Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF) (Julier & Uhlmann, 1997) was developed as an improvement of Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) (Grewal & Andrews, 2001) for discrete-time filtering of the nonlinear dynamic systems. Comparison between different statistical approaches on the state and parameter estimation of the dynamic systems revealed that the performance of UKF is superior to EKF in many Kalman Filter ...

Ancient and modern Muslims unanimously agree that Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, was the most eloquent of Arabs. The clearest in articulation, virtuous speech, rhetorical dialect, upright debate to extent he knew all Arabs' dialects as spoke each tribe by its dialects. But question is, from where did acquire this eloquence? And his unique eloquence before or after Qur'an revelation? Schol...

This paper aims to assess systematic reviews on the cariespreventive effect of topical fluorides, identifying key content and reporting quality issues to be considered by researchers planning a review in this area. Published systematic reviews and meta-analyses of any topical fluoride intervention for caries control were included. Relevant databases were searched (December 2009), along with ref...

This paper aims to assess systematic reviews on the cariespreventive effect of topical fluorides, identifying key content and reporting quality issues to be considered by researchers planning a review in this area. Published systematic reviews and meta-analyses of any topical fluoride intervention for caries control were included. Relevant databases were searched (December 2009), along with ref...

In global open market, the trends forcing the companies and countries to change their production strategies are evident. The receiving developing countries have their challenges in adapting to a new situation. In addition, the companies and countries in industrialized countries are trying to find feasible strategies to adapt to the new trends. Value of products, rarity of production factors, in...

Some significant changes have taken place in the global economy in recent decades impacting dramatically on the organization of work. The so-called ‘‘productive restructuring’’ has come with a growth of precarious work, work intensification, reduction in employment rates, flexibility of working times and off-hours not necessarily favorable to the wellbeing of workers. The global economic adjust...

A Deficit in Parvalbumin-Expressing Interneurons in the Hippocampus Leads to Physiological and Behavioral Phenotypes Relevant to Schizophrenia in a Genetic Mouse Model Ahmed Ijaz Gilani Deficits in hippocampal interneurons, that secrete gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABAergic), are implicated in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. Postmortem histological analyses show alterations in the number and...

Interventions for preventing obesity in children.1 Tamara Brown, Theresa Hm Moore, Lee Hooper, Yang Gao, Amir Zayegh, Sharea Ijaz, Martha Elwenspoek, Sophie C Foxen, Lucia Magee, Claire O'Malley, Elizabeth Waters, Carolyn D Summerbell https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD001871.pub4 Are dietary and/or physical activity interventions effective childhood obesity? Only randomised control trials (RCT...

Terrorism in Pakistan: Post 9/11 Study of Roots and Causes Muhammad Ijaz Latif and Rehman Afzal Khan Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan. e-mail: [email protected] and lecturer, Government Degree College for Special Education Bahawalpur, Pakistan respectively. Abstract: One of the most shocking and tragic implication of ...

The resource-based view (RBV) has been welcomed by researchers as a sound basis upon which to develop theory in the field of HRM. However, we argue that the RBV is overly rationalistic, unitarist and internally focused compared with what we know about organizations from sociological and institutionalist perspectives. The more recent complex adaptive systems perspective constitutes a more promis...