conclusions fear of neighborhood violence is a contributing factor to increased risk of obesity for female african american youth who live in disadvantaged areas. this finding has implications for prevention of obesity among african american women who are at highest risk for obesity in the united states. initiatives that enhance neighborhood safety are critical strategies for obesity prevention...

Search techniques such as Genetic Algorithms, Simulated Annealing, Tabu Search and Random Walk Algorithms have been used extensively for global optimization. This paper presents an experimental analysis of the performance of these algorithms for the problem of selecting the optimal location of base stations in a mobile communication system. The effect of varying the value of important parameter...

Mobile IP is designed to support uninterrupted connectivity of mobile computers as they roam from place to place. We propose a fast intra-domain and inter-domain handoff scheme using the location of routers to meet the delay and packet loss requirements of real-time services. The scheme achieves an intelligent and dynamic neighborhood discovery and avoids the use of multicast addresses in intra...

The aim of this paper is to introduce and study the fuzzy neighborhood, the limit fuzzy number, the convergent fuzzy sequence, the bounded fuzzy sequence, and the Cauchy fuzzy sequence on the base which is adopted by Abdul Hameed every real number r is replaced by a fuzzy number r either triangular fuzzy number or singleton fuzzy set fuzzy point . And then, we will consider that some results re...

We present formulas for the construction of optimal H∞ controllers that can be implemented in a numerically robust way. We base the formulas on the γ-iteration developed in [6]. The controller formulas proposed here avoid the solution of algebraic Riccati equations with their problematic matrix inverses and matrix products. They are also applicable in the neighborhood of the optimal γ, where th...

In the context of extracting maximal item sets and association rules from a binary data base, the graph-theoretic notion of domination was recently used to characterize the neighborhood of a concept in the corresponding lattice. In this paper, we show that the notion of domination can in fact be extended to any closure operator on a finite universe and be efficiently encoded into propositional ...

Mobile IP is designed to support uninterrupted connectivity of mobile computers as they roam from place to place. We propose a fast intra-domain and inter-domain handoff scheme using the location of routers to meet the delay and packet loss requirements of real-time services. The scheme achieves an intelligent and dynamic neighborhood discovery and avoids the use of multicast addresses in intra...

This paper tackles a particular shape matching problem: given a data base of shapes (described as triangular meshes), we search for all shapes which describe a human. We do so by applying a 3D face detection approach on the mesh which consists of three steps: first, a local symmetry value is computed for each vertex. Then, the symmetry values in a certain neighborhood of each vertex are analyze...