A radio network (RN for short) is a distributed system with no central arbiter, consisting of n radio transceivers, henceforth referred to as stations. We assume that the stations run on batteries and expends power while broadcasting/receiving a data packet. Thus, the most important measure to evaluate protocols on the radio network is the number of awake time slots, in which a station is broad...

BACKGROUND Orientation and mobility (O&M) training in using an identification (ID) cane is provided to partially-sighted older adults to facilitate independent functioning and participation in the community. Recently, a protocolised standardised O&M-training in the use of the ID cane was developed in The Netherlands. The purpose of this study is to assess the usefulness and acceptability of bot...

Background and Aim: The purpose of the present study is to map the coronavirus domain citation network to better understand this domain based on all other citation networks.  Materials and Methods: The present study is applied in terms of purpose, and is descriptive scientometrics in terms of type, which has been done with the all-citation method. In this study, all scientific publications on ...

abstract considering the dominance of public open space use, over the use of private open space of single-family housing, in large cities in iran, an important issue in programming for designing open spaces of residential complexes is to facilitate the appropriate development of the children in open spaces. the present paper attempts to provide a flexible framework for tackling the challenge of...

1. ABSTRACT Many image watermarks have been proposed to protect intellectual property in an age where digital images may be easily modified and perfectly reproduced. In a fragile marking system, a signal (watermark) is embedded within an image such that subsequent alterations to the watermarked image can be detected with high probability. The insertion of the watermark is perceptually invisible...

Prosthetic joint infection (PJI) of the hip and knee remains one of the most common and feared arthroplasty complications. The impact and cost of PJI is significant, both to the patient and to the health care system. Recent reports of results of different treatment strategies have led many surgeons to modify their approach to management of PJI. This paper will explore apparent paradigm shifts, ...

individuals create different links through their interaction with environment. during this connection, unknown spaces become places by meanings which people attach to them. it seems that the meaning, play an important role in sense which people percept from a place. in environment psychology, concepts such as sense of place and place attachment investigate as an emotional relationship between p...

Limited consonant phonemic information can be conveyed by the temporal characteristics of speech. In the two experiments reported here, the effects of practice and of multiple talkers on identification of temporal consonant information were evaluated. Naturally produced /aCa/disyllables were used to create "temporal-only" stimuli having instantaneous amplitudes identical to the natural speech s...

The roles of plant models in adaptive critic methods for approximate dynamic programming are considered, with primary focus given to the DHP methodology. In place of complete system identification, partial, approximate, and qualitative models of plant dynamics are considered. Such models are found to be sufficient for successful controller design. As classification is in general easier than reg...

In this paper, we present our system developed for the SemEval 2016 Task 11: Complex Word Identification. Our team achieved the 3rd place among 21 participants. Our systems ranked 4th and 13th among 42 submitted systems. We proposed multiple features suitable for complex word identification, evaluated them, and discussed their properties. According to the results of our experiments, our final s...