background : joint proprioception plays an important role in limb movement and awareness of position sense. diabetes has a lot of complications such as lossof sensoryfunction, which canleadtoimpaired balance, thus the aim of this study to evaluated joint proprioception and balance in diabetic patients. methods: twenty type ii diabetic patients and20healthy controls participated in this case-con...

The minimization of roundoff noise subject to l2-norm dynamic-range scaling constraints in two-dimensional (2-D) state-space digital filters is considered by using joint error feedback and coordinate transformation optimization. An iterative approach for minimizing the roundoff noise under l2-norm dynamic-range scaling constraints is developed by jointly optimizing a scalar error-feedback matri...

We report a joint experimental and theoretical investigation of cyclic training of amorphous frictional granular assemblies, with special attention to memory formation and retention. Measures of dissipation and compactification are introduced, culminating with a proposed scaling law for the reducing dissipation and increasing memory. This scaling law is expected to be universal, insensitive to ...

Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have the potential to address scaling challenges in CMOS technology because of their regular structures and the flexibility they possess by being re-configurable after fabrication. One of the potential approaches in attacking scaling challenges, such as negative-bias temperature instability (NBTI) and process variation (PV), is by using placement technique...

We present an efficient geometric algorithm for conic spline curve fitting and fairing through conic arc scaling. Given a set of planar points, we first construct a tangent continuous conic spline by interpolating the points with a quadratic Bézier spline curve or fitting the data with a smooth arc spline. The arc spline can be represented as a piecewise quadratic rational Bézier spline curve. ...

Multi-dimensional scaling (MDS) has been used to visualize the organization of semantic memory in normal control subjects and in psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease. However, the potential for such techniques to classify subjects into diagnostic groups has not been realized. This study attempted to tackle this by developing classification statistics and by explo...