In the past, we proposed an incremental mining algorithm for maintenance of generalized association rules as new transactions were inserted. Deletion of records in databases is, however, commonly seen in real-world applications. In this paper, we thus attempt to extend our previous approach to solve this issue. The proposed algorithm maintains generalized association rules based on the concept ...

Purpose: This paper aims to examine the suitability of a social enterprise model for community health promotion organisations working in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. It focuses on organisational culture, social resources and capacity as pre-requisites for entrepreneurial activities. Design/methodology/approach: This paper is based on ethnographic case studies in England including semi-structur...

Poly (lactic-co-glycolic) acid microspheres are amenable to a number of biomedical procedures that support delivery of cells, drugs, peptides or genes. Hydrophilisation or wetting of poly (lactic-co-glycolic) acid are an important pre-requisites for attachment of cells and can be achieved via exposure to plasma oxygen or nitrogen, surface hydrolysis with NaOH or chloric acid, immersion in ethan...

results two weeks after transplantation, the mean tpe decreased to 0.052 ± 0.002, which was significant compared to pre-hd (p < 0.001) and post-hd (p = 0.019). the mean tpec was 0.059 ± 0.002, which, just in comparison to pre-hd, was significant (p = 0.005). in addition, the mean tpe/qt decreased to 0.143 ± 0.005, which was significant compared to pre-hd (p = 0.018). the mean qtd was 0.066 ± 0....

In recent years, dynamic traffic demand requisites have driven the satellite communication service providers to implement reconfigurable demand-driven features align delivered throughput with temporal and geographical variations of demand. Also, in current interference-limited High Throughput Satellite (HTS) systems, resulting inter-beam co-channel interference can be mitigated by carefully per...

Today, Windows®-based (and UNIX®-based) PCs have ability to access to the networks at anytime and anyplace. The benefit of such an “always-connected” environment is expanded to non-PC users with new consumer products such as Airboard and CoCoon, which we call the network electronics (or NE) products in this paper. An NE product has nature both of “embedded” and “open-ended,” and partitioned int...