Determining the required level of care for patients with acute bacterial meningitis: case reports and literature review by G. Makarevičius, N. Giedraitienė, A. Klimašauskienė

“…Since both economic and human resources are scarce, countries are attempting to develop the most accurate ICU admission criteria that can minimize over- and undertriage. The guidelines designed so far mainly suggest admitting patients to ICU based on their neurological status. …”
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Dynamic Contact Analysis of Torus-involute Gear by Fang Meijuan, Liu Lei

“…Taking the torus-involute gear as study object,according to the theory of gear meshing and the gear hobbing process,the tooth surface equations of torus-involute gears with convex and concave teeth are derived by using the tooth surface equation of counterpart rack.According to the mathematical conditions of neither undercutting nor tooth pointing,based on MATLAB,the Graphical User Interface which contains geometric parameter designs of torus-involute gear is developed.In the light of the tooth surface equations of torus-involute gear,the three-dimensional coordinates of torus-involute gear are calculated which can be used to develop the3-D solid models.The Hypermesh is used to mesh the 3-D models of torus-involute gear.Based on the nonlinear contact algorithm,the finite element models of convex and concave torus-involute gears meshing are established which can be used to implement the dynamic contact analysis in ABAQUS.The results reveal that the width of torus-involute gears is limited by gear undercutting or tooth pointing and the maximum contact stress will be steady after hobbing for a while.The contact stress is small when just a pair of gear teeth are meshing,while the contact stress is large when two pairs of gear teeth are meshing.…”
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Refleksje nad zastosowaniem korczakowskich metod partycypacyjnej pracy z dziećmi w obozach dla uchodźców by Urszula Markowska-Manista, Dominika Zakrzewska-Olędzka

“…An ethical and contextual adaptation or inspiration based on Korczak’s methods in work designed for backgrounds connected with children remaining in closed and semi-closed systems, provides a chance for children’s basic participation in decision-making in matters that concern their lives. …”
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Impurity, Moral Substantiality, and Social Control: A Gender Perspective by Alice Van den Bogaert

“…I propose this concept to designate an ontology in which everything is a substance (bodily fluids and food, but also glances, words, and thoughts) and at the same time a moral value, without distinguishing between materiality and symbolism, a proposal inspired by McKim Marriott’s substance-codes (1976). …”
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English animal zero plurals. A new explanation by Leszek Berezowski

“…Specifically, it is argued that the use of the zero plural mirrors the inability to individuate referents in their natural habitat, i.e. the inability to distinguish between particular individuals. In nouns designating aquatic creatures the inability is rooted in the fact that human eyesight is able to penetrate the water surface only to a very limited extent, which makes animals that live underwater and do not surface practically invisible (e.g. …”
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Current Perspectives on Mycobacterium farcinogenes and Mycobacterium senegalense, the Causal Agents of Bovine Farcy by Mohamed E. Hamid

“…This subclade is closely related to the one accommodating M. peregrinum, M. porcinum, M. septicum, M. neworleansense, and M. alvei. DNA probes were designed from 16S-23S rRNA internal transcribed spacer and could be used for the rapid diagnosis of bovine farcy. …”
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Chikamatsu, Mori, and the uncanny valley by Karl F. MacDorman

“…By exploring anthropomorphism, both Chikamatsu and Mori illuminate principles for designing robots that do not unsettle but delight.…”
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Spectral Expansion Method for Cloud Reliability Analysis by K. Kotteswari, A. Bharathi

“…Assessment of these factors leads to efficiency in designing a scheduler for CSP. These metrics also improved the quality of service (QoS) in the cloud. …”
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Sovereignty of natural resources and accountability. The case of the Bolivian hydrocarbon policy, 2006-2018 by César Augusto Camacho-Soliz

“…This article analyzes the Bolivian hydrocarbon public policy of the 2006-2018 period, drawing from the analytical framework of public policy designs and the methodological accounts of tracing processes. …”
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Detection method of LDoS attack based on ACK serial number step-length by Zhijun WU, Qingbo PAN, Meng YUE

“…Low-rate denial of service (LDoS) attack is a potential security threat to big data centers and cloud computing platforms because of its strong concealment.Based on the analysis of network traffic during the LDoS attack,statistical analysis was given of ACK packets returned by the data receiver to the sender,and result reveals the sequence number step had the characteristics of volatility during the LDoS attack.The permutation entropy method was adopted to extract the characteristics of volatility.Hence,an LDoS attack detection method based on ACK serial number step permutation entropy was proposed.The serial number was sampled and the step length was calculated through collecting the ACK packets that received at the end of sender.Then,the permutation entropy algorithm with strong time-sensitive was used to detect the mutation step time,and achieve the goal of detecting LDoS attack.A test-bed was designed and built in the actual network environment for the purpose of verifying the proposed approach performance.Experimental results show that the proposed approach has better detection performance and has achieved better detection effect.…”
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Adaptive message sending rate control method based on channel congestion cost calculation in VANET by Ming-jian LIU, Guo-zhen TAN, Shuai-bing LI, Nan DING, Cai-xia SONG

“…In VANET,sending beacon messages reliably played a vital role in cooperative awareness and collision avoidance,and changes of vehicle density in real traffic environment had a direct impact on channel load and will cause the channel congestion to a certain degree,thus causing inefficiency of cooperative security applications.Aiming at this issue,a adaptive method based on channel congestion detection to control message sending rate was designed.First of all,an interference model that can accurately reflect the current state of the channel was established.Secondly,according to the Shannon information theory and network utility maximization theory,the optimal transmission speed of the current node in the physical layer was calculated.Finally,according to the mismatch of transmission rate and transmission queue length,the next moment's cost function of the channel congestion degree by monitoring the message queue was established to avoid channel congestion and queue overflow.The simulation experiment shows that the scheme effectively reduces communication transmission delay and avoids channel congestion,ensuring that the data be sent reliably.…”
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The Parla-CLARIN Recommendations for Encoding Corpora of Parliamentary Proceedings by Tomaž Erjavec, Andrej Pančur

“…We discuss the coverage and choices made in designing the recommendations, and give an overview of the guidelines. …”
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QoE utility function-based cross-layer resource allocation in multi-user MIMO-OFDM systems by Da-ming WANG, Song CHEN, Wei-jia CUI, Qiang WANG

“…Resource allocation problem was investigated for downlink multi-user MIMO-OFDM systems.A QoE (quality of experience) utility function was given according to the characteristics of real-time (RT) and non real-time (NRT) ser-vices,and then a RT ＆amp; NRT QoE utility function-based cross-layer resource allocation algorithm was proposed.The al-gorithm firstly used the designed utility function to calculate the delta QoE,which was offered by users got resource.Secondly,it classified users according to their delta QoE and then allocated time-frequency blocks.Thirdly,it optimized the power allocation result by implementing pseudo water flooding power allocation.Simulation results show that com-pared with the existing algorithm,the proposed algorithm is better in the user average QoE,average packet delay to real time services,average packet lost rate to non real time services as well as sum throughput of system.…”
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Cloud federation three-layer architecture: game-theoretic QoS modeling by MA Kun, HU Chuangyue, ZHANG Yuzhi, MA Fangchao, WANG Xiaodong, DANG Zhonghua, XIAO Wenhong, CHEN Shuangxi

“…At the application to virtual layer, an innovative task allocation strategy based on the differential evolution (DE) algorithm was proposed, specifically designed to handle multi-QoS task distribution challenges. …”
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Children's experiences of play in digital spaces: A scoping review. by Fiona M Loudoun, Bryan Boyle, Maria Larsson-Lund

“…This scoping review has identified a lack of articles focusing on children's experiences of play in a digital space, and these perspectives are essential for parents, professionals, game designers, and policymakers alike to contribute to an enhanced understanding of the role of play in digital spaces.…”
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Neural Behavior Chain Learning of Mobile Robot Actions by Lejla Banjanovic-Mehmedovic, Dzenisan Golic, Fahrudin Mehmedovic, Jasna Havic

“…Prediction results suggest that the methodology is adequate and could be recognized as an idea for designing different mobile robot behaviour assistance.…”
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The effect of 8-week hemsball training on balance, reactive agility and lower extremity strength by Ozan Sever, Suleyman Gonulates, Akan Bayraktar, Erdal A Zorb, Zinnur Gerek, Gokhan Ipekoglu

“…This study was designed to investigate the effects of hemsball training, upon reactive agility, balance and vertical jump tests. 80 participants, 50 of whom were the experimental group (8,82± 1,44 years) and 30 of whom (9,00 ± 1,19 years) were the control group, took part in the study. …”
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Reshaping health care governance using pilot projects as public policy implementation instruments by Mélanie De Winter

“…The analysis concerns the specific implementation modalities designed by the authorities, which consisted of the launch of pilot projects involving professionals in the field coming from different sectors in an iterative and incremental co-creation process. …”
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Key technologies of satellite communications aided by reconfigurable holographic surfaces by Xinyuan HU, Ruoqi DENG, Boya DI, Hongliang ZHANG, Lingyang SONG

“…Ultra-dense low earth orbit (LEO) satellite communication networks can overcome the scarcity of spectrum resources and the limited coverage of traditional terrestrial networks, and thus have the potential to provide high data rate services and global massive connectivity for terrestrial users.However, due to the high mobility of the satellites, LEO satellite networks put more stringent requirements on antenna technologies in terms of accurate beam steering and high antenna gain.Reconfigurable holographic surface (RHS), as a new type of metamaterial antenna, is investigated to assist LEO satellite communications.The RHS can electronically control the metamaterial units by leveraging the holographic principle to generate desired directional beams.Based on the hardware structure and holographic working principle of RHS, an RHS-assisted multi-satellite communication scheme was proposed, which considered both the LEO satellite tracking scheme and the data transmission scheme.A holographic beamforming optimization algorithm was also designed to maximize the sum rate.Simulation results verify the effectiveness of the proposed scheme and demonstrat that the RHS provids a more cost-effective way to support satellite communications than the conventional phased array antennas.…”
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The Employee Time Discipline Monitoring System based on Fingerprint Sensor and Website by RIZKI ARDI

“…A time discipline monitoring system has been developed to overcome this problem. This system is designed to make monitoring employee attendance and time discipline easier by utilizing fingerprint scanner technology near the entrance to a room or office building. …”
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