210 research outputs found
Watching Strangers Die
No full textabstract: This long form creative nonfiction essay gives insider details on working in an emergency room as a medical scribe. The most pertinent topic is death and how the author copes with seeing patients die on a regular basis. Other topics are emergency room procedures, specific diagnoses and treatments, as well information on the other personnel in an emergency room
Description of common musculoskeletal findings in Williams Syndrome and implications for therapies
No full textDistributed Transactive Framework for Congestion Management of Multiple-Microgrid Distribution Systems
No full textThe privatization of distribution systems has resulted in the development of multiple-microgrid (multiple-MG) systems where each microgrid independently operates its local resources. Moreover, the high integration of independent distributed energy sources could lead to operational issues such as grid congestion in future distribution systems. Therefore, this paper provides a transactive-based energy management framework to operate multiple-MG distribution systems; while, alleviating grid congestion in a decentralized manner. In this respect, alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is considered to develop an operational framework that copes with distributed nature of multiple-MG systems. In this context, a novel procedure in the context of ADMM is proposed to distributedly determine transactive coordinator signals which address energy prices as well as power losses and grid congestions. Furthermore, each MG takes into account stochastic programming and the conditional value-at-risk index to handle the uncertainty of its operational scheduling. At last, the proposed framework is applied on IEEE 37-bus and 123-bus test grids to investigate its efficacy in distributed energy management of multiple-MG systems.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Intelligent Electrical Power Grid
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No full textAbstract: The advent of wireless technology, such as cellphones, PDAs, tablet PCs, and sub-notebooks, allows transferring portions of traditional, desktop-based GIS technology to mobile environments. This paper introduces Geo-Mobile Query-by-Sketch, a sketch-based spatial querying system for mobile GIS environments that combines techniques for spatial querying with mobile technologies. The system implements an adaptive client-server architecture, which copes with restrictions of mobile environments, such as fluctuating bandwidth and frequent disconnections. The core concept analyzed is the mobile sketch, a multi-representation data structure of a sketched scene, which enables an adaptation strategy that is tailored to the available transmission rates. We analyze the transmission cost of Geo-Mobile Query-by-Sketch and develop a protocol that optimizes the adaptation level in order to guarantee quality of service
Probabilistic design using numerical optimization.
Get PDFA FORTRAN program has been developed to allow for the use of probabilistic design methods in the numerical optimization process. The program was written as a set of subroutines for COPES (Control Program For Engineering Synthesis). COPES maximizes or minimizes a numerically defined objective function subject to a set of inequality constraints using the optimization program CONMIN (A Fortran Program for Constrained Function Minimization). The program developed here allows for the use of both the normal and lognormal distribution models. Design examples are presented to demonstrate the program capabilities. User instructions are provided for inclusion in the COPES user's manual. (Author)Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.Lieutenant Commander, United States Navyhttp://archive.org/details/probabilisticdes109452030
Elastic gradient boosting decision trees under limited labels by sequential epistemic uncertainty quantification: Elastic CatBoost Uncertainty (eCBU)
No full textIntrusion detection systems (IDSs) are essential for protecting computer systems and networks from malicious attacks. However, IDSs face challenges in dealing with dynamic and imbalanced data, as well as limited label availability. In this thesis, we propose a novel elastic gradient boosting decision tree algorithm, namely Elastic CatBoost Uncertainty (eCBU), that adapts to concept drifts and copes with label scarcity by using a novel sequential uncertainty estimation method. We compare our method with state-of-the-art techniques on synthetic and real-world datasets and show that it achieves comparable accuracy and higher robustness to limited label availability in intrusion detection tasks.Computer Science | Artificial Intelligenc
The passionate psychoanalyst. Subjectivity interprets
Get PDFEl siguiente texto se basa en la búsqueda de motivos y de hipótesis sobre la pasión que muchos seguidores de Sigmund Freud sienten a la hora de leer, interpretar y de comunicar las ideas propuestas por dicho autor. Lo que se va a pasar a desarrollar es resultado de una metodología llevada a cabo por el desglosamiento de conceptos psicoanalíticos que forman parte del conocimiento de los lectores de Freud.The following text deals with the search for motivation and hypotheses about the passion that many Sigmund Freud's followers feel when reading, interpreting and communicating the ideas proposed by the author. What will be developed is the result of a methodology carried out by the breakdown of psychoanalytic concepts that are part of the knowledge of Sigmund Freud's readers.Facultad de Psicologí
Balancing loving and caring in times of chronic illness
No full textPurpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of chronic illness on a couple’s life experiences over a period of 40 years. It critically examines the assumptions of the public health discourse in the light of this couple’s attempts to balance love and health care within their relationship. Design/methodology/approach: The couple, the first two authors, put themselves under the magnifying glass. They arranged for a dialogic encounter and built a co-constructed auto-ethnography. This study consists of a “raw” narrative and a reflection. This reflexive part was added by the third author, interpreting the couple’s experiences applying in a sociocultural way theories of ethical care. This sheds light on ethical care aspects encountered in the couple’s balancing of love and health care. Findings: This study shows that the couple copes with adversity rather than being in control of it. Nonetheless their love relationship appears to be flourishing, thanks to their acknowledgement of the importance of mutual caring. Research limitations/implications: The current public health discourse puts the couple’s private love relationship under pressure. It turns a blind eye towards the difficulties they experience with the contemporary “self-management” paradigm. The couple feels that the government is an interloper intruding into their private relationship. This creates tension, friction, anxiety, as well as increasing the burden of the illness and makes them feel insecure and unsafe. Originality/value: The novel method used in this study offers a rare and deep insight
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