We consider an energy harvesting source that is collecting measurements from a physical phenomenon and sending updates to a destination within a communication session time. Updates incur transmission delays that are function of the energy used in their transmission. The more transmission energy used per update, the faster it reaches the destination. The goal is to transmit updates in a timely m...

Renal tumor has a high incidence of bone metastasis (BM). BM are burdened by a considerable morbidity and are the most common cause of cancer-related pain. Local treatment of metastases remains controversial despite showing promising results for pain control. We would like to report our experience with a patient who developed foot bone metastasis 3 years after a left nephrectomy for a renal cel...

For a few years now, the problem of session variability in text-independent automatic speaker verification is being tackled actively. A new paradigm based on a Latent Factor Analysis (LFA) model has been applied successfully for this task. However, using this approach, a large training corpus with several sessions per speaker is required. This constraint is hard to satisfy in many real applicat...

BACKGROUND The Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (CDSMP) has been widely disseminated among various racial and ethnic populations. In addition to the six required CDSMP workshop sessions, the delivery sites have the option to offer a Session Zero (or zero class), an information session offered prior to Session One as a marketing tool. Despite assumptions that a zero class is helpful, litt...

250 words) The purpose of the study was to assess the within-session and between-session reliability of knee kinematics and kinetics in a vertical drop jump task among elite female handball and football athletes. Specifically, we aimed to quantify the within-session waveform consistency and between-session consistency of the subject ranking for a variety of knee kinematics and kinetics. Forty-o...

Session-based communication has gained a widespread acceptance in practice as a means for developing safe communicating systems via structured interactions. In this paper, we investigate how these structured interactions are affected by reversibility, which provides a computational model allowing executed interactions to be undone. In particular, we provide a systematic study of the integration...

introduction as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri) is too expensive and time consuming, its frequent implementation is difficult. the aim of this study is to evaluate repeatability of detecting visual cortex activity in fmri. materials and methods in this study, 15 normal volunteers (10 female, 5 male; mean age±sd: 24.7±3.8 years) attended. functional magnetic resonance images were ob...