An elastic ideal 2D propagation medium, i.e., a membrane, can be simulated by models discretizing the wave equation on the time–space grid (finite–difference methods), or locally discretizing the solution of the wave equation (waveguide meshes). The two approaches provide equivalent computational structures, and introduce numerical dispersion that induces a misalignment of the modes from their ...

The factors influencing marketing of goats at different age and weight by different categories of farmers were investigated. The data were collected from village market (Hat) in selected places of Sirajgonj, Rajshahi, Kushtia, Mymensingh and Tangail districts. Goat owners belonged to one of the 4 categories of farmers at the Hat were interviewed through pre-tested questionnaire and the weight, ...

BACKGROUND The comprehensive ICF Core Set for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a selection of 96 categories from the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), representing relevant aspects in the functioning of RA patients. OBJECTIVES To study the reliability of the ICF Core Set for RA in rheumatological practice, and to explore the metric of the qualifiers' scale....

The United States, uniquely among all countries, elects its head of state using a two-tiered system called the Electoral College. If we view the states that make up the Electoral College as voters and make some simplifying assumptions, it is possible to use the theory of voting and voting power to measure the power of the individual states in a presidential election. Modeling the Electoral Coll...

The survey gives an overview of the achievements in topology of real algebraic varieties in the direction initiated in the early 70th by V. I. Arnold and V. A. Rokhlin. We make an attempt to systematize the principal results in the subject. After an exposition of general tools and results, special attention is paid to surfaces and curves on surfaces.

Early career academic cardiologists currently face unprecedented challenges that threaten a highly valued career path. A team consisting of early career professionals and senior leadership members of American College of Cardiology completed this white paper to inform the cardiovascular medicine profession regarding the plight of early career cardiologists and to suggest possible solutions. This...

In this work, we demonstrate an automatic video annotation system which can provide users with the representative keywords for new videos. The system explores the hierarchical concept model and multiple feature model to improve the effectiveness of annotation, which consists of two components: a SVM classifier to ascertain the category; and a multiple feature model to label the keywords. We imp...

“Bloat”, a term that has existed in the technical community for many years, has recently received attention in the popular press. The term has a negative connotation implying that human, or system performance is diminished in some way when “bloat” exists. Yet “bloat” is seldom clearly defined and is often a catch-all phrase to suggest that software is filled with unnecessary features. However, ...

This paper introduces the Sensapp platform, a semantic and OGCbased sensor application platform to enable users to register, annotate, search, visualize, and compose OGC-based sensors and services for creating addedvalue services and applications. Functionalities of Sensapp such as sensor registration, sensor data visualization, visual composition and generation of executable service compositio...