the paper presents a multi-factor decision-making approach for prioritizing failure modes as an alternative to traditional approach of failure mode and effect analysis (fmea). the approach is based on the ‘technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution’ (topsis). the priority ranking is formulated on the basis of six parameters (failure occurrence, non-detection, maintainability...

We present a parametric attributed scattering model for Synthetic Aperture Radar imagery The model characterizes both frequency and aspect dependence of scattering centers We present algorithms for estimating the model pa rameters from SAR image chips and propose model order estimation algorithms that exploit nested model structures We develop a Bayes classi er for the extracted model parameter...

Background: Feeding is a complicated process that involves the coordination of cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal (GI), and oropharyngeal mechanisms, with support from musculoskeletal craniofacial systems. The practice feeding could be correlated eruption stage nutritional status in infants. Aim study: This study aimed to assess relation patterns selected oral variable (stage primary...

There are now several reliable methods for estimating stable pa rameters from data However little attention has been paid to model veri cation i e how to assess whether the stable parameters esti mated actually do a good job of describing the data We analyze sev eral heavy tailed data sets and demonstrate diagnostics for assessing both univariate and multivariate stable ts to data sets Multivar...

We present a novel approach for exact array dataflow anal-ysis in the presence of constructs that are not static affine.The approach is similar to that of fuzzy array dataflow anal-ysis in that it also introduces parameters that represent in-formation that is only available at run-time, but the pa-rameters have a different meaning and are analyzed beforethey are introduc...

We develop a model of single spherical cell electroporation and simulate spatial and temporal aspects of the transmembrane potential and pore radii as an effect of any form of applied electric field. The extent of electroporation in response to sinusoidal electric pulses of two different frequencies in a range of extracellular conductivity for two different cell radii are compared. Results show...

In this paper we propose a force position control scheme in a DOF task space which is a generalization of the parallel control scheme in a DOF task space The con troller consists of a PD action on the position loop a PI action on the force loop together with gravity com pensation and feedforward of the desired contact force Kinestatic ltering is not used in the scheme Euler pa rameters are adop...

We present a corpus based approach to word sense disambiguation that only requires information that can be automatically extracted from untagged text We use unsupervised techniques to estimate the pa rameters of a model describing the conditional distri bution of the sense group given the known contextual features Both the EM algorithm and Gibbs Sampling are evaluated to determine which is most...

The heliospheric modulation strength is a good parameter for the long-term modulation of cosmic rays in the neutron monitor energy range. Here we study an empirical relation between the modulation strength and the global heliospheric parameters: the heliospheric current sheet tilt angle, the open solar magnetic flux and the global IMF polarity. The suggested relation closely reproduces the meas...

Composite regularization models are widely used in sparse signal processing, making multiple pa-rameters selection a significant problem to be solved. Variety kinds of composite microwave imaging, including ℓ 1 and xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2 penalty, nonconvex TV combined...