In this article we propose a fuzzy controller, as an inference engine for cognitive optical networks, to take decisions about routing of new demands of lightpaths, considering physical layer impairments (Fuzzy ...

© 2018, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.The metric notion of a self-contracted curve (respectively, self-expanded curve, if we reverse the orientation) is hereby extended in a natural way. Two ...

It is hereby established that, in Euclidean spaces of finite dimension, bounded self-contracted curves have finite length. This extends the main result of Daniilidis et al. (J. Math. Pures Appl. 94:183–199, 2010) concerning ...

This extended literature review explored adolescent self-concept at a rural secondary school in East Trinidad. The findings suggest that a lack of self-esteem, self-efficacy, and self-control contribute to poor self-concept, ...

Self-compatibility in apomictic pseudogamic species is considered fundamental to assure reproduction by seeds in extreme situations, making apomictic species more advantageous than sexual ones in these scenarios. Anemopaegma ...

The phenomena of self-consciousness and self-knowledge play a central role in Kant's philosophy. Their relevance is not restricted to the field of theoretical philosophy, nor to the sphere of a priori knowledge. The ...