OBJECTIVE Musculoskeletal conditions have an enormous and growing impact worldwide. In spite of that, some clinicians are not confident in their own musculoskeletal examination skills. This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of musculoskeletal symptoms in an emergency room, and the frequency of musculoskeletal physical examination description on those cases. METHODS This was a cross-secti...

Clouds allow users to store data and access can be made anywhere, any time by using any device. Highly sensitive information such as business documents, medical records and personal information may be stored in a cloud. Security and privacy are thus very important issues in cloud computing. To keep user data confidential from an untrusted Cloud Service Provider and third parties, a natural way ...

Let G = (V, E) be a graph. A function g : V → [0, 1] is called a global dominating function (GDF ) of G, if for every v ∈ V, g(N [v]) = ∑ u∈N [v] g(u) ≥ 1 and g(N(v)) = ∑ u/ ∈N(v) g(u) ≥ 1. A GDF g of a graph G is called minimal (MGDF ) if for all functions f : V → [0, 1] such that f ≤ g and f(v) 6= g(v) for at least one v ∈ V , f is not a GDF . The fractional global domination number γfg(G) is...

One of the key issues in practical speech recognition is to achieve robust gender identification. Most conventional gender identification approaches use relevant features derived from the magnitude spectrum. In this paper, we propose a novel gender identification method using a group delay function (GDF). Based on the statistical analysis of the GDF, it is found that the GDF is an effective fea...