Several lines of evidence suggest that facial cues of adiposity may be important for human social interaction. However, tests for quantifiable cues of body mass index (BMI) in the face have examined only a small number of facial proportions and these proportions were found to have relatively low predictive power. Here we employed a data-driven approach in which statistical models were built usi...

Program conditioning consists of identifying and removing a set of statements which cannot be executed when a condition of interest holds at some point in a program. It has been applied to problems in maintenance, testing, re–use and re–engineering. Program conditioning relies upon both symbolic execution and reasoning about symbolic predicates. Automation of the process therefore requires some...

We describe ALARM-NET, a wireless sensor network for assisted-living and residential monitoring. It integrates environmental and physiological sensors in a scalable, heterogeneous architecture. A query protocol allows real-time collection and processing of sensor data by user interfaces and back-end analysis programs. One such program determines circadian activity rhythms of residents, feeding ...

Recently, the LHC@home system has been revived at CERN. It is a volunteer computing system based on BOINC which boosts the available CPU-power in institutional computer centres with the help of individuals that donate the CPU-time of their PCs. Currently two projects are hosted on the system, namely SixTrack and Test4Theory. The first is aimed at performing beam dynamics simulations, while the ...

In order to make maximum use of the EV (electric vehicle) battery, evaluating the remaining battery capacity and the power consumption is important. Evaluation method of the remaining battery capacity with accuracy has been proposed. Moreover, the evaluation method of the power consumption for traveling has been proposed. However, the power consumption for vehicle-mounted air-conditioner is 30%...

Would you like to have a 20,000 MHz machine capable of performing like a mainframe sitting on your desktop? Of course you would, but even with today’s rapid acceleration in microprocessor speeds 20,000 MHz is still a long way off. You may however, have 20,000 MHz of processing power sitting on “your” desktop if “your” is taken to mean your organization as a whole, and the organization has two h...

parallel computing is a topic of interest for a broad scientific community since it facilitates many time-consuming algorithms in different application domains.in this paper, we introduce a novel platform for parallel computing by using mpi and openmp programming languages based on set of networked pcs. umzhpc is a free linux-based parallel computing infrastructure that has been developed to cr...

This paper presents A novel method to improve the power quality for distribution system using fuzzy logic controller. a grid connected interfacing system that compensates power quality problems and reducing the harmonics in the system. The system of inverter is effectively utilized for power conditioning. And it may be used for the Active power transfer from the renewable resources and it can s...