Remainders Research Articles

Real-time hybrid simulation of smart base-isolated raised floor systems for high-tech industry

Adopting sloped rolling-type isolation devices underneath a raised floor system has been proved as one of the most effective approaches to mitigate seismic responses of the protected equipment installed above. However, pounding against surrounding walls or other obstructions may occur if such a base-isolated raised floor system is subjected to long-period excitation, leading to adverse effects or even more severe damage. In this study, real-time hybrid simulation (RTHS) is adopted to assess the control performance of a smart base-isolated raised floor system as it is an efficient and cost-effective experimental method. It is composed of multiple sloped rolling-type isolation devices, a rigid steel platen, four magnetorheological (MR) dampers, and protected high-tech equipment. One of the MR dampers is physically tested in the laboratory while the remainders are numerically simulated. In order to consider the effect of input excitation characteristics on the isolation performance, the smart base-isolated raised floor system is assumed to be located at the roof of a building and the ground level. Four control algorithms are designed for the MR dampers including passive-on, switching, modified switching, and fuzzy logic control. Six artificial spectrum-compatible input excitations and three slope angles of the isolation devices are considered in the RTHS. Experimental results demonstrate that the incorporation of semi-active control into a base-isolated raised floor system is effective and feasible in practice for high-tech industry.

Anxious Speculation: Vancouver(ism), Indebtedness and Everyday Urban Affect

This paper will chart out this particular anxiety as it emerges within the fantasy, and reality, of Vancouver as both a city and a model for urban planning. As this investigation was provoked by the 2011 Stanley Cup Riot, a moment that marked a rupture in the image of Vancouver as an exceptional site and that is discussed in the paper’s final pages, my exploration of Vancouver’s particular anxiousness begins in the history, and its attendant affective promise and future fantasy, that preceded this riot. The first part of this paper (Post-political plans (and charts, and diagrams, and lists, and books, and...)) will explore the relationship between the “communicative turn” in urban planning discourse, the increasing number of comparative and quantified metrics for understanding the city, and the development of a post-political image of the city. The following section (Mapping Vancouver(ism)s) considers how Vancouverism, as a model for urban planning, has come to be understood as a commodity within this post-political realm. In the next part, (Entrepreneurial Resonances/Material Remainders) I argue that this particular commodified and imagetic form of Vancouver is felt in the city as an anxious structure. Here, I will consider the relationship between Vancouver’s fantastic image in relation to both the city’s “Empty Condo Syndrome” and the ongoing indebtedness of a city where speculative real estate investment continues to dominate an already expensive housing market. Finally, by combining these discursive, ideational, and material realities, this paper concludes with a close reading of Douglas Keefe and John Furlong’s review report of the June 15th riots to consider the affective forces of both the riot and the response to the riot. Read as a moment where the anxiety of the subject is snapped into a present material reality, this paper concludes by considering the events of that night as a particular affective worlding; as a moment when the image of the city disappeared and a moment when the subject encountered the violent reality of present day Vancouver.

Nonhomogeneity of Remainders, II

Nonhomogeneity of Remainders, II

Gene expression profiling and verification for severe secondary pulmonary tuberculosis patients

To explore the gene expression profiles of severe secondary pulmonary tuberculosis patients. From May 2012 to October 2013, a total of 103 eligible patients with secondary pulmonary tuberculosis were recruited from Institution of Tuberculosis Research of PLA Hospital No. 309. They were divided into severe secondary pulmonary tuberculosis (severe group) (n = 57) and mild secondary pulmonary tuberculosis (mild group) (n = 46) by the severity of disease . At the same time age-matched healthy controls (n = 45) were selected from healthy subjects undergoing physical examination. Whole genome expression profiling was performed with Affymetrix Gene expression chips for 4 cases in severe group, 3 in mild group and 5 in healthy group. Cluster and bioinformatics analysies were performed on differentially expressed genes in severe versus mild group. The remainders of three groups were 53, 43 and 40 cases respectively used for verify the results of gene chip by real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR (RT-PCR). And 20 cases in severe group, 20 in mild group and 8 in control group were used to verify the expression level of jun oncogene (JUN) on behalf of differential expressed genes. Analysis of variance and non-parametric tests were used for statistic difference analysis among three groups. There were 406 differentially expressed genes for severe and mild groups. There were 264 down-regulated gene and 142 up-regulated ones. The down-regulated genes were predominant. Cluster analysis show the similarity of gene expression profile in the same group . The result confirmed that the gene chip experiments were both repeatable and reliable. According to gene ontology, the differentially expressed genes were mainly involved in such biological processes as immune response, signal transduction, regulation of transcription (DNA-dependent), inflammatory response, antigen processing and presentation and chemotaxis, etc. Pathway analysis showed differentially expressed genes were involved in 22 pathways of immune response and inflammation. The major pathways included B cell receptor signaling, antigen processing and presentation, Toll-like receptor signaling, MAPK signaling and transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-β) signaling.Real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR (RT-PCR) analysis showed that the statistics of optical density for JUN was P < 0.001 in severe versus mild group. It was down-regulated in severe group. And the expression of JUN was conformed with the result of gene expression chip. The patients of severe group have a larger number of differential expressed genes versus those of mild group. And severe lung tissue damage in severe group may be correlated with differences in gene expression.

Application of evidence-based nursing in prevention of lower limb deep vein thrombosis after hip arthroplasty

Objective To explore the application value of evidence-based nursing in prevention of lower limb deep vein thrombosis after hip arthroplasty. Methods 41 cases of patients undergoing hip arthroplasty were selected in our hospital from January 2008 to June 2011.28 cases of patients who took evidence-based nursing were set as the observation group,and the 13 cases of remainders who received routine nursing were named as the control group.The treatment results were compared between the two groups. Results The incidence of deep venous thrombosis was 23.1％ in the control group,significantly higher than the observation group.In the observation group,FIB value,D-D values,CD62p value,DQ values,ZQ value and GQ value were lower,and the PC value was higher than the control group. Conclusions Application of evidence-based nursing in hip arthreplasty can significantly reduce the incidence of lower limb deep vein thrombosis,which is worthy of clinical application. Key words: Evidence-based nursing; Hip arthroplasty; Vein thrombosis

Psychiatric comorbidities in patients referred for irritable bowel syndrome

To assess the prevalence of psychiatric comorbidities in patients referred for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) with questionnaires for mental disorders. A total of 83 IBS patients at our hospital were enrolled and assessed with the Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire for DSM-IV, version 4 (PDQ-4) and Composite International Diagnostic Interview, version 3.0 and 2.1 (CIDI-3.0 & CIDI-2.1) by trained interviewers. Such items as personality dysfunction, mental disorder and somatization disorder were examined. The male-female ratio was 1.08/1. Their mean age was (38 ± 14) years old. Among them, 20 patients (24.1%) were constipation-predominant, 31 (37.3%) diarrhea-predominant, 15 (18.1%) mixed and 17 (20.5%) unclassified type. (1) Sixty-two (74.7%) patients scored positive for any personality dysfunction. There was no significant gender difference. The cluster C (anxious-fearful) personality disorder was most commonly found in IBS patients (n = 58, 69.9%). The prevalence of somatoform disorders plus personality dysfunction was 46.8% (29/62). It was significantly higher than those without personality dysfunction [19.0% (4/21), P = 0.025]. (2) Thirty-seven patients (44.6%) had a lifetime CIDI-3.0 diagnosis. It was significantly higher than that in the general population. There was no gender difference. Anxiety and mood disorders were the most common types of psychiatric comorbidities [n = 21 (25.3%) and n = 19 (22.9%) respectively]. The lifetime prevalence of alcohol or nicotine abuse and(or) dependence and intermittent explosive disorder were 10.8% (n = 9) and 8.4% (n = 7). Psychiatric comorbidities were most commonly found in diarrhea-predominant patients (58.1%). But there was no significant difference among the subgroups. (3) Thirty-three patients (39.8%) had somatoform disorders. Neither gender nor subgroup difference was observed. The IBS patients with anxiety disorders presented significantly more somatoform disorders than the remainders [61.9% (13/21) vs 32.3% (20/62), P = 0.016]. Such psychiatric comorbidities as anxiety disorders and mood disorders are common in patients referred for IBS. The patients with personality dysfunction and(or) anxiety were more likely to suffer somatoform disorders. A gastroenterologist should grasp a thorough knowledge and make appropriate therapeutic recommendations for those patients.

Adorno and the Remainders of Reason

Adorno and the Remainders of Reason

The diagnosis and microsurgical treatment of intraspinal occupying lesions

Objective To summarize the experience of treating 83 patients who have lntraspinal occupying lesions so as to give the effective treatment. Methods We confirmed 83 cases of intraspinal occupying lesions by CT or MRI examination, removed the lesion by using micro-surgery treatment, and observed the clinical recovery and long-term effect. Results 83 cases of intraspinal lesions were total treated with microsurgical surgery, without serious complications and death. Follow-up 1-5 years, except two cases of lumbodoral pain, one case of hydatid disease and one case of glioma relapse which were needed second operation, the remainders recovered well. Concllusions When the patients diagnosed with intraspinal occupying lesions they should conceive microsurgical treatment early and it can be lower operative damage, rapid recovery and satisfactory curative effect. Key words: Intraspinal; Occupying lesion; Diagnosis; Microsurgical

Some Improved Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg Inequalities with General Weights and Optimal Remainders

Some Improved Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg Inequalities with General Weights and Optimal Remainders

Sharing an Image with Variable-Sized Shadows

Most secret image sharing schemes produce shadows with an equal size including the well known Shamir's and Thien-Lin's approaches that are based upon polynomial interpolation. In this paper we design a novel threshold secret image scheme which generates shadows with different sizes. To share an image secretly among n participants, our scheme depends on n pre-determined relative prime moduli to encode the image into n shadows by Chinese remainder theorem which are distributed to the n participants such that every group of r participants could recover the image by using their shadows and moduli, while any group of less than r participants cannot. Owing to the design that a shadow is a collection of the remainders of its corresponding modulus in our scheme, the size of the shadow is dependent on that of the modulus. As compared to those conventional secret image sharing schemes that produce shadows with the same size, our scheme is more flexible due to the reason that by choosing a proper set of relative prime moduli the dealer is able to generate and distribute shadows with different sizes to the participants according to their degrees of importance.

The cost of unsafe injections in pakistan and challenges for prevention program.

The burden of disease associated with unsafe therapeutic injection practices in Pakistan is very high. The number of injection per person per year has been estimated to be in the range of 8.2 to 13.6, one of the highest in developing world. Extrapolating this number to the whole country would result in 1.5 billion injections per year. Approximately 4% (75 million) of these are administered for immunization while the remainders are used for therapeutic use. Of these, 94.2% are unnecessary. Average price of an injection (not the complete prescription) is Rs. 20.6 (0.34 US dollars). Under conservative estimate, over three billion rupees or 500 million dollars out-of-pocket healthcare resources may be wasted each year. Appropriate use of injections would be highly cost effective. According to adjusted analysis, safe and appropriate use of injection in Pakistan would cost 92 million US dollars each year with a high proportion that would be injection devices paid through out-of-pocket expenses. Behaviour change for reduction in number of injections require long-term multidimentional efforts. Interventions in the form of phasing out of convention disposable injection equipment and switching to reuse prevention devices for all injections could prevent the common practice of reuse, hence reducing the transmission of infections.

The Humble Sum of Remainders Function

(2005). The Humble Sum of Remainders Function. Mathematics Magazine: Vol. 78, No. 4, pp. 300-305.

Wooden architecture of the conservation area of the Lake Baikal Circular Railway

The rural and taiga character of the Siberian constructions on the shore of Lake Baikal could not influence on the style and the look of the road under construction, because it had been fully designed by the capital engineers, first in St. Petersburg and Irkutsk, then directly on the site of the road: in the Maritui and Baikal villages, where the first special design bureaus were organized. That is why the Lake Baikal Circular Railway is an example of the European construction culture, with its peculiar departmental style worked out by the Ministry of Communications (the socalled «style of Ministry of Communications»). The only thing that was «borrowed» from the Siberian and Russian experience in general is a technology of wooden and at the same time urban house-building. Making walls of round timber, binding corners without remainders, panelling frameworks with planks, strict decorations of fronts - these are the attributes of the architectural constructions of the Lake Baikal circular area and other areas of Transsib.

Деревянная архитектура заповедной, Кругабайкальской

The rural and taiga character of the Siberian constructions on the shore of Lake Baikal could not influence on the style and the look of the road under construction, because it had been fully designed by the capital engineers, first in St. Petersburg and Irkutsk, then directly on the site of the road: in the Maritui and Baikal villages, where the first special design bureaus were organized.That is why the Lake Baikal Circular Railway is an example of the European construction culture, with its peculiar departmental style worked out by the Ministry of Communications (the socalled «style of Ministry of Communications»). The only thing that was «borrowed» from the Siberian and Russian experience in general is a technology of wooden and at the same time urban house-building.Making walls of round timber, binding corners without remainders, panelling frameworks with planks, strict decorations of fronts - these are the attributes of the architectural constructions of the Lake Baikal circular area and other areas of Transsib.

Clique parts independent of remainders

Clique parts independent of remainders

Remainders: Novel, Sculpture, Film, 1991 by Allen Ruppersberg

Remainders: Novel, Sculpture, Film, 1991 by Allen Ruppersberg

Remainders of Vanished Lives

Remainders of Vanished Lives

Cut Points in Cech-Stone Remainders

Cut Points in Cech-Stone Remainders

Certain asymptotic expansions for laguerre polynomials and Charlier polynomials

Here proposed are certain asympotic expansion formulas for Ln(∞-1)(λz) and Cn(∞) (λz) in which 0<w=0(λ) and Cn/(w)(λz), z being a complex number. Also presented are certain estimates for the remainders (error bounds) of the asymptotic expansions within the regions D1(-∞<Rez<=1/2(ω/λ) and D2(1/2(ω/λ)<=Rez<∞), respectively.

Reading Beckett's Remainders

Journal Article READING BECKETT'S REMAINDERS Get access LESLIE HILL LESLIE HILL WARWICK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 2, April 1984, Pages 173–187, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XXXVIII.2.173 Published: 01 April 1984