scholarly journals Industrial Safety Applications Using Wireless Access Panels

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 1573-1577
Author(s):  
Sakam Nagi Reddy, Et. al.
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Safety ◽  
Wireless Technology ◽  
Personal Time ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Field Activity ◽  
Networking Technologies ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Safety Applications ◽  
General Climate

In large numbers of the industrial sectors, wireless networking technologies are acquiring rapid endorsement on account of their cost-adequacy, improved unwavering quality, and adaptability. A wireless network can be characterized as a network of devices, meant as hubs. Their essential usefulness is to corporately detect, accumulate, measure, and distribute data in the general climate. Wireless methods communication without the utilization of wires other than the recieving wire, the Ethernet, and the ground replacing wires. For a few industrial activities, wireless technology bears the cost of savvy and compelling availability arrangements. Utilizing wireless technology there are numerous advantages, for example, distant offices, cycles and field activity which brings about improving productivity, personal time, quicker and more accurate data assortment.  

Research and Design of Intelligent Lighting Control System Based on Industrial Wireless Technology

2011 ◽  
Vol 467-469 ◽  
pp. 620-624 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Wang ◽  
Wei Ru Chen
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Control Technology ◽  
Wireless Technology ◽  
Lighting Control ◽  
Turn On ◽  
Point Control ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Research And Design ◽  
The Internet Of Things

The intelligent lighting control system is one of typical applications of the Internet of things. The method of intelligent lighting control system based on industrial wireless technology is proposed in the paper. It used proposed three-point-control technology, and adjusting the brightness of lamps, turn on/off the lamps and a part of fault detection can be realized. At the same time, it can greatly reduce the cost of system. It will be useful to engineer and researchers.

Utilization of Dacite as Alternative Aggregate in Asphalt Mixture

2012 ◽  
Vol 509 ◽  
pp. 209-214
Author(s):  
Shao Peng Wu ◽  
Pan Pan ◽  
Ming Yu Chen
Keyword(s):  
Asphalt Mixture ◽  
Asphalt Mixtures ◽  
Major Objective ◽  
Widespread Application ◽  
Bending Tests ◽  
Three Point Bending ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Asphalt Content ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Cost Of Construction

With the widespread application of asphalt mixture, current demand from transportation managers for construction and maintenance of their pavement network consumes large numbers of aggregates. If agencies excessively favor to some certain kinds of excellent aggregates, the cost of construction could be considerably expensive. The major objective of this study is to determine the feasibility of utilizing dacite in asphalt mixtures. By means of Marshall, freeze-thaw, rutting and three-point bending tests, the performances of dacite and basalt asphalt mixture are compared. The results of the testing illustrate that dacite asphalt mixture is more susceptible to gradation and asphalt content than basalt asphalt mixture. Meanwhile it is showed that the performances of dacite asphalt mixture can be improved greatly with the involvement of additives including active mineral powder and cement. Furthermore, it is validated that dacite can be used as alternative aggregate in asphalt mixture.

Earthquakes and Ancient Cities: Armageddon—Not the End of the World

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Elizabeth Hough ◽  
Roger G. Bilham
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Special Problem ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Daunting Task ◽  
New City ◽  
Rebuilding Effort ◽  
Mechanical Devices ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The City

The reduction of an entire city to a pile of rubble poses a special problem for the survivors. Roads are blocked, underground pipes are broken, and disease accompanies the decay of incompletely buried bodies. Fresh water and sewage no longer flow, food becomes scarce, and the absence of shelter from extremes of temperature can make life miserable. In the cities of the ancient world a very real practical problem followed in the months and years after the destruction of a city—a cleanup operation beyond the wildest dreams of the survivors. Although steam shovels had been used for moving heavy materials in building the Suez and Panama canals in 1869 and 1910, respectively, it was not until 1923 that the bulldozer was invented. The even more useful backhoe followed 25 years later. Thus, clearing debris was a daunting task as recently as the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. In his book The City That Is: The Story of the Rebuilding of San Francisco in Three Years, Rufus Steele wrote of the rebuilding effort: . . . First the ground had to be cleared. The task would have baffled Hercules— cleaning out the Augean stables was the trick of a child compared to clearing for the new city. This is a step in the rebuilding which fails entirely to impress the visitor of today. He can form no conception of the waste which had to be reduced to bits and then lifted and carted away to the dumping grounds. The cost of removing it was more than twenty million dollars. . . . Lacking what we would now consider modern machinery to move large volumes of debris, the rebuilders of San Francisco extended railway lines across town, brought in steam and electric cranes, and relied heavily on teams of horses that suddenly found themselves in enormous demand. According to Steele, “Huge mechanical devices for shoveling and loading were invented and set to work.” Formidable as the task may have been, San Francisco tapped into several critical resources in its Herculean efforts: trains, cranes, and, perhaps most important, large numbers of survivors following an earthquake that killed a very small fraction of the local population.

Client Contact in Self-Help Therapy for Anxiety and Depression: Necessary But Can Take a Variety of Forms Beside Therapist Contact

2012 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
France Talbot
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Service Delivery ◽  
Anxiety And Depression ◽  
Mental Health Service Delivery ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Cognitive Behavioural ◽  
Multiple Trials ◽  
Meta Analyses ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Impact

Self-administered therapies (SATs) have been promoted as a way to increase access to evidence-based mental health services. Recent meta-analyses and literature reviews suggest that SATs with clinical guidance are more effective than SATs with no contact for the treatment of anxiety and depression. However, little attention has been paid to the role of nonguidance contact, contact that does not involve the provision of assistance in the application of specific therapy techniques such as emails to encourage treatment adherence. The present article examines the impact of nonguidance contact on the outcomes of SATs for anxiety and depression. Electronic databases were searched to identify studies conducted over the past two decades by independent research teams that have tested cognitive-behavioural SATs over multiple trials. Findings suggest that the involvement or guidance of a therapist is not essential for SATs to produce significant benefits as long as nonguidance contact is provided. It is suggested that even very minimal levels of nonguidance contact increase SAT's outcomes by motivating treatment engagement and improving adherence. The benefit of SATs that can be accessed directly by large numbers of individuals and that do not require therapist involvement to ensure efficacy can potentially significantly increase the cost effectiveness and quality of mental health service delivery.

Building a Rapid Learning Health Care System for Oncology: The Regulatory Framework of CancerLinQ

2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (22) ◽  
pp. 2373-2379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard L. Schilsky ◽  
Dina L. Michels ◽  
Amy H. Kearbey ◽  
Peter Paul Yu ◽  
Clifford A. Hudis
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Quality Care ◽  
Quality Measurement ◽  
New Drugs ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
New Information ◽  
American Society ◽  
Clinical Records ◽  
The Cost

Today is a time of unprecedented opportunity and challenge in health care generally and cancer care in particular. An explosion of scientific knowledge, the rapid introduction of new drugs and technologies, and the unprecedented escalation in the cost of health care challenge physicians to quickly assimilate new information and appropriately deploy new advances while also delivering efficient and high-quality care to a rapidly growing and aging patient population. At the same time, big data, with its potential to drive rapid understanding and innovation, promises to transform the health care industry, as it has many others already. CancerLinQ is an initiative of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and its Institute for Quality, developed to build on these opportunities and address these challenges by collecting information from the electronic health records of large numbers of patients with cancer. CancerLinQ is, first and foremost, a quality measurement and reporting system through which oncologists can harness the depth and power of their patients' clinical records and other data to improve the care they deliver. The development and deployment of CancerLinQ raises many important questions about the use of big data in health care. This article focuses on the US federal regulatory pathway by which CancerLinQ will accept patient records and the approach of ASCO toward stewardship of the information.

scholarly journals Graphene: A new technology for agriculture

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. e56610212827
Author(s):  
André May ◽  
Luciana Fontes Coelho ◽  
Evandro Henrique Figueiredo Moura da Silva ◽  
Ronaldo da Silva Viana ◽  
Nilson Aparecido Vieira Junior ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Precision Agriculture ◽  
Food Industry ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Soil Microorganisms ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Limiting Factor ◽  
Contaminant Removal ◽  
Detection Systems ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
The Cost

This article presents a review on the use of graphene in various segments, elucidating that this product can be used in various industrial sectors. These include mainly agriculture (as in large crops of high relevance, such as coffee), the food industry and the environment, as a plant growth stimulator and in fertilizers, nanoencapsulation and smart-release systems, antifungal and antibacterial agents, smart packaging, water treatment and ultrafiltration, contaminant removal, pesticide and insecticide quantitation, detection systems and precision agriculture. However, some challenges can be overcome before the graphene-based nanoparticle is used on a large scale. In this way, before using the product in the environment, it is necessary to determine whether the technology is safe for the soil-plant system and consumers. Furthermore, the cost of its use can also be a limiting factor depending on the level applied. Therefore, this review proposes to examine the diverse literature to explain the effects of the use of graphene in agriculture, plants and soil microorganisms. Accordingly, this article discusses and presents the possibilities of application of graphene in agriculture, plants and soil microorganisms.

scholarly journals Sharing mating opportunities by coalition males in stump-tailed macaques: elucidation of ecological mechanism by diversion of PvS model

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aru Toyoda ◽  
Tamaki Maruhashi ◽  
Suchinda Malaivijitnond ◽  
Hiroki Koda ◽  
Yasuo Ihara
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Theory ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Dominant Male ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Mathematical Simulations ◽  
Mating Opportunities ◽  
Ecological Mechanism ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Socioecological Models ◽  
Shed Light

ABSTRACTCooperation, or the act of benefiting others at the cost of the benefactor’s fitness, has been a central issue in evolutionary theory. Non-human animals sometimes show coalitions or male-male “cooperation” to confront a male rival and challenge the rank hierarchy. Here we observed novel types of coalitions in wild stump-tailed macaques (Macaca arctoides); multiple males actively shared the mating opportunities, i.e., a male copulated with a female, while his ally waited his turn and guarded them. Our mathematical simulations revealed that lack of estrous signs, as well as large numbers of males in a group, possibly enhance facultative sharing of females. This is the first demonstration of the sharing of females in non-human primates., and shed light on the evolutionary theory of cooperation. Overall, our novel observations have revised the existing socioecological models in primate social systems. The characteristics of stump-tailed macaque societies now range from despotism to egalitarianism, and from monopolization of females by a dominant male to male-male coalition coupled with active sharing of mating opportunities, which increases the chances of reproductive success.

scholarly journals Economic justification for the cost of measures to improve conditions and safety of work

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Г.А. Бронникова ◽  
Л.В. Бронникова
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Economic Effect ◽  
Social Indicators ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Industrial Safety ◽  
Shipbuilding Industry ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
Initial Values ◽  
Economic Justification ◽  
The Cost

В настоящее время эффективность проведения мероприятий, связанных с улучшением условий и обеспечением безопасности труда работников промышленных предприятий, в том числе в судостроительной отрасли, оценивается, главным образом, с применением социальных показателей (сокращение количества рабочих мест с неблагоприятными условиями труда, снижение уровня производственного травматизма, сокращение текучести кадров и другие). Вместе с тем, существует актуальная потребность в оценке экономической эффективности указанных мероприятий, что необходимо для рационального расходования финансовых ресурсов, выделяемых на обеспечение производственной безопасности. Специалистами профильных организаций были предложены методические разработки в области оценки экономической эффективности мероприятий по улучшению условий труда, но их практическое использование затруднено в связи с отсутствием релевантной методики определения исходных величин для расчета данных показателей. На основе анализа упомянутых разработок, авторы применили к ним результаты собственных исследований и предложили адаптированную методику экономического обоснования рассматриваемых мероприятий. В статье приведена структура затрат на компенсацию негативного воздействия производственной среды на работников. Предложен метод определения значений исходных величин (данных) для расчета показателей социально-экономического эффекта. Приведены показатели, позволяющие учесть влияние рассматриваемых мероприятий на производительность труда, а также оценить сумму экономии расходов на компенсационные выплаты. Изложенные в статье предложения по расчету социально-экономического эффекта от проектируемых (планируемых) мероприятий по улучшению условий и безопасности труда позволяют повысить точность расчетов и объективность выводов об экономической эффективности рассматриваемых мероприятий. Что, в свою очередь, позволит обеспечить повышение экономической эффективности конечных результатов работы предприятия. Nowadays, the effectiveness of measures related to improving conditions and ensuring the safety of workers of industrial enterprises, also including the shipbuilding industry, is usually rated by using social indicators (reduction in the number of jobs with unfavorable labor conditions, reduction in the level of industrial injuries, staff turnover reduction and others). At the same time, there is an urgent need to assess the cost-effectiveness of these activities, due to the need to rationally spending the financial resources allocated to ensure industrial safety. Experts of specialized organizations suggested methodological developments for diagnosis economical effectiveness of events to improve jobs condition. Practical usage of these methods is difficult due to the lack of relevant methods for defining initial values which are used in calculations. Based on the analysis of the mentioned developments, the authors applied the results of their own research to them and proposed an adapted methodology for the economic justification of the measures under consideration. The article presents the cost structure for compensating the negative impact of the labor environment on workers. A method for determining the values of the initial values (data) for calculating indicators of the socio-economic effect is presented in article. Demonstrated indicators allow to represent the influence of events on working efficiency and to measure the spend savings on compensative payments. Described proposals for social-economic event efficiency calculation methodology allow to increase the calculation accuracy and make adequate conclusions of event's social-economy efficiency. This, in turn, will lead to improve the economic effectiveness of the final results of whole enterprise.

scholarly journals A scaled-down workflow for Illumina shotgun sequencing library preparation: lower input and improved performance at small fraction of the cost

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jo Ann Tan ◽  
Alexander S Mikheyev
Keyword(s):  
Full Scale ◽  
Library Preparation ◽  
Insect Genome ◽  
Redundant Data ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Sequencing Library ◽  
Pcr Duplicates ◽  
Improved Performance ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Sequencing Library Preparation

The high cost of library preparation remains a major obstacle to sequencing large numbers of individual genomes. Illumina’s proprietary tagmentation technology allows for rapid and easy preparation of sequencing libraries, but remains prohibitively expensive for many users. Here we propose a modified version of the protocol, which uses Illumina reagents at 1/20th the scale. We show that the scaled-down protocol performs comparably to that of the manufacturer on a non-model insect genome. Surprisingly, the scaled-down protocol also produced 14% fewer PCR duplicates that the full-scale protocol. Since PCR duplicates effectively wasted redundant data, our protocol presented here can help save not just library preparation costs, but sequencing costs as well.

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