Server Push, one of the most promising features of HTTP/2, allows web servers to speculatively send unsolicited web resources to clients. While the mechanism for Push is well defined, policies for effectively utilizing push to maximize page load performance are poorly understood. In this work we investigate the factors that should be considered when implementing a Push policy and combine them t...

Market segmentation is ubiquitous in marketing. Hierarchical and non-hierarchical methods are the most popular for segmenting tourism markets. These methods are not without much controversy. In this study, we use bagged clustering on the push and pull factors of Western Europe to segment potential young Chinese travelers. Bagged clustering overcomes some of the limitations of hierarchical and n...

conclusions participants’ experience highlighted the necessity of awareness about adverse side effects of otc drug use; such awareness can be achieved through various methods such as information dissemination and proper culture of drug use promoted by healthcare professionals to resolve the mentioned issues and improve, consolidate, and promote society’s level of knowledge and health. methods t...

Direct-carrier modulation is an attractive technique for low-cost high-performance radar transceivers. In this paper, it is shown that, when the technique is applied to a generic homodyne radar architecture, the signaling waveform can be software adapted without requiring any hardware modifications. The key circuit in this novel software radar is a -band monolithic – vector modulator employing ...

The increasing growth of wireless access networks, proliferation of the Internet and gradual deployment of broadband networks has already given birth to a set of information-centric applications based on data transmission. Efficient scheduling techniques are necessary to endow these applications with advanced data processing capability. Broadly all data transmission applications are divided int...

BACKGROUND Flatfoot deformity is a lever arm disease that incurs kinetic inefficiency during gait. The purpose of this study was to measure the degree of kinetic inefficiency by comparing the gait analysis data of a flatfoot group with a normal control group. METHODS The patient group consisted of 26 children (21 males and 5 females) with symptomatic flatfoot. They were examined with gait ana...

There is a pressing need to increase the throughput of NMR analysis in fields such as metabolomics and drug discovery. Direct injection (DI) NMR automation is recognized to have the potential to meet this need due to its suitability for integration with the 96-well plate format. However, DI NMR has not been widely used as a result of some insurmountable technical problems; namely: carryover con...

The aim of this study was to investigate how the coordination patterns of shoulder muscles change with level-ground and incline wheelchair propulsion. Wheelchair kinetics and electromyography (EMG) activity of seven muscles were recorded with surface electrodes for 15 nondisabled subjects during wheelchair propulsion on a stationary ergometer and wooden ramp (4 degree slope). Kinetic data were ...

A novel single-stage push–pull electronic ballast with high input power factor is presented in this paper. The proposed electronic ballast combines the front-end power-factor corrector and push–pull converter into a single-stage converter. Compared to the single-stage class-D electronic ballast, the proposed circuit does not require an isolated driver. The control of the circuit is easier and t...

The mapping method was introduced in [1] for highly accurate Isogeometric Analysis (IGA) of elliptic boundary value problems containing singularities. The mapping method is concerned with constructions of novel geometrical mappings by which push-forwards of B-splines from the parameter space into the physical space generate singular functions that resemble the singularities. In other words, the...