background: hand grip strength (hgs) is a reliable indicator of peripheral muscle strength. although, numerous studies have investigated the strength of hand grip; little attention has been given to coronary artery disease (cad) patients, exploring the relationship between hgs and myocardial oxygen consumption (mvo2) index. the current study aimed to evaluate the interaction between hgs and mvo...

This paper proposes GISP (Global Information Sharing Protocol), which aims at a world-wide distributed index. A distributed index consists of a set of pair data (key, value) shared by many peers. Each peer is responsible for a part of the index based on a hash function. Every peer is basically flat and there is no single point of failure. A distributed index is an essential building block for p...

background: the motricity index was used to measure strength in upper and lower extremities after stroke. the weighted score based on the ordinal 6 point scale of medical research council was used to measure maximal isometric muscle strength. there is dearth of articles dealing with the reliability of this method. therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the test retest reliability of ...

This paper proposes an efficient algorithm based on memetic algorithm (MA) for a redundancy allocation problem without component mixing (RAPCM) in a series-parallel system when the redundancy strategy can be chosen for individual subsystems. Majority of the solution methods for the general RAPCM assume that the type of a redundancy strategy for each subsystem is pre-determined and known a prior...

soil compaction is a major problem in many parts of the world. the determination of soil compaction profiles requires fast sampling systems to keep pace with the change in soil moisture condition over time. soil cone penetrometers are commonly used for this purpose. a tractor-mounted soil cone penetrometer was designed and fabricated with multiple probes and the ability to determine cone index ...

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the redundancy allocation problem can be described as selecting the components and system configuration in order to optimize some objective function(s) without violating the system constraints. operating conditions are not constant in many advanced engineering systems. mostly, in the engineering applications selection, the number of redundancy components must be balanced among the constraints (...

The minimum complexity or minimum description-length criterion developed by Kolmogorov, Rissanen, Wallace, So&in, and others leads to consistent probability density estimators. These density estimators are defined to achieve the best compromise between likelihood and simplicity. A related issue is the compromise between accuracy of approximations and complexity relative to the sample size. An i...