This study aimed to test a protocol of measurements based on Biophotogrammetry to Analysis of Respiratory Mechanics (BARM) in healthy children. Seventeen normal spirometric children (six male and 11 female) were teste...
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(纸本)9781457717871
This study aimed to test a protocol of measurements based on Biophotogrammetry to Analysis of Respiratory Mechanics (BARM) in healthy children. Seventeen normal spirometric children (six male and 11 female) were tested. Their performed maneuvers of forced inspiratory vital capacity were recorded in the supine position. The images were acquired by a digital camera, laterally placed to the trunk. Surface markers allowed that the files, exported to CorelDraw (R) software, were processed by irregular trapezoids paths. Compartments were defined in the thoracic (TX), abdominal (AB) and the chest wall (CW). They were defined at the end of an inspiration and expiration, both maximum, controlled by a digital spirometer. The result showed that the measured areas at the inspiratory and expiratory periods were statistically different (p<0.05). It reflects the mobility of CW and compartments. In conclusion, the proposed method can identify the breathing pattern of the measured subject using images in two dimensions (2D).
Periodic control systems(PCS) are widely used in the embedded industry like aerospace and *** systems usually run periodic tasks and respond to the external *** on our previous work on Mode diagram modeling(MDM) notat...
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Periodic control systems(PCS) are widely used in the embedded industry like aerospace and *** systems usually run periodic tasks and respond to the external *** on our previous work on Mode diagram modeling(MDM) notations for specifying the periodic control system,we present the stochastic semantics for MDM in this *** stochastic semantics of MDM is based on the Markov *** semantics proposed here provides the basis for the satisfaction of formulae of the interval temporal logic(ITL) based specification language that is aimed to specify the properties of *** verify whether the system satisfies the ITL-based properties,we apply the statistical model checking technique to efficiently estimate the probability of the system satisfying the given property with a desired level of *** empirical experiments show that our approach is both effective and efficient.
Cloud computing is defined as a pool of virtualized computer resources deployed and scaled-out quickly through the rapid provisioning of virtual or physical machines. Virtual machine services offered by cloud utility ...
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Cloud computing is defined as a pool of virtualized computer resources deployed and scaled-out quickly through the rapid provisioning of virtual or physical machines. Virtual machine services offered by cloud utility providers led to the creation of the ecosystem of cloud services as they enable customers to use computing resources based on the dynamic behaviour of the application and of the computer resource used. As the control system approach is more and more accepted by the computer research communities the perspective of implementing an adaptive resource provisioning and optimization looked attractive enough for investing efforts and human resources to move it from the theory benches to experimental implementations.
In pervasive computing system, the increasing dynamic and complexity of software and hardware resources and frequentative interaction among function components make fault-tolerant design very challenging. In this pape...
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In this paper, a neural network PCA method that integrates neural networks (NN) and principal component analysis (PCA) is used to detect faults in a wastewater treatment plant. The neural networks are used to calculat...
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Animals use stochastic search strategies to find a potential nest or to localize the food source. Animals do not rely much on the environmental cues or their sensory inputs. Since their cognitive capabilities are rath...
Animals use stochastic search strategies to find a potential nest or to localize the food source. Animals do not rely much on the environmental cues or their sensory inputs. Since their cognitive capabilities are rather limited, search strategies are usually simplistic and stochastic. And yet such simple search strategies result in high efficiency in finding potential targets in limited time intervals. Similar problems with perception of the environment and limited computational power and sensory inputs are observed on the mobile robots used in search scenarios. In spite of their limitations, such robotic systems usually perform deterministic search strategies which heavily depend on environmental cues and sensory input. The research question we are addressing in this paper is which stochastic search strategy has the best performance in terms of area coverage and can stochastic search strategies outperform deterministic search strategies.
In this paper we discuss the second version of Flecs, a generic, open-source coupling shell that can be used to join two or more arbitrary solvers. In general multidisciplinary computations are very computing-intensiv...
In this paper we discuss the second version of Flecs, a generic, open-source coupling shell that can be used to join two or more arbitrary solvers. In general multidisciplinary computations are very computing-intensive. A remedy against long computing times is large-scale parallelism. The challenge of the present parallelization work is to obtain acceptable computing times and to get rid of severe memory requirements that exist on sequential machines, for the generic flow problems at hand. The aim is to provide a flexible platform for developing new data transfer algorithms and coupling schemes.
Modern power system is a typical multi-level complex giant system consisting of physical infrastructures, human operators, and social resources, etc. The conventional analytical methods and simulation systems can'...
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This paper is focused on the problem of H_∞ filtering for a class of discrete-time T-S fuzzy time-varying delay systems. Our interest is how to design full- and reduced-order filters that guarantee the filtering erro...
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(纸本)9781467320658
This paper is focused on the problem of H_∞ filtering for a class of discrete-time T-S fuzzy time-varying delay systems. Our interest is how to design full- and reduced-order filters that guarantee the filtering error system to be asymptotically stable with a prescribed H_∞ performance. Sufficient conditions for the obtained filtering error system are proposed by applying an input-output approach and a two-term approximation method, which is employed to approximate the time-varying delay. The corresponding full and reduced-order filter design is cast into a convex optimization problem, which can be efficiently solved by standard numerical algorithms.
We electrothermally determined the internal electrical resistivity of a single carbon nanocoil (CNC) which was assembled on the AFM tip. A heat-transfer modeling which considered the Joule's heat was employed to e...
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We electrothermally determined the internal electrical resistivity of a single carbon nanocoil (CNC) which was assembled on the AFM tip. A heat-transfer modeling which considered the Joule's heat was employed to extract the electrical resistivity. The current and resistance of the loop circuits were applied in the calculation in which the thermal measurement was not required. During the electrical measurement, the overall resistance of the heating loop depended on the current variation and decreased abruptly at the beginning of the measurement. It was suggested that the contact resistances between the CNC and metal electrodes were eliminated due to the shortened difference of the work functions between the two materials. The developed electrothermal model agreed well with the experiment at steady state and gave the CNC resistivity of 1.64*10 -4 ~8.81*10 -4 Ω-m. This result confirmed the amorphous phase of the synthesized CNC.
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