BACKGROUND The objective of this study is to identify high-risk groups for industrial accidents by setting up 2003 as the base year and conducting an in-depth analysis of the trends of major industrial accident indexes the index of industrial accident rate, the index of occupational injury rate, the index of occupational illness and disease rate per 10,000 people, and the index of occupational ...

This paper shows how the concept of an incidence matrix of communications can be used to define the entropy of a finite scheme. The properties of the entropy function are examined and the function is found to be best interpreted as a total expected participation index. Data is presented showing the relationship between structural centrality and the new total expected participa~ tion index. In g...

Measures taken to decrease interdependent risks within chemical industrial areas should be based on quantitative data from a holistic (cluster-based) point of view. Therefore, this paper examines the typology of networks representing industrial areas to formulate recommendations to more effectively protect a chemical cluster against existing systemic risks. Chemical industrial areas are modeled...

This paper evaluates the Support Vector Machine (SVM) applied to upper limb motion classification using myoelectric signals. The main purpose of this paper is to compare SVM-based classifiers with LDA and MLP. SVM demonstrates exceptional classification accuracy and results in a robust way of limb motion classification with low computational cost. The validity of entropy, as an index to measure...

EEG (Electroencephalography) signals can express the human awareness activities and consequently it can indicate the depth of anesthesia. On the other hand, Bispectral-index (BIS) is often used as an indicator to assess the depth of anesthesia. This study is aimed at using an advanced signal processing method to analyze EEG signals and compare them with existing BIS indexes from a commercial pr...

BACKGROUND Concomitantly recorded Bispectral Index® (BIS) and Entropy™ values sometimes show discordant trends during general anaesthesia. Previously, no attempt had been made to discover which EEG characteristics cause discrepancies between BIS and Entropy. We compared BIS and Entropy values, and analysed the changes in the raw EEG signal during surgical anaesthesia with sevoflurane. METHODS...

The aim of this paper is to propose two methods of detecting defects in industrial products by an analysis of gray level images with low contrast between the defects and their background. An additional difficulty is the high nonuniformity of the background in different parts of the same image. The first method is based on correlating subimages with a nondefective reference subimage and searchin...

this paper applies a new multi attribute decision-making (madm) model to help companies for enterprise resource planning (erp) selection problem based on balanced score card method. this paper uses three-parameter interval grey numbers which is derived from grey theory (was proposed by j. deng). this numbers is used instead of linguistic variables. beside, a new weighting method that outcomes f...

Second order lower bounds for the entropy function expressed in terms of the index of coincidence are derived. Equivalently, these bounds involve entropy and Rényi entropy of order 2. The constants found either explicitly or implicitly are best possible in a natural sense. The inequalities developed originated with certain problems in universal prediction and coding which are briefly discussed.

in this paper, with studying existing e-readiness evaluation models and their well-known drawbacks and advantages, we propose a new comprehensive classification for e-readiness evaluation parameters. with this aim in mind; at the beginning we identify and study all popular e-readiness evaluation parameters in international, national, industrial, organizational and individual levels, then we cat...