This study aimed to provide useful materials for the realization of healthy and happy welfare society through the re-socialization of the retired elderly by identifying the effect of the push factors in the leisure sports participation of the retired elderly on re-socialization and recovery resilience. To achieve the study purpose, 304 subjects over the age of 55 residing in Seoul and Gyeonggin...

The present study aims to determine the Rapid Visual Screening (RVS) basic scores for four representative Unreinforced Masonry (URM) and their corresponding Confined (CM) buildings. Two types of analysis were carried out on finite element models: modal push-over analysis. It was observed that confining URM walls with horizontal vertical RC ties leads a significant improvement in both ultimate s...

Services provided Over-The-Top to Internet users are becoming more advanced and the business models for operating in this domain are becoming more sustainable. When services of this type are something which is paid for, the importance of optimizing Quality of Experience (QoE) is crucial. In this paper we study and test a selected mechanism PostACK for controlling TCP flows, and implement a home...

Many valid and reliable tools and techniques are available for wound measurement. However, few prospective clinical studies assessing these instruments have been conducted. A prospective, methodological study was conducted between September 2006 and November 2007 to evaluate use of the Pressure Ulcer Scale for Healing (PUSH) version 3 in patients with one or more pressure ulcer. A convenience s...

In this letter, we propose Push-SAGA, a decentralized stochastic first-order method for finite-sum minimization over directed network of nodes. Push-SAGA combines node-level variance reduction to remove the uncertainty caused by gradients, network-level gradient tracking address distributed nature data, and push-sum consensus tackle information exchange. We show that achieves linear convergence...

Push back design as a complex task, is one of the major steps in the open pit mines planning. Push backs can be generated by varying economic factors such as commodity price, mining cost, processing cost, etc. Another important issue in generating push backs is grade uncertainty, which can cause the problem be more complex. Conventional methods of push back design ignore grade uncertainty. To o...

This study was conducted to investigate the push and pull factors in consumers’ decisions in choosing wedding banquet venues in Chongqing, China. The objectives of this research were to identify push and pull factors that motivated decision makers and to explore the relationships between the factors across decision makers’ demographic variables including “relationship with the new couple”, “per...

Background Global health policy is created largely through a collaborative process between development agencies and aid-recipient governments, yet it remains unclear whether governments retain ownership over the creation of policy in their own countries. An assessment of the power structure in this relationship and its influence over agenda-setting is thus the first step towards understanding w...

Most caching schemes in wide-area, distributed systems are client-initiated. Decisions of when and where to cache information are made without the beneet of the server's global knowledge of the usage patterns. In this paper, we present a new caching strategy: geographical push-caching. Using the server's global knowledge and a derived network topology, we distribute data to cooperating servers....