Sensor network simulations require high fidelity and timing accuracy to be used as an implementation and evaluation tool. The cycle-accurate and instruction-level simulator is the known solution for these purposes. However, this type of simulation in...
21 November 2022
Background: Sedentary behavior (SB) is a negative routine for health, especially during advancing age. Promoting an active lifestyle and reducing SB is a global endeavor. The aim of this study was to analyze the effects of active school-based program...
Modern multiprocessing embedded applications require, in many cases, two different environments on the same platform: one that meets real-time requirements and another one with a general purpose operating system. Although several technologies can be...
Embedded software has properties dependent on hardware (direct operation of address spaces, memory mapped I/O, interruption, etc.). Therefore, demands about the established method of formal verifications corresponding to those properties are increasi...
16 January 2023
Background: Sedentary behaviors have increased in recent years and their consequences have led the World Health Organization to make recommendations for promoting a more active lifestyle. The school environment has been defined as a key place for ach...
Interruption is a widespread phenomenon in human–computer interaction in modern working environments. To minimize the adverse impact or to maximize possible benefits of interruptions, a reliable approach to evaluate interruption cost needs to b...
Popular Large Language Models (LLMs) access uses website browsing and also faces website fingerprinting attacks. Website fingerprinting attacks have increasingly threatened website users to the leakage of browsing privacy. In addition to the often-us...
It is becoming increasingly important to implement projects with care on environmental conditions. Some projects can be carried out only during the allowable season and interrupted during other seasons. Such a project interruption is expected to affe...
Medication administration errors are common, costly and the cause of adverse events in clinical practice. Interruptions during medication administration rounds are thought to be a prominent causative factor of these medication errors. In this observa...
Despite the widespread development and use of chatbots, there is a lack of audio-based interruption datasets. This study provides a dataset of 200 manually annotated interruptions from a broader set of 355 data points of overlapping utterances. The d...
In verifying programs for embedded systems, it is essential to reduce the verification time because state explosion may occur during model checking. One solution is to reduce the number of interrupt handler executions. In particular, when periodic in...
Increasing distributed generation and intermittencies, along with the increasing frequency of extreme weather events, impose a serious challenge for electric power supply security. Understanding the costs of interruption is vital in terms of enhancin...
Under the background of economic development, energy security and environmental demands, the development of clean and low-carbon energy has promoted natural gas and non-fossil energy to become the main direction of world energy development. China&rsq...
Losses due to floods have dramatically increased over the past decades, and losses of companies, comprising direct and indirect losses, have a large share of the total economic losses. Thus, there is an urgent need to gain more quantitative knowledge...
A planned interruption of railway infrastructure is a situation where the operation of the track line or the operation of railway transport is limited. If there is also a restriction on the railway infrastructure, it means there will be complications...
This paper presents the results of a comparative analysis of the dielectric strength of disconnecting vacuum interrupters operating on air and helium. The breakdown voltage Ud was measured in the pressure range from 8.0 × 10−4 Pa to 3.0 × 101 Pa for...
The insulation performance of vacuum arc interrupters greatly affects the reliability of vacuum circuit breakers. Optimizing the electric field distribution of a vacuum arc interrupter can improve its insulation performance. Here, we establish a two-...
Friedreich’s ataxia (FRDA) is a comparatively rare autosomal recessive neurological disorder primarily caused by the homozygous expansion of a GAA trinucleotide repeat in intron 1 of the FXN gene. The repeat expansion causes gene silencing that resul...
The standard oncologic treatment of locally advanced rectal cancer is long-course radio-chemotherapy followed by surgery and adjuvant chemotherapy. This can result in a lengthy total treatment duration, sometimes up to one year from the diagnosis. In...
When faults and disturbances occur in power systems, backup power resources respond to maintain the system’s frequency, and the frequency recovery effect is related to the primary frequency regulation of the reserve capacity provided by and the respo...
In this paper, the effect of an external ultrafast transverse magnetic field (UFTMF) on a vacuum arc in the diffused mode has been studied. According to the results of studies, a novel approach for making a zero-crossing in a DC arc current has been...
Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is one promising material class for applications in DUV optoelectronics due to the layered structure and ultra-wide bandgap. The synthesis of h-BN with smooth surface morphology and high quality on dielectric substrates...
Background: Enteral nutrition interruptions (ENI) are prevalent in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), but there is little evidence of their characteristics. Methods: This is a cross-sectional multicenter study including critically ill children...
There are complex physical phenomena for the interpretation of a molded case circuit breaker (MCCB) in a distribution system. Most of the studies of MCCB interruption phenomena were conducted with numerical analysis and experiments. This traditional...
Using various digital devices, and being faced with digital interruptions is a given for students not only in traditional university classes but also in blended learning courses. Hence, this study (N = 201) at an Austrian university of applied scienc...
This research article explores the behavior of a phase change material (PCM) when it undergoes interrupted melting and freezing, through experimental investigations using a heat flow meter apparatus. A fatty acid-based organic PCM, encapsulated withi...
Growing uncertainty in supply and demand in power systems causes significant challenges in maintaining supply reliability at affordable costs. Power grids are expected to undergo substantial transformations to address these challenges with upgrades a...
In a recent article, Didier Pollefeyt reflected on the worrisome observation that young children seemingly successfully raised in the Christian faith in Catholic schools lose this faith by the end of secondary education. According to him, the combina...
It is known that the presence of CAA codons in the CAG tract affects the nature and time of disease onset caused by the expansion of trinucleotide repeats. The mechanisms leading to the occurrence of these diseases should be sought not only at the le...
This study contributes to the emerging stream of the literature on the COVID-19-related risks and their impact on businesses’ performance. The growing evidence within is, however, missing the uniqueness of country-level settings, as well as lacking t...
The interruption of transportation on the way to Tibet has brought great losses to the Tibetan region. The work proposed a model that integrated the entropy weight-TOPSIS method with the fuzzy C-means clustering algorithm to discuss the causes and ch...
This article demonstrates the enabling influence of mixed-genre (or hybrid) poetries by North American women on recent poetry by Irish women poets, specifically in the past decade. Using a compositional/practice-based framework of interruption, the a...
Innovation in the economy is closely tied to energy development, encompassing the exploration of new energy sources, increased energy production efficiency, and the integration of diverse energy sources for safe and effective supply to industries and...
In the last years, many antiretroviral drugs (ART) have been developed with increased efficacy. Nowadays, the main reasons for treatment switches are adverse events, proactive strategy or simplification. We conducted a retrospective cohort study to i...
Task interruptions and fatigue in high-risk environments such as coal mining significantly affect the safety behavior of coal mine tunneling machine operators. Understanding the cognitive mechanisms underlying unsafe behaviors is crucial for improvin...
In this publication, we use a small convolutional neural network to detect cut interruptions during laser cutting from single images of a high-speed camera. A camera takes images without additional illumination at a resolution of 32 × 64 pixels...
In the study, an interrupting performance test on the 145 kV gas circuit breaker is performed according to three different gases: SF6, g3 (5% NovecTM4710 with 95% CO2), and CO2(70%)/O2(30%) gases. Thanks to research advancements, it is confirmed that...
Young nurses’ safety behavior and interrupted coping behavior affect patient safety. A stepped, interactive and situated training program should be evaluated to assist young nurses in improving themselves. This study aimed to evaluate the effec...
The existing research proposes an intra-pulse frequency agile radar waveform with “active” anti-jamming characteristics. It uses the discontinuity and periodicity of the interrupted-sampling repeater jamming and combines the anti-jamming...
This paper presents a state-of-the-art review of the impact of energy interruptions on people, buildings, and neighborhoods and discusses some technological and design strategies to mitigate some of these impacts. An exhaustive literature review was...
Combined SINS/GPS navigation systems have been widely used. However, when the traditional combined SINS/GPS navigation system travels between tall buildings, in the shade of trees, or through tunnels, the GPS encounters frequent signal blocking, whic...
This retrospective, non-interventional study investigated the impact of a forced training interruption, such as the COVID-19 nationwide lockdown, on the physical efficiency, performance, and technical-agility skills of prepubertal soccer players by c...
We report on the systematic study of two main scattering mechanisms on intersubband transitions, namely ionized impurity scattering and interface roughness scattering. The former mechanism has been investigated as a function of the dopants position w...
This study reports on the effect of interrupted quenching on the microstructure and mechanical properties of plates made of the AlZnMg(Cu) alloy AA7050. Rapid cooling from the solution heat treatment temperature is interrupted at temperatures between...
In the new context of information sharing to reshape the supply chain’s interruption risk propagation mechanism, this paper focuses on the interruption risk propagation and resilience of the supply chain of emergency medical supplies in the bac...
In order to study the selection of coping strategies for the manufacturer facing different supply interruption risks, this paper constructs a supply chain consisting of one manufacturer and one supplier and uses no-taking coping strategies as the ben...
In this contribution, we compare basic neural networks with convolutional neural networks for cut failure classification during fiber laser cutting. The experiments are performed by cutting thin electrical sheets with a 500 W single-mode fiber laser...
In this paper, we present a new lattice model of traffic flow by considering the effects of traffic interruption probability. The stability condition of the proposed model is obtained by employing the linear stability theory. The results show that th...
This paper analyses the transient characteristics and breaking performance of direct-current (DC) forced-interruption vacuum interrupters in 270 V power-supply systems. Three stages are identified in forced interruption: the DC-arcing stage, current-...
Personal smartphone use at work stretches the boundary between professional and personal life, leading to a more fragmented workday. This study investigates how interruptions from personal smartphone use during work hours affect employees’ perf...
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