This is a humorous look at papers for linear time-invariant systems.

The possibility of using window comparators for onchip (and potentially on-line) response evaluation of analogue circuits is investigated. No additional analogue test inputs are required and the additional circuitry can be realised either by means of standard digital gates taken from an available library or by full custom designed gates to obtain an observation window tailored to the applicatio...

BACKGROUND: The aim of our study was to analyze diagnostic results, different treatment modalities, and the outcome of patients with breast abscesses treated at our institution in a multi-modality breast team, to determine whether minimally invasive treatments are successful. METHODS: 110 patients with mastitis and suspected breast abscesses at our institution between January 2000 and end of S...

OBJECTIVE To analyze characteristics, clinical evolution and surgical techniques of oroantral communication (OAC). STUDY DESIGN We included all patients operated at the University Central Hospital (Oviedo, Spain) between 1996 and 2007. The variables assessed were age, sex, medical history, OAC size, sinus disease, surgical technique, duration of hospitalization and post-surgical evolution. ...

OBJECTIVE To validate a quality of life scale, EuroQoL, on stroke patients. METHOD 67 patients were scored simultaneously for EuroQoL-5 Dimensions (EQ-5D), NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS) and modified Barthel Index (mBI). Pearson test was used to correlate each scale. Additionally, 31 patients were examined by two independent evaluators on the same day through application of EQ-5D. Kappa statistics ...

In this work, we show how to garble arithmetic circuits with full active security in the general multiparty setting, secure full-threshold setting (that is, when only one party is assumed honest). Our solution allows interfacing Boolean garbled circuits. Previous works circuit domain focused on two-party or semi-honest and assuming an honest majority – notably, work of Ben-Efraim (Asiacrypt 201...

Polynomial chaos expansions (PCEs) have been used in many real-world engineering applications to quantify how the uncertainty of an output is propagated from inputs. PCEs for models with independent inputs extensively explored literature. Recently, different approaches proposed dependent expand use more applications. Typical include building based on Gram-Schmidt algorithm or transforming into ...

Using AgentSpeak-DL, we propose an agent model to autonomously query the web of data to gather additional knowledge related to the current set of beliefs. The knowledge acquisition mechanism uses additional assertions specified with the beliefs as inputs to construct the queries. The assertions come from a description logic approach to specify the agent belief base. Information from the queries...