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Human walking has always been the curious field of research for different disciple of social and information science. The study of human walk or human gait in association with different behaviors and emotions has not only fascinated social science researchers, but its uniqueness has also attracted many...

This paper presents a way for selecting noun concepts based on the analysis of appearance frequency of noun words in the data of modern Japanese novels (“Aozora Bunko”). The proposed method is incorporated into some mechanisms in our integrated narrative generation system (INGS). We also show an overview...

Analogies in the spectral study of dissipative Schrödinger operator and Boltmann transport operator are analyzed. Scattering theory technique together with functional model approach are applied to construct spectral representtions for these operators.

Möbius invariant versions of the discrete Darboux, KP, BKP and CKP equations are derived by imposing elementary geometric constraints on an (irregular) lattice in a three-dimensional Euclidean space. Each case is represented by a fundamental theorem of plane geometry. In particular, classical theorems...

Verification is critical to the design of large and complex systems. SPIN is a well-known and extensively used verification tool. In this paper, we consider two tool chains, one existing, WSAT, and one introduced here, that support using SPIN to model check systems specified as Simulink Stateflow models....

We developed a secure communication method using a discrete wavelet transform. Two users must both have a copy of the same piece of music to be able to communicate with each other. The music and the sender's message are encoded using the scaling coefficients obtained from a discrete wavelet transformation....

While many interfaces for gaze writing (text entry by eye gaze) are available today, these interfaces are just a replacement of a keyboard. For more efficient gaze writing, this paper proposes a novel gaze writing system which has two kinds of gaze writing interfaces: (1) an interface for text entry...

The foundations of statistics have evolved over many centuries, perhaps millennia, with major paradigm shifts of the form described in Kuhn (1962). We briefly consider these important transitions and how they have led to major shifts in the foundations of statistical inference. Clearly there is no conventional...

For the first time we show that the quasiclassical limit of the symmetry constraint of the Sato operator for the KP hierarchy leads to the generalized Zakharov reduction of the Sato function for the dispersionless KP (dKP) hierarchy which has been proved to be result of symmetry constraint of the dKP...

Occupational stress (OS) among teachers predispose to depression and anxiety. No study was done to assess these problems among Egyptian teachers. This study aimed to assess the prevalence of OS, depression and anxiety among Egyptian teachers. A cross sectional study was done on 568 Egyptian teachers....

Background: The relationship between Body Mass Index (BMI) and work productivity, including absenteeism and presenteeism remains unclear. The objective of this study was to examine work productivity among adults with varied BMI using population-based data. Methods: Data source was the 2009–2010 Canadian...

The early detection of Tuberculosis (TB) among TB contacts is a strategy to find TB cases in earlier stage and to stop the transmission. This study aimed to assess the implementation of early detection in TB contact investigation to improve TB case finding. This was an operational research study conducted...

In Japan, students study various ways of understanding 3D drawings in junior high school-level technical education, high school-level industrial education, and university-level engineering education. However, without an understanding of trigonometry, reading the drawings is difficult. Moreover, drawing...

The modified Kadomtsev–Petviashvili (mKP) equation is revisited from two 1 + 1-dimensional integrable equations whose compatible solutions yield a special solution of the mKP equation in view of a transformation. By employing the finite-order expansion of Lax matrix, the mKP equation is reduced to three...

Certain techniques to obtain properties of the zeros of polynomials satisfying second-order ODEs are reviewed. The application of these techniques to the classical polynomials yields formulas which were already known; new are instead the formulas for the zeros of the (recently identified, and rather...

Vascular calcification (VC) has been sporadically reported in horses, but little is known regarding cause, pathogenesis and clinical significance. We hypothesized that in horses, structural and molecular changes may occur during VC that are comparable to human and mouse models. We surveyed Thoroughbred...

The light energy absorption of whole blood in the visible and infrared range is partly caused by the oxidized and reduced haemoglobin. The measurement principle can be applied for photoplethysmography (PPG). Our PPG measures the blood flux in human vessels with means of red and infrared light absorption....

Epidemiologic studies have clearly demonstrated that cardiovascular risk is not only determined by conventional risk factors of importance in adult life, but also by early life events resulting of re-settings of key physiological functions. In our model of rats exposed in utero to maternal diabetes,...

In Type 1 and 2 diabetes tissue stiffening is evident from measurements of the gross mechanical properties of the vasculature. In general, pathological glycosylation of extracellular matrix proteins may play an important role in increasing stiffness in diabetic patients. However, the effects of diabetes...

This paper chooses 8 cities and counties of Bijie area as the research target. With the research foundation of natural disaster risk theory and drought risk formation principle, we start from dangerousness, exposure , vulnerability and the ability to prevent disaster to filter out 23 indexes range from...

In vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), due to highly mobile and frequently changing topology, available resources and transmission opportunities are restricted. To address this, we propose a burst transmission and frame aggregation (FAB) scheme to enhance transmission opportunity (TXOP) efficiency of...

This paper considers the problem of estimating a variable mean for a population of elements where data are only available as aggregate sums for groups of multiple elements. The proposed model addresses an additional complication created when the group measure includes the contribution of diverse elements...

The Monte Carlo method is used to simulate seismic sequences. For each earthquake in the sequence, the ground motion parameters of each site are calculated by the attenuation relationship, which is introduced into the vulnerability of the macroeconomic with GDP loss as an indicator. The model gives the...

Using our previous work on reflectionless analytic difference operators and a nonlocal Toda equation, we introduce analytic versions of the Volterra and Kac-van Moerbeke lattice equations. The real-valued N-soliton solutions to our nonlocal equations corrspond to self-adjoint reflectionless analytic...

The boundary value problems for the two-dimensional, steady, irrotational flow of a frictionless, incompressible fluid past a wedge and a circular cylinder are considered. It is shown that by considering first the invariance of the boundary condition we are able to obtain a transformation group that...

In this paper, while control engineering replete with mathematical content is difficult for a beginner to learn, it is a practical branch of learning where the control theories expressed by mathematical equations prove useful only after being put into practice. However, the current status of students’...

Greenhouses cannot be easily controlled because their climate parameters are interrelated. This study contributes to increasing the quality and yield of greenhouses by saving time, energy, light and water consumption via measuring and controlling the climate parameters that are effective in forming climate...

The state of the art of mobile robot path planning is composed with global planner and local planner. For example, the global planner majorly establishes a suitable path from a knowing map based on the shortest path. And the local planner which computes the velocity command that includes obstacle clearance...

Brucellosis may present with a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations. Neurobrucellosis (NB), an uncommon but a serious complication, may occur at any stage of the disease. We aimed to evaluate the clinical, diagnostic, therapeutic, and evolutionary features of NB. We conducted a retrospective study...

Novel classes of dynamical systems are introduced, including many-body problems characterized by nonlinear equations of motion of Newtonian type (“acceleration equals forces”) which determine the motion of points in the complex plane. These models are solvable, namely their configuration at any time can...

Low serum vitamin D is linked with higher vascular risk. It is unclear how. Objective: to test whether 1,25(OH)2D3 (active vitamin D) modifies contractility of proximal resistance vessels, dose-dependently. Methods: Male Wistar rat mesenteric arteries were investigated by wire myography. 60mM High...