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Fast 3D Ray Tracing for Indoor Coverage Solutions
2016
Optimal wireless indoor network planning requires huge number of iterations and evaluations of indoor coverage for each antenna location until an optimal solution is reached. Consequently, accurate and scalable calculation of power strength for indoor scenarios becomes necessary. The contribution in this paper is to reduce the complexity of 3D ray tracing for deterministic indoor power prediction. In order to achieve that while preserving the accuracy, image theory with feasible reflection volume as preprocessing approach is introduced. This proposed algorithm stores the image, its feasible reflection volume and valid area of receiving points. Significant complexity reduction is achieved by…
COMPLIANCE PROGRAM IN LATVIAS’ BANKING SECTOR: THE RESULTS OF A SURVEY
2012
Regulators more than ever believe an efficient compliance function is a prerequisite for good corporate governance that should restore trust, integrity, and responsibility in the banks, findings in academic research has confirmed mentioned above in many countries. Compliance is key facet of governance because it shows how actually bank meets corporate responsibilities. The new guidelines in September 2011 had been issued by European Banking Authority with more attention to the compliance function. Compliance is very complex function and covers different areas: Anti-money laundering, investment protection, consumer protection, data protection and etc. Compliance complexity arises from severa…
Embedded Real-Time Surveillance Using Multimodal Mean Background Modeling
2008
Automated video surveillance applications require accurate separation of foreground and background image content. Cost-sensitive embedded platforms place real-time performance and efficiency demands on techniques to accomplish this task. In this chapter, we evaluate pixel-level foreground extraction techniques for a low-cost integrated surveillance system. We introduce a new adaptive background modeling technique, multimodal mean (MM), which balances accuracy, performance, and efficiency to meet embedded system requirements. Our evaluation compares several pixel-level foreground extraction techniques in terms of their computation and storage requirements, and functional accuracy for three r…
An Innovative Similarity Measure for Sentence Plagiarism Detection
2016
We propose and experimentally assess Semantic Word Error Rate (SWER), an innovative similarity measure for sentence plagiarism detection. SWER introduces a complex approach based on latent semantic analysis, which is capable of outperforming the accuracy of competitor methods in plagiarism detection. We provide principles and functionalities of SWER, and we complement our analytical contribution by means of a significant preliminary experimental analysis. Derived results are promising, and confirm to use the goodness of our proposal.
A Controlled Trial of Two Acellular Vaccines and One Whole-Cell Vaccine against Pertussis
1996
Background Concern about both safety and efficacy has made the use of whole-cell pertussis vaccines controversial. In some European countries, including Italy, the rate of vaccination against pertussis is low. Methods We conducted a double-blind trial in Italy in which infants were randomly assigned to vaccination at two, four, and six months of age with an acellular pertussis vaccine together with diphtheria and tetanus toxoids (DTP); a DTP vaccine containing whole-cell pertussis (manufactured by Connaught Laboratories); or diphtheria and tetanus toxoids without pertussis (DT). The acellular DTP vaccine was either one containing filamentous hemagglutinin, pertactin, and pertussis toxin ina…
Nanoscale Engineering in the Biosciences
2009
Biological matter is one of the most diverse and important classes of materials. Products of living organisms (wood, bone, cotton, wool, leather, coal, oil, drugs, etc.) are vital to humanity as foodstuffs, energy sources, engineering and construction materials, and chemicals; and by the way, they shape the environment of the biosphere.
Occupational hygiene in a Finnish drum composting plant
2005
Bioaerosols (microbes, dust and endotoxins) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) were determined in the working air of a drum composting plant treating source-separated catering waste. Different composting activities at the Oulu drum composting plant take place in their own units separated by modular design and constructions. Important implication of this is that the control room is a relatively clean working environment and the risk of exposure to harmful factors is low. However, the number of viable airborne microbes was high both in the biowaste receiving hall and in the drum composting hall. The concentration (geometric average) of total microbes was 21.8 million pcs/m3 in the biowaste…
Characterisation and optimal design of a new double sampling <i>c</i> chart
2019
This paper proposes a new double sampling scheme for c control chart (DS-c), which was designed to improve the performance of c chart or to reduce the inspection cost. The mathematical expression required to do an exact evaluation of ARL and ASN is deduced. Further, a bi-objective genetic algorithm is implemented to obtain the optimal design of the DS-c scheme. This optimisation is aimed to simultaneously minimising the error probability type II and the ASN, guaranteeing a desired level for the error probability type I. A performance comparison between the double sampling (DS), fixed parameters (FP), variable simple size (VSS) and exponential weighted moving average (EWMA) schemes for the c…
Cyclotriveratrylene-Containing Porphyrins
2016
International audience; The C-3-symmetric cyclotriveratrylene (CTV) was covalently bonded via click chemistry to 1, 2, 3, and 6 zinc(II) porphyrin units to various host for C-60. The binding constants, Ka, were measured from the quenching of the porphyrin fluorescence by C-60. These constants vary between 400 and 4000 M-1 and are considered weak. Computer modeling demonstrated that the zinc(II) porphyrin units, [Zn], exhibit a strong tendency to occupy the CTV cavity, hence blocking the access for C-60 to land on this site. Instead, the pincer of the type [Zn]-[Zn] and in one case [Zn]-CTV, were found to be the most probable geometry to promote host-guest associations in these systems.
Badanie właściwości inkluzyjnych p-tert-butylokaliksarenów metodą inwersyjnej chromatografii gazowej
2007
Metodą QSRR scharakteryzowano właściwości inkluzyjne p-tert-butylokaliksarenów o 4, 6 i 8 merach w cyklu oraz ich octanów, wykorzystując do tego celu inwersyjną chromatografię gazową. W badaniach zastosowano przy tym dwa szeregi homologiczne solutów - alkohole alifatyczne oraz benzen i jego homologi. Stwierdzono, że zdolności inkluzyjne w znacznym stopniu zależą od wymiarów luki molekularnej cyklomeru. Zamiana w kaliksarenach grup wodorotlenowych na octanowe nie wywiera natomiast istotnego wpływu na możliwości tworzenia kompleksów typu gość-gospodarz. Wyniki uzyskane metodą QSRR potwierdzono wyznaczonymi wartościami indeksów Kovátsa.