[Purpose] The aim of this study was to show the impact of chronic musculoskeletal pain of the spinal column and lower extremities on physical functioning, emotional status, and independency in older adults. [Subjects] In this cross-sectional study, 258 older adults (mean age, 71.98±5.86 years, 50.8% males, 49.2% females) living in their own residences were evaluated. [Methods] Pain intensity wa...

It is well-known that the notion of (strong) conditional independence (CI) is too restrictive to capture independencies that only hold in certain contexts. This kind of contextual independency, called context-strong independence (CSI), can be used to facilitate the acquisition, representation, and inference of probabilistic knowledge. In this paper, we suggest the use of contextual weak indepen...

A scalable video server extracts data corresponding to the resolution requested by its client from the total data containing the information encoding a full resolution video. difference between the first read position and the last read position, can be much larger than the amount of the requested data. This causes additional rotational latency in a disk and thus degrades disk performance. Furth...

The progressive censoring scheme is a method of data collecting in reliability and life testing which has been of intensified interest in recent years. In the present paper, we prove some characterization results on generalized Pareto distribution based upon the independency and expected values of some functions of progressive type-II right censored order statistics.

the  main  assumptions  in  liner  mixed  model  are normality  and  independency  of  random  effect component.   unfortunately,   these   two  assumptions   might   be  unrealistic   in  some   situations. therefore, in this paper, we will discuss about the analysis of bayesian analysis of non-normal and non-independent mixed model using skew-normal/independent distributions, and finally, thi...

The variation of individual synaptic transmission impacts the dynamics of complex neural circuits. We performed whole-cell recordings from monosynaptically connected hippocampal neurons in rat organotypic slice cultures using a synapse mapping method. The amplitude of unitary excitatory postsynaptic current (uEPSC) varied from trial to trial and was independent of the physical distance between ...

In Africacrypt 2009, Galindo and Garcia proposed a lightweight identity-based signature (IBS) scheme based on the Schnorr signature. The construction is simple and claimed to be the most efficient IBS till date. The security is argued, primarily, by using the MultipleForking (MF) Algorithm which is used to launch nested replay attack on the adversary and, consequently, contradict the discrete-l...