This study analyzes mobile phone data derived from 10 million daily active users across the United States to better understand the spatio-temporal activity patterns of users in Central Park, New York. The aim of this initial investigation is to create quantifiable measures for understanding public space usage in regions of the city that have no natural data source for measuring activity. We ana...

We prove that for any positive integers n and k such that n≥ k≥ 1, there exists an [n, k] generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) code that has a sparsest and balanced generator matrix (SBGM) over any finite field of size q ≥ n+ ⌈ k(k−1) n ⌉, where sparsest means that each row of the generator matrix has the least possible number of nonzeros, while balanced means that the number of nonzeros in any two c...

The study was designed to investigate the comparative analysis of agricultural credit users and non-users among cassava farmers in Ohafia Local Government Area of Abia State. A sample of 50 credit users and 50 non-credit user cassava-based farmers were selected by multistage random sampling technique. Data were collected with a well structured questionnaire administered to a total of 100 random...

conclusions this study showed that mmt did not markedly alter the concentration of serum adiponectin in drug abusers. however, in regard to the variations in the serum lipid profiles and anthropometric parameters, the findings indicated that low concentrations of serum adiponectin might play a role in the pathogenesis of obesity and other metabolic abnormalities. thus, more long-term studies wi...

background: anthropometry is a branch of ergonomics that considers the measurement and description of the human body dimensions. accordingly, equipment, environments, and workstations should be designed using user-centered design processes. anthropometric dimensions differ considerably across gender, race, ethnicity and age, taking into account ergonomic and anthropometric principles. the aim o...

PaaS is a Cloud computing service that provides a computing platform to develop, run, and manage applications without the complexity of infrastructure maintenance. SMEs are reluctant to enter the growing PaaS market due to the possibility of being locked in to a certain platform, mostly provided by the market’s giants. The PaaSport Marketplace aims to avoid the provider lock-in problem by allow...

The ability of human listeners to detect and discriminate spectro-temporal ripples in sound has been shown to be correlated with speech intelligibility performance in several conditions. Thus, if a model would be able to account for the spectro-temporal processing limits in the auditory system, such a framework could be used to analyze the auditory processes contributing to and limiting speech ...

In this report, we develop a front-end nonlinear auditory model based on recent work of Dau, Puschel, and Kohlrausch (DPK) [Dau, Puschel, and Kohlrausch, 1997]. An important aspect of the model is the robust accentuation of temporal change in a signal at the cochlea level that forms the basis of a feature set for automatic speaker recognition. Preliminary speaker recognition experiments with th...

conclusions there is a need to train health staff, and the community, concerning preventive measures, treatment, and reducing harm for substance drug users. results among 402 idus patients, a large amount of them were male, single, and younger than 39 years. regarding psychotic and somatic symptoms caused by methadone therapy, most of the participants had no problem with methadone maintenance t...

pupose: this research aims to investigate how users expand their queries when encountered with irrelevant retrievals and through examine the degree of match between users' expanded subject queries and the list of persian subject headings. furthermore, it compares the patterns of query expansion in two subject areas: 1) agriculture (applied sciences); 2) education and psychology (humanities). me...