Spatio-temporal integrated assessment of land-use change impacts on carbon storage services is a new and important research field in land science and landscape ecology. The objective of this paper is to use an integrated SD-CLUE-S and InVEST model to simulate and predict land-use changes impacts during 2000-2018 on carbon storage at pixel and regional scales in the Zhangye oasis, Northwest Chin...

OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to evaluate the frequency of obstetrical anal sphincter injuries (OASIS) in women undergoing operative vaginal deliveries (OVD) and to assess whether a mediolateral episiotomy is protective for developing OASIS in these deliveries. STUDY DESIGN We performed a retrospective cohort study. Maternal and obstetrical characteristics of the 2861 women who del...

Portable and affordable assistive devices are calling necessities for the physically challenged population putting forth the requirement of designing embedded systems tuned to specific assistive applications. In this paper, we present a low footprint embedded operating system, OaSis, which forms the core of embedded devices being developed for the speech impaired, the visually impaired and thos...

The Ontological Adaptive Service-Sharing Integration System (OASIS) provides a means for reverse engineering tools to work cooperatively to share services and assist maintainers in carrying out software analysis and program comprehension tasks. OASIS makes use of specially constructed, external tool adapters and a domain ontology to facilitate integration among a set of reverse engineering tool...

Global anycast, an important building block for many distributed services, faces several challenging requirements. First, anycast response must be fast and accurate. Second, the anycast system must minimize probing to reduce the risk of abuse complaints. Third, the system must scale to many services and provide high availability. Finally, and most importantly, such a system must integrate seaml...

BACKGROUND Smoking is a modifiable lifestyle factor that has been shown to be associated with adverse perinatal outcomes and to have adverse health and dose-dependent connective tissue effects. The objective of this study was to examine whether smoking during pregnancy was associated with the incidence of obstetric anal sphincter injuries (OASIS) among six birthweight groups in singleton vagina...

This paper describes a Web-based simulator of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) mandated Open Access Same-Time Information System (OASIS) network. The purpose of the simulator is to provide a tool for study of the various aspects of an OASIS network and to gain a strong intuitive feel for its operations. For a specified simulation period, the OASISNET simulator reproduces an OASIS...

This study evaluated the criterion validity of the Outcome and Assessment Instrument Set (OASIS) items that measure activities of daily living (ADLs), instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs), cognitive functioning, and depression. A convenience sample of patients (n = 203) from five home care agencies participated in the study. Patient OASIS items were compared to data collected using g...

In this paper, a new segmentation method using hyperbolic tangent fuzzy cmeans (MHTFCM) algorithm for medical image segmentation. The proposed method uses two hyperbolic tangent functions for clustering of images. The performance of the proposed algorithm is tested on OASIS-MRI image dataset. The performance is tested in terms of score, number of iterations (NI) and execution time (TM) under di...