To better understand neural recollection processing, we induced interference in target recollection by presenting related lures before their respective targets and facilitated recollection rejection of lures by presenting targets before their related lures. Target recollection following interference recruited visual and prefrontal cortices, showing that these regions support recollection when r...

The laboratory recombinant haplotype H-1acl of the Norway rat has been used in studies of the rejection and passive enhancement of kidney allografts. While the full H-1a haplotype provoked acute rejection, neither of the isolated subregions, H-1Aa and H-1Ba, did so. It was also found that alloantisera raised against either the H-1Aa or the H-1Ba antigens would enhance the grafts. It is suggeste...

Image Thresholding is a necessary task in many image processing applications. In this paper we derive fuzzy rules for π-function. We use π-function to fuzzify the original image; this is constructed to locate the intensities of the misclassification regions. Based on information theory, it maximizes the information between image foreground and background. The merit of using fuzzy set is its abi...

In this paper, a novel peak observer based adaptive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) fuzzy proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller has been introduced for MIMO time delay systems. The adaptation mechanism proposed by Qiao and Mizumoto [1] single-input single-output (SISO) systems enhanced system control. tracking, stabilization disturbance rejection performances of the have evaluated c...

This paper presents a comparative study of various trend detection methods developed using fuzzy logic, statistical, and regression techniques. A new method that uses noise rejection fuzzy clustering is also proposed in the paper to enhance the performance of trend detection methodologies. The comparative investigation has produced systematic guidelines for the selection of a proper trend detec...

This paper addresses the issue of piecewise integral sliding mode control for T-S fuzzy systems. Integral sliding mode control (ISMC) is chosen to stabilize the T-S fuzzy system because of its superior capability in treating uncertainties. Individual integral sliding surfaces are designed in different operating regions of the T-S fuzzy system. Conditions on existence of the sliding mode in the ...

This paper first exposes an algorithm that leads to fuzzy segmentation of color images. This algorithm performs, as in the watershed method, a progressive flood of the gradient image from pixels of lowest gradients. Membership degrees of pixels to regions depend on topographic distance, which takes into account both the distance to the core and the gradient norms. Geometric and colorimetric fea...

In the proposed paper, we have presented the need for Load Frequency Control (LFC) of an interconnected multi-area power to minimize the transient deviations in area frequency and tie-line power interchange and to ensure their steady state errors are zeros. In this paper, the Load Frequency Control achieved by implementation of one of the following conventional controller strategies: Proportion...

In this work, we propose a pseudometric based on a fuzzy relation, which is itself derived from a fuzzy partition. This pseudometric is a metric in the particular case in which the fuzzy partition is composed solely by triangular fuzzy sets. We prove that these functions are indeed a pseudometric and a metric and illustrate their use in an experiment for the classification of land use in an are...

A text-dependent speaker recognition method is proposed using trapezoidal fuzzy similarity function to measure the similarity of voice features between a test user and the registered speaker who has nearest distance. The trapezoidal fuzzy similarity function is constructed based on three-time data recorded during enrolment process as personal identification voice (PIV) and statistical data of a...