With widespread use of microarray technology as a potential diagnostics tool, the comparison of results obtained from the use of different platforms is of interest. When inference methods are designed using data collected using a particular platform, they are unlikely to work directly on measurements taken from a different type of array. We report on this cross-platform transfer problem, and sh...

Mass customization is becoming an important agenda in industry and academia alike. This paper deals with mass customization from a product development perspective. A framework of design for mass customization (DFMC) by developing product family architecture (PFA) is presented. To deal with tradeoffs between diversity of customer requirements and reusability of design and process capabilities, D...

Cloud computing has seen an impressive growth in recent years, with virtualization technologies being massively adopted to create IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) public and private solutions. Today, the interest is shifting towards the PaaS (Platform as a Service) model, which allows developers to abstract from the execution platform and focus only on the functionality. There are several pub...

Crowdfunding has received a great deal of attention of late, as a promising avenue to fostering entrepreneurship and innovation. A notable aspect of shifting these financial activities to an online setting is that this brings increased visibility and traceability to a potentially sensitive activity. Most crowdfunding platforms maintain a public record of transactions, though a good number also ...

PURPOSE This study aimed to evaluate stress distribution on peri-implant bone simulating the influence of platform switching in external and internal hexagon implants using three-dimensional finite element analysis. MATERIALS AND METHODS Four mathematical models of a central incisor supported by an implant were created: External Regular model (ER) with 5.0 mm × 11.5 mm external hexagon implan...

Full utilization of multispectral data acquired by whiskbroom and pushbroom imagers requires that the individual channels be registered accurately. Poor registration introduces errors which can be signiicant, especially in high contrast areas such as boundaries between regions. We simulate the acquisition of multispectral imagery in order to estimate the errors that are introduced by co-registr...

Drivable free space information is vital for autonomous vehicles that have to plan evasive maneuvers in realtime. In this paper, we present a new efficient method for environmental free space detection with laser scanner based on 2D occupancy grid maps (OGM) to be used for Advanced Driving Assistance Systems (ADAS) and Collision Avoidance Systems (CAS). Firstly, we introduce an enhanced inverse...

With the shifting focus of organizations and governments towards digitization of academic and technical documents, there has been an increasing need to use this reserve of scholarly documents for developing applications that can facilitate and aid in better management of research. In addition to this, the evolving nature of research problems has made them essentially interdisciplinary. As a res...