One of the important clinical features to differentiate benign melanocytic nevi from malignant melanomas is the irregularity of the lesion border. A careful examination of a lesion border reveals two types of irregularity: texture irregularity and structure irregularity. Texture irregularities are the small variations along the border, while structure irregularities are the global indentations ...

Radio irregularity is a non-negligible phenomenon that has an impact on protocol performances. For instance, irregularity in radio range leads to asymmetric links that cause the loss of packets in different directions. In order to investigate its effect, the Radio Irregularity Model (RIM) is proposed that takes into account the irregularity of a radio range and estimates path losses in an aniso...

We investigate two modifications of the well-known irregularity strength of graphs, namely, a total edge irregularity strength and a total vertex irregularity strength. Recently the bounds and precise values for some families of graphs concerning these parameters have been determined. In this paper, we determine the exact value of the total edge (vertex) irregularity strength for the disjoint u...

Focusing on problems existing in track irregularity time series data quality, this paper first presents abnormal data identification, data offset correction algorithm, local outlier data identification, and noise cancellation algorithms. And then proposes track irregularity time series decomposition and reconstruction through the wavelet decomposition and reconstruction approach. Finally, the p...

The problem of attempting to construct radar signals whose ambiguity functions are sharply peaked in both time and frequency gives rise to a quantitative concept of the irregularity of a distribution of points. The problem of maximizing the irregularity of N points distributed on a bounded closed interval is here examined. A discrete mathematical tool for studying the irregularity function is d...

In this note a new measure of irregularity of a simple undirected graph G is introduced. It is named the total irregularity of a graph and is defined as irrt(G) = 1 2 ∑ u,v∈V (G) |dG(u)− dG(v)| , where dG(u) denotes the degree of a vertex u ∈ V (G). The graphs with maximal total irregularity are determined. It is also shown that among all trees of same order the star graph has the maximal total...

Irregularity of firing in spike trains has been associated with coding processes and information transfer or alternatively treated as noise. Previous studies of irregularity have mainly used the coefficient of variation (CV) of the interspike interval distribution. Proper estimation of CV requires a constant underlying firing rate, a condition that most experimental situations do not fulfill ei...

BACKGROUND Dysregulated respiratory control may play a role in the pathophysiology of panic disorder. This could be due to abnormalities in brain stem respiratory nuclei or to dysregulation at higher brain levels. Results from previous studies using the doxapram model of panic have yielded an unclear picture. A brief cognitive manipulation reduced doxapram-induced hyperventilation in patients, ...

Cutaneous melanocytic lesions, commonly known as moles, are mostly benign; however, some of them are malignant melanomas, the most fatal form of skin cancer. Because the survival rate of melanoma is inversely proportional to the thickness of the tumor, early detection is vital to the treatment process. Many dermatologists have advocated the development of computer-aided diagnosis systems for ea...