Recently, considerable attention has been placed upon exploiting the negative-feedback effect in accelerating the quenching time of the avalanche current in passively quenched single-photon avalanche-diode (SPAD) circuits. Reducing the quenching time results in a reduction in the total charge generated in the SPAD, thereby reducing the number of trapped carries; this, in turn, can lead to impro...

There is a need in emerging smart lighting concepts for a high-speed sensing capability to enable adaptive lighting (smart spaces) and visible light communication. One approach to address this need is to design and manufacture a novel complementary-metal–oxide– semiconductor (CMOS) compatible, cost-effective detector array and readout circuit (ROIC) that incorporates integrated waveguide detect...

Numerous advances in diabetes management and medical nutrition therapy (MNT) for individuals with diabetes make this an exciting time. Historically, a challenge to proving the benefit of MNT has been the lack of clinical and behavioral research. In recent years, however, evidence-based outcomes research that documents the clinical effectiveness of MNT in diabetes has been reported. The term “me...

In this paper, we propose an efficient and robust multiple target tracking method based on particles filtering and Dezert-Smarandache theory. A model of cue combination is designed with plausible and paradoxical reasoning. The proposed model can resolve the conflict and paradoxes that arise between measured cues due to the partial or total occlusion. Experimental results demonstrate the efficie...

During emergency situations of the patient in home-based care, a Pervasive Healthcare Monitoring System (PHMS) (Lee et al., 2008) is significantly overloaded with pieces of information of different known reliability or unknown reliability. The pieces of the information should be processed, interpreted, and combined to recognize the situation of the patient as accurate as possible. In such a con...

This chapter introduces the notion of qualitative belief assignment to model beliefs of human experts expressed in natural language (with linguistic labels). We show how qualitative beliefs can be efficiently combined using an extension of Dezert-Smarandache Theory (DSmT) of plausible and paradoxical quantitative reasoning to qualitative reasoning. We propose a new arithmetic on linguistic labe...

Diabetes is a chronic disease characterized by high blood glucose levels and caused either by a deficiency of insulin or a defect in the way the body responds to insulin.1,2 The increased prevalence of type 2 diabetes is believed to be the consequence of an aging population, increased physical inactivity and obesity, and genetic factors.3,4 Diabetes is one of the leading causes of blindness and...

New missions to explore the surface of unknown planets need the use of more sensors that analyse the characteristic of the planet. For these Missions have been employed a plethora of instruments and sensors to monitor the surface under inspection to obtain measurements about the quantity of interest as for example electromagnetic properties or the presence of organic substances like water. Diff...