BACKGROUND Suicide is a major public health issue and has large impact on the lives of many people. Innovative technologies such as smartphones could create new possibilities for suicide prevention, such as helping to overcome the barriers and stigma on help seeking in case of suicidal ideation. Due to their omnipresence, smartphone apps can offer suicide prevention tools very fast, they are ea...

Solar desiccant cooling is widely considered as an attractive replacement for conventional vapor compression air conditioning systems because of its environmental friendliness and energy efficiency advantages. The system performance of solar desiccant cooling strongly depends on the input parameters associated with the system components, such as the solar collector, storage tank and backup heat...

A network service provider (NSP) operating a label-switched networks such as ATM or multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) networks, sets up end-to-end bandwidth-guaranteed label-switched paths (LSPs) to satisfy the connectivity requirements of its client networks. To make such a service highly available the NSP may setup one or more backup LSPs for every active LSP. The backup LSPs are activate...

In the backbone network, a Steiner multicast tree (SMT) will be established for multicast members to minimize the traffic load on networks. However, a communication link or node may fail due to some accidental factors during the transmission period. Downstream nodes with respect to the failed link/node will be forced to leave this tree. In order to guarantee the quality of service (QoS), it is ...