Background Chronic right ventricular (RV) pressure and volume overload in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) results in leftward shift of the interventricular septum and impaired left ventricular (LV) diastolic function. However, the impact of PAH-mediated interdependency on LV fluid mechanics and fluid/structure interactions in LV diastolic dysfunction is incompletely understood. 4D flow CM...

Interdependency among system parameters may significantly affect the cross-layer design and optimization performance of wireless networks. However, it is very difficult to derive the interdependency among system parameters in a dynamic complex networking system due to the uncertainty of data observation and system modeling. In this research, we propose a new approach for dynamic interdependency...

Spectral interdependency methods are a means of statistically quantifying the interrelationship between a pair of dynamic processes as a function of frequency or time period of oscillation. The measures of spectral interdependency are derived from the time series recordings of dynamic systems either by using autoregressive modeling (parametric method) or by using direct Fourier or wavelet trans...

Introduction: The most remarkable development the disability sector went through over the last 10–15 years is the shift in paradigm. The shift from a medical model, a defect model, towards a social model of disability is made. The approach, today, is based on human rights. Full inclusion in society is the overarching objective.

This study is going to provide directions to open source practitioners to better organize their projects to achieve greater performance. In this research, we try to understand socio-technical interactions in a system development context by examining the joint effect of developer team structure and open source software architecture on OSS development performance. We hypothesize that developer te...

The problem of requirements inter-dependencies resulting in conflicts and trade-offs is long known in the requirements engineering community. In this paper we discuss how such dependencies can be deduced from the semantics of requirements and how their traceability can be maintained when concerns are formed from initially unstructured requirements, or requirements are composed for analysis purp...

RNA-protein interactions control the fate of cellular RNAs and play an important role in gene regulation. An interdependency between such interactions allows for the implementation of logic functions in gene regulation. We investigate the interplay between RNA-binding partners in the context of the statistical physics of RNA secondary structure and define a linear correlation function between t...

Interdependency among critical infrastructures contributes to vulnerabilities of those infrastructures. In this paper, the vulnerabilities of critical infrastructures are identified and analysed using social network analysis. In the analysis of network centrality, the importance of each critical infrastructure, in terms of its contribution to infrastructure interdependency, is ranked. The findi...

Purpose-The research aims at evaluating the standardization/adaptation of international marketing strategy in Iran multinational companies (MNCs) based a model in which the impact of external environmental variables on the marketing mix internal variables (i.e. Product, Promotion, Price and Place) is considered, while in the previous researches no attempt was done to examine the interdepende...

This paper discusses Japanese efforts related to critical infrastructure protection, including several case studies to clarify the risk components and countermeasures. An interdependency modeling framework that combines the inoperability input-output model (IIM) for economic interdependencies and Bayesian networks for operational dependencies is presented. Also, the paper provides new multidime...