The field-coupled QCA architecture has emerged as a candidate for providing local interconnectivity for nanodevices, and offers the possibility to perform very dense, high speed, and low power computing in an altogether new paradigm. Magnetic interactions between nanomagnets are sufficiently strong to allow room-temperature operation. We are investigating the fabrication and testing of arrays o...

Interactive narrative is a blossoming field, with new systems and approaches being developed each year. However, despite this burgeoning array of designs, little work has been done in empirically evaluating and comparing them (Weyhrauch 1997; Nelson and Mateas 2005; Magerko 2007). Such a comparison is complicated by the fact that different systems are used to create different narratives; it is ...

A Wireless Sensor and Actor Network (WSAN) is commonly integrated by a large quantity of sensor nodes and a lower number of actor nodes which communicate throughout the wireless medium providing distributed sensing and executing specific tasks according to the events monitored in a specific area of interest. To achieve a balanced performance, a WSAN architecture must implement an efficient coop...

Shifting focus from income to capability deprivation signifies an important milestone toward accurately measuring poverty. I operationalize capability deprivation in the United States and compare poverty measurement outcomes among various capability approaches and between capability and income spaces. Of the three capability approaches examined, the factor score absolute approach suggests a gre...

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Stroke is a major cause of disability and mortality in most economically developed countries that increasing global importance. Up till now, there is uncertainty regarding the effect of weather conditions on stoke occurrence. This paper is offering a comparative study of exploring associations between changes in ambient temperature and stroke occurrence using global and personalised modelling m...

In this paper, we address the problem of estimating image features whenever they become unavailable during a vision-based task. The method consists in using numerical algorithm to compute the lacking data and allows to treat both partial and total visual features loss. Simulation and experimental results validate our work for two different visual-servoing navigation tasks. A comparative analysi...

One of the major overheads that prohibits the wide spread deployment of parallel discrete event simulation (PDES) is the need to synchronize the distributed processes in the simulation. Considerable investigations have been conducted to analyze and optimize the two widely used synchronization strategies, namely the conservative and the optimistic simulation paradigms. However, little attention ...

Abstract. This paper deals with the clustering task for Russian texts obtained using automatic speech recognition (ASR). The input for processing are recognition result for phone call recordings and manual text transcripts for these calls. We present a comparative analysis of clustering results for recognition texts and manual text transcripts, make an evaluation of how recognition quality affe...