Technical and accessibility issues in hospitals often prevent patients from receiving optimal mental and physical health care,which is essential for independent living,especially as societies age and chronic diseases ...
Respiratory diseases rank as the third leading cause of adult mortality[1],while cardiopulmonary and gastrointestinal issues are the primary cause of death within the first five years of a child’s life[2].The monitor...
When patients having major surgery reach the post-anaesthesia care unit,families naturally assume that they have survived the most dangerous part of the perioperative experience.Their assumption is wrong.Mortality in ...
Road condition is an important variable to measure in order to decrease road and vehicle operating/maintenance costs, but also to increase ride comfort and traffic safety. By using the built-in vibration sensor in sma...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61003049);the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (Y110278, 2010QNA5051);Zheda Zijin Plan
The continuous top-t most influential place (CTtMIP) query is defined formally and solved efficiently in this paper. A CTtMIP query continuously monitors the t places with the maximum influence from the set of place...
Project supported by the second stage of the Brain Korea 21 Project
In a mobile/pervasive computing environment,one of the most important goals of monitoring continuous spatial queries is to reduce communication cost for location-updates.Existing work uses many cellular wireless conne...
Supported by the National Creative Research Groups Science Foundation of China (60721062) and the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (2007AA04Z162).
An iterative learning model predictive control (ILMPC) technique is applied to a class of continuous/batch processes. Such processes are characterized by the operations of batch processes generating periodic strong ...