Few objective analysis techniques have been developed for, or applied to, the auditory evoked middle latency response (MLR). This report demonstrates the applicability of the Fsp statistical technique (Elberling and Don, 1984) to the MLR time domain. Subjects for this study were 10 normal hearing young adults. The stimuli were 60, 40, 20 dB nHL clicks and a NS control. Evoked responses were obt...

Abstract Wire rope is an element often used in transportation infrastructure and systems such as bridges, elevators, ropeways, funiculars so on. Generally, wire ropes require a high level of safety because they suspend heavy important components roadways cages cabins ropeways funiculars. In addition to dead loads like roadways, are subjected dynamic caused by earthquakes, wind moving cars, etc....

Randomized response is a misclassification design to estimate the prevalence of sensitive behaviour. Respondents who do not follow the instructions of the design are considered to be cheating. A mixture model is proposed to estimate the prevalence of sensitive behaviour and cheating in the case of a dual sampling scheme with direct questioning and randomized response. The mixing weight is the p...

Smart homes are smart spaces that contain devices connected to each other, collecting information and facilitating users’ comfortable living, safety, energy management features. To improve the quality of individuals’ life, device companies service providers data about user activities, needs, power consumption, etc.; these need be shared with privacy-preserving practices. In this paper, an effec...