The recent years have witnessed a considerable rise in the number of vehicles, which has placed transportation infrastructure and traffic control under tremendous pressure. Yielding timely accurate flow information is essential development strategies. Despite continual advances wealth literature available intelligent system (ITS), there lack practical counting system, readily deployable on edge...

This paper presents the design and development of a carbon fiber reinforced plastic dome, including a description of the dome fabrication, method for sealing penetrations in the dome, and a summary of the planned test series. This dome will be used for the experimental permeability characterization and leakage validation of composite vessels pressurized using liquid hydrogen and liquid nitrogen...

To achieve both of a high peak performance and low average power characteristics, frequency-voltage cooperative control processor has been proposed. The processor schedules its operating frequency according to the required computation power. Its operating voltage or body bias voltage is adequately modulated simultaneously to effectively cut down either switching current or leakage current, and ...

Aims Obesity is a risk factor for vitamin D deficiency (VDD), because the lipid soluble vitamin D can be sequestered in adipose tissue. Although it was suggested that higher dose of vitamin D might be required to treat VDD in obese individuals, little is known about treatment responses in overweight children. We investigated the response to vitamin D replacement in normal weight and overweight ...

Our survey looked at current practice amongst GPs in the West Midlands where there is a high percentage of ethnic minorities who are predisposed to VDD as well as being diabetics. Clinicians need to be aware of the relationship between VDD and DR, with a view to tackling both where possible. We recommend investigating VD levels and commencing treatment early, in the light of the literature revi...

BACKGROUND Vertical scar reduction mammaplasty has the advantage of reduced scar burden and improved long-term projection of the breasts. The technique has been criticized for being restricted to cases of mild to moderate mammary hypertrophy and is considered more intuitive and difficult to learn when compared with more conventional inverted-T scar reduction mammaplasties. This article describe...

Dome is an object based parallel programming environment for heterogeneous distributed networks of machines. This paper gives a brief overview of Dome. We show that Dome programs are easy to write. A description of the load balancing performed in Dome is presented along with performance measurements on a cluster of DEC Alpha workstations connected by a DEC Gigaswitch. A Dome program is compared...

As one type of efficient unsupervised learning methods, clustering algorithms have been widely used in data mining and knowledge discovery with noticeable advantages. However, based on density peak limited effect varying distribution (VDD), equilibrium (ED), multiple domain-density maximums (MDDM), leading to the problems sparse cluster loss fragmentation. To address these problems, we propose ...

Different adder circuits are elementary blocks in many contemporary integrated circuits, which are not only employed to perform addition operations, but also other arithmetic operations such as subtraction, multiplication and division. Full adder is the basic building block of any adder circuit. Area, speed and power are the three main design metrics for any VLSI circuit. In this work, eight di...

The importance of jumping ability in basketball is well known, but there is an evident lack of studies that have examined different jumping testing protocols in basketball players at advanced levels. The aim of this study was to assess the applicability of different tests of jumping capacity in identifying differences between (i) playing position and (ii) competitive levels of professional play...