1. Molecular Medicine Research Center, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran 2. Dental Research Center, Faculty of Dentistry, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3. Orthodontic Department, Dental Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran 4. Molecular Immunology Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 5. Nature of Gene Mutat...

This paper investigates the performance of cooperative receive diversity, for the wireless body area network (WBAN) radio channel, compliant with the IEEE 802.15.6 Standard, in the case of monitoring a sleeping person. Extensive WBAN measurements near the 2.4 GHz ISM band were used. Up to 7 dB and 20% improvement for two-hop communications with the use of relays are empirically demonstrated wit...

Say that a function π : n → n (henceforth called a predictor) kconstantly predicts a real x ∈ n if for almost all intervals I of length k, there is i ∈ I such that x(i) = π(x1i). We study the k-constant Supported by Grant–in–Aid for Scientific Research (C)(2)12640124, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Supported by The Israel Science Foundation founded by the Israel Academy of Sciences ...

In determining the marginal cost of congestion, economists have traditionally relied upon directly measuring traffic congestion on network links, disregarding any “network effects,” since the latter are difficult to estimate. While for simple networks the comparison can be done within a theoretical framework, it is important to know whether such network effects in real large-scale networks are ...

Empirical bankruptcy prediction models have been proposed and widely used in the last decades or so. Historic solvent and default firm data are collected and labeled appropriately. Statistical and neural network models are then “trained” to fit these data. A major problem is the imbalance of data, i.e. much more solvent data than default data. We propose a auto-associative neural network(AANN) ...

Engagement in online social network-delivered weight loss interventions is a predictor of weight loss. Incentivizing engagement in a subset of participants may increase group engagement and subsequent weight loss. In a pilot feasibility trial, 56 adults with obesity were randomized to two Facebook-delivered weight loss interventions, one had 10% users incentivized to engage daily and the other ...

Correspondence: [email protected] Institute of Software Technology, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Abstract Identifying the factors which influence academic performance is an essential part of educational research. Previous studies have documented the importance of personality traits, class attendance, an...

Scholars have confirmed that political candidates are increasingly turning to social network sites (SNS) to persuade voters to vote for them, and that these sites have become prominent sources of political information. But a fundamental question arises about the sustainability of social networks as a campaign tool: Howmuch do users trust the information they find there?This study employed an on...

This paper presents branch-and-bound parallelization strategies applied to the location/ allocation problem with balancing requirements. This formulation is representative of a larger class of discrete network design and location problems arising in many transportation logistics and telecommunications applications: it displays a multicommodity network ̄ow structure and a complex objective funct...

We propose a splitter feeding network for array radiations of spoof surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs), which are guided by ultrathin corrugated metallic strips. Based on the coupled mode theory, SPP fields along a single waveguide in a certain frequency range can be readily coupled into two adjacent branch waveguides with the same propagation constants. We propose to load U-shaped particles ant...