Due to a greater life expectancy in developed countries such as Spain, the incidence of osteoporotic fracture is increasing,1 which has a direct effect on a higher health expense. In the case of hip fracture, which encompasses more severity, the incidence varies up to 7 times among different European countries, being Spain among the countries with lower incidence (711 cases per 100,000 women an...

The expanding and ubiquitous availability of the Internet Things (IoT) have changed everyone’s life easier more convenient. Same time it also offers a number issues, such as effectiveness, security, excessive power consumption, which constitute danger to intelligent IoT-based apps. Group managing is primarily used for transmitting multi-pathing communications that are secured with general group...

Wave-equation migration velocity analysis (WEMVA) is a velocity estimation technique designed to invert for velocity information using migrated images. Its capacity for handling multi-pathing makes it appropriate in complex subsurface regions characterized by strong velocity variation. WEMVA operates by establishing a linear relation between a velocity model perturbation and a corresponding mig...

Real-time simulation of dense crowds is finding increased use in event planning, congestion prediction, and threat assessment. Existing particle-based methods assume and aim for collision-free trajectories. That is an ideal -yet not overly realisticexpectation, as near-collisions increase in dense and rushed settings compared to typically sparse pedestrian scenarios. This paper presents a metho...

Eye movement data have proven to be very useful for investigating human sentence processing. Eyetracking research has addressed a wide range of questions, such as recovery mechanisms following garden-pathing, the timing of processes driving comprehension, the role of anticipation and expectation in parsing, the role of semantic, pragmatic, and prosodic information, and so on. However, there are...

Traditionally, face to face negotiations in the real world have not been looked at as a complex systems interaction of actors that is dynamic and potentially emergent. If indeed negotiations are an outcome of a dynamic interaction of simpler behavior just as with a complex system we should be able to see the patterns contributing to the complexities of a negotiation under study. This paper and ...

BACKGROUND The mobility of health care professionals from the public to private sector is prevalent in South Africa. However, literature on sector switching of clinical doctors remains limited. It is against this background that this study aims to make the labour market visible for histopathologists and identify the reasons for sector switching. METHODS This study is exploratory and descripti...

Wave-equation migration velocity analysis is a technique designed to extract and update velocity information from migrated images. The velocity model is updated through the process of optimizing the coherence of images migrated with the known background velocity model. The capacity for handling multi-pathing of the technique makes it appropriate in complex subsurface regions characterized by st...

Imaging the interior structure of comets and asteroids can provide insight into their formation in the early Solar System, and can aid in their exploration and hazard mitigation. Accurate imaging can be accomplished using broadband wavefield data penetrating deep inside the object under investigation. This can be done in principle using seismic systems (which is difficult since it requires cont...