progressive collapse is a chain reaction of failures propagating throughout a portion of the structure disproportionate to the original local failure occurring when a sudden loss of a critical load‐bearing element initiates a structural element failure, eventually resulting in partial or full collapse of the structure. both general services administration (gsa) and united states department of d...

Heart rate variability (HRV) provides a noninvasive method to monitor functioning of the autonomous nervous system. HRV has been proposed as a potential tool for objective assessment of the level of sedation in critical care. In this paper we studied whether different linear and non-linear analysis methods may discriminate different levels of sedation in cardiac surgery patients. In addition we...

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the leading cancers in the world and early-screening is still the best method of cancer patient survival. However, colonoscopy as the current gold standard is not without flaws and an emerging technique called surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) coupled with machine learning is a possible candidate that could be applied in parallel with colonoscopy. This...

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the leading cancers in the world and early-screening is still the best method of cancer patient survival. However, colonoscopy as the current gold standard is not without flaws and an emerging technique called surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) coupled with machine learning is a possible candidate that could be applied in parallel with colonoscopy. This...

A method for the linear discrimination of non parametric binary classification is presented. It searches for the discriminate direction which maximizes the generalized Patrick-Fischer distance between the projected classconditional densities. The theoretical background is introduced with a new estimator using orthogonal function according to the Patrick-Fischer distance that gives the best scal...