This paper applies particle swarm optimization (PSO) to find the most possible failure surface in stability analysis of homogeneous soil slopes. The stability of slopes is an important issue on geotechnical engineering. This problem includes two general concepts, factor of safety (FOS) and the critical slip surface (CSS). The resultant ratio of dividing strengthens forces by driving forces is c...

© 2013 The Authors. doi: 10.2340/00015555-1384 Journal Compilation © 2013 Acta Dermato-Venereologica. ISSN 0001-5555 Churg–Strauss syndrome (CSS) is a complex multiple organ disease (1). The American College of Rheumatology has proposed 6 criteria for CSS classification, with the fulfilment of 4 criteria making a diagnosis of CSS (2). These criteria include asthma, eosinophilia, mononeuropathy ...

Can LTEX Profiles be Rendered Adequately with Static CSS? MathJax demonstrates that heavy customization of CSS with JavaScript and webfonts provides good platform-dependent rendering. The issue with MathJax is speed, not quality. There has been and continues to be intense development with CSS. One may speculate that, as CSS continues to evolve, static CSS may entirely suffice not only for HTML ...

In this article optimal design of shear walls is performed under seismic loading. For practical aims, a database of special shear walls is created. Special shear walls are used for seismic design optimization employing the charged system search algorithm as an optimizer. Constraints consist of design and performance limitations. Nonlinear behavior of the shear wall is taken into account and per...

Multiple secondary users (SUs) perform collaborative spectrum sensing (CSS) in cognitive radio networks to improve the performance. However, this system severely degrades with data falsification (SSDF) attacks from a large number of malicious users, i.e., massive SSDF attacks. To mitigate such attacks, we propose joint and access framework. During sensing, each SU compares decisions CSS indepen...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The Cough Symptom Score (CSS) is a simple, useful tool for measuring cough severity. However, there is no standard Korean version of the CSS. We developed a Korean version of the CSS and evaluated its clinical utility and validity for assessing chronic cough severity. METHODS The CSS was adapted for Korean use following a forward-backward translation procedure. Patients with c...

Eric See-To Department of Management Science Lancaster University Management School Open source software (OSS) is now posing significant competition to proprietary or closed source software (CSS) in several software markets. In this paper, we characterize the response of a firm developing CSS to the presence of an OSS in its market. In particular, we look at the firm's choice of resource invest...

A classifier system is a machine learning system that learns a collection of rules, called classifiers. Mostly, classifiers can be regarded as simple stimulus-response rules. A first level of learning called credit assignment level, consists of reinforcement learning on these classifiers. A classifier is reinforced in dependence on the result of an interaction between the CS and its environment...

It has been suggested that septal nuclei are important in the control of behavior during various reward and non-reward situations. In the present study, neuronal activity was recorded from rat septal nuclei during discrimination of conditioned sensory stimuli (CSs) of the medial forebrain bundle associated with or without a reward (sucrose solution or intracranial self-stimulation, ICSS). Rats ...

Farzin Mokhtarian Abstrac-A complete, fast and practical isolated object recognition system has been developed which is very robust with respect to scale, position and orientation changes of the objects as well as noise and local deformations of shape (due to perspective projection, segmentation errors and nonrigid material used in some objects). The system has been tested on a wide variety of ...