Database Files Research Articles

Design and Implementation of Langfang Earthquake Disaster Prediction System Based on GIS

In view of the country needs to improve earthquake disaster prevention ability of the city, this essay provided the design plan of Langfang Earthquake Disaster Prediction System(EDPS) Based on GIS. Using the GIS technology, data conversion technology and software development technology, the system established the earthquake damage prediction of spatial database and unified file data conversion interface and coordinate system, the system achieved the Langfang map visualization management and earthquake damage prediction of thematic map management system. The realization of the system provides effective technical support and improves the Langfang earthquake disaster prevention capacity.

A New Strategy of Storage & Retrieval for Massive Remote Sensing Data Based on Embedded Database Files

A New Strategy of Storage & Retrieval for Massive Remote Sensing Data Based on Embedded Database Files

National Ignition Facility and managing location, component, and state

The National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is a stadium-sized facility that contains a 192-beam, 1.8-MJ, 500-TW, ultraviolet laser system coupled with a 10-m diameter target chamber. There are over 6200 Line Replaceable Units (LRUs) comprised of more than 104,000 serialized parts that make up the NIF. Each LRU is a modular unit typically composed of a mechanical housing, laser optics (glass, lenses, or mirrors), and utilities. To date, there are more than 120,000 data sets created to characterize the attributes of these parts. Greater than 51,000 Work Permits have been issued to install, maintain, and troubleshoot the components. One integrated system is used to manage these data, and more. The Location Component and State (LoCoS) system is a web application built using Java Enterprise Edition technologies and is accessed by over 1200 users. It is either directly or indirectly involved with each aspect of NIF work activity, and interfaces with ten external systems including the Integrated Computer Control System (ICCS) and the Laser Performance Operations Model (LPOM). Besides providing business functionality, LoCoS also acts as the NIF enterprise service bus. In this role, numerous integration approaches had to be adopted including: file exchange, database sharing, queuing, and web services in order to accommodate various business, technical, and security requirements. Architecture and implementation decisions are discussed.

Erratum: ViBE-Z: a framework for 3D virtual colocalization analysis in zebrafish larval brains

Nat. Methods 9, 735–742 (2012); published online 17 June 2012; corrected after print 9 July 2012. In the version of this article initially published, two items in the Online Methods section were incorrect. The MATLAB code in the 'ViBE-Z database file' section contained an extraneous semicolon, whichappeared in the HTML only and has been corrected.

A framework for preservation of cloud users’ data privacy using dynamic reconstruction of metadata

In the rising paradigm of cloud computing, attainment of sustainable levels of cloud users’ trust in using cloud services is directly dependent on effective mitigation of its associated impending risks and resultant security threats. Among the various indispensible security services required to ensure effective cloud functionality leading to enhancement of users’ confidence in using cloud offerings, those related to the preservation of cloud users’ data privacy are significantly important and must be matured enough to withstand the imminent security threats, as emphasized in this research paper. This paper highlights the possibility of exploiting the metadata stored in cloud's database in order to compromise the privacy of users’ data items stored using a cloud provider's simple storage service. It, then, proposes a framework based on database schema redesign and dynamic reconstruction of metadata for the preservation of cloud users’ data privacy. Using the sensitivity parameterization parent class membership of cloud database attributes, the database schema is modified using cryptographic as well as relational privacy preservation operations. At the same time, unaltered access to database files is ensured for the cloud provider using dynamic reconstruction of metadata for the restoration of original database schema, when required. The suitability of the proposed technique with respect to private cloud environments is ensured by keeping the formulation of its constituent steps well aligned with the recommendations proposed by various Standards Development Organizations working in this domain.

A Mass Spectrometry Proteomics Data Management Platform

Mass spectrometry-based proteomics is increasingly being used in biomedical research. These experiments typically generate a large volume of highly complex data, and the volume and complexity are only increasing with time. There exist many software pipelines for analyzing these data (each typically with its own file formats), and as technology improves, these file formats change and new formats are developed. Files produced from these myriad software programs may accumulate on hard disks or tape drives over time, with older files being rendered progressively more obsolete and unusable with each successive technical advancement and data format change. Although initiatives exist to standardize the file formats used in proteomics, they do not address the core failings of a file-based data management system: (1) files are typically poorly annotated experimentally, (2) files are "organically" distributed across laboratory file systems in an ad hoc manner, (3) files formats become obsolete, and (4) searching the data and comparing and contrasting results across separate experiments is very inefficient (if possible at all). Here we present a relational database architecture and accompanying web application dubbed Mass Spectrometry Data Platform that is designed to address the failings of the file-based mass spectrometry data management approach. The database is designed such that the output of disparate software pipelines may be imported into a core set of unified tables, with these core tables being extended to support data generated by specific pipelines. Because the data are unified, they may be queried, viewed, and compared across multiple experiments using a common web interface. Mass Spectrometry Data Platform is open source and freely available at http://code.google.com/p/msdapl/.

PhiloBiblon (review)

Reviewed by: PhiloBiblon Francisco Gago-Jover PhiloBiblon University of California. 1997–2012. Web. <http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/PhiloBiblon/>. Background.PhiloBiblon includes three main bibliographical databases: BETA (Bibliografía Española de Textos Antiguos), BITECA (Bibliografía de Textos Antics Catalans, Valencians i Balears), and BITAGAP (Bibliografia de Textos Antigos Galegos e Portugueses). In its current state, PhiloBiblon is the latest iteration of a project started [End Page 323] in the last quarter of the twentieth century by the Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with the publication of BOOST (Bibliography of Old Spanish Texts), originally compiled starting in 1974 as part of the Dictionary of Old Spanish Language Project, and which saw three printed editions (1975, 1977, and 1984). In 1985 the editorial work was moved to Berkeley, and in 1987 a grant from IBM allowed the porting of BOOST from a mainframe flat file database into Advanced Revelation, a DOS-based relational database. In 1993 the DOS version of PhiloBiblon, which already included BETA, BITAGAP, and BITECA, was published on CD-ROM as part of disk 0 of ADMYTE (Archivo Digital de Manuscritos y Textos Españoles). In 1999 The Bancroft Library prepared a new, revised, and expanded edition of the DOS version that was published on CD-ROM. In 2001 an NEH grant made it possible to port the database from the Advanced Revelation DOS database management system to the corresponding Windows-based system. The Berkeley team had already begun porting PhiloBiblon to HTML format by 1997. When it became available, this first web-based version allowed searches by author and title or on free text extracted from the descriptions of manuscripts and printed editions. The current web version of PhiloBiblon (http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/PhiloBiblon/) draws its data from a new version of the underlying database system to which all the information of the component bibliographies was ported in late 2008. As one can easily imagine, the purpose and scope of the PhiloBiblon project have evolved considerably since 1974.1 Today the three independent databases attempt to provide comprehensive union catalogs of all the primary sources—non-notarial texts dealing with any subject matter (e.g., history, law, science, agriculture, theology, or philosophy), as well as imaginative prose and poetry, both in manuscript and printed format, before 1800, with selected MSS from the nineteenth and even twentieth centuries that may reflect now-lost originals, and books printed before 1520. BETA focuses mainly on texts written in Castilian, although it also contains materials in related dialects: Leonese, Navarrese, Aragonese, and Mozarabic, as well as aljamiado materials in Hebrew or Arabic script in any of these dialects. BITAGAP pays attention to the texts originally composed in Portuguese, Galician-Portuguese, and Galician, or translated into those languages. And BITECA, for its part, deals with the manuscripts and printed editions that contain medieval Catalan works. As of March of 2012 the number of entries in each of [End Page 324] the three databases is as follows: 33,373 in BETA, 65,064 in BITAGAP, and 31,640 in BITECA. UsingPhiloBiblon. When we first access the PhiloBiblon website we are welcomed by a simple but effective interface (http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/PhiloBiblon/searchwork_en.html). The main menu and links to access the PhiloBlog are placed on the left hand column, and the textual contents are displayed on the right. It should be noted that, due to the multilingual nature of the project, both the interface and the contents are available in Catalan, English, Spanish, and Portuguese, with a Galician version in the works. To switch languages one just needs to click on the flags on the top right corner of the page. The main menu provides access to the following sections: • Home: the initial page. • Search: access to the five available search types, described in detail in the next section. • About PhiloBiblon: general information about the project, including bibliographies, preferred citation, language, statistics, web version, windows version, history, acknowledgments, and copyright. • Help: general information on searches, uniform resource locator (URL), and character set. There are also links to the help manuals for each specific bibliography. These manuals are available in Spanish for BETA, and Catalan for...

데이터베이스 기반 GPS 위치 보정 시스템

A GPS sensor is widely used in many areas such as navigation, or air traffic control. Particularly, the car navigation system is equipped with GPS sensor for locational information. However, when a car goes through a tunnel, forest, or built-up area, GPS receiver cannot get the enough number of satellite signals. In these situations, a GPS receiver does not reliably work. A GPS error can be formulated by sum of bias error and sensor noise. The bias error is generated by the geometric arrangement of satellites and sensor noise error is generated by the corrupted signal noise of receiver. To enhance GPS sensor accuracy, these two kinds of errors have to be removed. In this research, we make the road database which includes Road Database File (RDF). RDF includes road information such as road connection, road condition, coordinates of roads, lanes, and stop lines. Among the information, we use the stop line coordinates as a feature point to correct the GPS bias error. If the relative distance and angle of a stop line from a car are detected and the detected stop line can be associated with one of the stop lines in the database, we can measure the bias error and correct the car's location. To remove the other GPS error, sensor noise, the Kalman filter algorithm is used. Additionally, using the RDF, we can get the information of the road where the car belongs. It can be used to help the GPS correction algorithm or to give useful information to users.

Are the frail destined to fail? Frailty index as predictor of surgical morbidity and mortality in the elderly

America's aging population has led to an increase in the number of elderly patients necessitating emergency general surgery. Previous studies have demonstrated that increased frailty is a predictor of outcomes in medicine and surgical patients. We hypothesized that use of a modification of the Canadian Study of Health and Aging Frailty Index would be a predictor of morbidity and mortality in patients older than 60 years undergoing emergency general surgery. Data were obtained from the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Participant Use Files database in compliance with the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Data Use Agreement. We selected all emergency cases in patients older than 60 years performed by general surgeons from 2005 to 2009. The effect of increasing frailty on multiple outcomes including wound infection, wound occurrence, any infection, any occurrence, and mortality was then evaluated. Total sample size was 35,334 patients. As the modified frailty index increased, associated increases occurred in wound infection, wound occurrence, any infection, any occurrence, and mortality. Logistic regression of multiple variables demonstrated that the frailty index was associated with increased mortality with an odds ratio of 11.70 (p < 0.001). Frailty index is an important predictive variable in emergency general surgery patients older than 60 years. The modified frailty index can be used to evaluate risk of both morbidity and mortality in these patients. Frailty index will be a valuable preoperative risk assessment tool for the acute care surgeon. Prognostic study, level II.

Microstructure of Face Centered Cubic (fcc) TiB Powder Synthesized by Boronizing of Ti Powder

High resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) and X‐ray diffraction (XRD) techniques were used to examine the crystal structure of TiB ceramic powder synthesized by a Ti‐Boronizing method. The HRTEM analysis revealed that the synthesized titanium boride has fcc crystal structure, with titanium and boron atoms alternatively arranged like Na and Cl ions in NaCl‐type lattice. The crystal structure of this boride phase, denoted as fcc‐TiB in the paper, was confirmed also by XRD analysis and agrees with the data reported in the card PDF # 06‐641. This card is present in the powder diffraction file (PDF) database, but seldom quoted in literature because the typical crystal structure of TiB that forms in situ as a phase is orthorhombic. The present work reports new experimental data on the crystal properties of pure fcc‐TiB not yet reported in the literature. The lattice parameter of fcc‐TiB, calculated from XRD analysis, is a0=4.245 Å.

Bilharziose urinaire : une série française

Urinary schistosomiasis is very frequent, but there are few data upon its epidemiology in western countries. We wanted to describe the cohort from Tenon hospital, in Paris, France, near a big subsaharian community.We searched in our clinical files database for "urinary schistosomiasis" encoding.The cohort comprised 207 men and 34 women seen for the first time at the mean age of 34, mainly for haematuria or LUTS. Patients were mainly native from subsaharian Africa. The lost to follow up rate was 54%. Diagnosis was made on sole endoscopic finding in half of the cases. For non-tumor pathology, were made seven cystoplasties et 12 ureteral dilations. Tumoral pathology was frequent and severe (15/81 from the same age range), mainly represented by urothelial histology (8/14). Imported cases were rare (five cases).Despite its limitations, different characteristics from this cohort seemed noticeable: frequency of sole lower urinary tract symptoms, frequency and severity of tumoral diseases, mainly with urothelial carcinoma as histology.

Complications of Arthroscopic Meniscectomy in the Older Population

Background: Complications of arthroscopic meniscectomy in the older population have not been established. Purpose: To determine the risk and relative risk of developing pyogenic arthritis (PA), a deep vein thrombosis (DVT), and pulmonary embolism (PE) in an older population of patients who have undergone arthroscopic meniscectomy. Study Design: Case series; Level of evidence, 4. Methods: Men and women ≥65 years old who underwent procedures coded as CPT-29880 (medial and lateral meniscectomy) and CPT-29881 (medial or lateral meniscectomy) were identified in the Medicare Standard Analytic Files database from 2005 to 2008. Identified patients were analyzed for gender and postoperative complications, including PA, DVT, and PE, occurring within 90 days of the index operation. Results: Overall, 314,578 patients (119,814 men and 194,764 women) were identified. With respect to the Current Procedural Terminology codes, 131,420 patients were coded 29880 and 183,158 patients were coded 29881. In the study population, 0.4% (1107 patients) developed PA, 0.8% (2507 patients) developed a DVT, and 0.3% (982 patients) developed a PE. Among male patients, 0.4% developed PA, 0.7% developed a DVT, and 0.2% developed a PE. Among female patients, 0.3% developed PA, 0.8% developed a DVT, and 0.3% developed a PE. Overall, men had a statistically significant higher relative risk of PA and women had a statistically significant higher relative risk of DVT and PE. Conclusion: Postoperative complications, including PA, DVTs, and PEs, are rare in patients ≥65 years old. However, gender-specific differences in the rate and type of postoperative complications may exist. Further studies in this population are warranted.

Core Characteristics of Server Virtualization and Functional Upgrading Issues

Server refers to computer software that manages resources and offers services to users. It is usually divided into a file server, database server and application program server. Server virtualization is an important trend of the server development. This paper makes relevant research on such aspects as the followings: the server virtualization technology; the characteristics of the server virtualization; and the difficult points of functional upgrading of the server virtualization and that optimization of the server performance is the fundamental aspect of upgrading. It hopes to play a promotion role for knowing the server virtualization in a better way.

Spatial Information System for Management and Control of Electrical Substations

This article proposes the development of a simple, flexible and portable system that will allow carrying out management, maintenance and inventory tasks in electrical substations. The Spatial Information System (SIS) permits to incorporate, through an immersive virtual environment, information about electrical substations, as well as progress in automation CAD/CAE design (Computer Aided Design/Engineering). The SIS provides an immediate knowledge of the substation spatial distribution through an interactive navigation, facilitating any type of technical question as consulting planes (sections, elevations, plants), database (files, queries) and the dimensional analysis of any object. To this end, the SIS developed can be applied to the management and complete control of a substation at the same time as a platform that encourages collaborative engineering or CAE engineering.

Prediction of Protein-Protein Docking Sites Based on a Cloud-Computing Pipeline

To predict protein-protein docking sites in a massive protein dataset, we built a cloud computing based computing pipeline. This pipeline conforms to Elastic MapReduce. The implementation of this pipeline includes three components. First, the cloud computing is based on the application of the open source hadoop platform. Second, the pipeline combines several existing protein-protein docking site methods. Third, the pipeline takes advantage of network computing resource to predict protein-protein docking sites by distributed data processing services. The results show our method can highly improve the performance of protein-protein docking site prediction. Index Terms—Cloud-computing; protein docking site; pipeline. method has either extinguished strengths or drawbacks. Effective combination of these tools would achieve a better result. Considering the distributed computing, flexible storage and scalable management, we attempt to use the cloud computing platform to predict the protein docking sites from large scale datasets not only to save energy of the method but also to improve stability and availability of the application. In order to improve the prediction of protein docking sites, we apply the MapReduce (4) which is a distributed computing architecture firstly proposed by Google to solve the large amount of data and to convert the result into the file system or database. We design a pipeline by combining diverse public prediction tools of protein docking sites to get the highly reliable protein docking site candidates.

Salary Management System for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in the process of wage entry, calculation, the total number are needed to be done manually in the past, the data volume is quite large, processing speed is low, and it is easy to make error, which is resulting in low efficiency. The main purpose of writing this paper is to present the basis of salary management system, establish a scientific database, the computer payroll system, using the computer instead of a lot of past manual work in order to reduce duplication of staff labor, it will improve working efficiency.This system combines the actual needs of SMEs, through in-depth study and practice of the C/S mode, PowerBuilder10.0 development tools, databases and SQL language, Completed a payroll system needs analysis, database design, application design and development work. Wages, departments, units and personnel database file are included in this system, and have data management, department management, personnel management and other functions, through the control and management of the database query, add, delete, modify, and other functions can be realized. This system is reasonable design, a more complete function, stable operation has been tested to meet the basic needs of the work.

The Relationship Between Body Mass Index and 30-Day Mortality Risk, by Principal Surgical Procedure

To examine the relationship between body mass index (BMI; calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared) and 30-day mortality risk among patients in the participant use data file database of the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program. Obesity is a prevalent chronic disease in the United States, and general and vascular surgeons are caring for an increasing population of obese patients. Multivariable logistic regression analysis was used to assess the statistical significance of the relationship between BMI and mortality, with adjustments for patient-level differences in overall mortality risk and principal operating procedures. Odds ratios with 95% CIs were calculated to measure the relative difference in mortality by BMI quintile, with reference to the middle quintile of the BMI. The overall significance of the BMI and of the other covariates was measured using the Wald χ(2) test statistic. A separate multivariable logistic regression model was developed to assess the significance of the interaction between BMI and primary procedure. A total of 183 sites. Patients with major surgical procedures reported in the participant use data file database of the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program. The data included 189533 cases of general and vascular surgical procedures reported in 2005 and 2006 for patients with known overall probabilities of death. Among these, 3245 patients died within 30 days of their surgery (1.7%). Patients with a BMI of less than 23.1 demonstrated a significant increased risk of death, with 40% higher odds compared with patients in the middle range for BMI (26.3 to <29.7). Important differences in the association between BMI and mortality risk occur by type of primary procedure. Body mass index is a significant predictor of mortality within 30 days of surgery, even after adjusting for the contribution to mortality risk made by type of surgery and for a specific patient's overall expected risk of death.

Protein adsorption on colloidal alumina particles functionalized with amino, carboxyl, sulfonate and phosphate groups

Colloidal oxide particles in biomedical or biotechnological applications immediately become coated with proteins of the biological medium, a process which is strongly influenced by the surface characteristics of the particles. Fundamental correlations between surface characteristics and the, so far mainly uncontrollable, protein adsorption are still not clear. In this study the surface of colloidal alumina particles (d50=179±8nm) was systematically adjusted with NH2, COOH, SO3H and PO3H2 functional groups to investigate the influence on the adsorption of the three model proteins, bovine serum albumin (BSA), lysozyme (LSZ) and trypsin (TRY). The surface functionalization is characterized and discussed in detail with regard to the morphology, isoelectric point, zeta potential, hydrophilic/hydrophobic properties, functional group density and stability. Protein–particle interaction was then assessed by evaluating the amount of protein adsorbed and the zeta potentials of protein–particle conjugates. Protein adsorption was found to be influenced by the type of functional group as well as the expected electrostatic forces under the given experimental conditions. The level of protein adsorption might, hence, be specifically controlled by the type of surface functionalization. Possible adsorption modes of BSA, LSZ and TRY on the particles are suggested by considering the spatial surface potential distribution of the proteins calculated from the protein database file. The particles presented provide an excellent prerequisite for further investigation of fundamental particle–protein interactions and the design of functionally graded materials for biomedical and biotechnological applications, e.g. as drug carriers or for protein purification.

Building A Lexical Database with Multiple Outputs: Examples from Legacy Data and from Multimodal Fieldwork

The creation of reusable lexical database files, based in fieldwork or arising from historical research, benefits from conformance to established standards which then greatly increases the enduring usability of the lexicon, and its later ability to link to external objects, including media. All linguistic analysis benefits from the close relationship between primary recordings and a textual corpus, but a dictionary can also benefit from links to media in the use of playable example sentences and citation forms of headwords. In this paper several examples will be used to illustrate that not all linguists want to deal with the tools required to take advantage of these methods, so, in some cases, they are better off seeking advice and assistance in advance of building the database or in its later conversion to output formats. © 2011 Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.

Abstract A83: Survival in Puerto Rican Hispanics, non-Hispanic whites, non-Hispanic blacks, and U.S. Hispanics with colorectal cancer: A five-year analysis

Abstract Background: In Puerto Rico (PR), colorectal cancer (CRC) represents the second most common cause of cancer in men and women. Incidence and mortality of CRC are increasing in Puerto Rican Hispanics (PRH). Screening rates for CRC are lower in US and PR-Hispanics, which may result in advanced disease at diagnosis and poor outcomes. There is very limited data on survivorship among PR-Hispanic CRC patients. Hence, we compared the stage-specific five-year survival of Puerto Rican CRC patients with the stage-specific five-year survival of non-Hispanic Whites (NHW), non-Hispanic Blacks (NHB) and US Hispanics (USH) from mainland USA using SEER data during the 2001–2003 time period. Methods: All malignant CRC cases were obtained from the PR Central Cancer Registry (PRCCR), an island-wide population based cancer registry and the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program, a multi-center cancer registry covering approximately 26 percent of the United States (US) population. CRC cases diagnosed from the years 2001 to 2003 were selected for the survival analysis. One-, three- and five-year relative survival were calculated using the incidence case file database of the PRCCR and the SEER and estimated using the Kaplan Meier method. Relative survival, defined as observed survival in the cohort divided by expected survival in the cohort, adjusted for the expected mortality from other causes of death were calculated. The 5-year survival functions were compared among demographics variables (sex, age group, racial/ethnic group and stage at diagnosis) via Z-tests. CRC reported in PR without stage and a sample of staged cases were examined and reviewed manually to ensure accuracy in the staging variable. Analyses were performed using SEER Stat 6.6.2. Results: Overall CRC incidence and mortality rates in PRH were 40.2 and 16.6; in NHW were 53.1 and 19.4; in NHB were 64.0 and 27.5; in USH were 39.4 and 13.8 per 100,000 population, respectively. A total of 3,359 PRH, 59,686 NHW, 7,700 NHB and 5,699 USH diagnosed with CRC during the 2001–2003 periods with complete survival data were evaluated. Overall CRC relative survival in PRH decreased within the 5-year observational period, with rates of 80.4%, 67.9%, and 62.9% for 1-, 3-, and 5-years, respectively. Overall CRC relative survival in NHW was 82.1%, 71.1% and 66.1%; in NHB was 75.7%, 61.0%, and 54.8% and in USH was 81.2%, 68.3%, and 62.1% each of them for 1-, 3-, and 5-years, respectively. Five-year stage-specific relative survival for localized, regional and distant CRC in PRH was 85.0%, 59.3% and 16.7%; in NHW was 91.4%, 69.4% and 10.1%; in NHB was 83.0%, 61.4% and 7.2% and in USH was 90.0%, 65.1% and 12.0%, respectively. Conclusions: Our study demonstrated low overall and stage-specific CRC 5-year relative survival for PR Hispanics, compared to previously reported data for US-Hispanics and non-Hispanic Whites. PR Hispanics with localized/regional CRC had lower 5-year relative survival rates than that observed in non-Hispanic Whites and US-Hispanics. The observed survival disparities in PR Hispanics with CRC warrant further studies evaluating the interplay of molecular, behavioral and/or environmental risk factors affecting this minority population. Citation Information: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2011;20(10 Suppl):A83.