INTRODUCTION Road traffic crashes constitute a considerable public health burden and represent the eighth leading cause of death and tenth leading cause of disability adjusted life years (DALYs) globally. However, very little is known about the extent, causes and impact of crashes in low- and middle-income countries including those in the Pacific. This lack of data is particularly true for the ...

1 National Vector Borne Disease Control Division, Ministry of Health and Medical Services, Solomon Islands 2 Queensland Institute of Medical Research, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 3 Reproductive and Child Health Division, Ministry of Health and Medical Services, Solomon Islands 4 Division of Health Promotion, Ministry of Health and Medical Services, Solomon Islands 5 Department...

computer-supported collaborative learning (cscl) is a new trend in educational sciences. this study investigates how knowledge sharing and transferring can be facilitated by using cscl in a problem-solving setting. intervention of research is education regarding sustainable water resources management (swrm) by computer-supported collaborative learning (cscl). the purpose of this research was to...

Abstract—Novel encoding scheme for algebraic codes, such as codes on algebraic curves, multidimensional cyclic codes, and hyperbolic cascaded Reed–Solomon codes, is proposed with numerical examples. We make use of the 2-dimensional inverse discrete Fourier transform, which generalizes the Mattson–Solomon polynomial for Reed–Solomon codes. We also generalize the workings of the generator polynom...

The Schmidt–Sidorenko–Bossert scheme extends a low-rate Reed–Solomon code to an Interleaved Reed–Solomon code and achieves the decoding radius of Sudan’s original list decoding algorithm while the decoding result remains unambiguous. We adapt this result to the case of Generalized Reed– Solomon codes and calculate the parameters of the corresponding Interleaved Generalized Reed–Solomon code. Fu...

Deep holes play an important role in the decoding of generalized Reed-Solomon codes. Recently, Wu and Hong [11] found a new class of deep holes for standard Reed-Solomon codes. In the present paper, we give a concise method to obtain a new class of deep holes for generalized Reed-Solomon codes. In particular, for standard Reed-Solomon codes, we get the new class of deep holes given in [11]. Li ...

The Solomon Sea is a key region of the southwest Pacific Ocean, connecting the thermocline subtropics to the equator via western boundary currents (WBCs).Modifications to watermasses are thought to occur in this region because of the significant mixing induced by internal tides, eddies, and the WBCs. Despite their potential influence on the equatorial Pacific thermocline temperature and salinit...

This application report describes a Reed Solomon decoder implementation on the TMS320C64x DSP family. Reed Solomon codes have been widely accepted as the preferred (ECC) error control coding scheme for ADSL networks, digital cellular phones and high-definition television systems. The reason for their widespread prevalence is their excellent robustness to burst errors. Programmable implementati...

[1] We estimate the slip distribution from the MW 8.1 Solomon Islands earthquake in 2007, from two post-seismic surveys measuring uplifted coral and submerged coastal features. The occurrence of islands extremely proximal to the trench and nucleation of rupture allowed for the collection of unprecedented coseismic deformation dataset along a large megathrust earthquake. Using data from the two ...