In order to meet government supervision of pork production safety as well as consumer's right to know what they buy, this study adopts animal identification, mobile PDA reader , GPRS and other information technologies, and put forward a data collection method to set up rearing files of pig in smallhold pig farming, and designs related metadata structures and its mobile database, and develops a ...

Abstract In practical applications, the geological environmental monitoring instruments should have more stringent instrument properties, their resistance to high and low temperature, sealing, corrosion power consumption, They are all higher requirements. While areas whitout public network coverage mostly alpine - altitude areas, exposed relatively harsh conditions for a long time. The timely s...

In this paper, the effect of ocean-land mixed propagation path on the lightning performance of grounding rods is investigated. This effect is focused on two problems. The first is extracting exact equivalent circuit of grounding rods in the presence of oceans. The equivalent circuit can be used in transient analysis of power systems in the neighboring oceans. In the second one, this effect on t...

The purpose of this study is to determine the dependency of the planned dose perturbation (PDP) algorithm (used in Sun Nuclear 3DVH software) on spatial resolution of the MapCHECK 2 detectors. In this study, ten brain (small target), ten brain (large target), ten prostate, and ten head-and-neck (H&N) cases were retrospectively selected for QA measurement. IMRT validation plans were delivere...

This toolkit provides a set of tools for automatically creating a response surface for a target design space. Response surfaces are equations that express a performance metric used to evaluate a set of possible designs in terms of the designs’ parameters. If you can parameterize your design and quantify a performance metric of interest to you then this toolkit can vastly reduce the number of hi...

BACKGROUND Limited successes of gene finding for major depressive disorder (MDD) may be partly due to phenotypic heterogeneity. We tested whether the genetic load for MDD, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia (SCZ) is increased in phenotypically more homogenous MDD patients identified by specific clinical characteristics. METHODS Patients (n = 1539) with a DSM-IV MDD diagnosis and control subj...

This paper presents a methodology for monitoring patients remotely without geographical barriers using a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) enabled embedded system. The motivation for this work is the realisation that remote patient monitoring and control is becoming a necessity and that mobile facilities need to be developed to meet the current and the future requirements. The system architec...

The large numbers of sick children in different diseases are very dreaded, and when there isn't succor at the proper time and in the type the sick child need it that makes us lose child. This paper suggested an emergency system for succoring sick child locally when he required that, and there isn't someone knows his disease. The proposed system is the first tracking system works online (24 hour...

Wireless Mesh or multi-hop networks (WMNs) are well known thanks to its simplicity on deployment and the lack of infrastructure. These two advantages come with some drawbacks. WMNs have limitations with the support of Quality of Service (QoS), they do not assure coverage or even connectivity, and security, management and monitoring are not considered key requirements. In order to benefit of mes...