Current methods to evaluate the severity and progression of the disease, effectiveness of therapy and survival among cancer patients are generally limited in their prognostic ability. Whole-body phase angle, measured by using a tetrapolar, phase-sensitive bioelectrical impedance analyzer, offers a new approach. Phase angle (arc tangent of the ratio of reactance to resistance) is a non-invasive ...

Segregation is a popular phenomenon. It has considerable effects on material performance. To the author’s knowledge, there is still no automated objective Quantitative indicator for segregation. In order to full fill this task, segregation of particles is analyzed. Edges of the particles are extracted from the digital picture. Then, the whole picture of particles is splintered to small rectangl...

The smart shower is an intelligent device that saves the water during the shower. It uses the indicator lamps that inform the user of the amount of the water. Like the traffic signal it has three sets of lamps, green, yellow and red, each indicating the amount of time spent. This device brain is the Siemens Logo PLC.

The dinuclear rhodium(1) R ~ ~ ( P S R ) ~ ( C O ) ~ L ~ complexes have been designed for the low pressure hydroformylation of vario s alkenes. The reaction is fully selective in aldehydes and turnover frequencies as high as 1 s ~ can be reached. A catalytic cycle in which all the intermediates remain dinuclear is consistent with the observed data and involves a cooperative effect between the t...

Since different distributions and link functions have to be used for the different outcomes, we use a special device available in the SAS procedure PROC GLIMMIX, i.e., the ‘byobs=(.)’ specification that can be used to specify both the distribution in the ‘dist=’ option and the link function in the ‘link=’ option. Thus, before we start with the main analysis, two variables need to be created to ...

In order to be able to automatically calculate clinical quality indicators, we have proposed CLIF, a stepwise method for clinical quality indicator formalisation. Quality indicators are used for external accountability and hospital comparison. As clinical quality indicators are computed in a decentralised manner by the hospitals themselves, reproducibility of the formalisation method is essenti...

Until now, road network generalization has mainly been applied to the task of generalizing from one fixed source scale to another fixed target scale. These actions result in large differences in content and representation, e.g., a sudden change of the representation of road segments from areas to lines, which may confuse users. Therefore, we aim at the continuous generalization of a road networ...