PURPOSE In response to continuing concerns regarding the quality and equality of care for children and young people, the British Paediatric Neurology Association (BPNA) has supported the development of practical and meaningful audit to support quality improvement. METHOD In 2006, the Children's Epilepsy Workstream in Trent (CEWT) coordinated a retrospective multi-service audit of paediatric e...

In this article, a new quadratic trigonometric B-spline with control parameters is constructed to address the problems related to two dimensional digital image interpolation. The newly constructed spline is then used to design an image interpolation scheme together with one of the soft computing techniques named as Genetic Algorithm (GA). The idea of GA has been formed to optimize the control p...

While objective and subjective quality assessment of 2D images and video has been an active research topic in the recent years, emerging 3D technologies require new quality metrics and methodologies taking into account the fundamental differences in the human visual perception and typical distortions of stereoscopic content. Therefore, this paper presents a comprehensive stereoscopic image data...

Churn prediction aims to identify subscribers who are about to transfer their business to a competitor. Since the cost associated with customer acquisition is much greater than the cost of customer retention, churn prediction has emerged as a crucial Business Intelligence (BI) application for modern telecommunication operators. The dominant approach to churn prediction is to model individual cu...

A method for predicting the image covariance resulting from total-variation-penalized iterative image reconstruction (TV-penalized IIR) is presented and demonstrated in a variety of contexts. The method is validated against the sample covariance from statistical noise realizations for a small image using a variety of comparison metrics. Potential applications for the covariance approximation in...

Cognitive radio (CR) technology is introduced to solve the problem of spectrum under-utilization in wireless networks by opportunistically exploiting portions of the spectrum temporarily vacated by licensed primary users. Devices with cognitive capabilities can be networked to create cognitive radio ad hoc networks (CRAHNs) that face many challenges in different layers due to the flexibility in...

he paper discuss the role of quality metrics to predict the quality of data warehouse conceptual models in terms of understandability. Also a new quality metric is proposed and its significance discussed in predicting quality of conceptual models. Keywords-Conceptual Model, Quality metrics, Data warehouse, Understandability, Quality evaluation.

The design of a routing protocol must be based on the characteristics of its target networks. The diversity of wireless networks motivate the design of different routing metrics, capturing different aspects of wireless communications. The design of routing metrics, however, is not arbitrary since it has a great impact on the proper operation of routing protocols. Combining a wrong type of routi...

In social choice theory, preference aggregation refers to computing an aggregate preference over a set of alternatives given individual preferences of all the agents. In real-world scenarios, it may not be feasible to gather preferences from all the agents. Moreover, determining the aggregate preference is computationally intensive. In this paper, we show that the aggregate preference of the ag...