Abstract Recently, natural disasters have occurred frequently which usually cause great damage to communication links. Emergency technology is the key connecting emergency site and command center under condition of system collapse, it plays an extremely important role in process rescue. Based on disaster scene electric power system, this paper fully considers extreme conditions outages, network...

A design of robust error-correcting codes that achieve reliable communication over various channels is of great theoretical and practical interest. Such codes are termed universal. This paper considers the universality of lowdensity parity-check (LDPC) code ensembles over families of memoryless binary-input output-symmetric (MBIOS) channels. Universality is considered both under belief-propagat...

Children are notoriously bad at delaying gratification to achieve later, greater rewards (e.g., Piaget, 1970)-and some are worse at waiting than others. Individual differences in the ability-to-wait have been attributed to self-control, in part because of evidence that long-delayers are more successful in later life (e.g., Shoda, Mischel, & Peake, 1990). Here we provide evidence that, in additi...

This paper considers how planning authorities can achieve urban design ambitions in the context of deepening neoliberalism and fiscal austerity. Based upon a case study West Dunbartonshire, Scot...

In modern society, citizens aspire to get trusted and reliable digital services authenticate theirs payments. With the COVID-19 crisis, online shopping’s fast growth has led increase registration in different systems. The is typically done without any guarantee that involved business entity private data managed adequately, namely according General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). There are ca...

Should Employment Authorities Worry About Mergers and Acquisitions? This paper considers the role mergers and acquisitions have on employment. First, it considers the importance of different aspects of compensation policy and human resource management practices for distinguishing acquired and acquiring firms. Second, it examines which individuals from which firms remain with the newly created e...

With the growing requirements imposed by regulatory authorities, grid operators and power utilities firms are confronted with challenging task of ensuring reliability, safety, resilience distribution networks amid aging asset infrastructure a lack resources. Over past 15 years, health index (HI)-based analysis has become an increasingly popular management tool for several utilities. This strong...