Increasing computing and wireless communication capabilities will expand the role of the sensors from mere information dissemination to more demanding tasks as sensor fusion, classification, collaborative target tracking. Fault tolerance and reliability performs exclusively vital role for embedded systems, such as obscured wireless sensors, which are deployed in some applications where it is di...

RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) are widely used in storage servers. Level-5 RAID is one of the most popular RAID architectures. Numerical analysis of exact Markovian dependability models of level-5 RAID architectures with orthogonal organization is unfeasible formany realisticmodel parameters due to the size of the resulting state space. In this paper we develop approximate dependab...

Visual masking of primes lowers prime visibility but spares processing of primes as reflected in prime-target congruence and prime-response compatibility effects. However, the question is how to appropriately measure prime visibility. Here, we tested the influence of three procedural variables on prime visibility measures: prime-target similarity, prime-response similarity, and the variability ...

This paper proposed the fractional order gray prediction algorithm to improve prediction accuracy in uncertainty signal. This paper is the first to propose the measurement method of the gray information of signals. The fractional order gray prediction algorithm is deduced through fractional order Taylor expansion formula. The measurement method of the gray information of signals is provided by ...

This investigation deals with the transient analysis of the machine repair system consisting of M-operating units operating under the care of single repairman. To improve the system reliability/availability, Y warm standby and S cold standby units are provided to replace the failed units. In case when all spares are being used, the failure of units occurs in degraded fashion. In such situation ...

Introduction Abnormalities of horizontal gaze are common in strokes involving the caudal part of the pons and generally associated with motor, sensory, cerebellar and cranial nerve dysfunction. Isolated abducens nerve palsy is rare [1, 2] and due to a small lesion which affects the radicular fascicles of the 6th cranial nerve and spares the abducens nucleus [3] . Conversely, abducens nucleus le...