Drawing Method Research Articles

ОСОБЕННОСТИ МАТЕРИНСКОЙ СФЕРЫ ЛИЧНОСТИ СТУДЕНТОК И МЕРОПРИЯТИЯ ПО ЕЕ РАЗВИТИЮ

Statement of the problem and the purpose of the article. Students, thinking about possible motherhood, face a number of questions, doubts and the need to discuss them and get reliable and systematized information. But they are forced to search for it on the Internet, where information resources for pregnant women are mainly presented or to search for information in their environment, which does not always have a positive experience of motherhood. Therefore, it is important to study the features of a maternal sphere of female students’ personality and determine possible psychological and pedagogical measures for its formation and development of readiness for motherhood. Materials and methods. The research methodology is composed of G.G. Filippova’s concept of ontogenesis of the maternal need-motivation sphere, the theory of psychological readiness for motherhood (E.V. Matveeva, S.Yu. Meshcheryakova), analysis and generalization of research work on psychology of motherhood. Three diagnostic methods were applied: Questionnaire on the ontogenesis of motherhood (G.G. Filippova, T.Yu. Baranova), projective drawing method “My mom and I in childhood” (G.G. Filippova), essay “My future child and I” using content analysis. The basis of the study is the KSPU named after V.P. Astafyev, Krasnoyarsk. The sample includes 37 female students aged 21–22. Research results. Indicators of formation of the maternal sphere of personality and predictors of psychological readiness for motherhood (PGkM) among female students are indicated. The maternal sphere of personality is quite developed in 37.8 % of girls, relatively developed – in 59.5 % and not enough developed – in 2.7 %. Important aspects at the stage of differentiating motivational foundations in the sexual and parental spheres for the formation of the maternal sphere of a personality are the emotional and evaluative perception of the relationship with a mother in childhood and the experience of interaction with babies; the need and value of a maternal role and a child; interest in information on child development and upbringing; recognition of the importance of professional realization and marital relationships for child birth planning. The importance is justified of solving a number of problems for the development of psychological readiness to motherhood before pregnancy. This indicates the need to create a special training course and an information and methodological portal for psychological and pedagogical support of female students as future mothers. Conclusion. The data obtained make it possible to note the features of the maternal sphere of the personality in female students, to determine the predictors of psychological readiness for motherhood. On the basis of this conclusions are made about the necessary psychological and pedagogical measures for girls and topics for educational activities with future mothers.

Modelling and parameter identification of coefficient of friction for deep-drawing quality steel sheets using the CatBoost machine learning algorithm and neural networks

The development of models for the coefficient of friction is difficult due to many factors influencing its value and many tribological phenomena that accompany contact between metals (i.e., flattening, ploughing, adhesion), the influence of which also depends on the friction conditions. Therefore, developing an analytical model of friction is difficult. In this article, the CatBoost machine learning algorithm, newly developed by Yandex researchers and engineers, is used for modelling and parameter identification of friction coefficients for three grades of deep-drawing quality steel sheets. Experimental tests to determine the friction coefficient were carried out using the strip drawing method with the use of a specially designed tribological device. Lubrication conditions, normal force, and the surface roughness of countersample surfaces were used as input parameters. The friction tests were conducted in dry friction and lubricated conditions with three grades of oils with a wide range of viscosities. Different transfer functions and various training algorithms were tested to build the optimal structure of the artificial neural networks. An analytical equation based on the parameters that were being investigated was created to calculate the COF of each material. Different methods of partitioning weight were employed for the expected COF to assess the relative importance (RI) and individual feature’s relevance. A Shapley decision plot, which uses cumulative Shapley additive explanations (SHAP) values, was used to depict models for predicting COF. CatBoost was able to predict the coefficient of friction with R2 values between 0.9547 and 0.9693 as an average for the training and testing dataset, depending on the grade of steel sheet. When considering all the materials that were tested, it was discovered that the Levenberg–Marquardt training algorithm performed the best in predicting the coefficient of friction.

Superconducting properties and intergranular coupling of high-strength Sr1-xKxFe2As2/Ag/Nb/Cu composite conductors

The mechanical properties of composite metal sheaths have large difference, resulting in the easy breakage of superconducting wires. Here, a roll-die drawing method is proposed to fabricate 19-filamentary Sr1-xKxFe2As2/Ag/Nb/Cu composite tapes with long length and uniform shape. It is found that there is no reaction layer between Ag matrix and superconducting core; Nb sheath provides high mechanical strength and prevents the diffusion of K element; and outer Cu sheath has good mechanical ductility. Consequently, the magnetic critical current density Jc of multi-core Sr1-xKxFe2As2 tape reaches up to 4.7 × 104 A/cm2 at 5 K and 5 T. Meanwhile, the magnetic Jc still remains 1.1 × 104 A/cm2 even at 20 K and 5 T. These remarkable magnetic Jc values are probably attributed to both high mass density of superconducting core and high magnetic onset Tc (∼35.2 K). While, the transport Jc of multi-core tape is greatly decreased into about 2.0 × 103 A/cm2 at 4.2 K and 10 T. Besides the Tp1 peak associated with the intragranular critical current, an additional broad Tp2 peak in the imaginary χ''(T) parts of AC susceptibility indicates the weak intergranular coupling in this tape. These results can provide a prime reference for the structure design and coupling performance of multi-core pnictide conductors.

Beyond Polypyrrole: Pencil-Drawn Paper-Based Supercapacitors with High Energy Density

The construction of conductive graphite channels on paper using the pencil drawing method for supercapacitors and sensors has been reported, but its performance needs to be improved to meet practical applications. In this, we develop green and efficient method to prepare high-performance supercapacitor electrodes. After pencil drawing, the polypyrrole graphite active material (PPy-G) is prepared via interfacial polymerization. The graphite layer not only provides an efficient electron transport path but also greatly increases the electrical capacity of electrodes with a good combination of PPy. The prepared electrodes exhibit an excellent area specific capacitance (1654 mF cm−2) and good cycling stability (at 95.3% after 10,000 cycles). Furthermore, the symmetric supercapacitor is prepared using the dual electrodes exhibit a good energy density of 159.6 μWh cm−2 at a power density of 0.8 mW cm−2. The kinetic processes for the electrodes are also further investigated.

A Novel Metaphor Graph Drawing Method for Multidimensional Data Visualisation and Its Case Study on COVID-19 Vaccination Analysis

Visualisation techniques have been one of the best data processing and analysis methods in recent decades, and they have assisted in data understanding efforts in various fields. Visualisation techniques for low-dimensional data are well developed and applied in multiple sectors; however, multidimensional data visualisation techniques still present some limitations, such as inaccurate data comparison and perception, exaggerated visual differences, label occlusion, and overlap. This study addresses the pros and cons and proposes a novel graphical drawing method, the multidimensional rose chart. It adopts the design idea of the Nightingale rose chart, but overcomes relevant limitations. The main challenges of this area include the incomplete presentation of multidimensional data, the neglect of the linkage of multiple attributes, the inefficient use of space, and the lack of simplicity of the interface. Contributions include enriching the representations of multidimensional data through the use of colour shades, area, and height sizes to represent values; straightforward data attribute comparisons via graph nesting; and detailed attributes showing the use of specific value labels. To verify the preliminary validity of this method, we imported COVID-19 data into experiments and further compared the final layouts with traditional methods, such as the line chart, bar chart, tree, parallel coordinate chart, and Nightingale rose chart, as well as their structures, functionalities, clear advantages, and disadvantages. The experimental results show that multidimensional rose diagrams perform effectively in presenting multidimensional data when comparing other graph drawing methods in our case, and the outcomes match existing works' conclusions in related COVID-19 research sectors. This work has the potential to provide a suitable supplemental approach to the multidimensional data analysis.

Research on the applicability of regional folk art Fengyang Phoenix Painting from the perspective of humanistic ecology

The core values of socialism contain a very important content is civilization and harmony, the image of the dragon and phoenix is the mythical totem image of the Chinese nation for thousands of years, is an indispensable spiritual symbol in Chinese civilization, and is also the spiritual carrier of Chinese national cultural self-confidence and national self-confidence. The "Essentials of Chinese Painting" records that there are three stops and nine resemblances in painting dragons, and the drawing methods of phoenix birds in Fengyang phoenix paintings also have many elaborates, and the physical composition of phoenix birds is a synthesis of various beautiful objects. Through the interpretation of Fengyang Phoenix Paintings with different themes, different expression techniques and different decorative effects, this study discusses the adaptation of Fengyang Phoenix Paintings to natural ecology and the practical significance of ecological development trends, emphasizes the importance of inheriting and continuing Fengyang Phoenix Paintings and generating a sense of cultural identity, in order to achieve the goal of building a sustainable development activation route for Fengyang Phoenix Paintings, and introduces the important impact of the culture composed of phoenix birds in the cultural category of Fengyang Phoenix Paintings on the humanistic ecology of Fengyang Phoenix Paintings. In-depth study of the future of Fengyang phoenix painting from the perspective of humanistic ecology, so as to provide universal theoretical support for the development of Fengyang phoenix painting in real situations.

Eyes can draw: A high-fidelity free-eye drawing method with unimodal gaze control

EyeCompass is a novel free-eye drawing system enabling high-fidelity and efficient free-eye drawing through unimodal gaze control, addressing the bottlenecks of gaze-control drawing. EyeCompass helps people to draw using only their eyes, which is of value to people with motor disabilities. Currently, there is no effective gaze-control drawing application due to multiple challenges including involuntary eye movements, conflicts between visuomotor transformation and ocular observation, gaze trajectory control, and inherent eye-tracking errors. EyeCompass addresses this using two initial gaze-control drawing mechanisms: brush damping dynamics and the gaze-oriented method. The user experiments compare the existing gaze-control drawing method and EyeCompass, showing significant improvements in the drawing performance of the mechanisms concerned. The field study conducted with motor-disabled people produced various creative graphics and indicates good usability of the system. Our studies indicate that EyeCompass is a high-fidelity, accurate, feasible free-eye drawing method for creating artistic works via unimodal gaze control.

‘We’re not useless, we know stuff!’ Gathering children’s voices to inform policy

‘We’re not useless, we know stuff!’, said a four-year-old when asked why adults should ask him what he thinks about his experiences at his early learning centre. This paper describes the literature and methods used to gather children’s voices in early childhood and education (ECEC) settings across Stage 1 and 2 of the 3 stage national Learning Frameworks Update project. Asking children about their ideas and experiences was undertaken by familiar educators using research tools designed and supported by the research team. The methods of dialogic drawing, talking circles and visual elicitation were described and further explained to enable educators to gather children’s perspectives on their learning experiences in ECEC contexts. We reflect on the efficacy of these methods, approaches and strategies to support meaning-making from a diverse representation of children and how this can influence policy decision-making.

Tuning optical properties in PbSe quantum dot-doped borosilicate glass fiber by modulation of network topology

Borosilicate glasses doped with PbSe quantum dots (QDs) were prepared by traditional melt-quenching followed by thermal treatment. By introducing a metal fluoride (NaF) network modifier that reduces the number of bridge oxygen bonds, the mobility of Pb2+ and Se2- ions is enhanced during thermal treatment, thereby promoting the precipitation of PbSe QDs. With increasing the thermal treatment temperature or NaF concentration, the absorption peak and emission peak undergo a red shift, which is accompanied by an increase and then decrease of the photoluminescence (PL) intensity, and a gradual increase of the PL lifetime. This evolution in spectral properties is associated with the growth in number and size of PbSe QDs. Furthermore, PbSe QD-doped glass fibers were prepared by a direct drawing method, and the addition of 4 mol % NaF results in an enhancement by 13.5 times in the PL intensity as compared with the fiber fabricated from the glass melt without NaF. Our method could be used to regulate the ultra-wideband near infrared PL of QD-doped glasses, which could find potential applications in ultra-wideband fiber amplifiers.

Effect of CO2 laser annealing with different laser frequencies on Ge core fiber

The germanium (Ge) core fibers via molten core drawing (MCD) method were annealed by CO2 lasers of 30 kHz, 50 kHz and 70 kHz frequencies respectively under the same laser output power condition. The effect of different laser frequencies on the Ge fiber was mainly investigated using Raman frequency maps, propagation loss measurement and Energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS). Raman frequency maps show that the optimization effect of 50 kHz laser annealing on Ge core properties is significantly better than that of 30 kHz and 70 kHz lasers. For the samples annealed by 30 kHz, 50 kHz and 70 kHz lasers, the lowest propagation loss obtained in each laser frequency is 4.598 dB/cm, 2.102 dB/cm, and 2.873 dB/cm respectively, which were measured using a quantum cascade laser with the wavelength range from 4.7 to 4.9 μm. The results of this study indicate that the laser frequency had a significant impact on the properties of Ge core during the process of CO2 laser annealing.

Investigation on the strengthening behaviour of micro-scale copper fiber

Due to the size effect, the material exhibits the characteristics of "the smaller, the stronger", but there are limits to the improvement of material strength. In this paper, the 200 μm pure copper fiber is reduced to 23 μm by the cold drawing method. The stress-strain curve and microscopic analysis, it is concluded that grain boundary strengthening, texture strengthening and dislocation strengthening are the main strengthening methods of copper fiber. Cold drawing improves the fiber strength by reducing the grain size and changing the texture orientations. With the grain refinement, the texture orientation of copper fiber, gradually changed from the random distribution orientations to <001> and <111> preferred orientations. However, the evolution of the texture orientation does not always follow the same path. The increase of <101> oriented grains provide more plastic deformation space for the further refinement of copper fiber. When the fiber diameter reaches 23 μm, the grain orientation deflects to the preferred orientations of <111> and <001> again. For the copper fiber, the conditions for further refinement by orientation transformation gradually disappear, so that the strength of copper fiber approaches the critical value, which can be confirmed by the distribution of grain size at the fracture.

Balances of energy, power, moments and forces during wheel rolling in driven, neutral and braking modes based on linear and angular movements of tire and wheel points

The method of drawing up the equations of energy, power and power balances of an automobile wheel when rolling in driven, neutral and braking modes is given. It is based on the analytical relationship of linear and angular movements of individual points of the contact pad of the tire treadmill and the wheel axis. A numerical example shows a graphical representation of the energy balance components for a wheel with a cargo tire 11.0-R20 Pirelli. Based on the results of calculations using the initial numerical data on the load and geometric parameters of the tire, a rational range of values of the wheel slip coefficient during rolling in braking mode in the range of 0.029—0.15 is established. The refined method of drawing up wheel balances can find practical application in optimizing the braking modes of automobile wheels in various road conditions. Keywords: wheel, tire, rolling, mode, energy, power, moment, force, balance, displacement, friction, sliding, coefficient

A simple, stroke-based method for gesture drawing

BackgroundGesture drawing is a type of fluid, fast sketch with loose and roughly drawn lines that captures the motion and feeling of a subject. Although style transfer methods, which are able to learn a style from an input image and apply it to a secondary image, can reproduce many styles, they are currently unable to produce the flowing strokes of gesture drawings. MethodIn this paper, we present a method for producing gesture drawings that roughly depict objects or scenes with loose dancing contours and frantic textures. By following a gradient field, our method adapts stroke-based painterly rendering algorithms to produce long curved strokes. A rough, overdrawn appearance is created through a progressive refinement. In addition, we produce rough hatch strokes by altering the stroke direction. These add optional shading to gesture drawings. ResultsA wealth of parameters provide users the ability to adjust the output style, from short and rapid strokes to long and fluid strokes, and from swirling to straight lines. Potential stylistic outputs include pen-and-ink and colored pencil. We present several generated gesture drawings and discuss the application of our method to video. ConclusionOur stroke-based rendering algorithm produces convincing gesture drawings with numerous controllable parameters, permitting the creation of a variety of styles.

Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World by Jessica Marie Johnson

Reviewed by: Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World by Jessica Marie Johnson Karin Wulf Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World. By Jessica Marie Johnson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. 328 pages. Cloth, paper, ebook. Three maps precede the Introduction to Wicked Flesh: “New Orleans’ Atlantic World, circa 1685–1810”; “The Gulf Coast and the Caribbean in the Eighteenth Century”; and “Senegambia,” adapted from a 1718 map. These cartographic renderings illustrate the breadth of space and time covered in Jessica Marie Johnson’s important book, but it is her intellectual and historiographical wayfinding that best lead us through it. To pursue subjects such as intimacy and freedom—which have recently gained velocity in historical scholarship, along with topics with longer trajectories such as Atlantic slavery and comparative imperial contexts—Johnson centers the historical experience of African and African-descended women. Her work—drawing inspiration and method from historically minded literary scholars such as Saidiya Hartman and Hortense J. Spillers, historians such as Marisa J. Fuentes and Jennifer L. Morgan, and abundant recent scholarship on gender, sexuality, race, and empire—is a remarkable testament to her own research and powers of explication and evocation. At the same time, it brilliantly reveals how scholars are reframing the histories of empire and the violence of slavery around the categories of family and kinship.1 This work has accentuated the contours of imperial biopolitics, illuminating the centrality of intimate relationships to the project of empire by highlighting imperial officials’ voracious appetites for regulating family relations and structures, and above all women’s reproductive sexuality. But Johnson’s argument about how Black women— from Africa into broader Louisiana, the Gulf Coast, and the Caribbean— defined and prioritized freedom for their bodies, their kin, and their futures is the most stunning achievement of the book. Johnson opens each of the book’s chapters with individual women’s stories, moving from Senegal to Louisiana and sweeping through the most [End Page 667] dramatic and traumatic phenomena of the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century along the Gulf Coast: Indigenous resistance and revolt, the intensification of transatlantic slavery, and the shifting of imperial power from the French to the Spanish. These stories show how thoroughly the Middle Passage recast race and gender in a violently hierarchical order. The first tells of Seignora Catti, the African widow of a Portuguese trader and herself a merchant and enslaver, hosting a business dinner at her home in Rufisque in the west of Senegal in the 1680s. Next is Marie Baude, a free, propertied Senegambian woman who testified in 1724 before French Compagnie des Indes officials in the trial of her husband, a gunsmith, accused of murdering a man who had threatened to rape her at their home in Fort Saint-Louis. The husband was imprisoned in France and then deported to New Orleans, and when Marie arrived in Louisiana four years later, the company stripped her of her property, including enslaved people, claiming that she owed the cost of their collective transport on a ship with other slaves. Then chapter 4 begins in New Orleans with the story of Suzanne, who moved out of the city in 1725 to land that the Compagnie des Indes granted to her husband, along with his freedom and his permission to rent her from the company. Next is Charlotte, who, as a fugitive from her enslaver—who was also her father—was arrested in 1751 as she waited to beg a hearing with Madame de Vaudreuil, the wife of the governor. Finally, Johnson turns to María Teresa, a free woman of color who, when the father of her children passed away in 1789, made a legal claim against his sister Perine—another free woman of color—for withholding property that María claimed belonged to her children. Perine responded by contesting the children’s paternity and successfully held on to the property; when Perine died in 1816, her heir, a goddaughter named Silvaine, petitioned to control it. Each of the women centered in this book pursued a vision of freedom with creativity and tenacity. In Johnson’s hands, their strategies contextualized within histories...

The Effect of Drawing in Conventional and Hydrodynamic Dies on Structure and Corrosion Resistance of Hot-Dip Galvanized Zinc Coatings on Medium-Carbon Steel Wire.

The paper presents the impact of the drawing method on the microstructure and corrosion resistance of galvanized steel wires. The microstructural tests confirmed that, in the drawing speed range v = 5–20 m/s, the use of hydrodynamic dies creates more favorable conditions for the deformation of the soft zinc coating on the hard steel core. The increase in friction at the wire/die interface in the conventional method, as compared to the hydrodynamic method, contributed to the decrease in coating thickness and the increase in the diffusion layer, and the higher the drawing speed, the greater the differences between the analyzed drawing methods. In the conventional method, while drawing at high speeds v = 20 m/s, there was a two-way diffusion and complete remodeling of the ζ phase in δ1. In the hydrodynamic method, at the speed of 20 m/s, in the analyzed micro-areas, places showing the presence of the ζ phase, partially dispersed in the layer with pure zinc, were observed. A corrosion tests comparison between conventionally and hydrodynamically drawn wires showed an improved behavior of the latter. The greater mass in the surface layer of pure zinc, a substrate for the corrosion product in hydrodynamically drawn wires, reacted, creating insulation from the white corrosion produced. The compressive stresses in the hydrodynamic dies caused by the high pressure of the lubricant on the circumference of the wire closed the microcracks on its surface, which additionally sealed the zinc coating.

Au-coated Ag alloy bonding wires with enhanced oxidation resistance for electronic packaging applications

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to develop high-performance Au-coated Ag alloy wires (ACAA wires) and demonstrate the effect of Au coating layers on the bonding performance and oxidation resistance for stable and reliable electronic packaging applications.Design/methodology/approachACAA wire with a diameter of approximately 25 µm and Au layer thickness of approximately 100 nm were prepared by the continuous casting, plating and wire drawing method. The bonding performance of the ACAA wires were studied through bonding on 3,535 chips. The oxidation resistance of ACAA wires and Ag alloy wires (AA wires) were comparatively studied by means of chemical oxidation tests, accelerated life tests and electrochemical tests systematically.FindingsACAA wires could form axi-symmetrical spherical free air balls with controllable diameter of 1.5∼2.5 times of the wire diameter after electric flame-off process. The ball shear strength of ACAA wire was higher than that of AA wires. Most importantly, because of the surface Au coating layer, the oxidation resistance of ACAA wires was much enhanced.Research limitations/implicationsACAA wires with different lengths of heat affected zone were not developed in this study, which limited their application with different loop height requirements.Practical implicationsWith higher bonding strength and oxidation resistance, ACAA wires would be a better choice than previous reported AA wire in chip packaging which require high stability and reliability.Originality/valueThis paper provides a kind of novel ACAA wire, which possess the merits of high bonding strength and reliability, and show great potential in electronic packaging applications.

Icon Art Design with Generative Adversarial Network under Deep Learning

With the rapid development of the Internet, application interface design has undergone rapid changes. Numerous new design styles and resources have appeared; thus, a large number of interface icon design needs have been generated. Icons are quite different from ordinary photographed images, because they are all drawn by designers and have certain schematic and artistic features. Moreover, artistic icons can convey their drawn characteristics and meanings faster and better than captured images. The ideation process in icon design is time-consuming, and its design style and method of drawing are influenced by the device and the environment in which it is used. To simplify the process of icon design and enrich the creativity of icon conception, this study proposes to use the generative adversarial network technology in deep learning to train computers to generate artistic icons. This paper completes the construction of the icon generation model with generative adversarial network (GAN) model combined with the actual icon design process. For the problem of automatic icon generation, this paper does the following research work: (1) based on the conditional classification generative adversarial network, a multifeature icon generation model (MFIGM) is proposed. In the discriminator, a multifeature identification module is added to optimize the structure of the conditional feature to ensure that the icon generated by the model meets the given conditional feature. (2) Experiments on the icon dataset show that the MFIGM-based icon generation model proposed in this paper has better performance in designing various feature expressions of icons.

Illuminating the Experience of Stigma among Persons Living with HIV using Participative Drawing Method

Background: Arts-based techniques such as drawing is a helpful means in research because of its potential to capture taboo, culturally sensitive issues, and other critical health experiences. However, very few studies integrate the use of drawing as a qualitative method in HIV research.Purpose: This study aims to explore the experience of stigma among persons living with HIV using the drawing method.Methods: The study utilized a participative qualitative approach. There were eleven (11) participants who were recruited through snowballing and were asked to draw their experience of stigma as a Person Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA). The participants were men who-have-sex with men (MSM) who have been diagnosed for at least one year, and are active members of a support group. This preliminary study was conducted in Central Philippines from November-December 2019. The narrative explanations were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed using thematic analysis.Findings: Results revealed three themes: (1) Psycho-socio-emotional needs which illuminated their need for love and acceptance; (2) Profound feelings which reflected a plethora of negative towards positive convergence of emotions, and (3) Coping with HIV stigma which presented the three-pronged anchor to move forward and sustain a hopeful living.Conclusion: A stigmatized PLHIV needs intimacy, interconnectedness, and inclusiveness in society. Likewise, they feel a plethora of feelings that transcend negative to positive emotions depending on their coping. A PLHIV copes with stigma and discrimination through the aid of their social circle, spirituality, and self-love. Future researchers may consider the use of participative drawing to explore HIV stigma apart from the conventional interview, as it is found to be a valuable method of facilitating the expression of emotions and experiences.

Nursing Skill Assessment of Hospital Nurses in Management of Critically Ill Patients.

Objective To analyze the application of standardized nursing procedures in critically ill patients' nursing evaluation. Methods 90 cases of critically ill patients aged from 18 to 65 who were treated in our hospital from April 2020 to April 2021 were selected and divided into the control group and observation group, respectively, with 45 cases according to the drawing method. The rescue time, blood pressure, heart rate before and after nursing, adverse mood, length of stay, incidence of adverse events, ICU transfer and death, and satisfaction of 2 groups were statistically analyzed and compared. Results The rescue time of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, oxygen inhalation, venous opening, and endotracheal resuscitation in the observation group was 3.24 ± 1.01, which is lower than that in the control group, 6.65 ± 2.11, with statistical significance (P < 0.05). Similarly, the vital signs in the observation group were 2.45 ± 0.44, which is also significantly lower than that in the control group, 5.67 ± 1.56. After nursing, the blood pressure and heart rate in the observation group were lower than those in control group, with statistical significance (P < 0.05). The adverse mood of the observation group after nursing was lower than that of the control group, with statistical significance (P < 0.05). The length of stay, incidence of adverse events, intensive care unit (ICU) transfer, and death in the observation group were lower than those in the control group, with statistical significance (P < 0.05). The length of stay in the observation group was 8.87 ± 2.11, while 11.34 ± 2.45 in the observation group. The incidence of adverse events in the observation group was 1, while 8 in the observation group. The length of stay in the observation group was 8.87 ± 2.11, while 11.34 ± 2.45 in the observation group. The ICU transfer in the observation group were 2, while 9 in the observation group. There was no death in the observation group, however, 4 in the observation group. Nursing satisfaction in the observation group was higher than that in the control group, with statistical significance (P < 0.05). The number of patients that are very satisfied in the observation group was 28, while 20 in the control group. The number of patients that are satisfied in the observation group was the same as in the control group, both 15. However, the number of patients that are dissatisfied in the observation group was 2, while 10 in the control group. Conclusion The application of the standardized nursing process in the nursing of critically ill patients can not only effectively reduce the self-rating anxiety scale (SAS) and sarcoidosis diagnostic score (SDS) of patients but also reduce the incidence of complications and improve the nursing satisfaction of patients.

Integrated Schematic Design Method for Shear Wall Structures: A Practical Application of Generative Adversarial Networks

The intelligent design method based on generative adversarial networks (GANs) represents an emerging structural design paradigm where design rules are not artificially defined but are directly learned from existing design data. GAN-based methods have exhibited promising potential compared to conventional methods in the schematic design phase of reinforced concrete (RC) shear wall structures. However, for the following reasons, it is challenging to apply GAN-based approaches in the industry and to integrate them into the structural design process. (1) The data form of GAN-based methods is heterogeneous from that of the widely used computer-aided design (CAD) methods, and (2) GAN-based methods have high requirements on the hardware and software environment of the user’s computer. As a result, this study proposes an integrated schematic design method for RC shear wall structures, providing a workable GAN application strategy. Specifically, (1) a preprocessing method of architectural CAD drawings is proposed to connect the GAN with the upstream architectural design; (2) a user-friendly cloud design platform is built to reduce the requirements of the user’s local computer environment; and (3) a heterogeneous data transformation method and a parametric modeling procedure are proposed to automatically establish a structural analysis model based on GAN’s design, facilitating downstream detailed design tasks. The proposed method makes it possible for the entire schematic design phase of RC shear wall structures to be intelligent and automated. A case study reveals that the proposed method has a heterogeneous data transformation accuracy of 97.3% and is capable of generating shear wall layout designs similar to the designs of a competent engineer, with 225 times higher efficiency.