Introduction: In the elderly, functional balance, fear of falling, and independence in daily living activities are interrelated; however, this relationship may change under the influence of drug phase and the severity of disease in individuals with idiopathic Parkinson disease. This study aimed to investigate the association of functional balance, fear of falling, and independence in the Activi...

Warehouse location is one of the most important logistics activities. The selection of the most effective warehousing mode has become a strategic study. This paper will introduce the factors influencing the decision process in selecting the warehouse locations based on gravity model approach and analytic hierarchy process. In the end, the author will summarize the methods and the results.

Let X1;X2;...;Xn have a jointly multivariate exchangeable normal distribution. In this work we investigate another proof of the independence of X and S2 using order statistics. We also assume that (Xi ; Yi); i =1; 2;...; n; jointly distributed in bivariate normal and establish the independence of the mean and the variance of concomitants of order statistics.

Pseudorandom number generators (PRNGs) have always been a central research topic in data science, and chaotic dynamical systems are one of the means to obtain scientifically proven data. Chaotic property that they seemingly unpredictable random behavior obtained by making use deterministic laws. The current paper will show how several notions used study systems—statistical independence, singula...

In recent years, Karr’s difference field theory has been extended to the socalled RΠΣ-extensions in which one can represent not only indefinite nested sums and products that can be expressed by transcendental ring extensions, but one can also handle algebraic products of the form α where α is a root of unity. In this article we supplement this summation theory substantially by the following bui...

Although supporters of vegetarianism (and animals' interests in general) come in many varieties, we may distinguish two groups. First, utilitarians such as Singer base their argument on the suffering that factory farming causes to nonhumans and the absence of comparable benefits to humans. l Second, the animal rights view, as expressed by Regan, extends Kant's respect for persons principle to i...

South and Southeast Asia is characterised by an historic deep religious diversity countries in the region have also been shaped colonialism. Focusing on cases of India, Indonesia, Malaysia, this contribution explores governance conceptions secularism influenced – but quite distinct from those found West. It assesses how, upon independence colonial rule, a core concern all three was settlement t...

Electrical Resistance Tomography (ERT) offers a non-destructive evaluation (NDE) technique that takes advantage of the inherent electrical properties in carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites for internal damage characterization. This paper investigates a method of optimum selection of sensing configurations for delamination detection in thick cross-ply laminates using ERT. Reduction...

We propose and demonstrate a novel device structure of resonant cavity-enhanced photodetector (RCE-PD). The new RCE-PD structure consists of a bottom distributed Bragg reflector (DBR), a cavity with InGaAs multiple quantum wells (MQWs) for light absorption and a top mirror of sub-wavelength grating. By changing the fill factor of the 2-D grating, the effective cavity length of RCE-PDs can be va...