BACKGROUND Many healthcare innovations are not sustained over the long term, wasting costly implementation efforts and often desperately-needed initial improvements. Although there have been advances in knowledge about innovation implementation, there has been considerably less attention focused on understanding what happens following the early stages of change. Research is needed to determine ...

A scheme that defending against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks adopts the mechanism of Distribution-based Secure Overlay Nodes (DSON) to a large-scale ISP (Internet Service Provider) network is presented. The scheme uses local BPG announcement to divert traffic to the overlay network when experiencing high load, then filtering algorithm based on the technology of signal processing...

The lipid/protein stoichiometries of a naturally crystalline biological membrane, the purple membrane (PM) of Halobacterium salinarum, have been obtained by a combination of (31)P- and (1)H-NMR analyses of the lipid extract. In total, 10 lipid molecules per retinal were found to be present in the PM lipid extract: 2-3 molecules of phosphatidylglycerophosphate methyl ester (PGP-Me), 3 of glycoli...

We develop a general framework for producing uncountable families of exotic actions of certain classically studied groups on the circle. We show that if G is a closed surface group then there are connected components of the nonlinear representation variety HompG,Homeo`pS 1qq which contain uncountably many semi-conjugacy classes of G–actions, thus complementing a result of K. Mann. We also exhib...

We propose a method for lossy image compression based on recurrent, convolutional neural networks that outperforms BPG (4:2:0), WebP, JPEG2000, and JPEG as measured by MS-SSIM. We introduce three improvements over previous research that lead to this state-of-the-art result. First, we show that training with a pixel-wise loss weighted by SSIM increases reconstruction quality according to several...

In this research, the dinuclear Zn(ii) complex of anthracene based tripodal tetramine Zn2L was synthesized, and its sensing abilities towards anions was investigated using the indicator displacement assay (IDA) approach with four complexometric indicators: pyrocatechol violet (PV), bromopyrogallol red (BPG), methylthymol blue (MTB) and xylenol orange (XO). UV-vis spectrophotometry results indic...

To mimic the carboxylate-rich active site of the manganese catalases more closely we introduced carboxylate groups into dimanganese complexes in place of nitrogen ligands. The series of dimanganese(III,IV) complexes of tripodal ligands [Mn(2)(L)(2)(O)(2)](3+/+/-/3-) was extended from those of tpa (1) and H(bpg) (2) to those of H(2)(pda) (3) and H(3)(nta) (4) (tpa=tris-picolylamine, H(bpg)=bis-p...

Recently deep learning-based image compression has shown the potential to outperform traditional codecs. However, most existing methods train multiple networks for bit rates, which increase implementation complexity. In this paper, we propose a new variable-rate framework, employs generalized octave convolutions (GoConv) and transposed-convolutions (GoTConv) with built-in divisive normalization...