Recovery stations hold a key role in the recycling process. This study investigates the relationships among the motivation to recycle, user satisfaction with recovery stations, and willingness to recycle, with consideration of the mediation and moderation effects. We find a positive relationship between motivation to recycle and satisfaction with recovery stations, between satisfaction with rec...

The Chinese observed land-surface air temperature data set includes measurements from 731 meteorological stations from 1951 to the present, as collected and processed by the National Meteorological Center of the China Meteorological Administration (1, 2). Because some stations were removed, the actual total number of stations in operation today is 671, distributed among 31 provinces and municip...

Examination of surficial sediments at 16 stations shows minor, but consistent differences in the numbers and kinds of siliceous microfossils deposited in different regions of Lake Baikal. There is a general north-south decreasing trend in total microfossil abundance on a weight basis. Endemic plankton diatom species are the most abundant component of assemblages at all stations. Chrysophyte cys...

In IEEE 802.11 networks composed by multiple APs, before a station can access the network it needs to make a decision about which AP to associate with. Usually, legacy 802.11 stations use no more than the signal strength of the frames received from each AP to support their decision. This can lead to an unbalanced distribution of stations among the APs, causing performance and unfairness problem...

This paper explores the merits of the single-path selective-broadcast interconnection (SBI) implemented in fiberoptic technology. This is a static, passive, fiber-optic interconnection among a set of stations, each equipped with multiple, say r , transmitters and receivers. It employs c 2 buses, each interconnecting a subset of the stations, and provides a single optical path between any two st...

Under heterogeneous radio conditions, Wireless LAN stations may use different modulation schemes, leading to a heterogeneity of bit rates. In such a situation, 802.11 DCF allocates the same throughput to all stations independently of their transmitting bit rate; as a result, the channel is used by low bit rate stations most of the time, and efficiency is low. In this paper, we propose a more ef...

The prediction of the handover in mobile wireless networks is an easy way of optimal disposing with radio resources and efficient increase of quality of services. The prediction can be based on the several approaches. This paper is focused on the monitoring of the history of serving and target base stations while the handover is executed. The information about previous handovers of all users ar...

Mobile WiMAX networks are generally based on the 802.16e standard. This version of standard supports a number of handover types and allows full mobility of users. However, the relay stations are not considered in this standard version. Relay stations are introduced in the originating 802.16j standard version. This paper deals with the impact of relay stations implementation from the handover po...

Radio listening in Zambia is dominated by state-run ZNBC's three radio stations Radio 1, Radio 2 and music/entertainment-based Radio 4. Seventy eight percent of weekly radio listeners in Zambia said they often listen to one of three state-run stations. Zambia also has a few locally focused private or nonprofit, community radio stations, which broadcast in English and/or local provincial languag...

PURPOSE To automatically learn directional relative positions (DRP) between mediastinal lymph node stations and anatomical organs. Those spatial relationships are used to semiautomatically segment the stations in thoracic CT images. METHODS Fuzzy maps of DRP were automatically extracted by a learning procedure from a database composed of images with stations and anatomical structures manually...