Bhargavi, K Sathish Babu, B Pitt, Jeremy
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Journal of Intelligent Systems
Cloud computing deals with voluminous heterogeneous data, and there is a need to effectively distribute the load across clusters of nodes to achieve optimal performance in terms of resource usage, throughput, response time, reliability, fault tolerance, and so on. The swarm intelligence methodologies use artificial intelligence to solve computation...
Aegerter, Andrea M Deforth, Manja Johnston, Venerina Ernst, Markus J Volken, Thomas Luomajoki, Hannu Brunner, Beatrice Dratva, Julia Sjøgaard, Gisela Elfering, Achim
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BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
BackgroundNon-specific neck pain and headache are major economic and individual burden in office-workers. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of a multi-component intervention combining workstation ergonomics, health promotion information group workshops, neck exercises, and an app to enhance intervention adherence to assess possible...
Vainieri, Milena Panero, Cinzia Coletta, Lucrezia
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BMC Health Services Research
BackgroundIn recent years, the flow of patients to the Emergency Departments (ED) of Western countries has steadily increased, thus generating overcrowding and extended waiting times. Scholars have identified four main causes for this phenomenon, related to: continuity of primary care services; availability of specific clinical pathways for chronic...
Auvolat, Alex Frey, Davide Raynal, Michel Taïani, François
It has recently been shown (PODC 2019) that, contrarily to a common belief, money transfer in the presence of faulty (Byzantine) processes does not require strong agreement such as consensus. This article goes one step further: namely, it shows that money transfers do not need to explicitly capture the causality relation that links individual trans...
Usman, Muhammad Munsif, Munaza Anwar, Abdur-Rehman
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Optical and Quantum Electronics
To enhance the performance of green light-emitting diodes (LEDs), numerical analysis of structural engineering of conventional LED has been presented. Our proposed structure with composition-graded electron blocking layer as well as thickness-graded last quantum barrier and last quantum well shows improved radiative recombination rate, lower effici...
Hamzah, NM Perera, P. N. Rannan-Eliya, R. P.
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BMC Health Services Research
BackgroundMalaysia’s public healthcare sector provides a greater volume of medicines at lower overall cost compared to the private sector, indicating its importance in providing access to medicines for Malaysians. However, the Ministry of Health (MOH) has concerns about the continuous increase in the public sector medicines budget, and achieving ef...
Shin, Sunkyu Lee, Jeong-Keun Lee, In-Beum
Coke-oven gas and Linz Donawitz gas are pollutive by-product gases generated from steel plants. The gases are currently combusted or released to atmosphere, but those can be economically utilized as chemical product. Thus, this study proposes improved methanol production process from the gases, by considering two different strategies: efficiency (C...
Gates, Allison Gates, Michelle Sebastianski, Meghan Guitard, Samantha Elliott, Sarah A. Hartling, Lisa
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BMC Medical Research Methodology
BackgroundWe investigated the feasibility of using a machine learning tool’s relevance predictions to expedite title and abstract screening.MethodsWe subjected 11 systematic reviews and six rapid reviews to four retrospective screening simulations (automated and semi-automated approaches to single-reviewer and dual independent screening) in Abstrac...
Hamlin, John W Ambriz, Oscar Onofre, Luis
This project was developed with the purpose of creating an efficient energy management system for the DC House project, with a centralized 12V battery system fed by a 48V Multiple Input Single Output Source (MISO). The energy management system will consist of a bidirectional DC-DC converter. During the day when the renewable sources produce enough ...
Hajibagheri, Razie Lotfi, Farhad Bayati, Mohsen
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BMC Research Notes
ObjectivePhysicians as an economic firm make use of available resources such as time, human forces and space to provide healthcare services. The current study aimed at estimating the technical efficiency of Iranian self-employed general practitioners (GPs) and its effective factors using data envelopment analysis and regression analysis.ResultsAbou...
