Querying any point-of-interest (POI) in anywhere is a major part of location-based services (LBS) and has been applied to diverse wireless and/or mobile networks for realizing seamless services and mobile and ubiquitous computing. In particular, designing an efficient query processing scheme is admittedly challenging in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) because of the lack of centralized coordina...

Introduction Several MR methods require a mathematical model of microvasculature to extract physiological parameters such as blood volume fraction (BVf), vessel size index (VSI) and blood oxygen saturation. In the case of BVf and VSI, MR estimates obtained in healthy and tumoral tissues – although well correlated with histology – seemed too large [1]. As tumoral development can strongly alter t...

We tried an experiment in ISWC 2016, Kobe, as a practical example of data integration of sensor data through IoT devices and semantic information. We provided small GPS devices to some volunteers from participants of ISWC 2016 and collected trajectory data during the conference. Then, we integrated the data with Points of Interest (POI) information collected through existing open data such as o...

Stay points are important for recognizing significant places from a mobile user’s GPS trajectory. Such places are often located indoors and in urban canyons, where GPS is unreliable. Consequently, mapping a user’s stay point to a Place of Interest (POI) using only GPS data is particularly challenging. Our novel algorithm employs both spatio-temporal density estimation and line count inference t...

Abstract Background Premature ovarian failure (POF)/premature insufficiency (POI) is characterized by disrupting function under 40 years old. A major health problem of this disorder female infertility. There are no proven treatments to increase the rate pregnancy with autologous oocytes in these patients. This review aims summarize our present knowledge about POI-induced infertility and highlig...

Driving direction prediction can be useful in different applications such as driver warning and route recommendation. In this paper, a framework is proposed to predict the driving direction based on weighted Markov model. First the city POI (Point of Interesting) map is generated from trajectory data using weighted PageRank algorithm. Then, a weighted Markov model is trained for the near term d...

The price of anarchy (PoA) has been widely used in static games to quantify the loss of efficiency due to noncooperation. Here, we extend this concept to a general differential games framework. In addition, we introduce the price of information (PoI) to characterize comparative game performances under different information structures, as well as the price of cooperation to capture the extent of...

Ileus is defined as the functional inhibition of propulsive bowel activity, irrespective of pathologic mechanisms. It is commonly associated with long-term opioid use and results often in debilitating constipation. Postoperative ileus (POI) is the transient cessation of coordinated bowel motility after surgical intervention, which prevents effective transit of intestinal contents and/or toleran...