Authors: Massud Atta, Shadi Jafari, Kareen Moore ABSTRACT Growing evidence has made it obvious that early intervention in patients with Achilles tendon rupture extensively affects the prognosis. This requires the use of easily accessible imaging modalities such as ultrasound in … Continue reading
Authors: Mohamed Saad, Maha Bilal, Wael Gabr, Aymen Abd Elnaby ABSTRACT Background: Cognitive impairment (CI) is a common manifestation of multiple sclerosis (MS), which can severely affect patients’ and their families’ life. Early suspicion and detection of CI can improve … Continue reading
Authors: Alexander Adam, Dominik Paulkowski, Bernd Mayer ABSTRACT This research paper is about investigating the mechanisms of elastomeric friction at low velocities. To do so, different experimental setups were performed to analyze friction, adhesion and surface energy among others. The … Continue reading
Authors: Marcos Roberto e Souza, Helio Pedrini ABSTRACT Image compression techniques aim to reduce redundant information in order to allow data storage and transmission in an efficient way. In this work, we propose and analyze a lossy image compression method … Continue reading
Author:Gal Forer ABSTRACT The immense scope of global e-commerce sales, expected to reach USD 4.48 trillion by 2021, is growing much faster than e-commerce and online retail legislation. In China, where the number of online shoppers is expected to reach … Continue reading
Authors: Roufaida Laidi, Djamel Djenouri, Marc Ringel ABSTRACT This work investigates the economic, social, and environmental impact of adopting different smart lighting architectures for home automation in two geographical and regulatory regions: Algiers, Algeria, and Stuttgart, Germany. Lighting consumes a … Continue reading
Authors: Yiming Li, Changqing Li ABSTRACT Many energy consuming countries have carried out research, development, demonstration, planning and deployment of coal-to-liquids (CTL) because of its ability to replace oil imports by converting coal resources into fuel. Among them, China and … Continue reading
Author: Hannu Laurilaorcid ABSTRACT This paper tackles the textbook message that free migration of labour equalizes real wages between local labour markets, since nominal wages should rise and prices should fall in emigrating localities and vice versa in immigrating localities. … Continue reading
Authors: Tatsuya Sekiguchi, Hiroyuki Hamada, Masahiro Okamoto ABSTRACT Systems biology requires the development of algorithms that use omics data to infer interaction networks among biomolecules working within an organism. One major type of evolutionary algorithm, genetic programming (GP), is useful … Continue reading