Background: Developmental and behavioral disorders are the most prevalent problems in children after infection and trauma. Growth and development are influenced by genetic, social and environmental factors that incept of the early life of the fetal and neonatal periods. Due to the importance of the development in children, this study was conducted to determine the relationship between growth in...

Adaptive eating behaviors are dependent on an interaction between motivational states (e.g., hunger) and the ability to control one's own behavior (inhibitory control). Indeed, behavioral paradigms are emerging that seek to train inhibitory control to improve eating behavior. However, inhibitory control is a multifaceted concept, and it is not yet clear how different types (e.g., reactive motor...

In this paper, a system of wave equations modeling nematic liquid crystal is considered. The solution of this system in general has gradient blowup. The global-in-time existence of Hölder continuous energy conservative solution for the initial value problem was proved in [13] by the second author, P. Zhang & Y. Zheng. In this paper, we prove the uniqueness and generic regularity of energy conse...

With the advent in WAN of delay sensitive technical applications, such as remote control, signal propagation delay becomes a major problem. The extent of the problem is analysed by lower bounding the delay in relation to different transmission media. Requirements for reliability and bandwidth are considered. The consequences of this bounding for communication network planning and provisioning a...

A non symmetric version of Hopfield networks subject to state-multiplicative noise, pure time delay and Markov jumps is considered. Such networks seem to arise in the context of visuo-motor control loops and may, therefore, be used to mimic their complex behaviour. In this paper, we adopt the Lur’e-Postnikov systems approach to analyze the stochastic stability and the L2 gain of generalized Hop...

Since very short pulse waves are transmitted, UWB systems have excellent accuracy in terms of distance measurement. In order to measure the distance between the terminals, the transmitted pulses have to be synchronized by a delay-lock-loop (DLL) in the receiver. In this paper the performance of the DLL is evaluated. Its performance depends the timing jitter between the local clocks of the termi...

Two of the major challenges in networked haptic telepresence and teleaction systems are the time delay associated with the data transmission over the network and the limited communication resources. Sophisticated control methods are available for the stabilization in the presence of time delay. The reduction of haptic network traffic, however, is only poorly treated in the known literature. Dat...

Wireless sensor network can be applied to large-scale environment surveillance such as marine environment monitoring. In such application case, besides the protocol structure and the energy consumption, the signal’s real-time transmission and successfully transmitting rate of critical nodes also play an important role in improving the whole system’s performance. In this paper, a new parameter c...

In order to build large dependency treebanks using the CDG Lab, a grammar-based dependency treebank development tool, an annotator usually has to fill a selection form before parsing. This step is usually necessary because, otherwise, the search space is too big for long sentences and the parser fails to produce at least one solution. With the information given by the annotator on the selection...