In discussions on the several methodological limitations in the assessment of alexithymia, uncertainty still remains about whether alexithymia and somatization are distinct constructs or whether they share overlapping symptomatology and constructs, as suggested by previous studies. In this study, 379 normal adults completed the newly developed 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) and a sc...

Coronary revascularisation plays an important role in the management of patients with ischaemic heart disease. Its principle builds on restoring antegrade flow thereby relieving angina. As a result, the need for medication is reduced which, in turn, may improve quality of life and socioeconomic independency. Also the prognosis is beneficially affected. This is not only true for patients with se...

Several researchers have suggested that Bayesian networks (BNs) should be used to manage the inherent uncertainty in information retrieval. However, it has been argued that manually constructing a large BN is a difficult process. In this paper, we obtain the only minimal complete subset of the semi-graphoid axiomatization governing the independency information in a BN. This result may be useful...

Data interoperability and synchronization among heterogeneous data providers in collaborative e-health systems are challenging research issues. Efficient data management techniques promote an efficient way of sharing data. This paper describes existing approaches to data interoperability (platform independency) for exchanging and synchronizing data between heterogeneous data sources or various ...

Classical risk process models in insurance rely on independency. However, especially when modelling natural events, this assumption is very restrictive. This paper proposes a new approach to introducing dependency structures between events into the model and investigates its effects on a crucial parameter for insurance companies, the probability of ruin. Explicit formulas, numerical simulations...

As part of a multi-channel, multi-band evaluation platform for future wireless sensor network applications, an IEEE 802.15.4a standard conform transmitter is investigated. The paper gives an overview of our transmitter concept and ultra-wide band signals according to IEEE 802.15.4a. It analyzes the system design aspects of the transmitter for high flexibility such as modularity and independency...

It is well known that time-varying convolutional codes can achieve the capacity of a discrete memoryless channel [1]. The time varying assumption is needed in the proof to assure pairwise independency between the codewords. In this work we provide a relatively simple proof that indeed time-invariant convolutional codes can achieve the capacity without any restriction (albeit, the error exponent...

In this paper, we demonstrate a holographic polymer-stabilized blue-phase liquid crystal grating fabricated using a visible laser. As blue phase is stabilized by the interfered light, polymer-concentration gradient is achieved simultaneously. With the application of a uniform vertical electric field, periodic index distribution is obtained due to polymer-concentration gradient. The grating exhi...

The presentation of a recent addition to the suite of popular global illumination rendering methods is the focus of this thesis. The photon map comprises a particle transport simulation with a density estimate characterized by independency of the scene geometry and the ability to efficiently model diffuse global illumination and caustics. Its embedding in existing ray tracing environments is st...

Sign language recognition (SLR) with large vocabulary and signer independency is valuable and is still a big challenge. Signer adaptation is an important solution to signer independent SLR. In this paper, we present a method of etyma-based signer adaptation for large vocabulary Chinese SLR. Popular adaptation techniques including Maximum Likelihood Linear Regression (MLLR) and Maximum A Posteri...