BACKGROUND Digital self-monitoring, particularly of weight, is increasingly prevalent. The associated data could be reused for clinical and research purposes. OBJECTIVE The aim was to compare participants who use connected smart scale technologies with the general population and explore how use of smart scale technology affects, or is affected by, weight change. METHODS This was a retrospec...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to observe the effect of maternal deprivation on somatic growth of wistar rat pups viz. Body weight, nose-rump length, tail length and head length. MATERIALS AND METHOD 5 days old 50 rat pups were studied dividing equally into control and experimental groups. Experimental group (N=25) of rats were maternally deprived 1-4 hours twice daily till the wea...

We consider second order infinite-dimensional systems with force con­ trol and collocated position measurement interconnected with finite-dimensional controllers of the same type. We show that under assumptions that gener­ alize those in the finite-dimensional case (the theory of negative imaginary systems), asymptotic stability of the closed-loop system can be concluded, but that the closed-lo...

coarse tuning of an MVS system by analyzing it into its software and hardware components and increasing their eficiency successively. The method involves adjustments to swapping, the inputoutput load, the CPU load, main storage, and the system resources manager. Also discussed are performance measures necessary to characterize a system, tools to tune a system, and various aspects of data gather...

Background. Weight is typically measured on a single day in research studies. This practice assumes negligible day-to-day weight variability, although little evidence exists to support this assumption. We compared the precision of measuring weight on one versus two days among control participants in the Weight Loss Maintenance trial. Methods. Trained staff measured weight on two separate days a...

We present a powerful procedure for determining both the dominant dynamics of the inputoutput transfer and the corresponding most influential circuit parameters of a linear(ized) circuit. The procedure consists of several steps in which a specific (sub)problem is solved and its solution is used in the next step. We combine regression tools techniques and trade off analysis with recent technique...

The salient feature of the composition operators for Gamma programs is that for termination, the parallel composition operator demands that its operands must terminate synchronously. This paper studies the inequational partial correctness properties of the combination of sequential and parallel composition operators for Gamma programs, provable from a particular compositional semantics (Brookes...

The swing-up control of a triple pendulum on a cart is presented, where the controller is based on a two-degrees-of-freedom scheme consisting of a nonlinear feedforward controller and an optimal feedback controller. The point-to-point transition task is treated as a nonlinear two-point boundary value problem with free parameters resulting from the suitably projected inputoutput dynamics. The ma...

In this paper, we adapt the classical learning algorithm for feed-forward neural networks when monotonicity is required in the inputoutput mapping. Monotonicity can be imposed by adding of suitable penalization terms to the error function. This yields a computationally efficient algorithm with little overhead compared to back-propagation. This algorithm is used to train neural networks for dela...