Chronic venous insufficiency of the lower limbs is a disease which is caused by an increased blood pressure inside the veins of the leg and the resulting increase of the contained blood volume. This work focuses on developing a device which uses impedance plethysmography, also known as impedance phlebography, to obtain information about the blood volume in the lower leg and provides the possibi...

Although most NoSQL Data Stores are schema-less, information on the structural properties of the persisted data is nevertheless essential during application development. Otherwise, accessing the data becomes simply impractical. In this paper, we introduce an algorithm for schema extraction that is operating outside of the NoSQL data store. Our method is specifically targeted at semi-structured ...

Tag recommender systems are often used in social tagging systems, a popular family of Web 2.0 applications, to assist users in the tagging process. But in cold-start situations i.e., when new users or resources enter the system, state-ofthe-art tag recommender systems perform poorly and are not always able to generate recommendations. Many user profiles contain untagged resources, which could p...

The paper deals with the semi-classical behaviour of quantum dynamics for a semi-classical completely integrable system with two degrees of freedom near Liouville regular torus. The phenomomenon of wave packet revivals is demonstrated in this article. The framework of this paper is semi-classical analysis (limit : h → 0). For the proofs we use standard tools of real analysis, Fourier analysis a...

Physical activity monitoring algorithms are often developed using conditions that do not represent real-life activities, not developed using the target population, or not labelled to a high enough resolution to capture the true detail of human movement. We have designed a semi-structured supervised laboratory-based activity protocol and an unsupervised free-living activity protocol and recorded...

We call a field K semi-real closed if it is algebraically maximal with respect to a semi-ordering. It is proved that (as in the case of real closed fields) this is a Galois-theoretic property. We give a recursive description of all absolute Galois groups of semi-real closed fields of finite rank. I n t r o d u c t i o n By a well-known theorem of Artin and Schreier [AS], being a real closed fie...

Hardware-in-the-loop simulation (HILS) is a technique that allows a simulation model to interact with real-world components, that is, one part of a system can be a simulation model, when other parts of the system are the actual hardware. This paper presents the development of a hydraulic SCARA manipulator model with the purpose of using it in hardware-in-the-loop simulation experiments. Most of...

Using only basic topological properties of real algebraic sets and regular morphisms we show that any injective regular self-mapping of a real algebraic set is surjective. Then we show that injective morphisms between germs of real algebraic sets define a partial order on the equivalence classes of these germs divided by continuous semi-algebraic homeomorphisms. We use this observation to deduc...

The concept of a preopen set in a topological space was introduced by H. H. Corson and E. Michael in 1964 [3]. A subset A of a topological space (X, τ) is called preopen or locally dense or nearly open if A ⊆ Int(Cl(A)). A set A is called preclosed if its complement is preopen or equivalently if Cl(Int(A)) ⊆ A. The term, preopen, was used for the first time by A. S. Mashhour, M. E. Abd El-Monse...

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a nonparametric approach for measuring the relative efficiency of a decision making units consists of multiple inputs and outputs. In all standard DEA models semi positive real valued measures are assumed, while in some real cases inputs and outputs may take complex valued. The question is related to measuring efficiency in such cases. As far as we are aware, ...