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Read  full  paper  at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53451#.VMWzDCzQrzE Author(s)     Akhilesh Pathak , Tarang Agarwal , Anand Mohan Affiliation(s) Department of Electronics Engineering, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India . ABSTRACT This paper presents a novel technique for improved voting by adaptively varying the membership boundaries of a fuzzy voter to achieve realistic consensus among inputs of redundant modules of a fault tolerant system. We demonstrate that suggested dynamic membership partitioning minimizes the number of occurrences of incorrect outputs of a voter as compared to the fixed membership partitioning voter implementations. Simulation results for the proposed voter for Triple Modular Redundancy (TMR) fault tolerant system indicate that our algorithm shows better safety and availability performance as compared to the existing one. However, our voter...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=51371#.VGVbPWfHRK1 Author(s) Albert Coleman Affiliation(s) Centre for Bioethics, Medical Law and Patient Advocacy, Sekondi, Ghana . ABSTRACT This paper highlights the increasing problem of road traffic accident (RTA) related morbidity and mortality in Ghana, and the public health measures needed to control the problem. Descriptive data in the public domain from statutory bodies and media houses reports on country RTA information, as well as academic papers on the problem, were used as source of information about the problem. The observed trend in Ghana indicates that RTA related fatalities and injuries continue to be increasing,...