Problem statement: Resource management is one of the most important engineering issues in 3G systems where multiple traffic classes are supported each being characterized by its required Quality of Service (QoS) parameters. Call Admission Control (CAC) is one of the resource management functions, which regulates network access to ensure QoS provisioning. Efficient CAC is necessary for the QoS p...

The mechanism of chronic rejection of transplanted human kidneys is unknown. An understanding of this process is important because, chronic rejection ultimately leads to loss of the kidney allograft in most transplants. One feature of chronic rejection is the infiltration of ectopic B-cell clusters that are clonal into the transplanted kidney. We now show that the antibodies produced by these B...

OBJECTIVES Asymptomatic rejection after heart transplant is difficult to detect by noninvasive methods. The present study investigated the efficacy of echocardiographic strain and the strain rate imaging method in detecting rejection after pediatric heart transplant. MATERIALS AND METHODS Fourteen pediatric patients with heart transplant were examined both with endomyocardial biopsy and strai...

In this work, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) based intelligent controller design technique is attempted for a nonlinear spherical tank process. The search process is guided by an objective function, which considers the minimization of some key parameters such as Integral Square Error (ISE), Integral Absolute Error (IAE), and settling time (ts) of the process under study. The proposed control...

Biometric authentication is utilized in software engineering applications as a type of recognizable and access control of the particular person using their behavioral characteristics. Several biometric features such as fingerprint, palm veins, recognition, palm, hand geometry, iris recognition, DNA, and so on, used for authenticating the user identities. From the various biometric features, the...

Rejection sensitivity (RS) can be defined as the disposition that one tends to anxiously expect, readily perceive, and intensely react to rejection. High-RS individuals are more likely to suffer mental disorders. Previous studies have investigated brain activity during social rejection using different kinds of rejection paradigms and have provided neural evidence of individual differences in re...

Background & Objective: Ki-67 evaluation is an essential tool to define luminal A and B breast cancers, which is not yet systematized. The International Ki67 in Breast Cancer Working Group suggests the counting of 500 or 1000 cancer cells, which is a time-consuming process. Therefore, novel methods, such as the Eye-10 method and stepwise counting strategy, are proposed to facil...

In this paper we present a hybrid approach based on combining fuzzy clustering, seed region growing, and Jaccard similarity coefficient algorithms to measure gray (GM) and white matter tissue (WM) volumes from magnetic resonance images (MRIs). The proposed algorithm incorporates intensity and anatomic information for segmenting of MRIs into different tissue classes, especially GM and WM. It sta...

A decomposition scheme for 3D fuzzy objects is presented. The decomposition is guided by a fuzzy distance transform (FDT) of the fuzzy object and aims to decompose the fuzzy object into simpler parts. Relevant voxels, corresponding to the ‘‘centres’’ of the parts, are detected on the FDT and suitably grouped, using a hierarchical clustering technique, into significant seeds for the decompositio...