Design for Flexibility : A Human Systems Integration Approach / by Boy, Guy André, author 642959

“…The author, an aerospace engineering designer, has worked for 40 years in the field of human-centered design (HCD) of complex systems, discovering repeatedly that automation leads to rigidity, especially when things go wrong. …”

Bipolar / by Lake, C. Raymond, author 656115, Elsevier Science and Technology (Online Service) 656114

“…The average Bipolar individual suffers with episodic symptoms for ten years before receiving an accurate diagnosis. As many as 16 million individuals in the United States will have a Bipolar episode in their lives, diagnosed or not. …”
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Meta-Learning Frameworks for Imaging Applications / by Sharma, Ashok, 1977-, editor 319639, Sengar, Sandeep Singh, 1985-, editor 656390, Singh, Parveen, 1976-, editor 656391, IGI Global Scientific Publishing (Online service) 655412

“…Meta-learning, or learning to learn, has been gaining popularity in recent years to adapt to new tasks systematically and efficiently in machine learning. …”
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Laser Beacon Tracking for High-Accuracy Attitude Determination by Nguyen, Tam, Cahoy, Kerri

“…CubeSat pointing capabilities have greatly improved in the past few years, paving the way for more sophisticated science and technology demonstration missions. …”
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Towards Buffer Management with Tiered Main Memory by Hao, Xiangpeng, Zhou, Xinjing, Yu, Xiangyao, Stonebraker, Michael

“…The scaling of per-GB DRAM cost has slowed down in recent years. Recent research has suggested that adding remote memory to a system can further reduce the overall memory cost while maintaining good performance. …”
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Social media sensors as early signals of influenza outbreaks at scale by Martín-Corral, David, García-Herranz, Manuel, Cebrian, Manuel, Moro, Esteban

“…We use a large social media dataset covering three years in a country. We demonstrate that it is possible to use highly central users on social media, more precisely high out-degree users from Twitter, as sensors to detect the early signals of ILI outbreaks in the physical world without monitoring the whole population. …”
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Chasing the city that cannot stop: Exploring transportation and urban co-development in São Paulo’s history by Borges Costa, Adriano, Zegras, P Christopher, Biderman, Ciro

“…We find, however, more complex relationships, and changes in them, over time. Over the entire 130 years, we find that urban expansion and road development pushed and pulled each other, in a somewhat “orderly” way. …”
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Lineage-level within-species dynamics in the human facial skin microbiome by Baker, Jacob S.

“…These extremely closely-related clades originate from the recent immigration of individual cells, whose evolution over short timescales (years) results in minute genomic diversity (101 SNPs/genome). …”
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Modeling the Performance of a Multi-Hop LoRaWAN Linear Sensor Network for Energy-Efficient Pipeline Monitoring Systems by Alhomyani, Haneen, Fadel, Mai, Dimitriou, Nikos, Bakhsh, Helen, Aldabbagh, Ghadah

“…In recent years, LoRa technology has emerged as a solution for wide-area coverage IoT applications. …”
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Effects of scaling and cleaning on the performance of forward osmosis hollow fiber membranes by Arkhangelsky, Elizabeth, Wicaksana, Filicia, Chou, Shuren, Al-Rabiah, Abdulrahman A., Al-Zahrani, Saeed M., Wang, Rong

“…Forward osmosis (FO) process as an alternative to conventional desalination techniques has attracted much attention in recent years. Since mineral salt scaling is one of the major limitations for seawater desalination, the current study focused on the behaviors of thin film composite (TFC) FO hollow fibers, which were fabricated in our laboratory, under the circumstance of calcium sulfate (CaSO4) scaling with sodium chloride as draw solution. …”
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Methodological, political and legal issues in the assessment of the effects of nanotechnology on human health by Schulte, Paul A, Riediker, Michael, Fatkhutdinova, Liliya, Bergamaschi, Enrico, Canu, Irina Guseva

“…However, because only small, cross-sectional studies have been conducted in the past 5 years, questions remain about the health risks of ENMs. …”
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Extended truncated-differential distinguishers on round-reduced AES by Bao, Zhenzhen, Guo, Jian, List, Eik

“…Distinguishers on round-reduced AES have attracted considerable attention in the recent years. While the number of rounds covered in key-recovery attacks did not increase, subspace, yoyo, mixture-differential, and multiple-of-n cryptanalysis advanced the understanding of the properties of the cipher. …”
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Improving visual quality of synthetic terrains using weathering simulation on graphics processing unit by Nguyen, Hoang Anh

“…While many algorithms have been developed to improve terrain visual quality, physically-based hydraulic erosion algorithms have gained much attention in recent years for its ability to generate realistic natural-looking terrains. …”
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A post-treatment method to enhance the property of aerosol jet printed electric circuit on 3D printed substrate by Wang, Bing, Zhang, Haining, Choi, Joon Phil, Moon, Seung Ki, Lee, Byunghoon, Koo, Jamyeong

“…Aerosol jet printing of electronic devices is increasingly attracting interest in recent years. However, low capability and high resistance are still limitations of the printed electronic devices. …”
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Identification of electromagnetic pre-earthquake perturbations from the DEMETER data by machine learning by Xiong, Pan, Long, Cheng, Zhou, Huiyu, Battiston, Roberto, Zhang, Xuemin, Shen, Xuhui

“…This study included the analysis of satellite data spanning over six years, during which about 8760 earthquakes with magnitude greater than or equal to 5.0 occurred in the world. …”
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Optimizing evasive strategies for an evader with imperfect vision capacity by Di, Kai, Yang, Shaofu, Wang, Wanyuan, Yan, Fuhan, Xing, Haokun, Jiang, Jiuchuan, Jiang, Yichuan

“…The multiagent pursuit-evasion problem has attracted considerable interest during recent years, and a general assumption is that the evader has perfect vision capacity. …”
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Citation analysis of the Texas Tech University’s statistics faculty : a study applied to collection development at the University Library by Johnson, Bill

“…The average age of a citation was 12.3 years. The two most frequently cited journal titles were: Journal of Time Series Analysis and Stochastic Processes and Their Applications. …”
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How gender influence translation-a comparative case study on two Chinese versions of the Villette from the feminist translation perspective by Jiang, Yang

“…Feminist translation theory sought to identify and criticize the causes for the marginalization of women and translation, as well as to increase the visibility of women in society and translation. In the nearly thirty years since feminist translation entered China, Chinese scholar’s research perspectives on feminist translation have developed from the theoretical to translation practice in the context of China. …”
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The implementation of photoacoustic microscopy system based on Zynq by Wang, Xijie

“…Photoacoustic imaging is a new non-invasive biomedical imaging technology, which combines the advantages of optical imaging and acoustic imaging, with high imaging depth, high resolution, high contrast, fast and safe, etc. In recent years, it has received a lot of attention from all over the world. …”
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Carbonation treatment of gasification fly ash from municipal solid waste using sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate solutions by Qin, Junde, Zhang, Yunhui, Yi, Yaolin, Fang, Mingliang

“…In recent years, slagging-gasification technology has received increasing attention in treating municipal solid waste (MSW). …”
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