Computing was originally dominated by desktop and hence dataoriented systems. However, embedded and hence time-oriented systems, which must measure input events or generate output events of specified time durations, or must execute at regular time intervals, are increasingly commonplace. Blinking a light on and off for 1 second represents a “Hello World” example of a time-oriented system. Time-...

Computing was originally dominated by desktop and hence dataoriented systems. However, embedded and hence time-oriented systems, which must measure input events or generate output events of specified time durations, or must execute at regular time intervals, are increasingly commonplace. Blinking a light on and off for 1 second represents a “Hello World” example of a time-oriented system. Time-...

Industrial applications of photogrammetry usually involve the detection of targets placed on the surfaces of objects. Typical targets present circular shapes, which under perspective distortion can be well approximated by an elliptical contour. In this paper we present a solution for the detection of circular targets, based on a new technique for radial symmetry detection. At a given scale, rad...

In the paper, a problem of real-time input design, where spectral characteristic external excitation signal is optimized considering fixed bound on ellipsoidal constraint applied to quality measure estimated model, has been presented. We designed compensator close complementary sensitivity function such that resulting closed-loop system stable and guarantees robust performance. The contribution...

this study builds on laufer and hulstijn’s (2001) motivational-cognitive construct of task-induced involvement in learning vocabulary and addresses itself to its strong claim that the depth of processing is the overriding factor in learning words. the paper first re-examines the effect of processing load and then of task type on the initial learning and retention of words. to do so, 60 efl lear...

introduction: due to increased costs of health sector, much effort has been done to compare the performance of hospitals and measure their efficiency in recent years. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the relative efficiency of public and private hospitals in qom during 2007 using data envelopment analysis (dea) approach. methods: this was an applied and analytic study. the study popula...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa introduction: the performance evaluation of healthcare system in macro-level is important. this paper evaluates performance of health service of asian countries in 2006. methods: in the first step, the initial data for performance evaluation has been collected from the site world health organization (who) and are weighted by analytical hierarchy pro...

Estimating different characteristics viz., size, cost, etc. of software during different phases of software development is required to manage the resources effectively. Function points measure can be used as an input to estimate these characteristics of software. The Traditional Function Point Counting Procedure (TFPCP) can not be used to measure the functionality of an Object Oriented (OO) sys...

Recently there has been a growing interest in methods to assist the user in the selection of adequate algorithms for supervised classiication problems. Given the user-oriented nature of these methods , it makes sense to evaluate them on a user perspective. In this paper we sketch a simple and intuitive multicriteria measure for the evaluation of algorithms and rankings of algorithms. The input ...

We calculated the electric fields induced in the brain during transcranial current stimulation (TCS) using a finite-element concentric spheres human head model. A range of disc electrode configurations were simulated: (1) distant-bipolar; (2) adjacent-bipolar; (3) tripolar; and three ring designs, (4) belt, (5) concentric ring, and (6) double concentric ring. We compared the focality of each co...