Materials acquisition is one of the critical challenges faced by academic libraries. This paper presents an integer programming model of the studied problem by considering how to select materials in order to maximize the average preference and the budget execution rate under some practical restrictions including departmental budget, limitation of the number of materials in each category and eac...

Objectives: The overall aim of this study is to evaluate the incidence acetabular dysplasia in asymptomatic Sudanese adults. Methods: This a cross-sectional population-based study, which includes radiographic examination Hip. A total 240 hips are studied scout view routinely done patients undergoing CT KUB. morphology acetabulum assessed by measuring center edge angle (CEA), angle, depth width ...

Obesity is increasing at an alarming rate in developed industrialized countries as well as in developing countries which are undergoing rapid nutrition and lifestyle transition. Substantial changes in lifestyle (greater consumption of energy dense foods, inactive lifestyle etc.) are the predominant reasons for increase in prevalence of obesity and related disorders. Obesity is associated with i...

Following the success and subsequent notoriety of Eliot Ness as a Prohibition agent in Chicago, Cleveland Mayor Harold Burton appointed Ness Director of Public Safety in December 1935. During this era, the Cleveland Department of Public Safety, particularly the police division, was considered to be one of the most corrupt in America. Burton, elected on a law-and-order platform, had sworn to rid...

The importance for small and lightweight rovers providing high mobility and versatility in future exploration missions is increasing. Within this paper the terrestrial test platform Coyote II is presented. The rover is equipped with a novel locomotion concept combining hybrid legged-wheels with spherical helical wheels. This allows to perform side-to-side steering movements and yields high mobi...

We propose a framework for obtaining statistical inferences from multi-modal and multisensor data. In particular, we consider a military battlefield scene and address problems that arise in tactical decision-making while using a wide variety of sensors (an infrared camera, an acoustic sensor array, a human scout, and a seismic sensor array). Outputs of these sensors vary widely, from 2D images ...

In this study, a neural network-based approach is proposed for the identification of nonlinear static systems. A variant called ABCES (ABC Based on Effective Scout Bee Stage) introduced network training. Two important changes are carried out with ABCES. The first an update “limit” control parameters. ABC algorithm, value fixed. It adaptively adjusted according to number iterations in way, effic...

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 1.1 From Mainframes To Personal Computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 1.2 The Advent of the Information Appliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 1.3 The Need for Configurable and Modular Operating Systems . . . . . . . 19 1....