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Microblock rotations and fault coupling in SE Asia triple junction (Sulawesi, Indonesia) from GPS and earthquake slip vector data

[1] The island of Sulawesi, eastern Indonesia, is located within the triple junction of the Australian, Philippine, and Sunda plates and accommodates the convergence of continental fragments with the Sunda margin. We quantify the kinematics of Sulawesi by modeling GPS velocities and earthquake slip vectors as a combination of rigid block rotations and elastic deformation around faults. We find that the deformation can be reasonably described by a small number of rapidly rotating crustal blocks. Relative to the Sunda Plate, the southwestern part of Sulawesi (Makassar Block) rotates anticlockwise at 1.4 /Myr. The northeastern part of Sulawesi, the Bangai-Sula domain, comprises three blocks: the central North Sula Block moves toward the NNW and rotates clockwise at 2.5 /Myr, the northeastern Manado Block rotates clockwise at 3 /Myr about a nearby axis, and East Sulawesi is pinched between the North Sula and Makassar blocks. Along the boundary between the Makassar Block and the Sunda Plate, GPS measurements suggest that the trench accommodates 15 mm/yr of slip within the Makassar Strait with current elastic strain accumulation. The tectonic boundary between North Sula and Manado blocks is the Gorontalo Fault, moving right laterally at about 11 mm/yr and accumulating elastic strain. The 42 mm/yr relative motion between North Sula and Makassar blocks is accommodated on the Palu-Koro left-lateral strike-slip fault zone. The data also indicate a pull-apart structure in Palu area, where the fault shows a transtensive motion and may have a complex geometry involving several active strands. Sulawesi provides a primary example of how collision can be accommodated by crustal block rotation instead of mountain building.
Local genetic and clonal structure in the tropical terrestrial bromeliad, Aechmea magdalenae.

The genetic structure of populations of the clone-forming tropical terrestrial bromeliad, Aechmea magdalenae, was examined by electrophoretic analyses in nine populations occurring on and near Barro Colorado Island, Republic of Panama. For the nine populations as a whole, 33% of the loci were polymorphic and the genetic diversity was 0. 121. Within populations, the mean percent of polymorphic loci was 24.1% and the mean genetic diversity was 0.084. About one-third of the total allozyme diversity resided among populations (mean GST = 0.356). The distribution of A. magdalenae was patchy in the study area. This, coupled with the relatively small effective population sizes and the possible founding of populations by few individuals may have contributed to the large among-population component of genetic diversity. The extent of clonal growth was inferred by examining the relationship between the proportion of rosettepairs sharing identical multilocus genotypes and distance between pairs. This method indicates that clonal spread is local; individuals sharing multilocus genotypes most often occur within 10 m of each other.
Development of a framework to identify research gaps from systematic reviews.

OBJECTIVE
Our objective was to develop a framework to identify research gaps from systematic reviews.


STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING
We reviewed the practices of (1) evidence-based practice centers (EPCs), and (2) other organizations that conduct evidence syntheses. We developed and pilot tested a framework for identifying research gaps.


RESULTS
Four (33%) EPCs and three (8%) other organizations reported using an explicit framework to determine research gaps. Variations of the PICO (population, intervention, comparison, outcomes) framework were most common. We developed a framework incorporating both the characterization of the gap using PICOS elements (also including setting) and the identification of the reason(s) why the gap exists as (1) insufficient or imprecise information, (2) biased information, (3) inconsistency or unknown consistency, and (4) not the right information. We mapped each of these reasons to concepts from three common evidence-grading systems.


CONCLUSION
Our framework determines from systematic reviews where the current evidence falls short and why or how the evidence falls short. This explicit identification of research gaps will allow systematic reviews to maximally inform the types of questions that need to be addressed and the types of studies needed to address the research gaps.
Impact of VSC-Based Multiline FACTS Controllers on Distance Protection of Transmission Lines

By utilizing multiline voltage-source (VSC)-based flexible ac transmission system (FACTS) controllers, independent controllability over each compensated line of a multiline system can be achieved. While VSC-based multiline FACTS controllers emerged as a new opportunity to control two independent ac systems, the main constraints and limitations that are presented to the conventional transmission-line protection systems need to be investigated. In this paper, the impacts of VSC-based FACTS controllers on distance relays while controlling the power flow of compensated lines are evaluated analytically and by detailed simulations for different fault types and locations.
Randomized trial of a nurse-administered, telephone-based disease management program for patients with heart failure.

BACKGROUND
Heart failure is a common and important cause of morbidity and mortality. Disease management offers promise in reducing the need for hospitalization and improving quality of life for heart failure patients, but experimental data on the efficacy of such programs are limited.


METHODS AND RESULTS
A total of 151 patients hospitalized with heart failure were randomized to usual care or scheduled telephone calls by specially trained nurses promoting self-management and guideline-based therapy as prescribed by primary physicians. Nurses also screened patients for heart failure exacerbations, which they managed with supplemental diuretics or by contacting the primary physician for instructions. Outcomes included time to hospital encounter, mortality, number and cost of hospitalizations, functional status, and satisfaction with care. Intervention patients had a longer time to encounter (hazard ratio [HR] = 0.67; 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.47-0.96; P = .029), hospital readmission (HR = 0.67; CI 0.46-0.99; P = .045), and heart failure-specific readmission (HR = 0.62; CI 0.38-1.03; P = .063). The number of admissions, hospital days, and hospital costs were significantly lower during the first 6 months after intervention but not at 1 year. The intervention had little effect on functional status, mortality, and satisfaction with care.


CONCLUSION
A nurse-administered, telephone-based disease management program delayed subsequent health care encounters, but had minimal impact on other outcomes.
Safety and efficacy of a novel hyperaemic agent, intracoronary nicorandil, for invasive physiological assessments in the cardiac catheterization laboratory.

AIMS
Maximal hyperaemia is a key element of invasive physiological studies and adenosine is the most commonly used agent. However, infusion of adenosine requires additional venous access and can cause chest discomfort, bronchial hyper-reactivity, and atrioventricular conduction block. The aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of intracoronary (IC) nicorandil as a novel hyperaemic agent for invasive physiological studies.


METHODS AND RESULTS
We enrolled 210 patients who underwent fractional flow reserve (FFR) measurement. Hyperaemic efficacy of the following methods was compared: IC bolus injection of adenosine; intravenous (i.v.) infusion of adenosine (140 μg/kg/min); and IC bolus of nicorandil (1 and 2 mg). In 70 patients, the index of microcirculatory resistance was also measured. Hyperaemic efficacy of IC nicorandil 2 mg was non-inferior to that of i.v. adenosine infusion (FFR: 0.82 ± 0.10 vs. 0.82 ± 0.10; P for non-inferiority < 0.001). There was a strong correlation between FFRs measured by i.v. adenosine and IC nicorandil (R² = 0.934). Nicorandil produced fewer changes in blood pressure, heart rate and PR interval, and less chest pain than adenosine (all P-values < 0.05). Atrioventricular block occurred in 12 patients with IC adenosine, 4 patients with i.v. adenosine and none with IC nicorandil. The index of microcirculatory resistance was 18.3 ± 8.7 with i.v. adenosine and 17.2 ± 7.6 with IC nicorandil (P = 0.126).


CONCLUSION
This study suggests that IC bolus injection of nicorandil is a simple, safe, and effective way to induce steady-state hyperaemia for invasive physiological evaluations. Clinicaltrials.gov number: NCT01331902.
Comparing ISO 9001 and the Capability Maturity Model for Software

The Capability Maturity Model for Software developed by the Software Engineering Institute and the ISO 9000 series of standards developed by the International Standards Organization share a common concern with quality and process management. The two are driven by similar concerns and are intuitively correlated. The purpose of this paper is to compare the CMM and ISO 9001. The results of the analysis indicate that, although an ISO 9001 compliant organization would not necessarily satisfy all of the level 2 key process areas, it would satisfy most of the level 2 goals and many of the level 3 goals.
Student use of Facebook for organizing collaborative classroom activities

Social network sites such as Facebook are often conceived of as purely social spaces; however, as these sites have evolved, so have the ways in which students are using them. In this study, we examine how undergraduate students use the social network site Facebook to engage in classroom-related collaborative activities (e.g., arranging study groups, learning about course processes) to show how Facebook may be used as an informal tool that students use to organize their classroom experiences, and explore the factors that predict type of use. Data from two surveys (N=302, N=214) are used to analyze how Facebook use, social and psychological factors, self-efficacy, and types of instructorstudent communication on Facebook are related to positive and negative collaboration among students. We found that predictors of Facebook use for class organizing behaviors include self-efficacy and perceived motivation to communicate with others using the site. When placed in the context of social and psychological factors, Facebook intensity did not predict either positive or negative collaboration, suggesting that how students used the site, rather than how often they used the tool or how important they felt it was, affected their propensity to collaborate. Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (2011) 6:329–347 DOI 10.1007/s11412-011-9115-y C. Lampe : D. Y. Wohn : J. Vitak : N. B. Ellison : R. Wash Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA C. Lampe e-mail: lampecli@msu.edu J. Vitak e-mail: vitakjes@msu.edu N. B. Ellison e-mail: nellison@msu.edu R. Wash e-mail: wash@msu.edu D. Y. Wohn (*) 409 Communication Arts, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA e-mail: wohndong@msu.edu
Robot Behavior Engineering using DD-Designer

We present a novel robotic software development framework for rapid simulation and programming of mobile robot teams. The framework uses a specification-centred generative approach. A robot control program is specified in an intuitive graphical representation of a hyper-graph of typed data processors. This specification is automatically refined to all design artifacts required in a robotic software development environment: simulation models, robot control programs, team communication infrastructure, documentation, and real-time monitoring. Although our framework was originally intended to design behavior-based robot control programs using the Dual Dynamics architecture, we demonstrate the openess of the environment by an example which integrates a " classical " control schema into a Dual Dynamics behavior system. Experimental validation was done on GMD-Robots, our team of mid-size league RoboCup robots.
A novel JXTA-based architecture for implementing heterogenous Networks of Things

This paper presents EmbJXTAChord, a novel peer-to-peer (P2P) architecture that integrates the good features of different sources, such as JXTA, EXI, CoAP, combining and augmenting them to provide a framework that is specifically devised for developing IoT applications over heterogeneous networks. EmbJXTAChord provides for several interesting properties, such as, distributed and fault-tolerant resource discovery, transparent routing over subnetworks, application protocol independence from the transport protocol in narrowband Wireless Sensor Networks, thus eliminating the need for using dedicated software or configuring custom gateways to achieve these functionalities. Moreover, EmbJXTAChord offers native support not only for TCP/HTTP, but also for Bluetooth RFCOMM and 6LoWPAN, thus opening to a broad range of IoT devices in supernetworks composed of networks using different interconnection technologies, not necessarily IP-based. In addition, EmbJXTAChord offers security over heterogeneous networks providing support for secure peergroups (even nested) and for group encryption, thus allowing for unicast and multicast communication between groups of objects sharing the same resources. The users of the proposed architecture will benefit from an integrated solution and the applications developed on the proposed framework will be able to reconfigure themselves, adapting automatically to the network topology of the execution environment. Finally, EmbJXTAChord provides jxCOAP-E, a new CoAP implementation that leverages on the transport mechanisms for heterogeneous networks offered by EmbJXTAChord. jxCOAP-E enables to realize a RESTful service architecture for peer-topeer narrowband or broadband networks composed of devices connected via Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, BLE or IEEE 802.15.4. Differently from CoAP, jxCOAP-E provides a distributed and fault-tolerant service discovery mechanism and support for secure multicast communications. The paper presents EmbJXTAChord, discusses all the relevant design challenges and presents a comparative experimental performance assessment with state-of-the-art solutions on commercial-off-the-shelf devices. Note:This is a preprint version of an Elsevier accepted paper. The formal version of the work is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2017.11.002 c ©2017. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ ∗Corresponding author Email addresses: fbattaglia@unict.it (Filippo Battaglia), lobello@unict.it (Lucia Lo Bello) Preprint submitted to Computer Communications November 23, 2017 ar X iv :1 71 1. 08 21 8v 1 [ cs .N I] 2 2 N ov 2 01 7
Coordinated Damping Control Design for DFIG-Based Wind Generation Considering Power Output Variation

To alleviate the impacts of stochastic wind generation on stability performance, this paper proposes a novel control design method for coordination and synthesis of damping controllers for conventional synchronous generators (SG) and double fed induction generators (DFIG)-based wind generation in multi-machine power systems. A probabilistic model of wind generation under Weibull distribution of wind speed is first introduced. Based on this model, an extended probabilistic small signal stability analysis (SSSA) incorporating wind power generation is proposed for handling probability density function (PDF) of its power output. The optimization problem for tuning of damping controllers is then formulated, considering the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of the real part and damping ratio of eigenvalues obtained by the proposed probabilistic SSSA as stability constraints. Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is used to solve the optimization problem and to determine parameters of damping controllers. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated on the modified New England power system with multi-wind farms through probabilistic SSSA and transient stability analysis, and it is compared with conventional deterministic methods. Accuracy of the proposed probabilistic SSSA is also validated by Monte Carlo simulations (MCS).
Preoperative therapy with pazopanib in high-risk soft tissue sarcoma: a phase II window-of-opportunity study by the German Interdisciplinary Sarcoma Group (GISG-04/NOPASS).

INTRODUCTION
For resectable soft tissue sarcoma (STS), radical surgery, usually combined with radiotherapy, is the mainstay of treatment and the only potentially curative modality. Since surgery is often complicated by large tumour size and extensive tumour vasculature, preoperative treatment strategies with the aim of devitalising the tumour are being explored. One option is treatment with antiangiogenic drugs. The multikinase inhibitor pazopanib, which possesses pronounced antiangiogenic effects, has shown activity in metastatic and unresectable STS, but has so far not been tested in the preoperative setting.


METHODS AND ANALYSIS
This open-label, multicentre phase II window-of-opportunity trial assesses pazopanib as preoperative treatment of resectable STS. Participants receive a 21-day course of pazopanib 800 mg daily during wait time for surgery. Major eligibility criteria are resectable, high-risk adult STS of any location, or metachronous solitary STS metastasis for which resection is planned, and adequate organ function and performance status. The trial uses an exact single-stage design. The primary end point is metabolic response rate (MRR), that is, the proportion of patients with >50% reduction of the mean standardised uptake value (SUVmean) in post-treatment compared to pre-treatment fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography CT. The MRR below which the treatment is considered ineffective is 0.2. The MRR above which the treatment warrants further exploration is 0.4. With a type I error of 5% and a power of 80%, the sample size is 35 evaluable patients, with 12 or more responders as threshold. Main secondary end points are histopathological and MRI response, resectability, toxicity, recurrence-free and overall survival. In a translational substudy, endothelial progenitor cells and vascular epithelial growth factor receptor are analysed as potential prognostic and predictive markers.


ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION
Approval by the ethics committee II, University of Heidelberg, Germany (2012-019F-MA), German Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (61-3910-4038155) and German Federal Institute for Radiation Protection (Z5-22463/2-2012-007).


TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER
NCT01543802, EudraCT: 2011-003745-18; Pre-results.
Fast-Write Resistive RAM (RRAM) for Embedded Applications

Especially for microcontroller and mobile applications, embedded nonvolatile memory is an important technology offering to reduce power and provide local persistent storage. This article describes a new resistive RAM device with fast write operation to improve the speed of embedded nonvolatile memories.
Empirically supported psychological treatments for adult acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder: a review.

BACKGROUND
Acute stress disorder (ASD) predicts the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which in some sufferers can persist for years and lead to significant disability. We carried out a review of randomized controlled trials to give an update on which psychological treatments are empirically supported for these disorders, and used the criteria set out by Chambless and Hollon [1998: J Consult Clin Psychol 66:7-18] to draw conclusions about efficacy, first irrespective of trauma type and second with regard to particular populations.


METHODS
The PsycINFO and PubMed databases were searched electronically to identify suitable articles published up to the end of 2008. Fifty-seven studies satisfied our inclusion criteria.


RESULTS
Looking at the literature undifferentiated by trauma type, there was evidence that trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) are efficacious and specific for PTSD, stress inoculation training, hypnotherapy, interpersonal psychotherapy, and psychodynamic therapy are possibly efficacious for PTSD and trauma-focused CBT is possibly efficacious for ASD. Not one of these treatments has been tested with the full range of trauma groups, though there is evidence that trauma-focused CBT is established in efficacy for assault- and road traffic accident-related PTSD.


CONCLUSIONS
Trauma-focused CBT and to a lesser extent EMDR (due to fewer studies having been conducted and many having had a mixed trauma sample) are the psychological treatments of choice for PTSD, but further research of these and other therapies with different populations is needed.
A novel zero weight/activation-aware hardware architecture of convolutional neural network

It is imperative to accelerate convolutional neural networks (CNNs) due to their ever-widening application areas from server, mobile to IoT devices. Based on the fact that CNNs can be characterized by a significant amount of zero values in both kernel weights and activations, we propose a novel hardware accelerator for CNNs exploiting zero weights and activations. We also report a zero-induced load imbalance problem, which exists in zero-aware parallel CNN hardware architectures, and present a zero-aware kernel allocation as a solution. According to our experiments with a cycle-accurate simulation model, RTL, and layout design of the proposed architecture running two real deep CNNs, pruned AlexNet [1] and VGG-16 [2], our architecture offers 4x/1.8x (AlexNet) and 5.2x/2.1x (VGG-16) speedup compared with state-of-the-art zero-agnostic/zero-activation-aware architectures.
Spectrum sharing methods for the coexistence of multiple RF systems: A survey

Due to the explosive growth of wireless devices and wireless traffic, the spectrum scarcity problem is becoming more urgent in numerous Radio Frequency (RF) systems. At the same time, many studies have shown that spectrum resources allocated to various existing RF systems are largely underutilized. As a potential solution to this spectrum scarcity problem, spectrum sharing among multiple, potentially dissimilar RF systems has been proposed. However, such spectrum sharing solutions are challenging to develop due to the lack of efficient coordination schemes and potentially different PHY/MAC properties. In this paper, we investigate existing spectrum sharing methods facilitating coexistence of various RF systems. The cognitive radio technique, which has been the subject of various surveys, constitutes a subset of our wider scope. We study more general coexistence scenarios and methods such as coexistence of communication systems with similar priorities, utilizing similar or different protocols or standards, as well as the coexistence of communication and non-communication systems using the same spectral resources. Finally, we explore open research issues on the spectrum sharing methods as well as potential approaches to resolving these issues. © 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Security , Trust and Privacy in the SEcure MObile Payment Service

The Secure Mobile Payment Service (SEMOPS – www.semops.com) is an innovative solution for delivering a global mobile payment service. Among other requirements common to the mobile payment services, SEMOPS has tackled the security, trust and privacy issues that mobile payment scenarios pose. Existing approaches in mobile payment procedures have done little to fully address these three requirements. Via its open design, SEMOPS addresses these areas not only at the technology level but at the business model level as well. We present here the SEMOPS related activities with respect to security, trust and privacy, as they have been implemented into this mobile payment service.