Vehicular networking has become a significant research area due to its specific features and applications such as standardization, efficient traffic management, road safety and infotainment. Vehicles are expected to carry relatively more communication systems, on board computing facilities, storage and increased sensing power. Hence, several technologies have been deployed to maintain and promo...

PURPOSE To determine the relationship between the structural parameters of the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) obtained by using the scanning laser polarimetry with variable corneal compensation (GDx VCC) and the results of standard automated perimetry (SAP), in normal, ocular hypertensive, preperimetric glaucomas and glaucoma subjects. METHODS A total of 423 eyes of 423 consecutive subjects...

PURPOSE To develop an ESPIRiT-based method to estimate coil sensitivities with image phase as a building block for efficient and robust image reconstruction with phase constraints. THEORY AND METHODS ESPIRiT is a new framework for calibration of the coil sensitivities and reconstruction in parallel magnetic resonance imaging. Applying ESPIRiT to a combined set of physical and virtual conjugat...

Purpose This is a general review study aiming to specify the key customer-based factors and technologies that influence value co-creation (VCC) process through artificial intelligence (AI) automation in hospitality tourism industry. Design/methodology/approach The uses theory-based literature approach explore influencing VCC By reviewing relevant literature, authors conclude theoretical framewo...

The complexity class CC is defined as the set of problems AC0 reducible to the comparator circuit value problem. Subramanian proved that several other problems are complete for CC, including the stable marriage problem, and finding the lexicographical first maximal matching in a bipartite graph. We introduce a two-sorted theory VCC for CC. We simplify Subramanian’s completeness proofs for the a...

Let G be a simple graph on vert ices having a maximum matching M. The deficiency def(G) of G is the number of M-unsaturated vertices in G. The vertex clique covering number vcc(G) of G is the smallest number of cliques (complete subgraphs) needed to cover the vertex set of G. In this determine def(G) and vcc(G) for the case when G is a tree with each vertex having degree 1 or k.

The Virtual Camera Composition (VCC) problem consists in automatically positioning a camera in a virtual world, such that the resulting image satisfies a set of visual cinematographic properties [3]. In this paper, we propose an approach to VCC based on Particle Swarm Optimization [5]. We show, in realistic situations, that our approach outperforms a discretized, exhaustive search method simila...

purpose: to examine the relationship between retinal nerve fiber layer (rnfl) measurements obtained using scanning laser polarimetry with variable corneal compensation (vcc) and central corneal thickness (cct) measurements using pentacam in myopic patients methods: the study included 45 eyes from 45 myopic patients with intraocular pressure (iop) measurements≤21 mmhg. all participants had norma...

purpose: to quantify the intraobserver reproducibility of retinal nerve fiber layer (rnfl) measurements using scanning laser polarimetry with variable corneal compensation in glaucoma suspect patients. methods: twenty-six eyes of 26 glaucoma suspect patients were included. complete ophthalmologic examination and standard automated perimetry were performed for all of them. rnfl measurements were...

In this study, vanadium conversion coating(VCC) was deposited on the surface of soft-cast steel (St-37).  A thermoset coating was enforced on the VCC and blank substrates. The surface was characterized by field emission scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM), elemental mapping of energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) and atomic force microscopy (AFM). The adhesion strength...