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Garlic (Allium sativum L.) has been not only consumed as flavor vegetable, but also recorded as a prophylactic and therapeutic medicinal plant since ancient time. Its characteristic pungent flavor limited its application in food product development. Black garlic made from garlic by a thermal processing...

Central Systolic Blood Pressure (cSBP) and Central Augmentation Index (cAIx) have been independently associated with cardiovascular risk in adults, and can be estimated using a generalized peripheral-to-central transfer function. We hypothesize that transfer function accuracy and precision will be influenced...

The presence of the multicollinearity problem in the predictor data causes the variance of the ordinary linear regression coefficients to be increased so that the prediction power of the model not to be satisfied and sometimes unacceptable results be predicted. The ridge regression has been proposed...

This paper studies the canonical symmetric connection ∇ associated to any Lie group G. The salient properties of ∇ are stated and proved. The Lie symmetries of the geodesic system of a general linear connection are formulated. The results are then applied to ∇ in the special case where the Lie algebra...

This paper proposes a novel transistor-like device by the optical coupling of LED (Light Emitting Diode) and Photodiode. The device that we call “OCT: Optical Coupling Transistor” shows an amplification function if the Photodiode current by photo electromotive force is feed backed into the LED, in the...

Railway container terminals, where gantry cranes are responsible for loading and unloading containers between freight trains and yards, are important hubs of hinterland logistics transportation. Terminal managers confront the challenge in improving the efficiency of their service. As the most expensive...

We study a potential introduced by Darboux to describe conjugate nets, which within the modern theory of integrable systems can be interpreted as a τ-function. We investigate the potential using the nonlocal ∂-dressing method of Manakov and Zakharov and we show that it can be interpreted as...

A counter-intuitive result of Gauss (formulae (1.6), (1.7) below) is made less mysterious by virtue of being generalized through the introduction of an additional parameter.

This paper presents a system to recognize Macao license plates. Sobel edge detector is employed to extract the vertical edges, and an edge composition algorithm is proposed to combine the edges into candidate plate regions. They are further examined on the existence of the character "M" by a verification...

In this paper, a general method for constructing time-varying Lyapunov functions is provided for mechanical systems. A new class of time-varying Lyapunov functions is provided and sufficient conditions of uniform asymptotical stability are established. Different from the existing results on this subject,...

Background: Delays in accessing effective health care plays a pivotal role in increasing Tuberculosis (TB) transmission within the community. Patna, North India, with high levels of poverty and weak public health system, faces huge challenges for achieving effective TB control. The study aims to determine...

Lotoka–Volterra, LV equations are to model predator–prey problem. In principle, the LV equations are belongs to a two-person system. Even if there are many-body, it is structurally in two-body, i.e., with three or more predators and a prey. On the other hand, chemical ecology has shown that plants damaged...

It has very important practical significance to analyze and research minority costume from the perspective of computer vision for minority culture protection and inheritance. As first exploration in minority costume image retrieval, this paper proposed a novel image feature representation method to describe...

Recent developments in radiation therapy have been focused on applications of charged particles, especially protons. Proton therapy can allow higher dose conformality compared to conventional radiation therapy. Over the years several dose calculation methods have been proposed in proton therapy. A common...

In this paper, we propose a narrative generation system based on the scenario generation method in tabletop role-playing games (TRPGs). This system uses an integrated narrative generation system (INGS) that synthesizes various narrative generation mechanisms. The TRPG is an analog game in which one or...

We propose a method to estimate and visualize effects of a binary covariate on the longitudinally observed text data. Our method consists of series of analytical methods: extracting keywords through a morphological analysis, estimating the time-varying regression coefficient of a binary covariate for...

A piston finger technique (PFT) was developed for restoring the motor function of chronic plegic fingers, with good treatment outcomes, including reduced spasticity and improved muscle shortening. Before developing a piston finger device (PFD) simulating the PFT, we analyzed the PFT by using a motion...

We investigate weakly coupled semilinear parabolic systems in unbounded domains in R2 or R3 with polynomial nonlinearities. Three sufficient conditions are presented to ensure the stability of the zero solution with respect to non-negative H2 -perturbations.

It is shown that in the case of multicomponent integrable systems connected with algebras An, the discrete transformation T possesses the fine structure and can be represented in the form T = Tli i , where Ti are n commuting basis discrete transfomations and li are arbitrary natural numbers. All the...

We consider an important class of deformations of the genus zero bihamiltonian struture defined on the loop space of semisimple Frobenius manifolds, and present results on such deformations at the genus one and genus two approximations.

This paper focuses on robotic motion planning for performing the palletizing or de-palletizing tasks. In such tasks, a robot usually iterates similar pick-and-place for several times. Considering such feature of the tasks, we propose two motion planning approaches named reusable Probabilistic Roadmap...

In this paper, we introduce a network with sub-networks: a neural network whose layers can be detached into sub-neural networks during the inference phase. To develop trainable parameters that can be inserted into both base-model and sub-models, first, the parameters of sub-models are duplicated in the...

In this paper, we mainly investigate an equivalent form of the constrained modified KP hierarchy: the bilinear identities. By introducing two auxiliary functions ρ and σ, the corresponding identities are written into the Hirota forms. Also, we give the explicit solution forms of ρ and σ.

Content-based video retrieval systems have shown great potential in supporting decision making in clinical activities, teaching, and biological research. In content-based video retrieval, feature combination plays a key role. As a result content-based retrieval of all different type video data turns...

Accelerated life testing is very important in life testing experiments because it saves time and cost. In this paper, assuming that the lifetime of items under use condition follows the modified Weilbull distribution, partially accelerated life tests based on progressive Type-II censored samples are...

The Continuum of Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Healthcare (RMNCH) model is suggested to be an effective tool to improve maternal and child health. This short dispatch proposes that if India pursues the continuum of care model, a well-designed follow-up strategy to track prospective mothers...

Approximately 90% of adults start smoking during adolescence, with limited studies conducted in low-and-middle-income countries where over 80% of global tobacco users reside. The study aims to estimate prevalence and identify predictors associated with adolescents’ tobacco use in Madagascar. We utilized...

Hybrid Ermakov-Painlevé II-IV systems are introduced here in a unified manner. Their admitted Ermakov invariants together with associated canonical Painlevé equations are used to establish integrability properties.

In order to reduce data maintenance overhead, more and more enterprises outsource their data to the cloud storage, which provides flexible and on-demand storage service for companies. Data outsourcing also brings a lot of security problems, of which query integrity is a critical issue to be resolved....

The use of prostheses is necessary to restore lost limbs to a level of functionality to enable activity of daily living. Many prostheses are now using myoelectric based control techniques to operate. However, to develop a model based controller for the system remains a challenge as accurate model is...

One of the important functions of sensor networks is that they collect data from the physical environment and transmit them to a center for processing. The location from which the collected data is obtained is crucial in many applications, such as search and rescue, disaster relief, and target tracking....

A new test statistic is proposed to test the equality of two normal means when the data is partially paired and partially unpaired. The test statistic is based on a linear combination of the differences of both paired and unpaired sample means. Using t-distribution as the approximate null distribution,...

In order to enable the implementation of the computer vision-based perception techniques in the physical-based simulation environment, visual sensors need to be simulated physically. Among others, fish-eye cameras are commonly used visual sensors to provide an omni-directional field of view. The existing...

Objective: Little information is available about the etiology, pathophysiology, risk factors, and epidemiologic features of Bone Tuberculosis (Bone-TB). In this work, we present the epidemiological data about the Bone-TB in the Sultanate of Oman. Methods: Retrospectively, we identified and assessed...

In this paper probability density function of single concomitant and joint probability density function of two concomitants of dual generalized order statistics from bivariate Burr III distribution are obtained and expressions for single and product moments are derived. Further, results are deduced for...

The notions of doubt Atanassov's intuitionistic fuzzy sub-implicative ideals and doubt Atanassov's intuitionistic fuzzy -ideals of -algebras are introduced. We show that an Atanassov's intuitionistic fuzzy subset of -algebras is an Atanassov's intuitionistic fuzzy sub-implicative ideal if and only if...

The most important aspect in IoT is security. The provision of security in IoT systems is the responsibility of a trust management mechanism. However a trust management mechanism comprises a number of components, of which secure routing is vital among them. There are a number of effective parameters...

We consider a long­range homogeneous chain where the local variables are the geerators of the direct sum of N e(3) interacting Lagrange tops. We call this classical integrable model rational "Lagrange chain" showing how one can obtain it starting from su(2) rational Gaudin models. Moreover we construct...

We present a scenario concerning the existence of a large class of reflectionless seladjoint analytic difference operators. In order to exemplify this scenario, we summarize our results on reflectionless self-adjoint difference operators of relativistic CalogerMoser type.

In recent years, because of the popularity of Internet and the rapid growth of multimedia applications, the requirements of bandwidth from users increase violently in optical networks. Various multicast multimedia services also bring challenges to next generation optical networks. As the rapid advance...

This article deals with using E-Bayesian method under progressively type-II censored sample from the Rayleigh distribution (RD) for computing the estimates of the parameter. The Bayesian and E-Bayesian estimators are obtained under squared error and LINEX loss functions. A comparison between E-Bayesian...

Recent years, data mining techniques have been developed for extracting rules from big data. However, there are some problems to be considered, for example, it is difficult to judge which rules are important and which are not important; and even in simple classification problems with the small number...

A Brushless DC (BLDC) motors synchronous control system based on the CANopen (a communication protocol and device profile specification for automatic embedded systems) protocol is proposed in this paper. Multi-motor control is popular in robot or automation system, and the synchronization is an important...

This paper is concerned with using the E-Bayesian method for computing estimates for the parameter and reliability function of the Exponential distribution based on a set of upper record statistics values. The estimates are derived based on a conjugate prior for the scale parameter and squared error...

This research aims to evaluate the use of the noninvasive respiratory volume monitor (RVM) compared to the standard of care (SOC) in the Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) of Kijabe Hospital, Kenya. The RVM provides real-time measurements for quantitative monitoring of non-intubated patients. Our evaluation...

Background: Carotid-femoral Pulse Wave Velocity (cfPWV) is the gold-standard measure of arterial stiffness. Accuracy of non-invasive cfPWV as meters per second is impeded by surface estimates of aortic length. Our aim was to compare cfPWV measured using distance estimated from surface measurements with...

In this article, we focus on left-invariant pseudo-Einstein metrics on Lie groups. To begin with, we give some examples of pseudo-Einstein metrics on Lie groups. Also we calculate the Levi-civita connection, and then Ricci tensor associated with left-invariant pseudo-Riemannian metrics on the unimodular...

Robots, such as industrial robots, have been used in the world of industry since the 1970s. There has been particularly rapid development in the field of robots in recent years, and there has been progress in robot research in industries such as communications and automobiles. For this reason, in the...