WIISARD utilizes wireless technology to improve the care of victims following a mass casualty disaster. The WIISARD Scene Manager device (WSM) is designed to enhance the collection and accessibility of real-time data on victims, ambulances and hospitals for disaster supervisors and managers. We recently deployed WSM during a large-scale disaster exercise. The WSM performed well logging and trac...

The Work System Method (WSM) has been getting wider attention by the Information Systems research community recently. Its potential for improving the practicing and teaching of Systems Analysis and Design (SA&D) is one of the directions of growing research associated with it. This paper provides the results from an exploratory research on the acceptance of the work system method by students in ...

Current restoration efforts for the Chesapeake Bay watershed mandate a timeline for reducing the load of nutrients and sediment into receiving waters. The Chesapeake Bay watershed model (WSM) has been used for two decades to simulate hydrology and nutrient and sediment transport; however, spatial limitations of the WSM preclude edge-of-field scale representation of phosphorus (P) losses. Rather...

This paper presents a word support model (WSM). The WSM can effectively perform homophone selection and syllable-word segmentation to improve Chinese input systems. The experimental results show that: (1) the WSM is able to achieve tonal (syllables input with four tones) and toneless (syllables input without four tones) syllable-to-word (STW) accuracies of 99% and 92%, respectively, among the c...

Watershed-based stormwater management (WSM) has been proposed as more effective for stormwater management than traditional methods of controlling stormwater, which are carried out based on jurisdictional lines at the parcel-scale. Because WSM considers the watershed as a total unit, this method is considered to be more effective in reducing problems associated with stormwater management includi...

The water soluble matrix of nacre is a proven osteoinductive material. In spite of the differences in the biomolecular compositions of nacre obtained from multiple species of oysters, the common biochemical properties of those principles substantiate their biological activity. However, the mechanism by which nacre stimulates bone differentiation remains largely unknown. Since the positive impac...

The progress in exploiting new electronic materials has been a major driving force in solid-state physics. As a new state of matter, a Weyl semimetal (WSM), in particular a type-II WSM, hosts Weyl fermions as emergent quasiparticles and may harbour novel electrical transport properties. Nevertheless, such a type-II WSM material has not been experimentally observed. In this work, by performing s...

With the rapid development of many new services in the Internet, more and more servers exist. IT managers need a convenient management tool to manage the servers of an enterprise. In this paper, we develop a Web-based Server Management system (WSM system) to help IT managers ease management of servers. The WSM system is run under Windows 2000/XP/2003 operating system. It can manage the server’s...

OBJECTIVE To test whether "venue-based testing" could identify human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in US youth, 12 to 24 years of age, who were otherwise not aware of their infection. Racial and ethnic minority women and men who have sex with men (WSM and MSM) compose the majority of new HIV cases among adolescents and young adults. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Selected ve...

In this paper, we propose a web synchronization method (WSM) to share operation data on a browser and synchronize output time of data among browsers in browser-based communications such as video conferencing and remote control services. WSM continually provides users with an environment for smooth browser-based communications even if users are in a heterogeneous environment where network delay ...