Case-based reasoning (CBR) often shows significant promise for improving effectiveness of complex and unstructured decision making. Consequently, it has been applied to various problem-solving areas including manufacturing, finance and marketing. However, the design of appropriate case retrieval mechanisms to improve the performance of CBR is still a challenging issue. Most of previous studies ...

Physical activity is one of the key components for elderly in order to be actively ageing. Pulse rate is a convenient physiological parameter to identify elderly’s physical activity since it increases with activity and decreases with rest. However, analysis and classification of pulse rate is often difficult due to personal variation during activity. This paper proposed a CaseBased Reasoning (C...

Abstracf-In this paper, a new traffic source, Priority Data, is considered to access the channel with the highest priority among conventional CBR, VBR and ABR sources. In order to achieve and maintain QoS guarantee for admitted CBR and VBR sources, a QoS guaranteed wireless access protocol, the Priori@ Polling with Reservafion (PPR) protocol that consists of Priori@ Polling Scheme (PPS) and Ran...

We sought to test the hypothesis that the carotid baroreflex (CBR) alters mean leg blood flow (LBF) and leg vascular conductance (LVC) at rest and during exercise. In seven men and one woman, 25 +/- 2 (SE) yr of age, CBR control of LBF and LVC was determined at rest and during steady-state one-legged knee extension exercise at approximately 65% peak O(2) uptake. The application of 5-s pulses of...

We studied the effect of chronically denervating aortic baroreceptors (ABR; n = 6) or carotid baroreceptors (CBR; n = 7) on mean arterial pressure (MAP) and heart rate (HR) responses to hemorrhage in the dog. Neither denervation had a significant effect on basal MAP, the variability (standard deviation) of MAP, or resting HR. However, the breakpoint of MAP (defined as the volume of blood remove...

BACKGROUND To be less resource intensive, we developed a template-based breast IMRT technique (TB-IMRT). This study aims to compare resources and dose distribution between TB-IMRT and conventional breast radiation (CBR). METHODS Twenty patients with early stage breast cancer were planned using CBR and TB-IMRT. Time to plan, coverage of volumes, dose to critical structures and treatment times ...

In preference-based CBR (Pref-CBR), problem solving experience is represented in the form of contextualized preferences, namely, preferences between candidate solutions in the context of a target problem to be solved. Since a potentially large number of such preferences can be collected in the course of each problem solving episode, case base maintenance clearly becomes an issue in Pref-CBR. In...

In this paper, we present a conceptual framework that combines genetic algorithms and case-based reasoning (CBR) to first learn a genetic hierarchy of cases and then maintain and refine the casebase as the system runs. We propose to use genetic algorithms to generate useful cases since there is not any actual cases to bootstrap our CBR module. We use these evolved cases to develop and test the ...

Anandamide (AEA) is the prominent member of the endocannabinoid family and its biological action is mediated through the binding to both type-1 (CB1) and type-2 (CB2) cannabinoid receptors (CBR). The presence of AEA and CBR in the gastrointestinal tract highlighted their pathophysiological role in several gut diseases, including celiac disease. Here, we aimed to investigate the expression of CB...