scholarly journals A SPEC RG Cloud Group's Vision on the Performance Challenges of FaaS Cloud Architectures

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erwin van Eyk ◽  
Alexandru Iosup ◽  
Cristina L. Abad ◽  
Johannes Grohmann ◽  
Simon Eismann
Keyword(s):  
Performance Challenges

Telehealth During COVID-19 for Remote Vision Rehabilitation of a Patient with mTBI

2020 ◽  
pp. 191-198
Keyword(s):  
Veterans Health ◽  
Health Administration ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Home Setting ◽  
Therapeutic Goals ◽  
Vision Rehabilitation ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Performance Challenges ◽  
Perception Of Performance

Background: Binocular and accommodative vision problems are common after mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). Traditionally, the management of visual dysfunctions following mTBI included in-office vision rehabilitation with a trained eye care provider. The concept of providing telehealth for remote vision rehabilitation in mTBI patients is a relatively novel practice that has not been widely utilized until the recent outbreak of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Case Report: We describe the implementation of telehealth for remote vision rehabilitation during COVID-19 within the Veterans’ Health Administration (VHA) system in an adult patient with multiple confirmed histories of mTBI. Conclusion: Our telehealth remote vision rehabilitation was successfully implemented utilizing established VHA’s web-based videoconferencing tools. Therapeutic goals identified prior to COVID 19 were addressed without any challenges. The delivery of vision rehabilitation intervention via telehealth allowed for the continuance of services within the home setting that led to improvements in functional vision, decreased perception of performance challenges, and improved quality of life.

scholarly journals A FMEA Based Method for Analyzing and Prioritizing Performance Risk at the Conceptual Stage of Performance PSS Design

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 81-90
Author(s):  
John Bake Sakwe ◽  
Marcus Pereira Pessoa ◽  
Sipke Hoekstra
Keyword(s):  
Failure Modes ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Performance Risk ◽  
Performance Contracts ◽  
Product Service ◽  
Optical Sorting ◽  
Fmea Method ◽  
Performance Challenges ◽  
Product Service Systems

AbstractWith the quest for enhancing competitive position, fulfilling customer and sustainability demands, increasing profitability, asset manufacturing companies are now adapting assets towards product service systems (PSS) offered through performance contracts. Despite several benefits, the shift to performance PSS exposes industrial asset manufacturers' to performance challenges and risks. Currently, PSS designers face a challenge to exhaustively identify potential failures during PSS development. Knowledge of Product failures is critical prior to the engineering of PSS. This paper proposes a failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) method to support designers' prioritise critical failures in performance PSS development. A case study of an optical sorting machine is used to demonstrate the method's application.

scholarly journals Recent Advances of Photocatalytic Application in Water Treatment: A Review

Nanomaterials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 1804
Author(s):  
Guangmin Ren ◽  
Hongtao Han ◽  
Yixuan Wang ◽  
Sitong Liu ◽  
Jianyong Zhao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Water Treatment ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Great Promise ◽  
Rapid Progress ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Photocatalytic Application ◽  
Oxidation Technology ◽  
Performance Challenges

Photocatalysis holds great promise as an efficient and sustainable oxidation technology for application in wastewater treatment. Rapid progress developing novel materials has propelled photocatalysis to the forefront of sustainable wastewater treatments. This review presents the latest progress on applications of photocatalytic wastewater treatment. Our focus is on strategies for improving performance. Challenges and outlooks in this promising field are also discussed. We hope this review will help researchers design low-cost and high-efficiency photocatalysts for water treatment.

‘Where all my bad girls at?’

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joyhanna Yoo Garza
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
American English ◽  
African American English ◽  
Gender And Race ◽  
Linguistic Resources ◽  
Performance Challenges

This article examines the polyvalence of racial(ised) representations in K-pop performances. The analysis of K-pop star CL’s (2013) song and video ‘Nappeun gijibae’ (‘The bad girl’) demonstrates how the artist projects an assertive femininity by embodying and localising the Bad Bitch: a sexually agentive figure of womanhood from US hip hop. CL’s use of African American English and conventionalised hip hop tropes helps resignify gijibae, a pejorative Korean term for women. By shifting between decontextualised styles invoking a different time and place, CL is able to build a kind of chronotopic capital that transforms fragmented styles into an empowered cosmopolitan femininity. However, although CL’s performance challenges Korean gendered norms in its use of local linguistic resources, her selective appropriations of US Black and Chicanx cultural signifiers reproduce narrow images of racialised femininities and reify a hierarchy of valuation along lines of gender and race.

Call Admission Control Algorithm with Efficient Handoff for Both 4G and 5G Networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-08
Author(s):  
Maharazu Mamman ◽  
Zurina Mohd Hanapi
Keyword(s):  
Admission Control ◽  
Mobile Networks ◽  
Call Admission Control ◽  
Blocking Probability ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
5G Networks ◽  
Transportation Energy ◽  
Call Blocking Probability ◽  
Call Admission ◽  
Performance Challenges

Recently, many generations of mobile networks have changed from one transition to another transition. The mode of transition from the first generation (1G) to the fifth generation (5G) is characterized by a lot of performance challenges such as delay, speed of the users, mobility, and variety of services. Currently, different from prior generations, 5G is not only concerned with the mobile networks but also, with various applications and different services such as health sector, transportation, energy consumption, safety well as Smart City. All these services are incorporated by 5G. In this paper, we proposed a call admission control (CAC) algorithm with an efficient handoff for both 4G and 5G networks. Simulation is used to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, and the obtained results indicate it considerably performs better than do other algorithms based on valuable metrics such as data throughput, call blocking probability (CBP), and call dropping probability (CDP).

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