Abstract Purpose of Review: The article provides an extensive overview on the resilient autonomy advances made across various missions, orbital or deep-space, that captures current research approaches while investigating possible future direction resiliency in space autonomy. Recent Findings: In recent years, need for several automated operations applications has been rising, ranges from follow...

In this paper, several error-resiliency techniques are combined with the H.264/AVC (Advanced Video Coding) codec’s switching frames to adaptively switch between video streams, depending on wireless channel conditions. Switching frames are a feature of H.264/AVC that allows smooth transitions between streams without the overhead of periodic intra-coded I-frames. Because video streaming over band...

IO tools in numerical simulations often serve two functions, one for writing and reading files to restart calculations and the other for writing and processing diagnostic files including files for graphics post-processing. For diagnostic files, tools directly working for high-level data structures are desired, such meshes with adaptive mesh refinement, unstructured meshes, and association betwe...

BACKGROUND To determine the prevalence of depressive symptoms and to explore related factors of depressive symptoms in hemodialysis (HD) patients in northern China. METHODS We used a cross-sectional research design to recruit 227 chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients who were undergoing HD treatment in northern China during December, 2012 to March, 2013. The Chinese edition of the Center for ...

An increase in the exposure and predisposition of civilian populations to disasters has been recorded in the last decades. In major disasters, as demonstrated recently in Nepal (2015) and previously in Haiti (2010), external aid is vital, yet in the first hours after a disaster, communities must usually cope alone with the challenge of providing emergent lifesaving care. Communities therefore n...

Accumulation of life stressors predicts accelerated development and progression of diseases of aging. Telomere length, the DNA-based biomarker indicating cellular aging, is a mechanism of disease development, and is shortened in a dose response fashion by duration and severity of life stressor exposures. Telomere length captures the interplay between genetics, life experiences and psychosocial ...