A team of experts from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security conducted an independent external assessment of Taiwan's capabilities under the International Health Regulations 2005 (IHR), using the IHR Joint External Evaluation (JEE) tool adopted by the World Health Organization and the Global Health Security Agenda. In this article we describe the methods and process of the assessment, id...

Stochastic resonance is the process by which noise added to a weak external stimulus can enhance encoding efficiency in the sensory periphery and thence in the central nervous system. Stochastic synchronization is the process by which noisy phase synchronization of two periodic (or aperiodic) signals can occur. Together with a brief review of both concepts, we illustrate their applications to t...

This paper presents a research project called “GENIE”. It aims at developing a concept for integrating external stakeholders into a company’s innovation management through a virtual community. This novel instrument for opening up a company’s innovation process towards external stakeholders enables collaborative creation and implementation of innovations along the entire innovation process. We f...

the teratogenicity of cadmium exposure was studied in virgin nimri rats aged 10-13 weeks. pregnant animals were fed cadmium sulfate equivalent to doses of 1,4 and 7 mg/kg/day of cadmium by oral gavage on the day 7 of gestation. on the day 18 of gestation, fetuses were delivered and examined for external and skeletal malformations. total percent of malformed fetuses in rats treated by different ...

Under the open environments, it is very difficult to guarantee the trustworthiness of interacting business process using traditional software engineering methods, at the same time, for dealing with the influence of external factors, some proposed business process mining methods are only effective 1-bounded business process, and some behavior dependent relationships are ignore. A behavior trustw...

Currently, lattice composite structures have many applications in aerospace industries. The present research analyzed the effect of an external skin consisting of a lattice’s cylindrical shell on the buckling strength of composite materials, both numerically and experimentally. Two classes of specimens, with and without external skins, were fabricated using the filament winding process. To find...

Innovations, commercialized by new or old established firms, located at the core of industrial renewal process. The innovation concept has suffered transformations, along with the evolution of the models that try to explain and understand the innovation process. The innovative process corresponds to all activities that generate technological changes and the dynamic interaction between them, not...

Batch studies of acid dyes sorption by orange peel were carried out to identify the main rate controlling steps in the overall uptake mechanism, using a single external mass transfer diffusion model and intraparticle mass transfer diffusion model. Certain classical parameters influencing dyes sorption mechanisms namely: initial acid dyes concentration and dye type were investigated. The approac...

The modern development of quantum technology enables people to control quantum process of microscopic system by external field [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. In the point of view of quantum mechanics, the objective of a quantum control is to reach a desired state (called target state) from an initial state of the controlled system by manipulating its external parameters. Some aspects in quantum informatio...