This paper addresses the problem of guaranteed delivery of messages with hard deadlines in a DQDB network. We present a cyclic reservation scheme capable of allocating bandwidth with any arbitrary granular-ity and provide deterministic delay guarantees. We propose two implementations of the allocation scheme within the framework of DQDB medium access control protocol. The proposed implementatio...

The concept of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) is evolving towards 5.0 (I5.0), where the human factor central axis for formation smart cyber-physical socio-technical systems that are integrated into their physical and cultural host environment. This situation generates a new work ecosystem with radical change in methods, processes development scenarios and, therefore, occupational risks to which safety sci...

Health care processes are nowadays heavily dependent on Information Technology (IT). On the other side, assessing a higher quality of health care to patients has become increasingly important. Effective health care processes are thereby heavily dependent on a comprehensive IT-support. Therefore, a thorough understanding about both the hospital IT-systems and clinical pathways is required, to id...

The papers on occupation and cancer from the Nordic Occupational Cancer project (NOCCA) in this issue of Acta Oncologica [1,2] provide an important resource to aid in our understanding of the role of occupational exposures in the etiology of cancer. This effort updates the earlier work by Andersen et al. [3] that also used the unique resources in Nordic countries for data linkage to study cance...

BACKGROUND Physical function is essential for performing most aspects of daily life and musculoskeletal aging leads to a decline in physical function. The onset and rate of this process vary and are influenced by environmental, genetic, and hormonal factors. Although everyone eventually experiences musculoskeletal aging, it is beneficial to study the factors that influence the aging process in ...

Sensor networks that can support time-critical operations pose challenging problems for tracking events of interest. We propose an architecture for a sensor network that autonomously adapts in real-time to data fusion requirements so as not to miss events of interest and provides accurate real-time mobile target tracking. In the proposed architecture, the sensed data is processed in an abstract...

Participation is a broad construct that occupational therapy uses to describe the satisfactory engagement in a client’s chosen occupations and roles in home, work, and community environments [5]. Participation is so central to the practice of occupational therapy that it is one of the three overarching concepts that is used to describe the outcomes of occupational therapy services in the OT Pra...

OBJECTIVES To analyse the risk of stillbirth from 12 residential and occupational maternal exposures during pregnancy. METHODS Stillbirths and neonatal deaths in 1984 within 24 hours of birth from 10 California counties were identified from death certificates. Controls were randomly selected from live births born in 1984 and frequency matched to cases by maternal age and county. Data sources ...

Abstract Mental health, especially in the youth, has been a prevailing concern recent years. University students are particularly high-risk population for mental health problems. Changing perspectives field of present opportunity to explore this concept through an occupational justice lens – specifically that alienation. Through brief review relevant literature, critical essay will relationship...