Recovery is a part of disaster management cycle during which repair and reconstruction takes place, and individuals, groups, and communities retake what they have lost and ideally the risk of future incidents reduces. Life recovery is a subjective and multidimensional issue influenced by various factors, whereas valid measurable indicators in evaluating the recovery after di...

In this work, we synthesized a trypsin-stabilized fluorescent gold nanocluster. It was found that sulfide interacted with the nanocluster, which could result in significant fluorescence quenching. With this quenching effect, a fluorescence sulfide sensor was developed. This sensor responded linearly to sulfide in the range of 50 nM to 8 μM, and was capable of detecting sulfide as low as 5.5 nM....

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The wireless world is migrating towards the era of Beyond the 3 Generation (B3G) wireless communications. A major contributor towards this convergence is reconfigurability, which provides technologies that enable terminals and network segments to dynamically adapt to the set of RATs, which are most appropriate for the conditions encountered in specific service area regions and times of the day....

A certain recovery method is now under consideration: a re-entrizing model for phoneme candidates by means of searching the correct phonemes using modification depending on recognition error characteristics in an example-based framewbrk [Wakita95]. This approach provides a recovery effect in handling phoneme or syllable sequences, and the effect depends on the particular speakers because of ind...

This article proposes a multi-scale model suitable for describing patterns of store locations in a large-size supply-chain system. This model uses continuum approximation to simplify the detailed logistics network and supports various levels of decisions, such as robust logistics network designs and service area allocations for distribution centers. Several definitions and formulas are develope...

Although between 80 and 85 per cent. of the cases treated in this hospital by fixation and natural helio-therapy were discharged quiescent, it was felt that artificial light might secure (1) a greater percentage of 'recoveries' (2) a reduction in the time required to attain 'recovery'; (3) an amelioration in the condition of advanced and complicated cases which had failed to respond to open-air...

Since 1899 ringing (or banding) remained the most important source of information about migration routes, stopover sites and wintering grounds for birds that are too small to carry satellite-based tracking systems. Despite the large quantity of migrating birds ringed in their breeding areas in Europe, the number of ring recoveries from sub-Saharan Africa is very low and therefore the whereabout...

Biotic recoveries following mass extinctions are characterized by a process in which whole ecologies are reconstructed from low-diversity systems, often characterized by opportunistic groups. The recovery process provides an unexpected window to ecosystem dynamics. In many aspects, recovery is very similar to ecological succession, but important differences are also apparently linked to the inn...