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Digital Angioplasty Balloon Inflation Device for Interventional Cardiovascular Procedures
Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) is an important interventional procedure performed everyday in major hospitals. In this paper, we describe our new designed angioplasty catheter balloon in...
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A Typed Interrupt Calculus
Most real-time systems require responsive interrupt handling. Programming of interrupt handlers is challenging: in order to ensure responsiveness, it is often necessary to have interrupt processing enabled in ...
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Knowledge Management Support for Cooperative Research
A prototype system designed for enhancing the cooperative research of groups and individuals in research institutes is provided. The main implementing techniques are introduced as well.
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Interactive Multi-volume Visualization
This paper is concerned with simultaneous visualization of two or more volumes, which may be from different imaging modalities or numerical simulations for the same subject of study. The main visualization cha...
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Improving Image Retrieval with Semantic Classification Using Relevance Feedback
In this paper, we investigate the combination of image semantic classification with content-based image retrieval. A flexible scheme is proposed to take advantage of image classification, which may be obtained...
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Affine Transformations and Atlases: Assessing a New Navigation Tool for Knee Arthroplasty
We propose a new guidance paradigm for computer-assisted orthopadic surgery, based on nonrigid registration of a patient to a standard atlas model. Such a method would save costs and time compared to CT-based ...
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An Extended Possibility-Based Fuzzy Nested Relational Database Model and Algebra
In order to enhance the expressive power of relational database model, non-first normal (NF2 or nested) relational database model has been introduced, where attribute values may be atomic or set-valued and even r...
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A Classification Approach for Prediction of Target Events in Temporal Sequences
Learning to predict significant events from sequences of data with categorical features is an important problem in many application areas. We focus on events for system management, and formulate the problem of...
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Interactive Visualization of Particle Beams for Accelerator Design
We describe a hybrid data-representation and rendering technique for visualizing large-scale particle data generated from numerical modeling of beam dynamics. The basis of the technique is mixing volume render...
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The Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System and Spatial Information Integration in Tourism Industry—Mount Emei for Example
An integrated information system (ERP system) of tourism industry is proposed in this paper for the management of the planning of Mt. Emei and the relative industries. The authors also demonstrate the advantag...
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Dynamic Vector and Raster Integrated Data Model Based on Code-Points
With the rapid development of remote sensing technology, the integration of raster data and vector data becomes more and more important. Raster data models are used in tessellation spaces and vector data model...
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Generalized Rank Conditions in Multiple View Geometry with Applications to Dynamical Scenes
In this paper, the geometry of a general class of projections from ℝn to ℝk (k < n) is examined, as a generalization of classic multiple view geometry in computer vision. It is shown that geometric constraints th...
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3D Visualization of Large Digital Elevation Model (DEM) Data Set
With the rapid development of Earth observation technologies, raster data has become the main Geographic Information System (GIS) data source. GIS should be able to manage and process huge raster data sets. In...
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Feijoo.net: An Approach to Personalized E-learning Using Learning Styles
This paper proposes a model of adaptation called Feijoo.net. Feijoo. net is a system which adapts contents and the presentation of these contents to the learning style of each student. In this model, contents ...
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Analyzing Errors and Referral Pairs to Characterize Common Problems and Improve Web Reliability
In this paper, we analyze web server error logs and the corresponding referral pairs from web access logs to identify and characterize common web errors. We identify missing files as the primary type of web er...
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A “Development Web Environment” for Learning Programming Languages
This paper proposes an environment for the teaching of program languages in a web environment. We consider that the student has to do exercises when he is learning a programming language; these tasks cause ext...
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Adaptable Contents Visualization (VIC)
VIC is the item inside the e-learning tool PWGD which is addressed to the student, it interacts with him or her, as well. Currently available tools are mainly focussed on teachers, hel** them whereas the stu...
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BDOviedo3: Data XML Storage and Management
OOBDMS provide a good solution for the management of XML documents. This article shows the different approach (specific and generic) of coupling an object model with XML and emphasizes the possibilities offere...
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IOWA: Intuitive-Use Oriented Webtool for the Creation of Adapted Contents (in an E-learning Environment)
In this paper, we propose to include adaptation, in particular to the laearning styles, to traditional e-learning systems in order to get a new application which adapts its contents to the user instead of bein...
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Towards the Design of a Metrics Cataloging System by Exploiting Conceptual and Semantic Web Approaches
In this article we thoroughly discuss conceptual and navigational modeling and query issues for repositories of metrics and their cataloging system by exploiting as well the power of the semantic web approach....