Fire barrier fabrics are expected to play an increasingly important role in complying with existing and proposed soft furnishing flammability regulations in the US. The number of commercial fire blocking technologies is large in order to accommodate the vast requirements of the consumers, manufacturers, and regulatory agencies. Generally, highloft, nonwoven fiber battings are used in residentia...

maji et al. introduced the concept of fuzzy soft sets as a generalization of the standard soft sets and presented an application of fuzzy soft sets in a decision making problem. in this paper, we apply fuzzy soft sets to  -hyperrings. the concept of ( , q )       -fuzzy soft  -hyperideals of  -hyperrings is first introduced. some new characterizations are investigated. in particular, a...

Light microscopy has greatly advanced our understanding of nature. The achievable resolution, however, is limited by optical wavelengths to approximately 200 nm. By using imaging and labeling technologies, resolutions beyond the diffraction limit can be achieved for specialized specimens with techniques such as near-field scanning optical microscopy, stimulated emission depletion microscopy, an...

In a meta-analysis of 88 studies, we examined the association between soft drink consumption and nutrition and health outcomes. We found clear associations of soft drink intake with increased energy intake and body weight. Soft drink intake also was associated with lower intakes of milk, calcium, and other nutrients and with an increased risk of several medical problems (e.g., diabetes). Study ...

SOFT HANDOFF MODELING IN CDMA CELLULAR SYSTEMS Jae Kyun Kwon and Dan Keun Sung Department of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Abstract|We propose a new analytical soft hando model in a rectangular cell con guration and obtain the probability distribution of the sojourn time in the soft hando region. The movements of a mobile user are categorized ...

The soft X-ray reflectivity characterization of Mo/Si multilayer deposited by electron beam evaporation is discussed. The measurements are performed on Indus-1 synchrotron storage ring. The interdiffusion of two-layer materials in multilayer leads to the formation of interlayers. To understand the influence of interlayers and interfacial roughness on soft X-ray reflectivity profile, simulation ...

Web Intelligence deals with the scientific research and development to explore the fundamental roles as well as practical impacts of soft computing and advanced intelligent paradigms for the next generation of Web-based systems, services, and environments. Chance discovery means discovering chances — the breaking points in systems, the marketing windows in business, etc. It involves determining...

in a meta-analysis of 88 studies, we examined the association between soft drink consumption and nutrition and health outcomes. We found clear associations of soft drink intake with increased energy intake and body weight. Soft drink intake also was associated with lower intakes of milk, calcium, and other nutrients and with an increased risk of several medical problems (e.g., diabetes). Study ...

Timetabling the courses offered at the Computer Science Department of the University of Munich requires the processing of hard and soft constraints. Hard constraints are conditions that must be satisfied, soft constraints, however, may be violated, but should be satisfied as much as possible. This paper shows how to model our timetabling problem as a partial constraint satisfaction problem and ...

Most watermarking techniques rely on redundancy where signature bits are encoded in a su$ciently large amount of sites for robustness against distortions and attacks while the watermark energy is kept low enough to remain imperceptible. The goal of this paper is to explore some strategies for exploiting this redundancy using error correcting codes. In some watermarking techniques bits are extra...