BACKGROUND Body mass index (BMI) does not make a distinction between fat mass and lean mass. In children, high fat mass appears to be associated with low maternal education, as well as low lean mass because maternal education is associated with physical activity. Therefore, BMI might underestimate true obesity in children of low-educated mothers. OBJECTIVE To investigate the associations of m...

Raising the thermoelectric voltage in spin generators is an important subject. We investigated substitution of bismuth for yttrium to increase pumping at paramagnetic metal and ferrimagnetic insulator (PM/FMI) interface, tested bismuth-substituted iron garnet films grown by liquid phase epitaxy. Epitaxial Bi-substituted exhibit large growth-induced magnetic anisotropy perpendicular film surface...

The application of the FMI technology gains ground in building simulation. As far as specialized tools support the FMI simulator coupling becomes an important option to simulate complex building models. Cosimulation needs a master algorithm which controls the communication time steps as well as the signal exchange between FMUs. Often a constant communication step size is applied chosen by the u...

Web access logs, usually stored in relational databases, are commonly used for various data mining and data analysis tasks. The tasks typically consist in searching the web access logs for event sequences that support a given sequential pattern. For large data volumes, this type of searching is extremely time consuming and is not well optimized by traditional indexing techniques. In this paper ...

This paper describes how models from different simulation tools can be connected and simulated on different processors by using the Functional Mockup Interface (FMI) and the transmission line element method (TLM). Interconnectivity between programs makes it possible to model each part of a complex system with the best suited tool, which will shorten the modelling time and increase the accuracy ...

Conceptual design of systems requires aggregate level simulations of the designed system in its operational setting. By this way, performance of the system and its interactions with the other entities in its environment can be evaluated. The complex nature of these simulations often requires distributed execution. IEEE 1516 High Level Architecture (HLA) is a widely accepted standard architectur...

The growing complexity of systems, together with increasing available parallelism provided by multi-core chips, calls for the parallelization of simulation. Simulation speed-ups are expected from co-simulation and parallelization based on models splitting into loosely coupled sub-systems in the framework of Functional Mockup Interface (FMI). However, slackened synchronization between the sub-mo...