This paper discusses the coordinated use of Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) learning cycle with additional bodies knowledge. approach furthers focused understanding and appreciation for taking action within social systems. Adapting SSM extends richness real-world situation understood from an analytic soft systems perspective to encompass a problematical using knowledge explain explore. Examples ...

Microwave-frequency data acquired from the Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I) has been interpreted as snow-water equivalent (SWE) for the snowpack on the upper Mattagami river watershed for the winter of 1998–1999. The Mattagami watershed is in a forested region of Ontario, Canada. Less than 10% of the area is lake or unforested wetland. The algorithm applied to the SSM/I data uses the dif...

Real-time 3D navigation during minimally invasive procedures is an essential yet challenging task, especially when considerable tissue motion is involved. To balance image acquisition speed and resolution, only 2D images or low-resolution 3D volumes can be used clinically. In this paper, a real-time and registration-free framework for dynamic shape instantiation, generalizable to multiple anato...

Soil moisture, especially surface soil moisture (SSM), plays an important role in the development of various natural hazards that result from extreme weather events such as drought, flooding, and landslides. There have been many remote sensing methods for soil moisture retrieval based on microwave or optical thermal infrared (TIR) measurements. TIR remote sensing has been popular for SSM retrie...

The Standard Solar Model (SSM) and its basic assumption of an equation of state of perfect gases for the plasmas of its interior is analyzed within the new theoretical framework of QED coherent states. We find that for r r ⊙ ≤ 0.3 the SSM solution is unstable against collapse to a dense, cold coherent core and as a result a large suppression of B 8-neutrinos is obtained, apparently solving the ...

In this paper, two methods of control for high-voltage Full Bridge Series-Parallel Resonant (FBSPR) DC-DC converter are proposed and the results are compared. Soft switching operation using Zero Current Switching (ZCS) and Zero Voltage Switching (ZVS) technologies is employed to decrease the losses and optimize the efficiency of converter. The way of obtaining small-signal model of FBSPR conver...

In order to deploy multiparty applications using SSM, we not only need routers running SSM and hosts running MLDv2, but we must also consider some issues: We show that an architecture such as sas allows to keep a global session announcement a la SAP using SSM in the inter-domain. We evaluate ssmsdp and show that it is a viable architecture for discovering dynamic sources in a multiparty session...

Plant proteins are plausible fishmeal substitutes but are deficient in some essential amino acids (EAA) like lysine and methionine. Combination of different plant proteins with complimentary EAA could be useful alternative. Bambaranut (Voandzeia subterranea) contains high amount of lysine while methionine is in sesame seed (Sesamum indicum). This experiment tested effects of combining sesame se...

Abstract Purpose Nodular melanoma (NM) is associated with worse disease outcome when compared to superficial spreading (SSM). We aimed perform a single-center analysis of prognostic factors in patients NM and compare the data SSM patients. Methods studied 228 NN 396 SSM. Patients situ melanomas or stage IV at diagnosis were not included study. Data analyzed using Mann–Whitney test, Chi-square K...

Abstract This paper proposes SSM (Sensor Steering Mechanism) for a lateral guided vehicle with an articulated body. Authors demonstrated the simple lateral guiding method SSM for the front wheel steer type, the reverse phase four-wheel steer type and the rear wheel steer type vehicle. SSM presents the stable lateral guiding performance for automated vehicle which follows a straight and curved p...