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Wireless Mesh Networks
Full text linkThe rapid advancements of low-cost small-size devices for wireless communications with their international standards and broadband backbone networks using optical fibers accelerate the deployment of wireless networks around the world.
The wireless mesh network has emerged as the generalization of the conventional wireless network. However, wireless mesh network has several problems to be solved before being deployed as the fundamental network infrastructure for daily use. The book is edited to specify some problems that come from the disadvantages in wireless mesh network and give their solutions with challenges. The contents of this book consist of two parts: Part I covers the fundamental technical issues in wireless mesh network, and Part II the administrative technical issues in wireless mesh network,. This book can be useful as a reference for researchers, engineers, students and educators who have some backgrounds in computer networks, and who have interest in wireless mesh network. It is a collective work of excellent contributions by experts in wireless mesh network
Performance Improvement of Decision Trees for Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease Using Multi Filtering Approach
No full textThe heart is one of the strongest muscular organs in the human body. Every year, this disease can kill many people in the world. Coronary artery disease (CAD) is named as the most common type of heart disease. Four well-known decision trees (DTs) are applied on the Z-Alizadeh Sani CAD dataset, which consists of J48, BF tree, REP tree, and NB tree. A multi filtering approach, named MFA, was used to modify the weight of attributes to improve the performance of DTs in this study. The model was applied on three main coronary arteries including the Left Anterior Descending (LAD), Left Circumflex (LCX), and Right Coronary Artery (RCA). The obtained results show that data balancing has a valuable impact on the performance of DTs. The comparison results show that this study provides the best results applied on the Z-Alizadeh Sani dataset compared to previous studies. The proposed MFA could improve the performance of the classic DTs algorithms significantly, with the highest accuracies obtained by NB tree for LAD, LCX, and RCA are 94.90%, 92.97% and 93.43%, respectively.</p
A Joint Deep Neural Network Model for Pain Recognition from Face
No full textPain is a primary symptom of diseases and an indicator of a patients’ health status. Effective management of pain is important for patient treatment and well-being. There are some traditional self-reported methods for pain assessment, and automatic pain detection systems using facial expressions are developing rapidly; these offer the potential for more efficient, convenient and cost-effective pain management. In this paper, a joint deep neural network model is proposed to classify pain intensity in four categories from facial images. This study used two different Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN), which were pre-trained with Visual Geometric Group Face Convolutional Neural Network (VGGFace CNN) and then joined together as a network to estimate pain intensity levels. The UNBC-McMaster Shoulder Pain database was used to train and test the proposed algorithm. As a contribution to knowledge, this paper provides new information regarding the performance of a hybrid, joint deep learning algorithm for pain multi-classification in facial images.</p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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