Rotary Mode Core Sampling Control Decision Record

Abstract This article explores how malaria control in sub-Saharan Africa is shaped in important ways by political and economic considerations within the contexts of aid-recipient nations and the global health community. Malaria control is often assumed to be a technically driven exercise: the remit of public health experts and epidemiologists who utilize available data to select the most effective package of activities given available resources. Yet research conducted with national and international stakeholders shows how the realities of malaria control decision-making are often more nuanced. Hegemonic ideas and interests of global actors, as well as the national and global institutional arrangements through which malaria control is funded and implemented, can all influence how national actors respond to malaria. Results from qualitative interviews in seven malaria-endemic countries indicate that malaria decision-making is constrained or directed by multiple competing objectives, including a need to balance overarching global goals with local realities, as well as a need for National Malaria Control Programmes to manage and coordinate a range of non-state stakeholders who may divide up regions and tasks within countries. Finally, beyond the influence that political and economic concerns have over programmatic decisions and action, our analysis further finds that malaria control efforts have institutionalized systems, structures and processes that may have implications for local capacity development.

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Effect of Slice Priority for admission control in 5G Wireless Networks: A comparison study for two Fuzzy-based systems considering Software-Defined-Networks

Journal of High Speed Networks ◽

10.3233/jhs-200637 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 26 (3) ◽

pp. 169-183

Author(s):

Phudit Ampririt ◽

Yi Liu ◽

Makoto Ikeda ◽

Keita Matsuo ◽

Leonard Barolli ◽

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Keyword(s):

Wireless Networks ◽

Admission Control ◽

High Speed ◽

Additional Parameter ◽

Fifth Generation ◽

Efficient Management ◽

Grade Of Service ◽

User Request ◽

Control Decision ◽

And Control

The Fifth Generation (5G) networks are expected to be flexible to satisfy demands of high-quality services such as high speed, low latencies and enhanced reliability from customers. Also, the rapidly increasing amount of user devices and high user’s requests becomes a problem. Thus, the Software-Defined Network (SDN) will be the key function for efficient management and control. To deal with these problems, we propose a Fuzzy-based SDN approach. This paper presents and compares two Fuzzy-based Systems for Admission Control (FBSAC) in 5G wireless networks: FBSAC1 and FBSAC2. The FBSAC1 considers for admission control decision three parameters: Grade of Service (GS), User Request Delay Time (URDT) and Network Slice Size (NSS). In FBSAC2, we consider as an additional parameter the Slice Priority (SP). So, FBSAC2 has four input parameters. The simulation results show that the FBSAC2 is more complex than FBSAC1, but it has a better performance for admission control.

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An Expert Controller Based on Transient Response Patterns

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.219-220.3 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 219-220 ◽

pp. 3-7

Author(s):

Ning Zhang ◽

Rong Hua Liu

Keyword(s):

Control System ◽

Transient Response ◽

Closed Loop ◽

Performance Criterion ◽

Response Patterns ◽

Loop Control ◽

Expert Control ◽

Closed Loop Control System ◽

Loop Control System ◽

Control Decision

An expert control system based on transient response patterns and expert system techniques is proposed in this paper. Depending on the features of the closed-loop control system determines the control decision and adjusts the parameters of the controller. The proposed method requires minimal proper information about the controlled plant and, with the linear re-excitation learning method, the system is kept satisfying the performance criterion.

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