549 research outputs found
The Medical Diagnostic Support System Using Extended Neural Network and Multiagent
Multiagent technologies enable us to explore their sociological and psychological foundations. A medical diagnostic support system is built using this. Moreover, We think that the data inputted can acquire higher diagnostic accuracy by sorting out using a determination table. In this paper, the recurrence diagnostic system of cancer is built and the output error of Mul-tiagents learning method into the usual Neural Network and a Rough Neural Network and Genetic Programming be compared. The data of the prostatic cancer offered by the medical institution and a renal cancer was used for verification of a system
Suppression of Kármán vortex excitation of a circular cylinder by a second cylinder set downstream in cruciform arrangement
A new technique for suppressing the Kármán vortex excitation of an elastically supported cylinder placed in an otherwise uniform flow is presented in this paper. By placing an another cylinder downstream of it in a cruciform arrangement with a gap s between them, the oscillation of the upstream cylinder can be virtually eliminated in the range of s/d1 < 0.4, where d1 is the diameter of the upstream cylinder. Compared with conventional techniques, this possesses the following advantages: i) it is unnecessary to change the shape of the oscillating body or remodel its supporting structure, and ii) the flow approaching the upstream body is practically undisturbed
Temperature effects on the first three years of soil ecosystem development on volcanic ash
Little is known of the earliest stages of soil ecosystem development on volcanic ash, and how this process is affected by temperature. We studied the first three years of soil development in a field-based mesocosm experiment, situated in different climates across Japan. Newly fallen, sterilized volcanic ash from the Sakurajima volcano (Kyushu, Japan) was placed into pots and positioned at six locations with mean annual temperatures ranging from - 1.6 °C to 18.6 °C. At 24 months into the experiment, C and N accumulation showed only a weak linear correlation with temperature, but by 36 months there was a clear exponential relationship. This applied only to the top 2 cm of the developing soil, and was not apparent in the lower part of the ash. We suggest that this acceleration in warmer climates relates to a positive feedback involving bryophyte cover, which had become much denser by the third year in the warmer sites. Surprisingly, the abundance of 16S rRNA gene copies of bacteria, fungi, archaea - as well as ammonia oxidizers – did not increase from 12 months to 36 months, and did not show any relationship to temperature, suggesting that input from plants is the major factor in increasing C and N buildup in the soil. Overall it appears that temperature effects on bryophyte cover buildup may be important in controlling the temperature relationship in soil development on volcanic ash
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