a 6 : 1, pp. 136 – 155, 2010 AN INDUCTIVE MODAL APPROACH FOR THE LOGIC OF EPISTEMIC INCONSISTENCY 1

Los primeros trabajos sobre inmigración y atención sanitaria en España comienzan a publicarse entre mediados de los años 801 y principios de los 902, aunque la eclosión de estudios parece producirse en torno al año 20003-5. Sin pretender ser exhaustivos, la mayoría de ellos se han dedicado al estudio de enfermedades infecciosas6,7, atención a la mujer durante el embarazo8 y población pediátrica...

Synchronizers play a key role in multi-clock domain systems on chip. Designing reliable synchronizers requires estimating and evaluating synchronizer parameters (resolution time constant) and (metastability window). Typically, evaluation of these parameters has been done by empirical rules of thumb or simple circuit simulations to ensure that the synchronizer MTBF is sufficiently long. This pap...

Increasing computing and wireless communication capabilities will expand the role of the sensors from mere information dissemination to more demanding tasks as sensor fusion, classification, collaborative target tracking. Fault tolerance and reliability performs exclusively vital role for embedded systems, such as obscured wireless sensors, which are deployed in some applications where it is di...

ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Keywords: Dependability Consecutive-k-out-of-n: F repairable system Rare-event simulation RESTART The reliability of consecutive-fc-out-of-n: F repairable systems and (fc-l)-step Markov dependence is studied. The model analyzed in this paper is more general than those of previous studies given that repair time and component lifetimes are random variables that follow a gene...

Mobile robots are notoriously unreliable. In order to make significant improvements in mobile robot reliability, we need quantitative methods and precise language for measuring and discussing reliability. Such methods exist within the reliability engineering literature but have seen little use in the design of mobile robots. In this report we present an overview of reliability engineering metho...

The quantum instanton approximation for thermal rate constants, a type of quantum transition state theory (QTST), is applied to a model proton transfer reaction in liquid methyl chloride developed by Azzouz and Borgis. Monte Carlo path integral methods are used to carry out the calculations, and two other closely related QTST's, namely, the centroid-density and Hansen-Andersen QTST, are also ev...

The vibration analysis and condition monitoring technology is based on comparison of measurements obtained with benchmarks suggested by manufacturers or standards. In this case, the references provided by current rules are static and independent of parameters such as age or environmental conditions in which the machine is analyzed. New communication technologies allow the integration of eMainte...

Phase error compensation within motion compensation techniques requires range cell migration corrected SAR data. The main contribution of this paper is providing a non-approximated range cell migration correction (RCMC) for processing highly squinted SAR data. Embedded in the conventional Omega-K processing, the approach consists of two coordinate transformations carried out in the 2D frequency...

Reliability and availability of the equipment or plants used in construction and civil engineering field is significant issue for all stakeholders. Unexpected breakdown and repairs could cause serious consequences such as extra cost and project period extension. Therefore, it is necessary to study the reliability of the construction equipment and predict the failures in time with a reasonable d...