Progress of systematic psychological interventions in elderly patients with femoral fractures:A comprehensive review

This review aims to gain a deeper understanding of the psychological state of elderly patients with femoral fractures and provide more theoretical and practical support for clinical treatment and care.Through a literature analysis,we found that elderly patients with femoral fractures face various psychological issues such as anxiety,depression,sleep disorders,and social isolation.The application of systematic nursing interventions in clinical practice,including cognitivebehavioral therapy,mindfulness therapy,family therapy,art therapy,interpersonal therapy,emotion-focused therapy,and relaxation training,has yielded significant results.Systematic psychological interventions can improve the psychological state and quality of life of elderly patients with femoral fractures.Therefore,promoting the application and practice of systematic psychological interventions in the clinical care of elderly patients with fractures will provide more effective psychological services to a wider group of patients with fractures in the future.

Research and application of enterprise resource planning system for foundry enterprises

PPDB issues-four aspects of current management issues of foundry enterprises are discussed in this paper,including Production Management,Process Control,Duration Monitoring and Business Intelligence Data Analysis.Also a whole Enterprise Resource Planning(ERP) solution for foundry enterprises is proposed.The solution contains many models,four of which are used to solve the PPDB issues.These are called SPDB models,which separately are the Single-piece management model(based on casting lifecycle),Process management model(based on task-driven technology),Duration monitoring model(based on surplus period),and Business intelligence data analysis model(based on data mining).An ERP system for foundry enterprises,named HZERP,was researched and developed,and applied to a sand casting company of single piece and small batch production.Qualitatively and quantitatively comparing the application effect before and after implementing the HZERP system,the result demonstrated that the foundry ERP system based on the SPDB models can help metal casting enterprises achieve the single-piece management,better regulate the production processes,improve production and delivery management,shorten the production cycle,reduce costs,and speed up the capital turnover to a large extent.

Special Issue on "Recent Advances in Power System Control" for International Journal of Control,Automation,and Systems

Today the high quality power supply is of essential in the economic development in a country. With the development of modem power systems and increasing demand for power supply, the electric power industry is facing a great challenge in meeting the increased load demand with highest reliability and security with minimum transmission expenditure. Power system stability analysis and control is one of the most important issues in power systems. The problem becomes more and more serious in power systems with the development of modem power systems. The ability of a power system

Heterogeneous expectations,IPO Underpricing and issuing mechanism

Background:Compared with the fixed-price mechanism,the bookbuilding mechanism has not changed the Chinese IPO high underpricing.How to develop scientific and reasonable IPO pricing,and reduce the high IPO underpricing has become a major challenge for China's securities market.Methods:In this paper,using behavioral finance theory and game theory,we build the Initial public offering(IPO)pricing and underpricing models with investors’heterogeneity based on different issuing mechanisms and provide a comparative analysis.Results:Firstly,our models show that IPO underpricing will not be eliminated by using either fixed-price or bookbuilding mechanisms,but when the investors’heterogeneity expectation is the same,lower IPO underpricing can be obtained by the issuing of bookbuilding compared with that of fixed price.Secondly,the IPO underpricing may be larger than that under fixed price if the heterogeneity of investors under bookbuilding is larger than that under fixed price.Thirdly,the numerical analysis results provide strong support for our model.Conclusions:These findings further explains the cause of the high IPO underpricing long-standing in China.

Expanding telemedicine to reduce the burden on the healthcare systems and poverty in Africa for a post-coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic reformation

The coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)global public health emergency,has exposed the fragility of health systems.Access to healthcare became a scarce commodity as healthcare providers and resource-poor popula­tions became victims of the novel corona virus.Therefore,this study focuses on Africa’s readiness to integrate telemedicine into the weak health systems and its adoption may help alleviate poor healthcare and poverty after COVID-19.We conducted a narrative review through different search strategies in Scopus on January 20,2021,to identify available literature reporting implementation of various telemedicine modes in Africa from January 1,2011 to December 31,2020.We summarized 54 studies according to geographies,field,and implementation methods.The results show a willingness to adopt telemedicine in the resource-poor settings and hard-to-reach populations,which will bring relief to the inadequate healthcare systems and alleviate poverty of those who feel the burden of healthcare cost the most.With adequate government financing,telemedicine promises to enhance the treating of communicable and non-communicable diseases as well as support health infrastructure.It can also alleviate poverty among vulnerable groups and hard-to-reach communities in Africa with adequate government financing.However,given the lack of funding in Africa,the challenges in implementing telemedicine require global and national strategies before it can yield promising results.This is especially true in regards to alleviating the multidimensionality of poverty in post-COVID-19 Africa.

Guest Editorial for Special Issue on Fractional Order Systems and Controls

I.INTRODUCTION FRACTIONAL calculus has been applied in all MAD(modeling,analysis and design)aspects of control systems engineering since Shunji Manabe’s pioneering work in early 1960s.The 2016 International Conference on Fractional Differentiation and Its Applications(ICFDA)was held in Novi Sad,Serbia,July 18-20.Quoting from the

Review of PLC Security Issues in Industrial Control System

Programmable Logic Controllers(PLC),core of industrial control systems,is widely used in industrial control systems.The security of PLC is the key to the security of industrial control systems.Nowadays,a large number of industrial control systems are connected to the Internet which exposes the PLC equipment to the Internet,and thus raising security concerns.First of all,we introduce the basic principle of PLC in this paper.Then we analyze the PLC code security,firmware security,network security,virus vulnerability and Modbus communication protocol by reviewing the previous related work.Finally,we make a summary of the current security protection methods.

Hadoop Distributed File System Security Challenges and Examination of Unauthorized Access Issue

Hadoop technology is followed by some security issues. At its beginnings, developers paid attention to the development of basic functionalities mostly, and proposal of security components was not of prime interest. Because of that, the technology remained vulnerable to malicious activities of unauthorized users whose purpose is to endanger system functionalities or to compromise private user data. Researchers and developers are continuously trying to solve these issues by upgrading Hadoop’s security mechanisms and preventing undesirable malicious activities. In this paper, the most common HDFS security problems and a review of unauthorized access issues are presented. First, Hadoop mechanism and its main components are described as the introduction part of the leading research problem. Then, HDFS architecture is given, and all including components and functionalities are introduced. Further, all possible types of users are listed with an accent on unauthorized users, which are of great importance for the paper. One part of the research is dedicated to the consideration of Hadoop security levels, environment and user assessments. The review also includes an explanation of Log Monitoring and Audit features, and detail consideration of authorization and authentication issues. Possible consequences of unauthorized access to a system are covered, and a few recommendations for solving problems of unauthorized access are offered. Honeypot nodes, security mechanisms for collecting valuable information about malicious parties, are presented in the last part of the paper. Finally, the idea for developing a new type of Intrusion Detector, which will be based on using an artificial neural network, is presented. The detector will be an integral part of a new kind of virtual honeypot mechanism and represents the initial base for future scientific work of authors.

Guest Editorial for Special Issue on Cyber-Physical Systems

Ⅰ.Introduction CYBER-PHYSICAL system is a system of collaborating computational elements to control physical entities.The coordination and the tight link between computational,virtual and physical resources in cyber-physical system will have a pervasive effect on our everyday life.The development of cyber-physical system will create new opportunities for the introduction of services that will enhance the quality of life

JDIS Special Issue on Networked Knowledge Organization Systems(NKOS)

NKOSis devoted to the discussion of the functional and data model for enabling knowledge organization systems/services(KOS),such as classification systems,thesauri,gazetteers,and ontologies,as networked interactive information services to support the description and retrieval of diverse information resources through the Internet.These tools help to model the underlying semantic structure of a domain for purposes of information retrieval,knowledge discovery,language engineering,and the Semantic Web.NKOS workshops have been held since 1997 in conjunction with related professional and digital library meetings in the U.S.,Europe and Asia.The purpose of the workshops is to bring together KOS researchers and practitioners to share work on projects,good practices and innovations,and to discuss and critique this work.Workshops focus on topics including domain modeling,terminology development,validation,automated indexing,annotation and enrichment,and ethics.This JDIS special issue includes a selection of papers developed from presentations at the NKOS Workshop held at the Korean National Library in Seoul on September 26,2019 as part of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications 2019(DCMI-2019).In the spirit of the NKOS workshops,these papers include research in process,reports on projects,and“thought experiments”.

Preface to the Special Issue on Quantum Transport in Mesoscopic Systems

Mesoscopic systems,including nanowires,quantum dots and two-dimensional electron gases,are excellent platforms for studying emerging quantum phenomena,especially in the field of electrical transport.Quantum transport covers vast scopes of condensed matter physics,such as superconductivity,quantum Hall effect,and many investigations in mesoscopic devices.

Applications of Decision Support System:A Case Study of Solanaceous Vegetables

Crop simulation models constitute the major proportion in decision support systems.A large number of crop models have been developed for potato and few for tomato and peppers.In the literature,thirty three crop models have been reported to simulate potato,nine for tomato and six for peppers.Some of these models dealt with the climate change scenario and others with the crop management practices such as sowing time,irrigation,nitrogen,and insect-pests management.The most evaluated and applied models for potato include;SUBSTOR,and LINTUL-Potato,whereas CROPGRO-tomato model is the most tested and applied for tomato.The AQUACROP is the most widely used model to simulate the water dynamics.The CROPGRO model has been tested for elevated temperatures and CO_(2) under greenhouse conditions for tomato.In tomato and peppers,almost similar models have been applied for field conditions as well as under greenhouse environments with some modifications.Nitrogen dynamics has been widely tested by employing the EU-Rotate-N model for tomato and peppers.Simulation studies dealing with changing climate conditions are rare in potato and are not found for tomato and peppers.To modify potato,tomato and peppers models for climate impact studies,it is required that they are(a)calibrated and evaluated with new cultivars under various agro-environmental conditions and(b)assessed under varying field conditions under changing climates and crop management practices,including temperature increases,water and nutrient management and their interactions.These comprehensive model studies and modifications need a collaborative international effort and a multi-year,large scale field research studies on potato,tomato and peppers.

OBLIVIOUS TRANSFER WITH ACCESS CONTROL AND IDENTITY-BASED ENCRYPTION WITH ANONYMOUS KEY ISSUING

In ACM'CCS 2009,Camenisch,et al.proposed the Oblivious Transfer with Access Control(AC-OT) in which each item is associated with an attribute set and can only be available,on request,to the users who have all the attributes in the associated set.Namely,AC-OT achieves access control policy for conjunction of attributes.Essentially,the functionality of AC-OT is equivalent to the sim-plified version that we call AC-OT-SV:for each item,one attribute is associated with it,and it is requested that only the users who possess the associated attribute can obtain the item by queries.On one hand,AC-OT-SV is a special case of AC-OT when there is just one associated attribute with each item.On the other hand,any AC-OT can be realized by an AC-OT-SV.In this paper,we first present a concrete AC-OT-SV protocol which is proved to be secure in the model defined by Camenisch,et al..Then from the protocol,interestingly,a concrete Identity-Based Encryption(IBE) with Anonymous Key Issuing(AKI) is given which is just a direct application to AC-OT-SV.By comparison,we show that the AKI protocol we present is more efficient in communications than that proposed by Chow.

The Basin Water Resources Management System and Its Innovation in China

Water provides the origin of human survival and prosperity,and the basic resource for the maintenance of terrestrial eco-systems,their biodiversity,productivity and ecological services.With China’s recent,rapid growth both in population and economic development,the water shortage has become one of the most constraints on its ecological restoration and socio-economic development,especially in the arid inland regions of northwest China.At first glance,this water shortage in China appears to be a resource crisis.But second,an in-depth analysis reveals that the water shortage crisis arises mainly resulting from the poor water management system and operating mechanism that cannot facilitate fair allocation and efficient utilization of water resources both regionally and nationally and thus is viewed as a crisis of water manage-ment.The solution of China’s water shortage and low-efficient utilization problem will,in particular,require a fundamen-tal and substantial reform or innovation of the existing water management system and operating mechanism.In this paper,we address explicitly the problems existed in the current water management system,explore the basic theory of water re-sources management and provide some insights into the way how to establish a river basin based integrated water re-sources management system in China.

Prolog to the Special Issue on System Simulation

System simulation is a comprehensive technology, which makesdynamic experiments on a system by means of system model(computerized / semi-physical / physical mode) under certainexperimental condition. Today, system simulation has heen de-veloped into a comprehensive experimental discipline based on

Improving the Negative List System

The Negative list is an indispensable part of free trade zone constructions.The success of Shanghai’s Free Trade Experiment zone has a remarkable feature that the deep promotion of pre-establishment national treatment and negative list system.Popular trend Since the first edition of the"negative list"came out in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone in 2013,it has become a popular trend in

Guest Editorial for Special Issue on Control and Optimization in Renewable Energy Systems

I.I NTRODUCTION W ITH the advent of low-carbon economy,there has been a growing interest in harnessing renewable energy resources particularly for electricity generation.Renewable energy resources are advocated for the economic and environ-

Control Engineering of China Special Issue on "Control Systems Engineering"

Control systems contribute to every aspect of modem society.In our life control systems exist in almost everywhere such as toasters,VCRs and smart phones.In science and technology,control systems already have widespread applications,for example,steering ships,guiding missiles and driving driverless cars in the near future.In all the control systems,systems are the key platform where control should be put into.It is at the system level that control shows its values.Extracting and formulating

Prolog to the Special Issue on System Simulation

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Seismic Isolation of Reactor Assembly for a Fixed Base Accelerator Driven System Reactor Building

In the SILER （Seismic-Initiated events risk mitigation in LEad-cooled Reactors） Project, it is interesting to apply seismic isolation technology for the reactor assembly of the fixed base reactor building for ADS （Acceleration Driven System） heavy liquid reactor MYRRHA （Multipurpose Hybrid Research Reactor for High-Tech Application） which contains the most critical safety related components, such as reactor vessel, safe shutdown and control rod mechanisms, primary heat exchangers, primary pumps, spoliation target assembly and fuel assemblies, etc. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the possibility of an application of a partial seismic isolation to the safety critical components only, here, the reactor assembly. This paper presents the preliminary analysis results of the isolated reactor assembly and compares these with those of seismic isolated ADS reactor building. The analysis results show the reduction of the seismic acceleration response but the increase of the relative displacement for the reactor assembly. Some safety issues, especially, coolant＇s incapable covering the reactor core make difficult to apply for the partial seismic isolation of the ADS reactor assembly due to large relative displacement occurring the partial isolation system. Further study on the partial seismic isolation application of the critical safety components are also discussed.