background: to explore a possible rela!onship among blood groups and the prognosis of breast cancer, this case- control study was carried out in arak city, arak province, iran. materials and methods: one hundred and thirty four pa!ents with breast cancer were inves!gated. abo blood groups were obtained from medical records. mul!variate analyses were performed, including size of tumor, axillary ...

WSNs-Wireless Sensor Networks comprises of small nodes with computation, sensing and wireless communications capabilities. Energy awareness is an essential design for WSNs and hence data broadcasting protocols, routing and power management isspecially designed to meet this requirement. However, the focus is mainly on the routing protocols which differ depending on the network design and applica...

Additive Manufacturing describes the technologies that can produce a physical model out of a computer model with a layer-by-layer production process. Additive Manufacturing technologies, as compared to traditional manufacturing methods, have the high capability of manufacturing the complex components using minimum energy and minimum consumption. These technologies have brought about the possibi...

This paper presents an approach to automatically build a semantic perceptron net (SPN) for topic spotting. It uses context at the lower layer to select the exact meaning of key words, and employs a combination of context, co-occurrence statistics and thesaurus to group the distributed but semantically related words within a topic to form basic semantic nodes. The semantic nodes are then used to...

An artificial neural network algorithm is implemented using a field programmable gate array hardware. One hidden layer is used in the feed-forward neural network structure in order to discriminate one class of patterns from the other class in real time. With five 8-bit input patterns, six hidden nodes, and one 8-bit output, the implemented hardware neural network makes decision on a set of inpu...

Neocortical neurons in vivo receive concurrent synaptic inputs from multiple sources, including feedforward, horizontal, and feedback pathways. Layer 2/3 of the visual cortex receives feedforward input from layer 4 and horizontal input from layer 2/3. Firing of the pyramidal neurons, which carries the output to higher cortical areas, depends critically on the interaction of these pathways. Here...

We describe an analog VLSI implementation of the ARTI algorithm (Carpenter, 1987). A prototype chip has been fabricated in a standard low cost 1.5~m double-metal single-poly CMOS process. It has a die area of lcm2 and is mounted in a 12O-pins PGA package. The chip realizes a modified version of the original ARTI architecture. Such modification has been shown to preserve all computational proper...

We consider networks where energy is a limited resource so that energy consumption must be minimized while satisfying given throughput requirements. For such networks, cross-layer design coupled with node cooperation can significantly reduce both energy consumption and delay. In this paper, we propose a cooperative multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technique where multiple nodes within a cl...