Objective:This study provides a preliminary evaluation of the usability and acceptability of a mobile application(sexual assault care algorithm,SACA).Methods:An explanatory sequential mixed methods research was used.A...Objective:This study provides a preliminary evaluation of the usability and acceptability of a mobile application(sexual assault care algorithm,SACA).Methods:An explanatory sequential mixed methods research was used.A quantitative survey was followed up by a qualitative study.A convenience sample of participants(n=4)was recruited.The research was conducted on a one-on-one basis.In the quantitative phase,a random assignment technique was used to divide four participants into two groups of two participants each.Post-Study System Usability Questionnaire(PSSUQ)and Acceptability e-Scale were used to collect quantitative data.In the qualitative phase,interview,observation,and documentation were used to collect qualitative data.Data were analyzed both quantitative and qualitatively.The qualitative data were linked with the initial quantitative data to determine how the follow-up qualitative data helped explain the initial quantitative results.Results:The quantitative results suggested that SACA has high usability(5.05±1.83)and acceptability(3.81±1.22).The qualitative results further indicate that the participants thought SACA was easy to use and useful,and most of them would recommend it to others.Areas of improvement include adding features that would calculate and validate the elapsed time since the sexual assault,adding explanations to some buttons,and providing training.Conclusions:Our findings highlight the value of using a mixed methods research design to conduct a usability and acceptability test.Nurses are more likely to adopt a new technology for their evidencebased practice when the technology is easy to use and useful and requires less time to find the right piece of guideline evidence.Individualized training needs to be designed based on users'characteristics.展开更多
Introduced the modulation scheme, function and mechanism of plasticity plaster slurry preventing coal spontaneous combustion. The applications show that the plasticity plaster slurry has good hygroscopicity and adsorp...Introduced the modulation scheme, function and mechanism of plasticity plaster slurry preventing coal spontaneous combustion. The applications show that the plasticity plaster slurry has good hygroscopicity and adsorptivity. To spray it on the coal wall of tunnel can shut off leakage wind fast and effectively. To press it into the coal body can absorb the heat and descend the temperature, surround the coal pieces, eliminate the possibility of the fiery district resuming combustion.展开更多
The open and dynamic environment of Internet computing demands new software reliability technologies.How to efficiently and effectively build highly reliable Internet applications becomes a critical research problem.T...The open and dynamic environment of Internet computing demands new software reliability technologies.How to efficiently and effectively build highly reliable Internet applications becomes a critical research problem.This paper proposes a research framework for predicting reliability of individual software entities as well as the whole Internet application.Characteristics of the Internet environment are comprehensively analyzed and several reliability prediction approaches are proposed.A prototype is implemented and practical use of the proposed framework is also demonstrated.展开更多
Standard finite element approaches are still ineffective in handling extreme material deformation, such as cases of large deformations and moving discontinuities due to severe mesh distortion. Among meshfree methods d...Standard finite element approaches are still ineffective in handling extreme material deformation, such as cases of large deformations and moving discontinuities due to severe mesh distortion. Among meshfree methods developed to overcome the ineffectiveness, Reproducing Kernel Particle Method (RKPM) has demonstrated its great suitability for structural analysis.This paper presents applications of RKPM in elasto-plastic problems after a review of meshfree methods and an introduction to RKPM. A slope stability problem in geotechnical engineering is analyzed as an illustrative case. The corresponding numerical simulations are carried out on an SGI Onyx3900 supercomputer. Comparison of the RKPM and the FEM under identical conditions showed that the RKPM is more suitable for problems where there exists extremely large strain such as in the case of slope sliding.展开更多
Without assuming the boundedness, strict monotonicity and differentiability of the activation functions, the authors utilize the Lyapunov functional method to analyze the global convergence of some delayed models. For...Without assuming the boundedness, strict monotonicity and differentiability of the activation functions, the authors utilize the Lyapunov functional method to analyze the global convergence of some delayed models. For the Hopfield neural network with time delays, a new sufficient condition ensuring the existence, uniqueness and global exponential stability of the equilibrium point is derived. This criterion concerning the signs of entries in the connection matrix imposes constraints on the feedback matrix independently of the delay parameters. From a new viewpoint, the bidirectional associative memory neural network with time delays is investigated and a new global exponential stability result is given.展开更多
The author first proves the existences of J-holomorphic curves in the symplectizations of Legendre fibrations and then as an application confirms the Weinstein conjectures on contact manifolds of Legendre fibrations. ...The author first proves the existences of J-holomorphic curves in the symplectizations of Legendre fibrations and then as an application confirms the Weinstein conjectures on contact manifolds of Legendre fibrations. As a corollary a new proof on the theorem due to Hofer,Viterbo, Gluck, Ziller, Weinstein and Ljusternik-Fet Theorem is provided, which is quite different from their original proofs.展开更多
基金The development of the application for SACA was partially supported by funding from the Upstate Foundation,a 501(c)3 nonfor-profit corporation (upstatefoundation.org)
文摘Objective:This study provides a preliminary evaluation of the usability and acceptability of a mobile application(sexual assault care algorithm,SACA).Methods:An explanatory sequential mixed methods research was used.A quantitative survey was followed up by a qualitative study.A convenience sample of participants(n=4)was recruited.The research was conducted on a one-on-one basis.In the quantitative phase,a random assignment technique was used to divide four participants into two groups of two participants each.Post-Study System Usability Questionnaire(PSSUQ)and Acceptability e-Scale were used to collect quantitative data.In the qualitative phase,interview,observation,and documentation were used to collect qualitative data.Data were analyzed both quantitative and qualitatively.The qualitative data were linked with the initial quantitative data to determine how the follow-up qualitative data helped explain the initial quantitative results.Results:The quantitative results suggested that SACA has high usability(5.05±1.83)and acceptability(3.81±1.22).The qualitative results further indicate that the participants thought SACA was easy to use and useful,and most of them would recommend it to others.Areas of improvement include adding features that would calculate and validate the elapsed time since the sexual assault,adding explanations to some buttons,and providing training.Conclusions:Our findings highlight the value of using a mixed methods research design to conduct a usability and acceptability test.Nurses are more likely to adopt a new technology for their evidencebased practice when the technology is easy to use and useful and requires less time to find the right piece of guideline evidence.Individualized training needs to be designed based on users'characteristics.
文摘Introduced the modulation scheme, function and mechanism of plasticity plaster slurry preventing coal spontaneous combustion. The applications show that the plasticity plaster slurry has good hygroscopicity and adsorptivity. To spray it on the coal wall of tunnel can shut off leakage wind fast and effectively. To press it into the coal body can absorb the heat and descend the temperature, surround the coal pieces, eliminate the possibility of the fiery district resuming combustion.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Project No.61472338,61332010)Guangdong Natural Science Foundation(Project No. 2014A030313151)+1 种基金the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universitiesthe Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region,China (No.415113)
文摘The open and dynamic environment of Internet computing demands new software reliability technologies.How to efficiently and effectively build highly reliable Internet applications becomes a critical research problem.This paper proposes a research framework for predicting reliability of individual software entities as well as the whole Internet application.Characteristics of the Internet environment are comprehensively analyzed and several reliability prediction approaches are proposed.A prototype is implemented and practical use of the proposed framework is also demonstrated.
文摘Standard finite element approaches are still ineffective in handling extreme material deformation, such as cases of large deformations and moving discontinuities due to severe mesh distortion. Among meshfree methods developed to overcome the ineffectiveness, Reproducing Kernel Particle Method (RKPM) has demonstrated its great suitability for structural analysis.This paper presents applications of RKPM in elasto-plastic problems after a review of meshfree methods and an introduction to RKPM. A slope stability problem in geotechnical engineering is analyzed as an illustrative case. The corresponding numerical simulations are carried out on an SGI Onyx3900 supercomputer. Comparison of the RKPM and the FEM under identical conditions showed that the RKPM is more suitable for problems where there exists extremely large strain such as in the case of slope sliding.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.69982003, No.60074005).
文摘Without assuming the boundedness, strict monotonicity and differentiability of the activation functions, the authors utilize the Lyapunov functional method to analyze the global convergence of some delayed models. For the Hopfield neural network with time delays, a new sufficient condition ensuring the existence, uniqueness and global exponential stability of the equilibrium point is derived. This criterion concerning the signs of entries in the connection matrix imposes constraints on the feedback matrix independently of the delay parameters. From a new viewpoint, the bidirectional associative memory neural network with time delays is investigated and a new global exponential stability result is given.
文摘The author first proves the existences of J-holomorphic curves in the symplectizations of Legendre fibrations and then as an application confirms the Weinstein conjectures on contact manifolds of Legendre fibrations. As a corollary a new proof on the theorem due to Hofer,Viterbo, Gluck, Ziller, Weinstein and Ljusternik-Fet Theorem is provided, which is quite different from their original proofs.
