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• Safeguards against risks include enterprise wide awareness of developments and high-level championing and assessment of ideas Given that innovation and change are inevitable, the challenge confronting leaders is how to structure their organisation’s approach to innovation so that: emerging opportunities within the • operating environment are fully exploited and maximum value for the organisat...

A gas turbine inlet filtration system is important for successful operation. The filtration system minimizes the occurrence of foreign object damage, erosion, fouling, and corrosion. The selection of the inlet filtration system is a challenging process which involved choosing multiple filtration stages based on the desired performance of the gas turbine and the local operating environment. This...

This paper presents the average error probability performance in coherent DS-CDMA systems using a 2DRAKE receiver with an arbitrary number of antennas and arbitrary number of RAKE fingers. In the analysis, we assume a general frequency selective Nakagami-m fading channel with exponential Multipath Intensity Profile. Analytical expression of the average Bit-Error-Rate (BER) is derived, including...

INTRODUCTION Caring for trauma patients is a dynamic process, and it is often necessary to move the trauma patient around the hospital to different locations. This study attempted to document the quality of observations performed on acute trauma patients as they moved through the hospital during the first 24 hours of care. METHODOLOGY This study was a student elective and was undertaken at Gr...

BACKGROUND As the demand for health care services increases, the need to improve patient flow between departments has likewise increased. Understanding how the master surgical schedule (MSS) affects the inpatient wards and exploiting this relationship can lead to a decrease in surgery cancellations, a more balanced workload, and an improvement in resource utilization. We modeled this relationsh...

In this paper, a model-based predictive framework is proposed to optimize the operation and maintenance actions for power system equipment which operates in a changing environment of the future grid. In this framework, a predictive health model is proposed that predicts the health state of this equipment based on its operation and maintenance actions. In particular, this framework is used to pr...

Multimedia computing is becoming of increasing importance to modern telecommunications. Audio compression is an integral part of multimedia applications. The unique operating environment of multimedia computing imposes many unique requirements on the audio compression algorithm, including high compression rate, low-complexity, and the ability of handling different audio sources. On the other ha...

This paper describes a terrain-aided navigation system that employs points of maximum curvature extracted from laser scan data as primary landmarks. A scale space method is used to extract points of maximum curvature from laser range scans of unmodified outdoor environments. This information is then fused with odometric information to provide localization information for an outdoor vehicle. The...

The next wave of communication and applications rely on the new services provided by Internet of Things which is becoming an important aspect in human and machines future. The IoT services are a key solution for providing smart environments in homes, buildings and cities. In the era of a massive number of connected things and objects with a high grow rate, several challenges have been raised su...