13 September 2022
Brazil’s Unified Health System (SUS) provides universal free access to health services and is considered a model for the rest of the world. One of the tools used by the Brazilian government to assess this system is the Index of Unified Health S...
The study established that the application of graph theory enables the creation of a model of a country’s power system structure in the form of a tiered graph. This allows complex structural elements of the system, such as generating units, ele...
Context: Population segmentation is a critical health system planning activity that enables more integrated, needs-responsive, and sustainable care. This paper describes the development and evaluation of a Systemic Health System Population Segmentati...
A disaster preventive structural health monitoring (SHM) system needs to be equipped with the following abilities: First, it should be able to simultaneously measure diverse types of data (e.g., displacement, velocity, acceleration, strain, load, tem...
19 June 2018
Patient-reported posts in Online Health Communities (OHCs) contain various valuable information that can help establish knowledge-based online support for online patients. However, utilizing these reports to improve online patient services in the abs...
The well-developed unified power flow controller (UPFC) has demonstrated its capability in providing voltage support and improving power system stability. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate the capability of the UPFC in mitigating oscillat...
The integrated energy system includes various energy forms, complex operation modes and tight coupling links, which bring challenges to its steady-state modeling and steady-state power flow calculation. In order to study the steady-state characterist...
26 November 2024
Keratoconus is a burden to health systems and patients worldwide. Corneal collagen crosslinking (CXL) treatment has been shown abroad to be cost-effective for treating progressive keratoconus. However, no cost-effectiveness studies have been performe...
Wider applications of integrated microgrids have been significantly restricted by converters with the sole function of power regulation. In microgrids with distributed generation and energy storage equipment, it is crucial for converters to be capabl...
A unified control system that possesses the abilities to arrange collision-free trajectories, precise trajectory tracking, and control allocation for unmanned surface vessels is investigated in this paper by integrating methods, including an image-ba...
4 March 2022
Health equity is cross sectioned by the reproduction of social relations of gender, ethnicity and power. The purpose of this article is to assess how intersectional health equity determines societal health levels, in a local efficiency analysis withi...
After the outbreak of COVID-19, schools heavily depend on e-learning technologies and tools to shift from in-person class to online. This review article analyzes the changes of technology evolution and technology adoption of e-learning in pre- and po...
Complex power electronic conversion devices, most of which have high transmission performance, are important power conversion units in modern aircraft power systems. However, these devices can also affect the stability of the aircraft power system mo...
This paper is concerned with a novel secure data transmission design based on adaptive synchronization of master and slave unified chaotic systems. First, by introducing an augmented error state, an adaptive continuous sliding mode control (SMC) is d...
Green buildings increasingly couple electrical, thermal, and hydrogen subsystems, yet these assets are typically monitored and controlled through separate standards and protocols. The resulting heterogeneous information models and communication stack...
Empowered by the ubiquitous sensing capabilities of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, smart communities could benefit our daily life in many aspects. Various smart community studies and practices have been conducted, especially in China thanks t...
This paper presents an exhaustive search approach to determine the optimal placement of a Unified Power Quality Conditioner (UPQC) in a distribution system that integrates a distributed generation (DG) unit based on photovoltaic (PV) panels. The main...
The traditional method of solving fractional chaotic system has the problem of low precision and is computationally cumbersome. In this paper, different fractional-order calculus solutions, the Adams prediction–correction method, the Adomian de...
Detecting and diagnosing HVAC faults is critical for maintaining building operation performance, reducing energy waste, and ensuring indoor comfort. An increasing deployment of commercial fault detection and diagnostics (FDD) software tools in commer...
In order to improve the position tracking precision of dual permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) systems, a unified nonlinear predictive control (UNPC) strategy based on the unified modeling of two PMSM systems is proposed in this paper. Firstly...
This paper discusses the novel synchronization conditions about the unified system of multi-dimension-valued neural networks (USOMDVNN). First of all, the general model of USOMDVNN is successfully set up, mainly on the basis of multidimensional algeb...
The article studies and develops the methods for assessing the degree of participation of power plants in the general primary frequency control in a unified energy system (UES) of Russia based on time series analysis of frequency and power. To identi...
Offshore wind is planned to become the first source of energy by 2050. That requires installing turbines in deeper seas. It is shown that only floating wind turbines will allow dealing with this challenge while keeping a reasonable cost of energy pro...
This paper presents a unified speech enhancement system to remove both background noise and interfering speech in serious noise environments by jointly utilizing the parabolic reflector model and neural beamformer. First, the amplification property o...
The dynamic and heterogeneous nature of marine environments, combined with severely constrained communication and energy resources, presents distinct challenges in constructing underwater Communication, Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (CPNT) syst...
The paper proves a unified analysis for finite-time anti-synchronization of a class of integer-order and fractional-order chaotic systems. We establish an effective controller to ensure that the chaotic system with unknown parameters achieves anti-sy...
In recent years, grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) power generations have become the most extensively used energy resource among other types of renewable energies. Increasing integration of PV sources into the power network and their dynamic performan...
The carotid body—a chemoreceptive derivative of the neural crest located at the bifurcation of the carotid artery—has been studied for over 282 years. The history of research into this small but vital organ is full of unexpected turns and...
Energy efficiency is a significant topic in cloud computing. Dynamic consolidation of virtual machines (VMs) with live migration is an important method to reduce energy consumption. However, frequent VM live migration may cause a downtime of service....
In recent years, there have been tendencies to enable smart cities with interconnected infrastructures and communities. Current engineering design and operation practices are limited to handling individual systems with modeling and simulation, as wel...
This article investigates the local well-posedness of a coupled system of wave equations on a half-line, with a particular emphasis on Robin boundary conditions within Sobolev spaces. We provide estimates for the solutions to linear initial-boundary-...
In this study, vibration control, a behavior which subordinates to stall-induced nonlinear vibration and amplitude control of a wind turbine’s blade section, based on unified pitch motion driven by slider-linkage mechanism, is investigated by u...
The modular multilevel matrix converter has been proposed as a suitable option for high power applications such as flexible AC transmission systems. Among flexible AC transmission systems, the unified power flow controller stands out as the most vers...
In recent years, as semiconductor manufacturing processes have been steadily scaled down, the transistor count fabricated on a single silicon die can reach up to a billion units. Therefore, current multiprocessor system-on-chips (MPSoCs) can include...
This paper proposes a multi-functional Photovoltaic (PV) inverter based on the Unified Power Quality Conditioner (UPQC) configuration. Power quality improvement is a difficult issue to solve for isolated areas or islands connected to the mainland thr...
The in-depth epidemiology of hypertension has not been studied in Kazakhstan (KZ) yet. We aimed to investigate the crude; age and sex standardized prevalence, incidence, and all-cause mortality rate among hypertensive patients in Kazakhstan using a l...
In an effort to upgrade and provide a unified and improved instrument control and data acquisition system for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) instrument suite—biological small-angle neutron scatter...
Today, climate change combined with the energy crisis is accelerating the worldwide adoption of renewable energies through incentive policies. However, due to their intermittent and unpredictable behavior, renewable energy sources need EMS (energy ma...
An experimental evaluation of a digital control system based on a dual Digital Signal Processor (DSP) architecture is proposed for a three phase Unified Power Quality Conditioner (UPQC). A classical UQPC is constituted by two power conditioners, conn...
This paper addresses the problem of coexistence of synchronization and anti-synchronization (CSAS) for a class of switched chaotic systems by adaptive control method, where the switched system is realized by unified chaotic systems under arbitrary sw...
The integration of a flexible alternating current transmission system (FACTS) and a power system stabilizer (PSS) can increase dynamic stability. This paper presents the enhancement of power system dynamic stability through the optimal design of a po...
Standardization and collaborative integration are fundamental for the implementation of Industry 4.0. The Open Communication Platform Unified Architecture (OPC UA) standard plays a crucial role in communication by enabling the development of heteroge...
The Unified Power Quality Conditioner (UPQC) is one of the Custom Power devices (CP), and it mitigates both load current and supply voltage problems (voltage swells, sags, harmonics, etc.) simultaneously. By using CP, we are getting more familiar wit...
The rapid growth of Earth observation technologies has resulted in over 2000 operational remote sensing satellites, collectively generating an exabyte-scale volume of data. However, despite the availability of large data-sharing platforms, global rem...
14 March 2017
Integration of health education and welfare services in primary care systems is a key strategy to solve the multiple determinants of chronic diseases, such as Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS)....
In recent years, advancements in artificial intelligence, speech, and natural language processing technology have enhanced spoken dialogue systems (SDSs), enabling natural, voice-based human–computer interaction. However, discrete, token-based...
The near real-time NRL global tropical cyclone (TC) monitoring system based on multiple satellite passive microwave (PMW) sensors is improved with a new inter-sensor calibration scheme to correct the biases caused by differences in these sensor’s hi...
The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is the latest advancement in the Internet of Things (IoT). Researchers are increasingly drawn to its vast potential applications in secure healthcare systems. The growing use of internet-connected medical device...
Concerns about greenhouse gas emissions are a key topic addressed by modern societies worldwide. As a contribution to mitigate such effects caused by the transportation sector, the full adoption of electric mobility is increasingly being seen as the...
A unified active power control scheme is devised for the grid-integrated permanent magnet synchronous generator-based wind power system (WPS) to follow the Indian electricity grid code requirements. The objective of this paper is to propose control s...
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