OBJECTIVES To overcome the absence of socio-economic information in administrative databases and to monitor social inequalities in health, a material and social deprivation index was developed for Québec and Canada. METHODS The index is based on the smallest area unit used in Canadian censuses, with 400 to 700 persons on average. It includes six socio-economic indicators grouped along two dim...

Recent research progress on the topic of human visual attention allocation in scene perception and its simulation is based mainly on studies with static images. However, natural vision requires us to extract visual information that constantly changes due to egocentric movements or dynamics of the world. It is unclear to what extent spatio-temporal regularity, an inherent regularity in dynamic v...

In this paper we present an FPGA area allocation algorithm for parallel OpenMP application that aim to improve performance for a specific reconfiguration area. The algorithm will be implemented in Delft Workbench, a toolchain developed at TU Delft with focus on reconfigurable architectures. The hardware platform used to gather the experimental results is a Xilinx Virtex II Pro board with a Powe...

With current estimates of data to be managed and made available increasing at 60% per annum, disk space utilization is becoming a critical performance issue for high end users, including but not limited to IT solutions, Storage Area Networks and Virtual Machine environment. We propose Dynamic Allocation of Disk Area (DADA), a disk management framework that performs on-demand disk area allocatio...

this paper offers an approach that could be useful for diverse types of layout problems or even area allocation problems. by this approach there is no need to large number of discrete variables and only by few continues variables large-scale layout problems could be solved in polynomial time. this is resulted from dividing area into discrete and continuous dimensions. also defining decision var...

an equitable risk allocation between contracting parties plays a vital role in enhancing the performance of the project. this research presents a new quantitative risk allocation approach by integrating fuzzy logic and bargaining game theory. owing to the imprecise and uncertain nature of players’ payoffs at different risk allocation strategies, fuzzy logic is implemented to determine the value...