Many attempts have been made to effectively improve a prosthetic system controlled by the classification of surface electromyographic (SEMG) signals. Recently, the development of methodologies to extract the effective features still remains a primary challenge. Previous studies have demonstrated that the SEMG signals have nonlinear characteristics. In this study, by combining the nonlinear time...

In August 2001 the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences (CBMS) issued the report The Mathematical Education of Teachers (MET). The aim of the report is to set forth recommendations for bringing about significant improvement in the mathematical education of future teachers. The project to produce the report was supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The members of t...

The segmentation performance of any clustering algorithm is very sensitive to the features in an image, which ultimately restricts their generalisation capability. This limitation was the primary motivation in our investigation into using shape information to improve the generality of these algorithms. Fuzzy shape-based clustering techniques already consider ring and elliptical profiles in segm...

The rate of fluorophore accumulation in the lens of the eye in patients with type 1 diabetes is inceased in proportion to glycemic control, researchers reported. “This parameter alone is, however, not sufficient to explain the entire variation in lens fluorophore accumulation,” researchers wrote in the British Journal of Ophthalmology. They reported that lens fluorescence must be influenced by ...

In this study, we present a comprehensive comparative analysis of kernel-based fuzzy clustering and fuzzy clustering. Kernel based clustering has emerged as an interesting and quite visible alternative in fuzzy clustering, however, the effectiveness of this extension vis-à-vis some generic methods of fuzzy clustering has neither been discussed in a complete manner nor the performance of cluster...

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Fuzzy clustering is a widely applied method for obtaining fuzzy models from data. It has been applied successfully in various fields including finance and marketing. Despite the successful applications, there are a number of issues that must be dealt with in practical applications of fuzzy clustering algorithms. This technical report proposes two extensions to the objective function based fuzzy...

Self-poisoning, to use the term coined by Kessel, McCulloch, and Simpson (1963), is a common reason for emergency admission to hospital. Such episodes are frequently designated as attempted suicide but, as Stengel and Cook (1958) and others have pointed out, the impulse towards self-destruction may be only a minor factor in the motivation. Although there have been many psychiatric and clinical ...

Fuzzy clustering is well known as a robust and efficient way to reduce computation cost to obtain the better results. In the literature, many robust fuzzy clustering models have been presented such as Fuzzy C-Mean (FCM) and Possibilistic C-Mean (PCM), where these methods are Type-I Fuzzy clustering. Type-II Fuzzy sets, on the other hand, can provide better performance than Type-I Fuzzy sets, es...

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