Background. Lumbopelvic stability (LPS) is regarded as important for injury prevention, yet there are few reliable or valid tests that can be used in the clinical assessment of LPS. Three dynamic functional tests were identified that assess LPS in multiple planes of motion: dip test (DT), single leg squat (SLS), and runner pose test (RPT). Existing rating criteria for SLS have limited reliabili...

SPHeRe is an ontology matching system that utilizes cloud infrastructure for matching large scale ontologies and focus on alignment representation to be stored in the Mediation Bridge Ontology (MBO). MBO is the mediation ontology that stores all the alignments generated between the matched ontologies and represents it in a manner that provides maximum metadata information. SPHeRe is a new initi...

This paper presents a systematic approach for bridge maintenance management that combines a stochastic Markovian performance prediction model with a multi-objective optimization procedure to determine the optimal allocation of funds and prioritization of bridges for maintenance, repair and replacement (MR&R). The prioritization of the bridges is based on the satisfaction of several conflicting ...

fuzzy expert systems are one of the most practical intelligent models with the high potential for managing uncertainty associated to the medical diagnosis. in this paper, a fuzzy inference system (fis) for diagnosing of acute lymphocytic leukemia in children has been introduced. the fuzzy expert system applies mamdani reasoning model that has high interpretability to explain system results to e...

The paper presents the method developed to assess rating points of objects with qualitative indexes. The novelty of the method lies in the fact that the authors use linguistic scales that allow to formalize the values of the indexes with the help of fuzzy sets. As a result it is possible to operate correctly with dissimilar indexes on the unified basis and to get stable final results. The obtai...

In this paper, a reinforced concrete(RC) bridge built in an interchange, in the city of Kerman (a city located in south of Iran) is examined by the Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) system. During the construction of this bridge such as; the main beams, slab, and retaining walls, some Electrical Strain Gauges were mounted on the main reinforcements at different locations within the body of thi...

This paper describes GIB, the first bridge-playing program to approach the level of a human expert. (GIB finished twelfth in a hand-picked field of thirty-four experts at an invita-tional event at the 1998 World Bridge Championships .) We give a basic overview of the algorithms used, describe their strengths and weaknesses, and present the results of experiments comparing GIB to both human oppo...