BACKGROUND Cancer surivors have limited knowledge about second primary cancer (SPC) screening and suboptimal rates of completion of screening practices for SPC. Our objective was to test the efficacy of an educational material on the knowledge, attitudes, and screening practices for SPC among cancer survivors. METHODS Randomized, controlled trial among 326 cancer survivors from 6 oncology car...

The quality consistence and machines’ utilization of a flexible manufacturing system (FMS) strongly depend on the statistical process control (SPC) and the correct fault diagnosis of equipments. An FMS can be modeled by the Colored Timed Petri Net (CTPN). However, the CTPN models of most FMSs lack the activities of the statistical process control (SPC) and fault diagnosis, and they lead to the ...

We consider statistical process control (SPC) of univariate processes when observed data are not normally distributed. Most existing SPC procedures are based on the normality assumption. In the literature, it has been demonstrated that their performance is unreliable in cases when they are used for monitoring non-normal processes. To overcome this limitation, we propose two SPC control charts f...

Here we present the C++ library SPC (Speech Signal Processing Classes) as development tool for assembling of speech processing applications. SPC offers real-time processing, batch processing of large databases, visualization, and analysis of signals between processing steps. In SPC the data stream occurring in speech processing is partitioned in three different information flows: signal data, c...

Inventory control policies have been recognized as a contributory factor to the bullwhip effect and inventory instability. Previous studies have indicated that there is a trade-off between bullwhip effect and inventory performance where the bullwhip effect reduction might increase inventory instability. Therefore, there is a need for inventory control policies that can cope with supply chain dy...

This paper presents an analytical modeling method of optimal control variables to maximize output power for switched reluctance generators (SRGs) in single pulse mode operation. This method extends the basic theory of the Stiebler model and utilizes the flux linkage function to express the inductance model of SRG. In this paper, the optimal phase current shape of SRG for maximum output power is...

The MYTHEN single-photon-counting (SPC) detector has been characterized using the time-over-threshold (ToT) readout method, i.e. measuring the time that the signal produced by the detected X-rays remains above the comparator threshold. In the following it is shown that the ToT readout preserves the sensitivity, dynamic range and capability of background suppression of the SPC mode, while enhanc...

A method and algorithm for modeling single-switch scanning for text input is presented. The algorithm uses the layout of a scanning keyboard and a corpus in the form of a word-frequency list to generate codes representing the scan steps for entering words. Scan steps per character (SPC) is computed as a weighted average over the entire corpus. SPC is an absolute measure, thus facilitating compa...

This paper proposes an improved new structure of Single Parity Check (SPC) product codes with an embedded interleaver. The complexity of decoding the new SPC product codes is the same as the one of the existing single parity check product codes by use of the message passing algorithm. Simulation results and bound analysis demonstrate a significant bite error rate (BER) performance improvement c...