Protecting the Autonomy of Patients with Severe Mental Illness Through Psychiatric Advance Directive Peer-Facilitation by Nicholas Karasik

“… Photo by 168502358© Designer491|Dreamstime.com ABSTRACT Psychiatric Advance Directives (PADs) can protect the autonomy of those living with severe mental illness (SMI) and improve their treatment outcomes. …”
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Accelerated and Highly Correlated ASIC Synthesis of AI Hardware Subsystems Using CGP by H. C. Prashanth, Madhav Rao

“…Unconventional functions, including activation functions and power functions, are extremely hard-to-realize primarily due to the difficulty in arriving at the hierarchical design. The hierarchical design allows the synthesis tool to map the functionality with that of standard cells employed through the regular ASIC synthesis flow. …”
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Applying Improved Performance-Based Instructions to Investigate Seismic Performance of a Code-Conforming Steel Trussed-Tube Building by Pei-Pei Zhao, Zhen-Yu Wang, Masoud Babaei, Kamran Asemi

“…Despite the many advantages of tube systems with braces, known as trussed tubes, no specific seismic design criteria exist in the current regulations to design them, and practitioners utilize common methods used for common building structures to deal with designing such systems. …”
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Modeling and Simulation of Satellite Communication System Base on MBSE by Wenping LI, Hefeng BAI, Yi ZHAO, Leilei WU, Xiaoting WANG

“…A method based on model-based systems engineering (MBSE) for the demonstration, top-level design and engineering construction of the satellite communication system was introduced, which was aim at the problem of design, description, verification and validation in the construction and application of complex satellite communication system.According to the system design standard base on department of defense architecture framework (DoDAF), the system views (SV) such as function model, node model and process model were built by using the system architecture (SA) design software.Through the digital simulation based on model driven and the analysis of simulation data, the correctness, rationality and feasibility of the system design were verifi ed.The results showed that this method can eff ectively identify risks in the system design stage, verify and confi rm the design scheme, and provide strong support for project demonstration, top-level design and engineering construction of satellite communication system.…”
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Effects of variations in signaling of authority and type of sanction, on obedience by Edwin Gerardo Luna Tascón, John Narváez Coral, Julián Figueroa Arias

“…An experiment that allows to observe the effect of four experimental conditions in rule transgressions was designed. Conditions were created starting from variables of signaling of authority and type of sanction: not designated authority and negative sanction; designated authority and negative sanction; not designated authority and positive sanction; and designated authority and positive sanction. …”
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On the Prediction of Product Aesthetic Evaluation Based on Hesitant-Fuzzy Cognition and Neural Network by Xinying Wu, Minggang Yang, Zishun Su, Xinxin Zhang

“…The method increases the attractiveness of products to customers, providing valuable design support for enterprises and designers in the early days when a new product is designed, and reducing research and development risks.…”
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APPLICATIONS OF MONTE CARLO SIMULATION TO STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING PROBLEMS by Abdullah Azbah

“…Three design problems are presented which are the design of a pressure vessel, the design of a rectangular welded beam, and the design of a compression spring. …”
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Simulation and Optimization of Acoustic Package of Dash Panel Based on SEA by Jintao Su, Ling Zheng, Jianping Lou

“…In the existing technology, the acoustic design of instrument panel mostly adopts the reverse design method and pays little attention to the forward design of acoustic system, which tends to lead to the shortcomings such as inaccurate acoustic design and poor acoustic design quality. …”
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Morphological Bias of Ancient Artifacts: A Case Study of Incense Burners in Ming and Qing Dynasties by Yu-Fu Chen, Jie Wei

“…The focuses were the design group on the shape and style of ancient artifacts in aesthetic consideration. …”
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Distributed Channel-Aware Quantization Based on Maximum Mutual Information by Sahar Movaghati, Masoud Ardakani

“…Using the mutual information as the design criterion, we can easily integrate the effect of communication channels in the design and consequently design channel-aware quantization rules. …”
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Obfuscation of combination circuits of digital devices from unauthorized access by L. A. Zolotorevich

“…The problems of designing modern VLSI and SoC are analyzed. The most difficult problems of design are problems of verification of projects at different stages of design. …”
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Defining familiarity in nursing homes providing care for residents with dementia: a scoping review by Joanna Sun, Sumiyo Brennan, Therese Doan

“…ObjectiveThis study explores the underpinning definitions associated with familiarity in the context of dementia inclusive design and nursing home environment.BackgroundEnvironmental design in nursing homes impacts the quality of life and care of residents with dementia. …”
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Digitally-Driven Architecture by Henriette Bier, Terry Knight

“…This implies that, similar to the way that industrial design and fabrication with its concepts of standardisation and serial production influenced modernist architecture, digital design and fabrication influences contemporary architecture. …”
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Perfect secrecy cryptosystem with nonuniform distribution of keys by Chuanjun TIAN

“…More strictly mathematical concepts of infinite perfect secrecy and random “one-time pad” cryptosystem in theory were presented,and the whole secure communication system was divided into two stages:design of a basic cryptosystem and one of its applications.How to design a basic cryptosystem by using a group of orthogonal Latin squares was first studied and an example to illustrate how to design nonlinear encryption transformations for a basic cryptosystem was given.Then,how to design the sequence of keys by using random method with nonuniform distribution was discussed,and it was strictly proven in theory that the infinite random “one-time pad” cryptosystem based on the designed basic cryptosystem was of perfect secrecy.Since the obtained result generalizes the existing one for random “one-time pad” cryptosystem to be perfect by using a basic cryptosystem with modulo addition,it may be used as a wider ideal simulated prototype to design stream cipher algorithms.Since the number of basic cryptosystems that can be designed is much more than one of the common basic cryptosystems with modulo addition,the obtained result is effective supplement and perfection to mainstream design method for the current stream cryptosystems.…”
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Experimental Study on Mechanical Properties of CFRP-Confined Concrete Columns under Continuous Semi-Submergence of Sulfate by Mingxi Cai, Lijun Shao, Jiawei Zhang, Kaijin Xu, Jie Zhang, Penggang Li

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Multiobjective Optimization Method Based on Adaptive Parameter Harmony Search Algorithm by P. Sabarinath, M. R. Thansekhar, R. Saravanan

“…Design optimization involves more numbers of design variables with multiple and conflicting objectives, subjected to complex nonlinear constraints. …”
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Analysis and Recheck of Reinforcement Scheme of Dikes in a Polder by WU Juan, ZHANG Ming, LI Yansong

“…The dike reinforcement project in a polder has a total length of 8 873 m.There are some local problems along the dikes,such as the insufficient crest elevation,thin dikes,insufficient stability of dike slopes,leakage of dikes,and damaged pavement on the crest,which affect the flood control safety of dikes and cannot meet the normal operation requirements.Therefore,on the basis of analyzing the present situation and problems,targeted research on dike reinforcement design is carried out,and the design principles of dike reinforcement are put forward.Moreover,we implement the design contents,including the recheck of crest elevation,reinforcement design of dike sections,anti-sliding stability recheck of dike slopes,anti-seepage and reinforcement design of dikes,and effect evaluation.The reinforcement design scheme fully considers the actual local situation,which meets the overall flood control requirements of the river basin and is compatible with the local existing flood control projects for operation.The proposed dike reinforcement design scheme has certain universality and can be used as a reference for dike reinforcement in plain areas.…”
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Fragment Screening Identifies Novel Allosteric Binders and Binding Sites in the VHR (DUSP3) Phosphatase by Jiaqian Wu, Marek R. Baranowski, Alexander E. Aleshin, Eta A. Isiorho, Lester J. Lambert, Laurent J. S. De Backer, Ye Na Han, Ranajit Das, Douglas J. Sheffler, Andrey A. Bobkov, Alexis M. Lemberikman, Daniel A. Keedy, Nicholas D. P. Cosford, Lutz Tautz

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