The PULSE project objectives are to generate and evaluate a webbased personalized educational intervention for the management of cardiovascular risk. We present a web-based adaptive hypermedia system to create and deliver the personalized education material to the patient. The adaptive personalization framework is based on a patient profile created by combining an electronic patient data captur...

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an adaptive input-output linearization method for general nonlinear systems is developed without using states of the system. another key feature of this structure is the fact that, it does not need model of the system. in this scheme, neurolinearizer has few weights, so it is practical in adaptive situations.  online training of neurolinearizer is compared to model predictive recurrent training...

in this article, we propose an adaptive grid based on mesh equidistribution principle for two-parameter convection-diffusion boundary value problems with continuous and discontinuous data. a numerical algorithm based on an upwind finite difference operator and an appropriate adaptive grid is constructed. truncation errors are derived for both continuous and discontinuous problems. parameter uni...

257 Material Computation therefore directly linked to the influences of force acting upon it. Material is concentrated in regions of high strength and dispersed in areas where stiffness is not required. The implications of Nature’s structural heterogeneity, achieved through the informed distribution of composites, holds significant implications from a design perspective. The control of material...

Many animals decorate themselves through the accumulation of environmental material on their exterior. Decoration has been studied across a range of different taxa, but there are substantial limits to current understanding. Decoration in non-humans appears to function predominantly in defence against predators and parasites, although an adaptive function is often assumed rather than comprehensi...

Abstract:  The precision of conventional sampling designs is not usually satisfactory for estimating parameters of clump and rare populations. Many of fish species live in school and disperse all over a vast area like a sea so that they are rare compare to their habitats. Theory of a class of sampling designs called adaptive sampling designs has rapidly grown during last decade which solv...

Reuse of computer based learning material is a key requirement for any practical approach to support adaptive and dynamic teaching/learning inside and outside the classroom. Unlike hardware technology innovations, the software support for reuse inside the classroom is still not satisfactory. We present an approach to reuse material based in the Computer-integrated Classroom (CiC) environment an...

Plant floor material handling is a loose loop in most assembly plants. Simulation offers a quick, controllable and tunable approach for prototyping complex material handling processes in manufacturing environments. This paper proposes a hybrid simulation approach, using both discrete event and agent-based technologies, to model complex material handling processes in an assembly line. A prototyp...