The objective of our study was to establish whether rectal temperature recordings in humans could be replaced by a non-invasive skin temperature sensor combined with a heat flux sensor (Double Sensor) located at the forehead to monitor core body temperature changes due to circadian rhythms. Rectal and Double Sensor data were collected continuously for 24h in seven men undertaking strict head-do...

OBJECTIVE The current study examined a 5-year cognitive change in untrained African American and White participants from the Advanced Cognitive Training in Independent and Vital Elderly (ACTIVE) study. METHOD Five-year trajectories of memory, reasoning, visual processing speed/useful field of view, digit-symbol substitution, and vocabulary were investigated. Education, health, gender, age, an...

Using three waves of data, we assessed the relationships between endorsement of religious values, some of the major personality dimensions, and social and emotional well-being amongst teenagers. Participants were 784 high school students at Time 1 (382 males and 394 females; 8 did not indicate their gender) and 563 provided data at each of Time 1, Time 2 and Time 3. We examined the impact of ch...

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed weaknesses in the global supply chain management. With stock-outs, transportation problems and bullwhip effect caused by ever-changing demand, it is necessary for decision-makers to review their configuration. latter must adapt new market changes respond quickly cost-effectively customer requirements. In fact, selection criteria of most reconfigurable configuratio...

The concept of configuration of groups which is defined in terms of finite partitions and finite strings of elements of the group is presented by Rosenblatt and Willis. To each set of configurations, a finite system of equations known as configuration equations, is associated. Rosenblatt and Willis proved that a discrete group G is amenable if and only if every possible instance of its configur...

This paper describes a novel approach that guarantees consistency of structure-based configuration models in an evolution process using a knowledge representation based on description logics. We define the term consistency and discuss different notions of consistency that are domain-dependent or configuration-tool specific. Change operations are introduced as a formal means to capture changes t...

Distributed heterogeneous robotic systems are often organized in componentbased software architectures. The strong added value of these systems comes from their potential ability to dynamically self-configure the interactions of their components, in order to adapt to new tasks and unforeseen situations. However, no satisfactory solutions exist to the problem of automatic self-configuration. We ...

Configuration models describe commonality and variability as well as restrictions within and between components of a product domain. Whenever new versions or variants of products are brought to the market, changes to the configuration model (i.e. evolution) are inevitable. In this paper we discuss what kind of modifications are necessary for evolution and the potential effects on the model’s co...

This paper presents a machine configuration system which stores all configuration parameters in a central ‘‘database’’. The system is dynamic in the sense that machines reconfigure themselves to reflect any changes in the database whenever they are rebooted. The use of a central database allows configurations to be validated, and correct configurations to be automatically generated from policy ...

Abstract. In this paper, we introduce a framework for the automatic configuration of applications running in dynamic environments where changes are frequent. We propose a way to describe, for each application, its configuration policy, and the execution environment’s factors that affect its behavior. On this basis, we can generate application-specific configuration tools, called conflets. The a...