sliding mode control (sMC) has been considered as a powerful method for disturbances rejection. On the other hand, we have presented an equivalent-input disturbance (EID) approach to reject disturbances. This paper ta...
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Numerous genome-wide association studies (GWAs) have been performed in order to determine the susceptible loci of diseases. However, most diseasesstill cannot be explained by a single locus. Pathway-based methods add...
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Numerous genome-wide association studies (GWAs) have been performed in order to determine the susceptible loci of diseases. However, most diseasesstill cannot be explained by a single locus. Pathway-based methods address this problem by combining those small effects into groups of related genes or pathways. However, because pathway-based approaches consist of multiple steps, there is much room for improvement. This paper presents an improved method for translating list of sNPs from GWAs into list of genes. We incrementally adjusted and compared different modifications applied to Parkinson's disease (PD) genome-wide sNP data and then used GsEA-P to analyze the resulting list of genes. After careful adjustments, we are able to identify more relevant pathways that were not found previously.
In this paper we present the development and evaluation of a parent decision support tool for a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), known as PPADs or Physician and Parent Decision support. The NICU interprofessional ...
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(纸本)9781424441211
In this paper we present the development and evaluation of a parent decision support tool for a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), known as PPADs or Physician and Parent Decision support. The NICU interprofessional (IP) team uses advanced technology to care for the sickest infants in the hospital, some at the edge of viability. Many difficult care decisions are made daily for this vulnerable population. The PPADs tool, a computerized decision support system, aims to augment current NICU decision-making by helping parents make more informed decisions, improving physician-parent communication, increasing parent decision-making satisfaction, decreasing conflict, and increasing decision efficiency when faced with ethically challenging situations. The development and evaluation of the PPADs tool followed a five step methodology: assessing the clinical environment, establishing the design criteria, developing the system design, implementing the system, and performing usability testing. Usability testing of the PPADs tool with parents of neonates who have graduated (survived) from a tertiary level NICU demonstrates the usefulness and ease of use of the tool.
sliding mode control (sMC) has been considered as a powerful method for disturbances rejection. On the other hand, we have presented an equivalent-input disturbance (EID) approach to reject disturbances. This paper ta...
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sliding mode control (sMC) has been considered as a powerful method for disturbances rejection. On the other hand, we have presented an equivalent-input disturbance (EID) approach to reject disturbances. This paper takes a dual-stage feed drive as an example to compare these two methods. The example shows that, while the EID approach obtains almost the same disturbance rejection performance for matched disturbances as that of the sMC does, it can reject unmatched disturbances. Thisshows the superiority of the EID approach over sMC method.
seismic retrofitting with steel brace is widely-spread for the seismic retrofitting of existing RC buildings. However, there has been no study that tried to apply thisseismic retrofit method to existing RC buildings ...
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seismic retrofitting with steel brace is widely-spread for the seismic retrofitting of existing RC buildings. However, there has been no study that tried to apply thisseismic retrofit method to existing RC buildings with very low-strength concrete. In this research, we confirmed the effect of seismic retrofitting steel brace which used post-installed anchor together with epoxy resin for RC structures with low-strength concrete through the structural tests of two series. As the beginning, we confirmed the shear strength of the indirect connection in which existing RC frame is tied to frame of steel brace. Next, we confirmed the mechanical behavior of RC frame retrofitted with steel brace subjected to axial and horizontal loads. From the structural tests, it wasshown that ultimate strength of the indirect connection and RC frame retrofitted with steel brace can be estimated by the current evaluation method. In addition, it made clear that ductility index F of RC frame retrofitted with steel brace can be 2.0.
scaling up sediment transport has been problematic because most sediment loss models (e.g., the Universal soil Loss Equation) are developed using data from small plots where runoff is generated by infiltration excess....
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(纸本)9781618397966
scaling up sediment transport has been problematic because most sediment loss models (e.g., the Universal soil Loss Equation) are developed using data from small plots where runoff is generated by infiltration excess. However, in most watersheds, runoff is produced by saturation excess processes. Therefore, scaling up requires a hydrology model that accurately predicts the location and extent of runoff source areas. These runoff predictions can then be used for simulating sediment concentrations. We base sediment predictions on a simple, well-tested distributed saturation excess hydrology model, which calculatessurface runoff, interflow, and baseflow. surface runoff originates from bottom lands that become saturated during the rainy season or from severely degraded lands with little or no storage capacity. Baseflow and interflow are generated from the remaining parts of the landscape. Interflow comes from the shallow soils over an impermeable surface and base flow results from percolation below the impervious layer. To obtain the sediment concentrations, we assume that during surface runoff, there is a linear relationship between runoff velocity and sediment concentration, but baseflow and interflow are sediment free. Thus only the runoff component of stream discharge is involved in active erosive work compared to baseflow and interflow that contribute minimally to watershed sediment yield. To show the general applicability of the saturation Excess Erosion Model (sEEModel), the model was tested for watersheds located 10,000 km apart, in the United states and in Ethiopia. In the Ethiopia highlands, we simulated the 113 ha Anjeni watershed, the 400 ha Enkulal watershed and the 180,000 km2 the Blue Nile basin. In the Catskill Mountains in New York state, the sediment concentrations were simulated in the upper 493 km2 Esopus Creek watershed. Daily discharge and sediment concentration were well simulated over the range of scales with comparable parameter sets. The Nash
The Teachengineering digital library provides teacher-tested, standards-based engineering content for K-12 teachers to use in science and math classrooms. since its release in 2005, Teachengineering has experienced si...
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New utilization of rice hull, which is one of the agricultural by-products in Japan, is required to use as an industrial resource from a viewpoint of recycling. The rice hull silica carbon (RHs carbon) material is man...
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saad D. AbulhabSaad D. Abulhab
type designer librarian and systems engineer was born in 1958 in Sacramento California and grew up in Iraq. Residing in the U.S. since 1979 he is currently Director of Technology of the Newman Library of Baruch College the City University of New York. He holds a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Polytechnic University and a Master of Science in library and information sciences from Pratt Institute both in Brooklyn. Involved since 1992 in the field of Arabetic computing and typography he is most noted for his non-traditional type designs and the Mutamathil type style which was awarded a U.S. Utility Patent in 2003.
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