United States Army personnel in garrison who are not deployed to combat theater report using dietary supplements (DSs) to promote health, increase physical and mental strength, and improve energy levels. Given the substantial physical and cognitive demands of combat, DS use may increase during deployment. This study compared DS use by garrison soldiers with DS use by personnel deployed to a com...

Demands on fresh water by human beings have been continuously increasing due to population growth, living standard improvement, and economic development. At the same time, many regions are suffering greatly from floods and droughts. Those are the results of ineffective management of water resources due to the associated complexities. In this study, a decision support system (DSS) was developed ...

A decision support system (DSS) for integrated river basin management of the German part of the Elbe river basin is currently under development, which involves taking account water quantity, chemical quality and ecological state of surface waters. The Elbe is one of the largest river basins in middle Europe having multiple land and water use demands. A hierarchical approach was developed to mee...

Automatic, accurate and online fault detection of heating ventilation air conditioning (HVAC) subsystems, such as chillers, is highly demanded in building management system (BMS) to prevent energy waste and high maintenance cost. However, most fault detection techniques require rich faulty training data which is usually unavailable. In this study, a novel hybrid method is proposed to detect fau...

computer-integrated manufacturing (cim), technologies are presented as solutions tomanufacturing organizations, which need to perform well in all customer-related dimensionssimultaneously. in the literature, cim technologies providing such benefits as more frequentproduction changes, reduced inventory level, improved ability of producing complex parts with ahigh degree of accuracy and repeatabi...

Aiming at sustainable development, decision-making for operation of large dams requires the assessment of complex interrelations with neighbouring environmental, economic and social subsystems. To solve this kind of highly unstructured problems often DSS are recommended. This paper presents strengths and weaknesses of DSS application in general, focusing however on large dam operation. A charac...