BACKGROUND Primary blepharospasm is a focal dystonia characterised by excessive involuntary closure of the eyelids. The pathophysiology of primary blepharospasm is unresolved. AIM To pinpoint grey-matter changes that are associated with primary blepharospasm. METHODS 16 right-handed patients with primary blepharospasm (mean age 67.4 (SD 4.3) years; 12 women) were compared with 16 healthy vo...

A typical problem for a parallel processing system involves broadcasting large amounts of data from a master to several worker programs. This paper describes a reliablemulticast method to reduce the communication costs of this distribution. Our solution relies on a tuple-space mechanism as implemented in the Synergy system. We present results showing that even a simple implementation of reliabl...

In this paper, a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of an efficient 2-dominating set in a class of circulant graphs has been obtained and for those circulant graphs, an upper bound for the 2domination number is also obtained. For the circulant graphs Cir(n,A), where A = {1, 2, . . . , x, n − 1, n − 2, . . . , n − x} and x ≤ bn−1 2 c, the perfect 2-tuple total domination number...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the multiple attribute decision making problems with intuitionistic fuzzy information, in which the information about attribute weights is incompletely known, and the attribute values take the form of intuitionistic fuzzy numbers. In order to get the weight vector of the attribute, we establish an optimization model based on the basic ideal of traditional...

In view of the characteristics of multi-objective and uncertainty and complexity of the water resources allocation, the optimization of water resources allocation schemes can be regarded as a multi-objective grey relational decision-making procedure. This paper, integrating the grey relational decision-making method and the evidence theory, researches on the optimization method of allocation sc...

of Thesis presented to UFSC as a partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor in Electrical Engineering. GRID COMPUTING SCHEDULING BASED ON TUPLE SPACES Fábio Favarim

A random network model which allows for tunable, quite general forms of clustering, degree correlation and degree distribution is defined. The model is an extension of the configuration model, in which stubs (half-edges) are paired to form a network. Clustering is obtained by forming small completely connected subgroups, and positive (negative) degree correlation is obtained by connecting a fra...