Methods Each of the 12 EUNOMIA centers formed a local "expert group" with representatives from parties involved in the procedure of coercive treatment (e.g. mental health professionals, users, legal experts) and organized semi-structured personal and/or group interviews. Current national legislation and nationally accepted guidelines on mechanical restraint and forced medication – where availab...

The paper presents part of the created systematic methodology of solving optimal control problems formulated for systems with subsystems (possibly analog) that are changing scale, dimension or symmetry. In the paper we are interested in controlled processes that can be described by hyperbolic equations. The system described by such equation can locally change its qualitative properties. In the ...

In this paper we propose a framework for decentralized model-based diagnosis of complex systems modeled with qualitative constraints and whose models are distributed among their subsystems. We assume that Local Diagnosers are associated with subsystems and are coordinated by a Supervisor which acts as the diagnoser for the complex system. The Local Diagnosers and the Supervisor communicate via ...

For the shortcomings of differential evolution algorithm(DE), such as the low convergence rate in the late evolution, easy to trap into the local optimal solution, and weak situation of the global search ability and the stability of optimization, an improved differential evolution algorithm based on multi-population and dynamic local search(MPDLSDE) is proposed in this paper. In the MPDLSDE alg...

BACKGROUND Alcohol consumption is a major cause of mortality and morbidity globally. In response to strong calls from the public for alcohol law reform, the New Zealand Government recently reduced the blood alcohol limit for driving and introduced the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act which aim to (1) improve community input into local decision-making on alcohol; (2) reduce the availability of alc...

The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors and should not be attributed in any manner to the World Bank, to its affiliated organizations, or to members of its Board of Executive Directors or the countries they represent. INTRODUCTION Alongside the familiar economic and democratic-electoral reforms that have occurred in African countr...

Thousands of enterprises worldwide are cutting the wires to their local area networks (LANs) to enjoy greater productivity from their unwired work force. Many wireless networking systems were established to manipulate urban networks in order to provide internet, data and video etc. connectivity. A significant drawback of traditional Wi-Fi system based on IEEE 802.11b standard is that they are q...

Background. Interpretation of microarray data remains challenging because biological meaning should be extracted from enormous numeric matrices and be presented explicitly. Moreover, huge public repositories of microarray dataset are ready to be exploited for comparative analysis. This study aimed to provide a platform where essential implication of a microarray experiment could be visually exp...

Fault diagnosis of induction motors in the practical industrial fields is always a challenging task due to the difficulty that lies in exact identification of fault signatures at various motor operating conditions in the presence of background noise produced by other mechanical subsystems. Several signal processing approaches have been adopted so far to mitigate the effect of this background no...

State space equations that constrain the values of related variables within individual states are often used in models of continuous dynamical systems such as ordinary differential equations . These models do not allow the representation of non-local information constraining the behavior of the system across time except through the application of continuity . Qualitative simulation (Kuipers, 19...