DESYNC-TDMA is a representative bio-inspired MAC protocol which assigns slots of each node evenly in decentralized manner. However, it could suffer from bottleneck node on the delivery path because the slot is evenly assigned according to the number of neighbors in two hop range. In such a case the routing path having smaller slot length could be chosen due to its shorter hop count. This proble...

Echocardiographic images are inherent with speckle noise which makes visual reading and analysis quite difficult. The multiplicative speckle noise masks finer details, necessary for diagnosis of abnormalities. A novel speckle reduction technique based on integration of geometric, wiener, and fuzzy filters is proposed and analyzed in this paper. The denoising applications of fuzzy filters are st...

in this paper, we study a class of finsler metrics which contains the class of p-reducible andgeneral relatively isotropic landsberg metrics, as special cases. we prove that on a compact finsler manifold,this class of metrics is nothing other than randers metrics. finally, we study this class of finsler metrics withscalar flag curvature and find a condition under which these metrics reduce to r...

AMR Research has published a list of the Top 25 Supply Chains for the past few years. These companies and the AMR criteria provide excellent examples for exploring supply chain performance metrics. The NIST publications on the Baldrige Award winners and more recent publications on the success of Six Sigma programs are benchmark examples for organizational excellence performance metrics. Perform...

the aim of the study was to investigate the improving effect of garcinia cambogia extract on performance metrics, and serum non-esterified fatty acids (nefa) and c-reactive protein (crp) levels in rats fed with atherogenic diet. thirty, one-year-old, female sprague-dawley rats were randomly assigned to threeexperimental groups of ten animals each. control group was fed with basal diet (2% liqui...

the purpose of this paper is to improve supply chain relationships in iranian small and medium-sized enterprises (smes) in automotive parts industry. for this reason, an importance-performance analysis (ipa) has been employed to categorized supply chain relationships metrics. also, the questionnaire method is used for gathering information. the paper identified thirteen supply chain relationshi...