He said: "The first stage of the project was just to determine whether the types of sensors can detect an illegal action, which, after a bit of experimentation and number crunching they decided it could.
Age, Fnlwgt, Hours-per-week, the numerical attributes, are chosen as Quasi Identifiers for our experimentation and number of coalitions, anonymity level, number of outliers, IL (using Eq. 7) are calculated over different values of similarity weight factor ((beta)) and multiplicity factor ((gamma)).
Animal experimentation permit number 75-739 (Certificat d'autorisation d'expérimenter sur animaux vertébrés number 75-739) given by the veterinarian services board (Dr. Claudine Crochet, D.V.M).
All experiments were conducted in strict compliance with European directives and French laws on animal experimentation (authorization number 3307016).
The experimental protocol have been reviewed and approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of the Université de la Méditerranée (experimentation permit number C13-055-9; personandagreements 13-472and 13-472).
Our laboratory has the administrative authorization for animal experimentation (Permit Number 75 1554) and the protocol was approved by the Institut Pasteur Review Board that is part of in the Regional Committee of Ethics of Animal Experiments of Paris region (Permit Number: 99 174).
These experiments were conducted on 8-week old Sprague-Dawley male rats (Charles River, L'Arbresle, France) according to French regulations for animal experimentation (Ministry of Agriculture Act number 2001-464, 2001) and with the approval of IRSN animal welfare committee.
Experimentation with numbers of steps between hurdles led to a conventional step pattern for hurdlers 3 steps between each high hurdle, 7 between each low hurdle, and usually 15 between each intermediate hurdle.
Capture and sampling of living animals (n = 24) were carried out with the authorizations of the competent authorities, as requested by Swiss legislation (455 animal protection law, including legislation on animal experimentation; authorization numbers GR 24/06 and VD 1863).
