The Unified Modeling Language (UML) specification is widely adopted in software engineering. When tools do not fully implement the UML specification, the user might be locked-in to a modeling tool, e.g. when exported models are not compatible among tools or tools implement different subsets of the UML. These compatibility problems also have significant impact on the effectiveness of model-drive...

Abstract: In this paper the author have designed and implemented an Extended Kalman filter (EKF) on the simulated model of the three-phase induction motor. An extensive simulation study has been carried out to asses the performances of the filter under various machine operating conditions and model uncertainties. In this work, it has been shown that the performance of EKF is found to be better ...

Background The germline mutations in BRCA1/2 genes are the most significant and well characterized genetic risk factors for breast and/or ovarian cancer. Detection of mutations in these genes is an effective method of cancer prevention and early detection. Different ethnic and geographical regions may have different BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation spectrum and prevalence due to founder effect. The pop...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning against the use of laparoscopic power morcellators in the majority of women undergoing myomectomy or hysterectomy for the treatment of leiomyomas because of the concern for inadvertent spread of tumor cells if an undiagnosed cancer were present. The authors, representing a 46member review group, reviewed the current literature to formulate ...

The paper considers statistical tests for determining if the heterogeneity distribution of the treatment group in a randomized experiment changes during the experimental period. Solving the problem is of practical interest since heterogeneity changes may indicate serious selection problems in the randomized experiment. To make the tests easily implementable in practice, we discuss estimating cr...

Recently, it was demonstrated that the insertion of TCO layers between the compound cells of tandem cells allows a shift of current generation from the bottom to the top cell [1]. This concept is particularly useful to increase the performance of a-Si:H/μc-Si:H tandem cells. In this paper we analyse experimental and optical modelling results of very different tandem cell structures in order to ...

Simultaneous combined superficial peroneal nerve and peroneous brevis muscle biopsy, via the same cutaneous incision, allows examination of several tissue specimens and significantly improves the diagnosis of systemic diseases with peripheral nerve involvement. Vasculitides are certainly the most frequently diagnosed on neuro-muscular biopsies, but this procedure is also well advised to asses a...

Chinese dietary therapy is a standard modality of traditional Chinese medicine. The idea that food medicine is deeply rooted in the Chinese culture. Chinese medicine has a unique way to asses Practitioners not only look at nutritional components, but also consider the food’s color, taste, texture shape. Foods with specific colors and tastes nourish specific parts of the body and correct spec im...

− Unsupervised motion segmentation and tracking in video sequences is a complex task, requiring robust estimation and flexible modeling. The paper presents an unsupervised method of moving object segmentation and tracking in video sequences captured by static cameras. Central to our work is the nonparametric density estimation and the mean shift algorithm for finding local maxima of the probabi...

The work of integrating the components with each other and with the rest of the system is the most important part of the component-based development process. The interaction among components in an assembly is essential to the overall quality of the system. When integrating components into a system assembly, it would be useful to predict how the quality attributes for the whole system will be. I...