IFS compression technique, proposed by Barnsley [1], has been widely studied because of its potentially high compression rates. Usually IFS code is determined by minimizing the rms error between a given image and its collage. As rms error is not a physiological metric, images obtained through the standard IFS coding evidence a lot of noise (blocking effect, bad definition). In order to reduce t...

A generating IFS of a Cantor set F is an IFS whose attractor is F . For a given Cantor set such as the middle-3rd Cantor set we consider the set of its generating IFSs. We examine the existence of a minimal generating IFS, i.e. every other generating IFS of F is an iterating of that IFS. We also study the structures of the semi-group of homogeneous generating IFSs of a Cantor set F in R under t...

The Streptococcus pyogenes NAD-glycohydrolase (SPN) is a toxic enzyme that is introduced into infected host cells by the cytolysin-mediated translocation pathway. However, how S. pyogenes protects itself from the self-toxicity of SPN had been unknown. In this report, we describe immunity factor for SPN (IFS), a novel endogenous inhibitor that is essential for SPN expression. A small protein of ...

IFS compression technique, proposed by Barnsley [1], has been widely studied because of its potentially high compression rates. Usually IFS code is determined by minimizing the rms error between a given image and its collage. As rms error is not a physiological metric, images obtained through the standard IFS coding evidence a lot of noise (blocking effect, bad definition). In order to reduce t...

Journal impact factors (IFs), a measure of citation frequency, are published annually in Journal Citation Reports (JCR). Journal IFs, although controversial because of the uses to which they have been put in academic arenas, remain a metric about which nurses should be informed. This paper discusses key issues in the controversy, explains how IFs are computed, and presents historical and 2009 I...

Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets (IFS) are defined as pairs of mutually orthogonal fuzzy sets. We discuss this approach from an algebraic point of view. As a result we characterize two implication operators on the collection of IFS, which on a particular subset of IFS behave as a Lukasiewicz and a Gödel implication.

OBJECTIVE To identify areas of priority and activity for international sportsfederations (IFs) with respect to athlete health and safety, and global health. Results serve to direct the work of the Association of Summer Olympic IF Medical and Scientific Consultative Group, the International Olympic Committee and to influence IFs' planning and priorities. METHODS The 28 IFs participating in the...

I here propose an index that links the number of papers a researcher has published with impact factors (IFs) of the journals that publish these papers. A researcher is said to have an index z if totally z of his/her papers are published in journals with IFs of at least z/2. The z-index, not meant to evaluate, compare and rank scientists, is a number that hopefully conveniently summarizes the nu...

A simple, yet unifying method is provided for the construction of tilings by tiles obtained from the attractor of an iterated function system (IFS). Many examples appearing in the literature in ad hoc ways, as well as new examples, can be constructed by this method. These tilings can be used to extend a fractal transformation defined on the attractor of a contractive IFS to a fractal transforma...

The IFS/2 is an add-on hardware unit which provides bulk operations on structures such as sets, relations and graphs. This report, which is a sequel to CSM-164, describes seven IFS/2 procedures which perform operations on relations held in the IFS/2’s persistent memory. Internal report CSM-168, February 1992 Department of Computer Science University of Essex Colchester CO4 3SQ UK email: lavingt...