The increasing interest in exploiting renewable energy resources has introduced a new generation of energy conversion technologies including wind farms (WF) to the power systems. Previous studies of these WFs and their impacts on power systems have made new challenges emerge, which in turn, require detailed assessment for continuously increasing wind power penetration. Among these challenges, t...

Geospatial data sharing is an increasingly important subject as large amount of data is produced by variety of sources, stored in incompatible formats, and accessible through different GIS applications. Past efforts to enable sharing have produced standardized data format such as GML and data access protocols such as Web Feature Service (WFS). While these standards help enabling client applicat...

The purpose of the WFS specification, proposed by the the OpenGIS Consortium (OGC), is to describe the manipulation operations over geospatial data using GML. Web servers providing WFS service are called WFS Servers. Their objective is to provide queries, updates and exchange of geospatial data as geographic features instances encoded in GML. This work proposes an approach for automatic feature...

Wolfram syndrome (WFS) is inherited as an autosomal recessive disease with main clinical features of diabetes mellitus, optic atrophy, diabetes insipidus and deafness. However, various neurological defects may also be detected. The aim of this study was to evaluate aspects of brain structure and function using PET-CT (positron emission tomography and computed tomography) and MRI (magnetic reson...

Shack–Hartmann wavefront sensors (SH-WFS) have little sensitivity in depth and hence are unsuitable for microscopy and are limited for retinal imaging. We demonstrate the first direct Shack–Hartmann measurement of wavefront originating from a multiple-layer target, in the presence of significant stray reflections that render a standard SH-WFS inoperable. A coherence-gate SH-WFS is implemented b...

Workflow Scheduling (WFS) mainly focuses on task allocation to achieve the desired workload balancing by pursuing optimal utilization of available resources. At the same time, relevant performance criteria and system distribution structure must be considered to solve specific WFS problems in cloud computing by providing different services to cloud users on pay-as-you-go and on-demand basis. In ...

Current workflow management systems (WFMSs) are only applicable in a reliable and secure manner, if the business process (BP) to be supported is wellstructured. As ad hoc deviations from preplanned BPs are rather the norm and form a key part of process flexibility, this limits the applicability of today's workflow (WF) technology significantly. In this paper we present a framework for the suppo...

A 25-year-old woman presented with a 3-year history of progressive visual loss. She had type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM1) since 18-year-old. Fundoscopy showed atrophic optic discs (Figure 1). MRI disclosed bilateral optic nerve atrophy (Figure 2). Optic coherence temography demonstrated disease progression (Figure 3). Exome sequencing disclosed two deleterious mutations in WFS gene [the novel vari...

OBJECTIVES To test the predictive value and convergent construct validity of a 6-item work functioning screener (WFS-H). METHODS Healthcare workers (249 nurses) completed a questionnaire containing the work functioning screener (WFS-H) and a work functioning instrument (NWFQ) measuring the following: cognitive aspects of task execution and general incidents, avoidance behavior, conflicts and ...

Breast cancer is the most common malignant disease occurring in women. Conservative breast cancer surgery followed by radiation therapy is currently the standard treatment for this type of cancer. The majority of metastases occur within the scar, which initiated a series of studies. As a result, clinical trials aimed to assess whether localized radiotherapy, as intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT...