In Paraisópolis, a slum in São Paulo (Brazil) housing over 100.000 inhabitants, the Covid crisis seemed to have less of death toll (0,0217%) than other areas city (an average 0,0652% as May 2020); or at least it did first. The sense community area is strong, leading many initiatives and organisations rise challenge combating pandemic with little help from authorities. community’s initial effici...

Although much has been written about patient aggression, its management remains problematic, with many healthcare providers adopting a "zero tolerance" approach. This article uses case studies to discuss: the negative implications associated with this policy; the background to patient aggression and other "challenging" behaviours; how nurses, midwives and other health professionals respond to t...

In this paper, we address the issue of training Recurrent Neural Networks with binary weights and introduce a novel Contextualized Discretization (CD) framework and showcase its effectiveness across multiple RNN architectures and two disparate tasks. We also propose a modified GRU architecture that allows harnessing the CD method and reclaim the exclusive usage of weights in {−1, 1}, which in t...

The diesel generators sets (DGs) and battery storage systems (BSS) are the essential energy sources in a modern high-rise buildings. In this paper DG, BSS Photovoltaic system (PV) has been considered to minimize grid power injection using centralized Energy Management System (EMS). Machine Learning (ML) techniques used predict performance of various regression models by comparing load curves. I...

The application of organic amendments can be an appropriate solution to reclaim and improve physical propertiesof saline-sodic soils. In this research, an experiment was performed under greenhouse conditions to study the effect ofamendments to the physical properties of loamy saline-sodic soil. The five treatments were control (withoutamendment), municipal solid waste compost (MC), vermicompost...

Within sport ethnography, the term "subculture" has been employed so broadly that the term has lost much of its explanatory powel: In this papel; we attempt to reclaim the explanatorypowers of the concept subculture by differentiating itfrom the concept "subworld. " The paper reviews the theoretical foundations of the concept of subculture and subworld, proposes definitional distinctions, and J...