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In recent times, to improve the interpretability and accuracy of computing with words processes, a rich linguistic representation model has been developed and referred to as Extended Comparative Linguistic Expressions with Symbolic Translation (ELICIT). This model extends the definition of the comparative...

Efficient CBIR systems are based on three things, (1) how they represent the repository images in the form of signature; (2) how they measure the similarity of the database images with query image, (3) how they retrieve the semantically similar images in response of a query image. The paper is focusing...

Background: Arterial stiffness as measured by carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (PWV) has been shown to predict cardiovascular events [1]. However, PWV is blood pressure (BP) dependent [2,3] leading to the development of cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI) as a more blood pressure-independent index...

Background: The pathophysiological mechanism underlying beta-cell dysfunction in type 2 diabetes (T2D) is not fully understood. Recent animal studies suggest that microvascular dysfunction (MVD) may lead to insufficient delivery of oxygen and nutrients to beta-cells as well as an attenuated delivery...

With the intensification of the aging, the health issue of the elderly is arousing public concern increasingly. Various healthcare products for the elderly are emerging from the market, thus how to select suitable aged healthcare product is critical to the well-being of the elderly. In the literature,...

Driver expectation is about driver's objective response and expectation for various traffic environments. It might directly influence the driving safety and traffic operation. This paper discusses in enough detail the shaping mechanism of driver expectation while considers road geometer parameters, driver...

Introduction: Both Type II Diabetes mellitus (DM) and hypertension have been associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular disease and linked to impairments in micro- and macrocirculation. However, previous studies examining micro- and macrocirculation in DM mainly include patients with comorbid...

Background: Chemerin represents a recently discovered chemokine influencing adipocyte function, lipolysis, apparently positively associated with insulin resistance. Purpose: To evaluate the relationship between chemerin-insulin resistance scores in obese/diabetic patients. Methods: 88 patients (66...

Cuckoo search (CS) is a novel biologically inspired algorithm and has been widely applied to many fields. Although some binary-coded CS variants are developed to solve 0–1 knapsack problems, the search accuracy and the convergence speed are still needed to further improve. According to the analysis of...

Purpose/Background/Objectives: Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) is a disease characterized by macro and microvascular complications, particularly, coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular disease and nephropathy [1–4]. The green tea extract has shown an anti-inflammatory effect (2), so this nutraceutical...

Energy security (ES) has great impact on power grids. Therefore it is important to have power security service (PSS). The PSS should be designed to handle interference and interruption attack in the grid. The interference and interruption attack in the grid is handled by incursion-detection system (IDS)....

Lot streaming is a technique used to split the processing of lots into several sublots (transfer batches) to allow the overlapping of operations in a multistage manufacturing systems thereby shortening the production time (makespan). The objective of this paper is to minimize the makespan and total flow...

Extracellular and biochemical changes in the vessel contribute to the stiffening, this process is determinant for the increase of the Pulse Wave Velocity (PWV) and subsequent increase of the central and brachial arterial pressures [1,2]. These vascular alterations are denominated of TOD (target organ...

Purpose/Background/Objectives: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a serious postoperative complication. Increased arterial stiffness has been shown to be an independent risk factor for cardiovascular events. Our aim was to investigate whether arterial stiffness is a predictor of AKI in patients following surgical...

Software products quality assessment is a highly complex process, given the variety of criteria to consider. For a better understanding, they are organized in so-called software quality models. An important aspect of these models is their structural complexity, forming a hierarchical structure. At present,...

Complex and multidimensional network traffic features have potential redundancy. When traditional detection methods are used for training samples, the detection accuracy of the supervised classification model is affected due to small data samples. Therefore, a method based on generative adversarial networks...

Introduction: Individuals with Down syndrome (DS) have autonomic dysfunction, which impacts heart rate and blood pressure regulation. Initial evidence also suggests an impaired ability to peripherally vasoconstrict during lower body negative pressure (LBNP). Given the relationship between vessel caliber...

Background: Augmentation index (AIx) serves as an independent predictor of cardiovascular events and mortality. It is often clinically used as a measure of arterial stiffness and reflections, a practice that was recently challenged. In this work, we sought to investigate the association between AIx and...

In this paper, a multi-period multi-echelon reverse logistics network design problem under high extent of uncertainty is addressed. We first formulate and then solve the multi-period network design model using the cloud-based design optimization framework which ensures to: (1) handle high number of uncertain...

Nonlinear stability analysis of phase plane is one of the most classic and effective methods. Based on established two degrees of freedom (2 DOF) vehicle model, combined with magic formula tire mode, phase plane analysis is used to study vehicle motion characteristics in various initial conditions. In...

Traditionally, contrast set mining aims at finding a set of rules that best distinguish the instances of different user-defined groups. Contrast sets are conjunctions of attribute-value pairs that are significantly more frequent in one group than in other groups. Typically, these contrast sets are extracted...

Background: Hypogonadism associates with increased cardiovascular morbidity/mortality in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM)[1]. Increasing CAG repeat number within exon 1 of the androgen receptor gene associates with increased androgen receptor resistance/insulin resistance [2]. We here investigated the...

Objective: Our aim was to investigate possible associations between birth weight (BW) and adult carotid-femoral Pulse Wave Velocity (cfPWV) and augmentation pressure index (AIx). Design: This study including 1598 participants, 340 elderly subjects and 1258 young-middle aged subjects from the Malmö Offspring...

Introduction: The concept of re-reflections of blood pressure waves at the heart has been neglected in most models and is only poorly understood so far. Therefore, the aim of this work was to develop a simple mathematical model which is capable to represent the effects of wave travel, wave reflection...

Introduction: Pressure waveshape derived parameters such as the augmentation index are related to unfavourable cardiovascular events [1]. Wave reflections determine wave shape [2], however, several findings seem to contradict the current views. Current view. The arterial system can be modelled by a tube...

In this paper a new area based technique is proposed for deriving gait signatures by decomposing the human body into three independent structural segments such as head node, arm swing and leg swing areas. Initially, all the feature points are represented as the sides of an n-sided polygon for calculating...

Background: Arterial stiffness is a significant cardiovascular risk factor. Carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV) is the standard for measuring arterial stiffness, but indices such as central augmentation index (cAIx) and carotid artery elasticity (cE[p]) also correlate to arterial stiffness. Early-life...

Fuzzy systems have become widely accepted and applied in a host of domains such as control, electronics or mechanics. The software for construction of these systems has traditionally been exploited from tools, platforms and languages run on-premise computing infrastructure. On the other hand, rise and...

Active storage can largely reduce the network traffic and application execution time. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of an active storage architecture called Oasa for object-based storage system. Compared with previous work, Oasa has the following features.(1) It provides a flexible...

Background: Cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI) has long been considered a measure of arterial stiffness independent of short-term changes in blood pressure (BP) [1]. Recently and theoretically, CAVI was found to be partially affected by actual BP, thus, a novel BP-corrected index, CAVI0, was proposed...

Concurrent programs are being widely adopted in development of multi-core and many-core processors. However, these types of programs present some features such as concurrency, communication and synchronization which make their testing more challenging than sequential programs. Search-based techniques,...

Introduction: The ventricles accelerate and decelerate blood; the resulting disturbances propagate through the arterial system as waves. These waves contain clinically useful information: e.g. their magnitude and timing varies with cardiac performance and their speed depends on arterial stiffness. These...

Background: Haemodynamic effects of Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy (CRT) may be mediated by an improvement in early systolic function, as well as by improvements in overall systolic function. We examined whether CRT improves early ventricular contraction as measured by first-phase ejection fraction...

Purpose: To provide a comprehensive assessment of aortic stiffness, through both local and regional distensibility and pulse wave velocity (PWV), in patients with either a tricuspid (TAV) or bicuspid (BAV) aortic valve and/or aortic dilation using MRI. Methods: We included 18 patients with TAV and dilated...

Background: Central aortic pressure waveforms can be modelled non-invasively in adults using general transfer functions. These techniques have been applied to, but not formally validated in paediatric populations. We recently developed and validated two age-appropriate paediatric transfer functions and...

In this paper, stabilizing control of tracked unmanned ground vehicle in 3-D space was presented. Firstly, models of major modules of tracked UGV were established. Next, to reveal the mechanism of disturbances applied on the UGV, two kinds of representative disturbances (slope and general disturbances...

Background: External compression using pneumatic cuff inflation is a well-established model used to induce incremental changes in proximal retrograde flow and shear [1]. The mechanisms behind distal cuff compression leading to proximal increase in retrograde shear are not clear. We hypothesized that...

Background and Objective: Infrared Thermal Imaging (ITI) is a noninvasive method to measure skin temperature (ST). The latter is determined by the microcirculatory blood flow and ambient temperature. Photobiostimulation has been shown to increase blood flow. The objective was to characterize the spatial...

In this paper, a Markov decision process (MDP) model was established to study emergency medical material scheduling strategies for public health emergencies such as COVID-19. Within the constraints of dispatchable supplies, the priority of each medical node complicates the problem of deciding which hospital...

This paper is concerned with the solution procedure of a Transportation Problem in which costs are triangular intuitionistic fuzzy numbers (TIFN) and availabilities and demands are taken as exact numerical values. According to the existing solution approach, TIFN are first ordered by using an accuracy...

This paper describes a method for transcribing the main structure of polyphonic music audio automatically by analyzing musical tonality related musicological information. Music transcription is a difficult topic in Music Information Retrieval (MIR) which contains many tasks to recognize all the elements...

Background: Several so-called loop-based methods, have been proposed to estimate local pulse wave velocity (PWV). However, previous studies have demonstrated inaccuracies in local PWV-estimates due to presence of reflections, which led to the proposition of a frequency-domain correction method [1]. The...

Nowadays, security of the computer systems has become a major concern of security experts. In spite of many antivirus and malware detection systems, the number of malware incidents are increasing day by day. Many static and dynamic techniques have been proposed to detect the malware and classify them...

Face detection has been well studied for many years. However, the problem of face detection in complex environments is still being studied. In complex environments, faces is often blocked and blurred. This article proposes applying YOLOv3 to face detection problems in complex environments. First, we...

Aortic tapering is a known characteristic of the arterial tree affecting the development of pressure in the aorta. With tapering, the cross-sectional area of vessels decreases moving towards the periphery causing reflections to travel back to the heart. The reflection waves present in the aorta are an...

Problem domain information extraction is a critical issue in many real-world optimization problems. Increasing the repertoire of techniques available in evolutionary algorithms with this purpose is fundamental for extending the applicability of these algorithms. In this paper we introduce a unifying...

Purpose: Referral to surgery in thoracic aortic aneurysms (TAA) is based on maximal diameter (Dmax) measured from imaging, which is known to have a high diagnosis failure rate. In addition to geometry, 4D flow MRI provides a comprehensive time-resolved flow imaging. Thus, our aim was to evaluate the...

Background: Calibration of carotid artery tonometry waveforms needs to account for pulse pressure augmentation [1]. Due to its location nearer to the heart, carotid pulse pressure (carPP) is about 10 mmHg lower than brachial (brachPP) [1]. In practice, perfect applanation is hard to achieve with tonometry...

Introduction: Development of carotid and femoral atherosclerotic plaques proved to be heritable in previous studies. However, no comprehensive ultrasonographic evaluation of the volume and types of plaque has been performed. Methods: Comprehensive carotid and femoral arterial ultrasound examination...

Solar energy is an important and reliable source of energy. Better understanding the concepts and relationships of the factors that affect solar energy generation capacity can enhance the usage of solar energy. This understanding can lead investors and governors in their solar power investments. However,...