Background and Importance Of outmost importance for the success of neurosurgical operations is proper patient positioning. This is particularly the case for operations conducted in the prone position, which is associated with several potential complications. Case presentation Here we report the case of a 52 years old male patient who underwent endoscopic discectomy for an L5-S1 herniated dis...

With the constant platform fragmentation in the global smartphone and tablet market, providing a multiplatform indoor positioning technology is and ever more complex task. RSSI-based hybrid indoor positioning technologies provide hope for a unified indoor positioning solution with-out the need for calibrating each and every device manually before use. But differing antenna construction, sensor ...

Generally, accuracy of GPS(Global Positioning System) is higher than that of cellular network. But in tall building urban area or indoor, relatively weak GPS signal makes the positioning unstable and inaccurate. TDOA(Time Difference of Arrival) is one of the most widely used positioning methods in cellular mobile communication systems, but its accuracy is not high enough to meet the growing dem...

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The subcellular positioning of chloroplasts can be changed by alterations in the environment such as light and temperature. For example, in leaf mesophyll cells, chloroplasts localize along anticlinal cell walls under high-intensity light, and along periclinal cell walls under low-intensity light. These types of positioning responses are involved in photosynthetic optimization. In light-mediate...

Mobile phone location activities have been intensified recently. This work will examine the possibility of combining the Neural Network (NN) positioning and the database correlation (DC) localization system in order to realize a robust RSS based positioning system within a GSM network context. The NN is trained first offline before it use in the positioning unit. Function approximation and clas...

In this deliverable we provide the details of building an indoor positioning system using WLAN Received Signal Strength (RSS) fingerprints. The positioning system has been deployed at the premises of KIOS Research Center and follows a terminal-based-network-assisted architecture. In our case, users that carry a terminal (Tablet PC) are able to self-locate and positioning is performed entirely o...

This paper investigated various indoor positioning techniques and presented a comprehensive study about their advantages and disadvantages. Infrared, Ultrasonic and RF technologies are used in different indoor positioning systems. RFID positioning systems based on RSSI technology are the most recent developments. Positioning accuracy was greatly improved by using integrated RFID technologies.

Because of the high calculation cost and poor performance of a traditional planar map when dealing with complicated indoor geographic information, a WiFi fingerprint indoor positioning system cannot be widely employed on a smartphone platform. By making full use of the hardware sensors embedded in the smartphone, this study proposes an integrated approach to a three-dimensional (3D) indoor posi...