancies between depressed patients' GlobalRating of Change (GRC) and scores on the Patient Health Questionnaire depression module (PHQ-9). Our objectives were to ascertain patients' views on the source and meaning of mismatches and assess their clinical significance. DESIGN Qualitative study nested within a cohort, in a programme investigating the...

Cerebellar granule cells (GrCs) convey information from mossy fibers (MFs) to Purkinje cells (PCs) via their parallel fibers (PFs). MF to GrC signaling allows transmission of frequencies up to 1 kHz and GrCs themselves can also fire bursts of action potentials with instantaneous frequencies up to 1 kHz. So far, in the scientific literature no evidence has been shown that these high-frequency bu...

In this paper a new systematic modelling approach using Granular Computing (GrC) and Neurofuzzy modelling is presented. In this study a GrC algorithm is used to extract relational information and data characteristics out of the initial database. The extracted knowledge is then translated into a linguistic rule-base of a fuzzy system. This rule-base is finally realised via a Neurofuzzy modelling...

This paper attempts to propose a particle swarm K-means optimization (PSKO)-based granular computing (GrC) model to preprocess the skewed class distribution in order to enhance the classification accuracy for class imbalance problem. The GrC model acquires knowledge from information granules rather than from numerical data. It also processes multi-dimensional and sparse data by using singular v...

The community assistance program in utilizing oil palm coir Kolaka Regency, Southeast Sulawesi for supporting materials from the GRC mixture is a new breakthrough use of waste. This activity expected to overcome problem waste and make it economic source surrounding community. purpose this increase public knowledge so that can be value understanding process making by method used utilization fibe...

this paper addresses the problem of quantifying the mechanical contribution of rockbolts installed systematically around tunnels (regularly spaced around the tunnel) excavated in rock masses. assuming that the mechanical contribution of grouted rockbolts is that of increasing internal pressure within a broken rock mass, a new procedure for computation of ground response curves for a circular tu...