Simple Interface System Research Articles

Explicitly integrating MeSH thesaurus help into health information retrieval systems: An empirical user study

When consumers search for health information, a major obstacle is their unfamiliarity with the medical terminology. Even though medical thesauri such as the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) and related tools (e.g., the MeSH Browser) were created to help consumers find medical term definitions, the lack of direct and explicit integration of these help tools into a health retrieval system prevented them from effectively achieving their objectives. To explore this issue, we conducted an empirical study with two systems: One is a simple interface system supporting query-based searching; the other is an augmented system with two new components supporting MeSH term searching and MeSH tree browsing. A total of 45 subjects were recruited to participate in the study. The results indicated that the augmented system is more effective than the simple system in terms of improving user-perceived topic familiarity and question–answer performance, even though we did not find users spend more time on the augmented system. The two new MeSH help components played a critical role in participants’ health information retrieval and were found to allow them to develop new search strategies. The findings of the study enhanced our understanding of consumers’ search behaviors and shed light on the design of future health information retrieval systems.

암염구조를 가지는 반쪽금속 CaN과 NaN의 계면 전자구조에 관한 연구

각기 암염구조를 가지는 sp 반쪽금속인 NaN과 CaN가 계면상태를 이룰 때의 반쪽금속성 및 자성을 연구하기 위해 단순계면계와 혼합계면계 두 계를 고려하여, FLAPW(full-potential linearized augmented plane wave) 방법을 이용하여 그 전자구조를 계산하였다. 계산된 원자별 자기모멘트를 보면, 단순계면계에서는 Na 쪽 계면 N 원자의 자기모멘트는 안쪽 N 원자에 비해 다소 감소하였고, Ca 쪽 계면 N원자의 경우는 다소 증가하였다. 혼합계면계에서는 계면 N 원자들의 자기모멘트는 대략 덩치 CaN과 NaN에서 N 원자의 자기모멘트 값의 평균치를 가졌으나, 아래 위층 모두에서 Na와 연결된 계면 N 원자의 자기모멘트가 가장 컸고, 아래 위층 모두에서 Ca 원자와 연결된 계면 N 원자의 자기모멘트가 가장 작았다. 이와 같은 상황은 각각의 N 원자가 이웃한 Ca나 Na 원자와 결합하면서 결합에 참여하지 않은 p 전자수가 자기모멘트의 크기를 결정한다는 사실과 부합한다. 또한 계산된 원자별 상태밀도를 통해 이들의 계면상태를 논의하였다. Magnetism at the interfaces of rocksalt structured half-metals, NaN and CaN were investigated by use of the first-principles band calculations. The electronic structures for the simple interface and mixed interface systems were calculated by the FLAPW (full-potential linearized augmented plane wave) method. From the calculated number of electrons in muffin-tin spheres of each atom, we found, for the simple interface system, that the magnetic moment of the N atom in the CaN (NaN) side is increased (decreased) compared to those of inner N atoms. For the mixed interface system, the magnetic moments of the interface N atoms are similar to the averaged value for the inner N atoms in CaN and NaN side. Among four interface N atoms, the N atom connected to Na atoms in the upper and down layers has the largest magnetic moment and that connected to Ca atoms has the smallest. The number of p electrons in each N atom and the calculated density of states explain well the above situation.

Simulation of the time-optimal control of a system augmented by a continuous-time observer

The results presented in this paper indicate that the time-optimal control of a multi-variable, time-invariant linear system with inaccessible state variables is made possible by the introduction of a continuous-time observer system. The basic system and the observer system were simulated on a parallel-logic analogue computer for a third-order system and the associated three-dimensional switch surface for the time-optimal control sequence was simulated on a small digital computer: the communications between the analogue and the digital computers were accomplished by a simple interface system