The study evaluated eight heavy metals content and soil pollution from agricultural soils in northern China. Multivariate and geostatistical analysis approaches were used to determine the anthropogenic and natural contribution of soil heavy metal concentrations. Single pollution index and integrated pollution index could be used to evaluate soil heavy metal risk. The results show that the first...

Previous research shows that patients in integrated health systems experience fewer racial disparities compared with more traditional healthcare systems. Little is known about patterns of racial/ethnic disparities between safety-net and non safety-net integrated health systems.We evaluated racial/ethnic differences in body mass index (BMI) and the Charlson comorbidity index from 3 non safety-ne...

There are lots of performance bottlenecks for real-time queries in mass data. Many methods can only improve the efficiency for frequently used queries, but it is not advisable to neglect the non-frequently used queries. This paper proposes a new integrated index model called BBI and illustrates the application of this model. Based on the feature of data warehouse and OLAP queries, this index mo...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the study is to examine the distribution of integrated covariate and its association with blood pressure (BP) among children in Anhui province, China, and assess the predictive value of integrated covariate to children hypertension. METHODS A total of 2,828 subjects (1,588 male and 1,240 female) aged 7-17 years participated in this study. Height, weight, waistline, hiplin...

The study provides a statistical trend analysis of different air pollutants using Mann-Kendall and Sen’s slope estimator approach on past pollutants statistics from air quality index station of Varanasi, India. Further, using autoregressive integrated moving average model, future values of air pollutant levels are predicted. Carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide, particu...

Zero-index materials exhibit exotic optical properties that can be utilized for integrated-optics applications. However, practical implementation requires compatibility with complementary metallic-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technologies. We demonstrate a CMOS-compatible zero-index metamaterial consisting of a square array of air holes in a 220-nm-thick silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafer. This des...

The main goal of this paper is to provide an integrated design of the artificial index finger and to present the result of human like behavior. The big advantages of the prosthetic index finger are their incredible small size, volume and weight, their low cost .This paper describes our implementation of one finger of a future biomechatronic hand and remote control .This index finger captures th...

Blue Gene/L supercomputer P. Coteus H. R. Bickford T. M. Cipolla P. G. Crumley A. Gara S. A. Hall G. V. Kopcsay A. P. Lanzetta L. S. Mok R. Rand R. Swetz T. Takken P. La Rocca C. Marroquin P. R. Germann M. J. Jeanson As 1999 ended, IBM announced its intention to construct a onepetaflop supercomputer. The construction of this system was based on a cellular architecture—the use of relatively smal...