Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a technology used to identify automatically a cluster of objects within a specified parameter. This technology has promised a means to cut cost of time and money in manual labor and to allow greater efficiency in numerous workplaces. However, there are various problems such as missed readings which hinder wide scale adoption of RFID systems. To this end ...

Introdouction: The high prevalence of apical periodontitis (AP) of endodontic origin raises an important public health problem. Root canal treatment (RCT) and crown restoration (CR) have an effect on its prevalence. This cross-sectional study was performed to assess the effect of RCT and CR on the prevalence of AP. Materials and methods: Two observers assessed 608 teeth with RCT belonging to p...

Microgrids are the cornerstone for a new model of electrical generation based on renewable resources. Commonly microgrids controlled with centralised hierarchical structure, which is inherited from power systems. However, time-scale separation between traditional fast frequency restoration and slow economic dispatch may be counterproductive in long run because long-term increases prediction unc...

In 7 children with unusually severe or frequent reflex anoxic seizures atropine treatment, which was well tolerated, reduced seizure frequency by a mean value of 98%. Treatment withdrawal (five patients) was followed by an increase in seizure frequency and reintroduction (three patients) by restoration of control.

Human-driven evolution can impact the ecological role and conservation value of impacted populations. Most evolutionary restoration approaches focus on manipulating gene flow, but an alternative approach is to manipulate the selection regime to restore historical or desired trait values. Here we examined the potential utility of this approach to restore anadromous migratory behavior in coastal ...

We introduce a new class of interdependent games, motivated by applications in large-scale power restoration, humanitarian logistics, and integrated supply-chains, where different agents have individual utilities but a social welfare objective must be optimized in a decentralized fashion. In these games, the utilities of one player does not depend on the decisions of the other player, giving he...

In this paper a nonlinear frequency domain adaptive regularized iterative image restoration algorithm is proposed, according to which the regularization parameter is frequency dependent and is updated at each iteration step. The development of the algorithm is based on a set theoretic regularization approach, where bounds on the error residual and the stabilizing functional are updated in the f...