AIMS (1) To identify factors that older adults find encouraging or discouraging about the prospect of relocation to a retirement village; and (2) to identify features or facilities often associated with retirement communities that are most appealing to prospective residents. METHOD Randomly selected community residents (n = 517), aged 55-94 years, from the Australian Capital Territory complet...

local perforator flaps have evolved over the time to provide complete and stable coverage of soft tissue defects. technical advances and experience with the perforator flaps have allowed the harvest of local perforator flaps in a free style manner by offering greater freedom in flap selection. we have proposed a technical modification in the harvest of a perforator flap by relo-cating the perfo...

Division of labor is a central feature in social insects, wherein, simple individuals come together in groups to perform tasks that could be quite complex. It is generally believed that individuals who perform a specific task are themselves simple, interchangeable units. However, the variances in the performances of these individual insects need to be explored in greater detail. In this study, ...

Residential relocation or mobility is a critical component of land use dynamics. Models of land use dynamics need to consider residential relocation or mobility behavior of households to be able to forecast future population demographics land use patterns critical to activity and travel demand forecasting. Unfortunately, very little is known about residential relocation behavior at the disaggre...

This paper presents a design and analyzes the performance of a relocation planner for electric vehicle sharing system, aiming at reducing management cost and enhancing service ratio by avoiding service degradation stemmed from stock imbalance. The proposed planner creates a set of relocation pairs, each of which consists of an overflow station and an underflow station for respective relocation ...

Most file systems overwrite modified file data and metadata in their original locations, while the Log-structured File System (LFS) dynamically relocates them to other locations. We design and implement the Evergreen file system that can select between overwriting or relocation for each block of a file or metadata. Therefore, the Evergreen file system can achieve superior write performance by s...

Typhoon Morakot hit Taiwan in 2009 and caused severe damages. The government employs a compulsory relocation strategy for post-disaster reconstruction. This study analyzes the impact of this strategy on community solidarity. It employs a multiple approach for data collection, including semi-structural interview, secondary data, and documentation. The results indicate that the government’s strat...

This paper presents an architecture and protocol in support of proactive mobility for future IP Wireless Access Networks (IP-WANs). It encompasses a novel approach for seamless handoff and proactive relocation of IP roaming state. The latter establishes a generic substrate for proactive state relocation of different context classes relating to the state of IP connectivity for a mobile node (MN)...

In WSNs (Wireless Sensor Network), how to conserve the limited power resources of sensors to extend the network lifetime of the network as long as possible while performing the sensing and sensed data reporting tasks, is the most critical issue in the network design. In many applications, the node closer to the Source and destination are overburdened with huge traffic load as the data from the ...

As microprocessors become faster and demand more bandwidth, the already limited scalability of a shared bus decreases even further. DICE, a shared-bus multiprocessor, utilizes cache only memory architecture (COMA) to effectively decrease the speed gap between modern high-performance microprocessors and the bus. DICE tries to optimize COMA for a shared-bus medium, in particular to reduce the det...