Abstract. In mountainous areas, rockfalls, rock avalanches, and debris flows constitute a risk to human life property. Seismology has proven useful tool monitor such mass movements, while increasing data volumes availability of real-time streams demand new solutions for automatic signal classification. Ideally, seismic monitoring arrays have large apertures record significant number movements t...

The current study is a descriptive and analytical research which aimed at studying the phenomenon of social network building which takes place in cyberspace, in order to comprehend its fundamentals in IMCs (Internet-Mediated Communities). This way, we wanted to identify the reasons of success and describe the life cycle of such communities. The research general goal was that of identifying the ...

OBJECTIVE To help facilitate economic evaluations of oncology treatments, we mapped responses on cancer-specific instrument to generic preference-based measures. METHODS Cancer patients (n = 367) completed one cancer-specific instrument, the FACT-G, and two preference-based measures, the EQ-5D and SF-6D. Responses were randomly divided to form development (n = 184) and cross-validation (n = 1...

BACKGROUND Asthma guidelines suggest stepping-down of inhaled corticosteroids (ICSs) when asthma is stable. OBJECTIVE To determine outcomes of stepping-down and prediction of outcome after stepping-down of ICSs in controlled adult asthma. METHODS We performed a retrospective study on 21-81 year-old hospital-based outpatients with asthma in Japan. Protocol for stepping-down of ICSs was perfo...

The Unaided Single Frequency/Single Epoch Global Navigation Satellite System (SF/SE GNSS) model is the most challenging scenario for ambiguity resolution in the GNSS attitude determination application. To improve the performance of SF/SE-GNSS ambiguity resolution without excessive cost, the Micro-Electro-Mechanical System Inertial Measurement Unit (MEMS-IMU) is a proper choice for the auxiliary...

Web services are increasingly being used in business critical environments, enabling uniform access to services provided by distinct parties. In these environments, an operation that does not execute on due time may be completely useless, which may result in service abandonment, and reputation or monetary losses. However, existing web services environments do not provide mechanisms to detect or...

A website's ranking on Google can spell the difference between success and failure for a new business. NCAA football ratings determine which schools get to play for the big money in postseason bowl games. Product ratings...

The success of most organisations are based on how well the organisation can engineer and execute their business processes in order to better manage the extra value that these processes can provide. However, business processes may fail to deliver the functions which are designed. In order to help the understanding of how and why a business process may fail, we considered the techniques in syste...

We argue that failure detectors encapsulate fairness. Fairness is a measure of the number of steps a process takes relative to another processes and/or messages in transit. As evidence we specify fairness-based message-passing system models that are the weakest to implement the failure detectors from [1]. Failure Detectors and Partial Synchrony. Failure detectors [1], system services that provi...