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Nurjani, Ni Putu Suda, Syamsul Alam Paturusi, Ngakan Ketut Acwin Dwijendra, and I. Dewa Gede Agung Diasana Putra. "Bed Bunk Accommodation; Convergence of Online Promotion Media with Balinese Traditional Houses in Canggu Village, Bali." International Journal of Engineering and Emerging Technology 4, no. 2 (January 28, 2020): 29. http://dx.doi.org/10.24843/ijeet.2019.v04.i02.p06.
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Bali is one of the most popular tourism destinations in the world with various forms of accommodation. Start from five star hotels until small lodgings built in each community residential unit. The strong custom and restrictions on tall buildings in Bali, making people look for various new alternatives to develop accommodation. The existence of local regulations that require the use of traditional Balinese ornamentation, requires accommodation owners to find adaptive accommodation development methods. However, with the development of the digital industry 4.0 specifically in contact with online advertising, there are no official rules in Bali that regulate it. This condition makes the demand for cheap accommodation in Bali seem unlimited. The promotion system no longer requires government legality. This phenomenon makes accommodations in remote places even can be accessed easily by all people in the world. The community then competes with each other to build cheap accommodations in their traditional homes. The government also cannot touch the spatial development caused by online media demand, due to the absence of regulations that limit it. This research tries to identify the bed bunk phenomenon that is built and operationalized through online promotion media, and has no legality. Data collection was carried out by direct observation of the object of study in Canggu village, district of North Kuta, Badung Regency, Bali Province. The findings of this study indicate that, bed bunk was born in Bali due to the high demand for backpacker tourists which is sufficient with wifi, table and bed facilities. The high cost of land in Bali encourages local people to build accommodations in their residential units. The maximum utilization of the interior (construction of 6-8 beds in one room) is the most preferred choice. This condition is due to vertical building restrictions that cannot exceed 15m and economic factors (get maximum income on narrow land). This finding is expected to be used as an evaluation material for spatial improvement in Bali which has an impact on congestion throughout the tourist area due to uncontrolled accommodation development.
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Nanavaty, Mayank A., and Elizabeth A. Tomlin. "Accommodative convergence per unit of accommodation ratio and bilateral LASIK in orthotropic patients." Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery 34, no. 7 (July 2008): 1055–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrs.2008.01.039.
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He, Baogang, Laura Allison-Reumann, and Michael Breen. "The Politics of Secular Federalism and the Federal Governance of Religious Diversity in Asia." Federal Law Review 46, no. 4 (December 2018): 575–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0067205x1804600406.
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A secular approach has dominated federal studies, perhaps because there seems a natural fit between federalism and secularism. However, the federal systems or practices of Asia bring that close association into question, and the federal accommodation of religious demands has not been examined fully. This article focuses on how religion has been approached, accommodated or resisted in federal and quasi-federal states in Asia. We select India, Malaysia, Pakistan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Nepal as cases. We first explore the relationship between federalism, secularism and religion, and find that secular values at the point of federalisation played an important role in federalism's establishment, but that they were later modified in the practice of federal accommodation of religion. We also identify and examine the federal governance of religious diversity, which features three types of accommodation—centrally-based, unit-based and group-based accommodation—with accommodative practices sometimes being for the benefit of a majority religion, and sometimes for a minority one.
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Zhang, Hongyu, and Paul D. R. Gamlin. "Neurons in the Posterior Interposed Nucleus of the Cerebellum Related to Vergence and Accommodation. I. Steady-State Characteristics." Journal of Neurophysiology 79, no. 3 (March 1, 1998): 1255–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.1998.79.3.1255.
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Zhang, Hongyu and Paul D. R. Gamlin. Neurons in the posterior interposed nucleus of the cerebellum related to vergence and accommodation. I. Steady-state characteristics. J. Neurophysiol. 79: 1255–1269, 1998. The present study used single-unit recording and electrical microstimulation techniques in alert, trained rhesus monkeys to examine the involvement of the posterior interposed nucleus (IP) of the cerebellum in vergence and accommodative eye movements. Neurons related to vergence and ocular accommodation were encountered within a circumscribed region of the IP and their activity during changes in viewing distance was characterized. The activity of these neurons increased with decreases in vergence angle and accommodation (the far-response) but none showed changes in activity during changes in conjugate eye position and we therefore term them “far-response neurons.” Far-response neurons were found within a restricted region of the IP that extended ∼1 mm rostrocaudally and mediolaterally and 2 mm dorsal to the fourth ventricle. Microstimulation of this far-response region of the IP with low currents (<30 μA) often elicited divergence and accommodation for far. The behavior of 37 IP far-response neurons was examined during normal binocular viewing, during monocular viewing (blur cue alone), and during binocular viewing with accommodation open-loop (disparity cue alone). The activity of all cells was modulated under all three conditions. However, the change in activity of some of these neurons was significantly different under these three viewing conditions. The behavior of 70 IP far-response neurons was compared during normal binocular viewing and during viewing in which the accommodative response was significantly dissociated from the vergence response. The data from these two conditions was pooled and multiple regression analyses for each neuron generated two coefficients expressing the activity of the neuron relative to the vergence and to accommodative response respectively. On the basis of these coefficients, the overall activity of the neurons were classified as follows: 34 positively correlated with divergence, 11 positively correlated with far accommodation, 14 positively correlated with divergence and far accommodation, 9 positively correlated with divergence and accommodation, and 2 positively correlated with convergence and far accommodation. The results of this study demonstrate the involvement of a specific region of the posterior interposed nucleus of the cerebellum in vergence and accommodation. IP far-response neurons are active for vergence and accommodation irrespective of whether or not these eye movements are elicited by blur or disparity cues. The data in the present study strongly suggest that this cerebellar region is a far-response region that is involved in vergence as well as accommodative eye movements.
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Luo, Kui, Wen Hui Shi, and Hao Zha. "Optimal Wind Power Planning Considering Power System Adaptability and Economy." Applied Mechanics and Materials 672-674 (October 2014): 246–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.672-674.246.
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Wind power planning towards large-scale accommodation of wind power while satisfying technical and economical constraints, it should consider power system adaptability and economy when giving full play to the wind benefits. This paper considers the relationship among wind power accommodation, construction of transmission lines and conventional unit operation costs and proposes an economic and reasonable wind power planning approach aiming at accommodating wind power efficiently and effectively. Combined the constrains of peak load regulation and network construction together, optimal wind power planning model is established, and based on the system operation simulation, a series of wind power planning evaluation index are obtained, which can estimate the wind power planning scheme from multiple angles. Finally, the feasibility and reasonability of the proposed planning approach has been verified by a numerical test system.
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Cowman, J., and P. Whitty. "Prevalence of housing needs among inpatients: a 1 year audit of housing needs in the acute mental health unit in Tallaght Hospital." Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine 33, no. 3 (February 16, 2016): 159–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ipm.2015.74.
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ObjectiveThere is a dearth of information relating to the prevalence of housing needs among psychiatric in-patients in Ireland. Most of the information we have to date emerged as a result of attempts to plan for the closure of old psychiatric hospitals and inappropriate community residences. This study sought to identify the prevalence of housing needs among in-patients in the acute psychiatric unit in Tallaght Hospital.MethodsEach week, over a 12-month period, nursing managers and/or key nurses who knew the patients well were asked for numerical data. Information was collected on the numbers of in-patients with accommodation needs, number of delayed discharges due to accommodation needs and number of discharges to homeless accommodation in the previous week.ResultsOn average, 38% of in-patients had accommodation related needs at any one time. Most (98%) of delayed discharges had accommodation related needs. Delayed discharge in-patients with accommodation needs accounted for 28% of all inpatients and for 72% of all inpatients with accommodation related needs.ConclusionsAccommodation need among psychiatric in-patients is underreported. Housing need data should be routinely collected and effective interagency strategies developed to address housing needs.
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Gamlin, P. D., Y. Zhang, R. A. Clendaniel, and L. E. Mays. "Behavior of identified Edinger-Westphal neurons during ocular accommodation." Journal of Neurophysiology 72, no. 5 (November 1, 1994): 2368–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.1994.72.5.2368.
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1. The present study used single-unit recording and antidromic activation techniques in alert rhesus monkeys to examine the static and dynamic behavior of 21 parasympathetic, preganglionic neurons of the Edinger-Westphal nucleus (EW) during ocular accommodation. 2. All identified EW neurons were active when viewing at optical infinity with an average firing rate of 11.6 spikes/s. During near viewing, there was a linear relationship between firing rate and accommodation with an overall gain for the population of preganglionic EW neurons of 3.3 (spikes/s)/diopter. 3. The activity of eight identified EW neurons was studied during viewing of targets with conflicting vergence and accommodative demands to dissociate their vergence and accommodation responses. With normal viewing these responses are so closely matched that it cannot be determined if the activity of a cell is related to vergence or to accommodation, but with dissociated viewing these relationships can be determined. Under this viewing condition, six preganglionic EW neurons showed the same relationship to accommodation as they did during normal viewing. However, the activity of two cells could not be explained solely by accommodation, and they showed some activity related to vergence. 4. Microstimulation at the sites of identified EW neurons produced accommodation in the ipsilateral eye. Repeated measures of the effect of microstimulation yielded a value of 75 ms for the latency of the response. This latency was essentially the same in both animals tested. 5. The activity of identified EW neurons is related to the velocity of accommodation as well as to static accommodation. The relationship between accommodation velocity and firing rate was studied for 15 identified EW neurons during sine-wave tracking of targets moving in depth. All of these cells showed a clear relationship between firing rate and accommodation velocity. Overall, this group of identified EW neurons showed a velocity sensitivity of 1.2 (spikes/s)/(diopter/s) and an estimated neural time constant of 380 ms. 6. Eleven neurons encountered near to preganglionic EW neurons could not be antidromically activated by stimulation of the oculomotor nerve. These neurons had statistically higher gains with respect to the near response; indeed, there was no overlap between the gains of these neurons and the gains of preganglionic EW neurons. Upon dissociation of vergence from accommodation, they were found to be related to either vergence or to vergence and accommodation but not solely to accommodation.
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Jannah, Nurul Faizatil, Fis Purwangka, and Budhi Hascaryo Iskandar. "KECUKUPAN AKOMODASI KAPAL PURSE SEINE (STUDI KASUS: KM BERKAH MELIMPAH DI PELABUHAN PERIKANAN SAMUDERA NIZAM ZACHMAN JAKARTA) (An Adequacy Accommodation of Purse-seiner (A Case Study of KM Berkah Melimpah in Nizam Zachman Jakarta Fishing Port))." SAINTEK PERIKANAN : Indonesian Journal of Fisheries Science and Technology 14, no. 1 (August 23, 2018): 52. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/ijfst.14.1.52-62.
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Kenyamanan dalam bekerja dipengaruhi oleh lingkungan kerja atau kondisi kerja dan faktor yang berkaitan dengan kerja tersebut. Kondisi kerja berkaitan dengan faktor seperti cahaya, suhu, asap, keamanan, kecelakaan, bising, debu, bau dan hal semacam itu yang mempengaruhi kinerja suatu pekerjaan atau kesejahteraan umum pekerja. Kecukupan akomodasi dan fasilitas nelayan di atas kapal merupakan salah satu upaya dalam keselamatan dan kesehatan kerja. International Labour Organization (ILO) memberikan pedoman terkait akomodasi nelayan di atas kapal. Unit penangkapan purse seine merupakan unit penangkapan ikan paling banyak menggunakan tenaga kerja berkisar 30 sampai 40 orang. Salah satu kapal purse seine yang digunakan sebagai objek penelitian adalah KM Berkah Melimpah berukuran 167 GT. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah mengindentifikasi ketersediaan akomodasi KM Berkah Melimpah dan mengidentifikasi kesesuaian akomodasi berdasarkan pedoman Konvensi ILO Nomor 126 Tahun 1966 tentang Accommodation of Crews (Fishermen). Metode yang digunakan pada penelitian ini adalah semi kuantitatif dengan pendekatan studi kasus. Pengamatan dan pengumpulan data yang diamati meliputi akomodasi apa saja yang ada di KM Berkah Melimpah serta kesesuaiannya terhadap pedoman ILO tentang Accommodation of Crews (Fishermen). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa kecukupan akomodasi KM Berkah Melimpah pada aspek sistem pengatur suhu di ruang akomodasi terpenuhi sebesar 20%, aspek ventilasi terpenuhi sebesar 57.14%, aspek pencahayaan dalam ruang akomodasi terpenuhi sebesar 83.33%, aspek kamar tidur terpenuhi sebesar 35.42%, aspek sanitasi terpenuhi sebesar 0%, aspek ruang dapur terpenuhi sebesar 50%, dan aspek fasilitas kesehatan terpenuhi sebesar 0%. Secara keseluruhan kesesuaian akomodasi pada KM Berkah Melimpah sebesar 35.13% dikategorikan buruk. Working comfort is influenced by work environment or working conditions and factors related to the work. Working conditions relate to factors such as light, temperature, smoke, safety, accidents, noise, dust, odors and such things that affect a work performance or the general welfare of workers. Accommodation adequacy and fishing facilities on board is one of the efforts in occupational safety and health. The International Labour Organization (ILO) provides guidance regarding fishermen accommodation on board. The purse seine fishing unit is the fishing unit that using most labour in the range of 30 to 40 people. One of the purse seine vessels, KM Berkah Melimpah, was used as the object in this research. The purpose of this study was to identify the availability of KM Berkah Melimpah accommodation and to identify accommodation suitability based on ILO Convention No. 126 of 1966 on Accommodation of Crews (Fishermen). The semi-quantitative method with case study approach was applied in this study. Observations and data collection observed include any accommodation available in KM Berkah Melimpah and their compliance with the ILO guidelines on Accommodation of Crews (Fishermen). The results showed that adequacy of KM Berkah Melimpah accommodation on the temperature regulating system aspect in accommodation room fulfilled by 20%, ventilation aspect fulfilled by 57.14%, lighting aspect in accommodation room fulfilled by 83.33%, bedroom aspect fulfilled by 35.42%, sanitation aspect fulfilled by 0%, kitchen space aspect fulfilled by 50%, and health facilities aspect fulfilled by 0%. Overall accommodation compatibility in this study was to 35.13% categorized as poor..
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Macpherson, Rob, Geoff Shepherd, and Tom Edwards. "Supported accommodation for people with severe mental illness: a review." Advances in Psychiatric Treatment 10, no. 3 (May 2004): 180–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/apt.10.3.180.
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The authors describe the main forms of supported accommodation available to people with mental health problems in the UK. They address the questions of who needs supported accommodation and how people may be selected for the differing types of unit. Historical trends and policy in this area are reviewed and the general research evidence and evidence of cost-effectiveness are considered. A ‘total system’ approach to assessing accommodation need in a locality is advocated. The authors also consider key quality issues that should be addressed for supported accommodation to be effective.
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Koh, Yoon, Amanda Belarmino, and Min Gyung Kim. "Good fences make good revenue: An examination of revenue management practices at peer-to-peer accommodations." Tourism Economics 26, no. 7 (August 12, 2019): 1108–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354816619867579.
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While hotel revenue managers utilize tools such as pricing, market segmentation, rate fences, and forecasting to maximize revenue, hosts in peer-to-peer (P2P) accommodations often have limited knowledge and lack the sophisticated pricing tools. Despite online resources for revenue management available, there has yet to be an examination regarding how widely spread these practices are in the P2P accommodation segment. Based on daily best available rates and booking restrictions information for P2P accommodations listed on Airbnb from top 10 cities with highest room inventories in the United States, this study aims to shed light on the current state of revenue management adoption on Airbnb. Utilizing a total of 307,955 Airbnb property’s daily data for 32 months, this study found that there are significant differences in revenue management practices by host characteristics (multi-unit hosts vs. single-unit hosts: Superhosts vs. non-Superhosts) for three revenue management tactics: dynamic pricing, minimum night’s stay, and restricted cancellation, and the hosts practices changes as their experience accumulates.
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Salloum, Alison, Ross Andel, Adam B. Lewin, Carly Johnco, Nicole M. McBride, and Eric A. Storch. "Family Accommodation as a Predictor of Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment Outcome for Childhood Anxiety." Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services 99, no. 1 (January 2018): 45–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1044389418756326.
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The current study examined the association of family accommodation (i.e., assisting the child to avoid experiencing anxiety and/or removing demands secondary to anxiety) and treatment remission and response among 72 youth (ages 7 to 13 years) who participated in a randomized clinical trial of a computer-assisted cognitive-behavioral therapy for pediatric anxiety. Measures of family accommodation, anxiety, treatment improvement, and functional impairment were administered. Results suggest that every one unit increase in the level of impact of accommodation on child functioning at baseline was associated with a 26% decrease in the odds of remission at the end of treatment. None of the accommodation subscales predicted treatment response. Findings support the practitioner assessing family accommodation at baseline and further research on family accommodation and treatment outcomes.
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Di Celma, Claudio, Pierluigi Pieruccini, and Piero Farabollini. "Major controls on architecture, sequence stratigraphy and paleosols of middle Pleistocene continental sediments ("Qc Unit"), eastern central Italy." Quaternary Research 83, no. 3 (May 2015): 565–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2015.01.006.
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Middle Pleistocene continental sediments in central Italy ("Qc Unit") record the oldest fluvial accumulation along the uplifting margin of the Peri-Adriatic basin. The architecture of the sediment body can be divided into two unconformity-bounded, fining-upward cycles interpreted as genetically related depositional sequences. These sequences highlight the systematic adjustment of the fluvial system to changes in the ratio between accommodation space and sediment supply (A/S ratio) and from base to top, comprise the following surfaces and stratal components: (i) a regionally correlative sequence boundary resulting from an A/S ratio ≤ 0; (ii) a low-accommodation systems tract characterized by conglomerate-rich, amalgamated channel fills and recording an A/S ratio < 1; (iii) an expansion surface marking the turnaround point from low-accommodation systems tract to high-accommodation systems tract deposits; (iv) a high-accommodation systems tract dominated by floodplain fines encasing lens-like, fluvial channel deposits and denoting an A/S ratio > 1; and (v) a mature red argillic paleosol. To constrain the climatic signal for paleosols formation, the two sequence-capping mature paleosols have been investigated. The results of these studies suggest that they were developed under humid and warm climatic conditions associated with interglacial phases, which have been correlatively attributed to Marine Oxygen Isotope Stages 11 and 9.
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Ahmad, Suzana, Norzehan Sakamat, and Noorazida Mohd Idris. "Implementation of E-rental Housing via Generic Notification Message Through Mobile Phone." Scientific Research Journal 6, no. 2 (December 31, 2009): 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.24191/srj.v6i2.5630.
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As UiTM increases its student enrollment, the number of students seeking accommodation inherently increases. This is particularly true with respect to off-campus accommodation since the number of students that the residential colleges can accommodate is limited. Unit Kebajikan NR (Non Resident) under Hal Ehwal Pelajar (HEP) has been set up to assist students looking for suitable accommodation. The unit is still implementing a manual- and paper-based processing to capture information. This is both highly inefficient and time consuming. This study provides a convenient platform for students and landlords to share updated information about available rental accommodation. A prototype web-based rental housing system, which is based on generic notification messaging, has been developed. This online system offers services to students seeking rental accommodation around the UiTM campus. Home owners can use this system to advertise their properties without the use of paper based forms or placing advertisements in newspapers, which is common practice. Communication between potential landlords and tenants can be done interactively via SMS once both parties have registered with the system. A System Development Life Cycle (SDLC), an iterative development, has been adopted for the purposes of evaluating this study. This research has the potential to aid in the development of an effective means by which accommodation for students and essentially any potential rentees can be found and attained.
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Kifumbi, Carrel, Claiton Marlon dos Santos Scherer, Fábio Herbert Jones, and Juliano Kuchle. "High resolution stratigraphy of initial stages of rifting, Sergipe-Alagoas Basin, Brazil." Brazilian Journal of Geology 47, no. 4 (December 2017): 657–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2317-4889201720170003.
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ABSTRACT: The present work aims to characterize the Neo-Jurassic to Neocomian succession of the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin, located in northeast region of Brazil, in order to discover the influence of tectonics on sedimentation in detailed scale and thus separating this sedimentary succession in tectono-stratigraphic units. Fieldwork observations and stratigraphic sections analysis allowed subdividing this rift succession into three depositional units that indicate different paleogeographic contexts. Unit I, equivalent to the top of Serraria Formation, is characterized by braided fluvial channel deposits, with paleocurrent direction to SE; unit II, corresponding to the base of Feliz Deserto Formation, is composed of anastomosed fluvial channel and floodplain facies associations; and unit III, equivalent to the major part of Feliz Deserto Formation, is characterized by delta deposits with polymodal paleocurrent pattern. The changes of depositional system, as well as paleocurrent direction, suggest that the previously described units were deposited in different evolutionary stages of rifting. Units I and II represent the record of a wide and shallow basin associated with the first stage of rifting. Unit I is characterized by incipient extensional stress generating a wide synclinal depression, associated to the low rate of accommodation and low tectonic activity. These two parameters progressively increase in unit II. The paleocurrent direction of unit I indicates that the depocenter of this wide basin was located at SE of the studied area. No conclusion could be done on paleocurrent from unit II because of the low amount of measurements. Unit III suggests a second stage marked by a deeper basin context, with a high rate of accommodation space associated with the lateral connection of faults and individualization of the half-graben. The scattering in the paleocurrent direction in this unit indicates sedimentary influx coming from several sectors of the half-graben. The boundary between these two stages is marked by a flooding surface that indicates an extremely fast transition and suggests a radical change in geometric characteristics of the basin due to the increase of tectonic activity.
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Sutherland, Ian, and Kiattipoom Kiatkawsin. "Determinants of Guest Experience in Airbnb: A Topic Modeling Approach Using LDA." Sustainability 12, no. 8 (April 22, 2020): 3402. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12083402.
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This study inductively analyzes the topics of interest that drive customer experience and satisfaction within the sharing economy of the accommodation sector. Using a dataset of 1,086,800 Airbnb reviews across New York City, the text is preprocessed and latent Dirichlet allocation is utilized in order to extract 43 topics of interest from the user-generated content. The topics fall into one of several categories, including the general evaluation of guests, centralized or decentralized location attributes of the accommodation, tangible and intangible characteristics of the listed units, management of the listing or unit, and service quality of the host. The deeper complex relationships between topics are explored in detail using hierarchical Ward Clustering.
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Bonner, Hayley K., Steven J. Frost, Martin G. Smith, and Elizabeth J. Williams. "Do Patients Really Mind Mixed Sex Bays in an Emergency Assessment Unit?" Acute Medicine Journal 8, no. 3 (July 1, 2009): 119–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.52964/amja.0250.
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Mixed sex bays are a reality on most Emergency Assessment Units (EAU). However, they are controversial having recently been the focus of political and media attention. We adapted a validated patient satisfaction questionnaire to seek the views of 1000 emergency admissions regarding mixed sex accommodation. Of 1000 respondents, 925 (92%) had been in bays and 665 (66%) shared with the opposite sex. Most 579/665 (87%) were comfortable with this, 97% (966/1000) feeling there was sufficient level of privacy, all (1000/1000) felt they were given privacy when needed. When asked ‘‘given the nature and function of EAU would you be willing to share with the opposite sex if it meant a shorter stay?’’, 857 (86%) said yes. Our study demonstrates that whilst single sex accommodation is ideal it is not the most important factor to most patients admitted to EAU.
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Gamlin, P. D., and R. J. Clarke. "Single-unit activity in the primate nucleus reticularis tegmenti pontis related to vergence and ocular accommodation." Journal of Neurophysiology 73, no. 5 (May 1, 1995): 2115–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.1995.73.5.2115.
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1. In the present study we used single-unit recording techniques in alert rhesus monkeys to investigate a precerebellar nucleus, the nucleus reticularis tegmenti pontis (NRTP), for neurons related to vergence and ocular accommodation. 2. In the medial NRTP, we identified 32 cells with activity that linearly increased with increases in the amplitude of the near response and 33 cells with activity that linearly increased with increases in the amplitude of the far response. These near and far response neurons were often encountered close to neurons displaying saccade-related activity, but their activity was related neither to saccadic nor to smooth pursuit eye movements. Micro-stimulation at the site of near or far response neurons often produced changes in vergence angle and accommodation. 3. The NRTP is known to receive cortical afferents and to have reciprocal connections with the cerebellum; therefore it is likely that the near and far response neurons in the medial NRTP form part of a cerebropontocerebellar pathway modulating or controlling vergence and ocular accommodation.
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Liu, Tianyi, and Hai Bao. "A Two-Stage PV Accommodation Optimization in Jinzhai County, Anhui Province with Hydropower as Stand-By Unit." E3S Web of Conferences 252 (2021): 01017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202125201017.
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In respond to the national “Photovoltaic Poverty Alleviation” and renewable energy accommodation policy, this paper proposes a two-stage PV accommodation optimization strategy based on improved PSO, PV forecast, and hydropower dispatch to tackle with the instability caused by distributed PV, since Jinzhai County, Anhui Province has both sufficient hydropower and photovoltaic. In the first stage, the hydropower reserve capacity of each period of the next day is optimized according to the PV forecast. In the second stage, real-time online optimization is carried out using the operation data to determine the amount of power generated by each PV source during each period. Finally, the optimization strategy is verified by simulations using grid operation data in Jinzhai, and the comparison is made with the thermal power standby unit. The results show that the hydropower units which has higher climbing rate can immensely increase the photovoltaic consumption, reduce the power loss and enhance the voltage stability of the network.
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Vandenberk, Michael S., and Jayne M. Kalmar. "An evaluation of paired motor unit estimates of persistent inward current in human motoneurons." Journal of Neurophysiology 111, no. 9 (May 1, 2014): 1877–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.00469.2013.
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Persistent inward current (PIC) plays an important role in setting the input-output gain of motoneurons. In humans, these currents are estimated by calculating the difference between synaptic input at motor unit recruitment and derecruitment (ΔF) derived from paired motor unit recordings. The primary objective of this study was to use the relationship between reciprocal inhibition (RI) and PIC to estimate the contribution of PIC relative to other motoneuron properties that result in nonlinear motor unit firing behavior. This study also assessed the contribution of other intrinsic properties (spike threshold accommodation and spike frequency adaptation) to ΔF estimates of PIC in human motor units by using ramps with varying rates of rise and duration. It was hypothesized that slower rates of ramp rise and longer ramp durations would inflate ΔF estimates of PIC, and RI and PIC values would only be correlated during the ramp with the fastest rate of rise and shortest duration when spike threshold accommodation and spike frequency adaptation is minimized. Fourteen university-aged participants took part in this study. Paired motor unit recordings were made from the right soleus muscle during ramp contractions of plantar flexors with three different rates of rise and durations. ΔF estimates of PIC increased with decreased rates of ramp rise ( P < 0.01) and increased ramp durations ( P < 0.01), most likely due to spike frequency adaptation. A correlation ( r = 0.41; P < 0.03) between ΔF and RI provides evidence that PIC is the primary contributor to ΔF in shorter ramps with faster rates of rise.
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Gričar, Sergej, and Štefan Bojnec. "Prices of short-stay accommodation: time series of a eurozone country." International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management 31, no. 12 (December 9, 2019): 4500–4519. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijchm-01-2019-0091.
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Purpose This paper aims to provide a reliable statistical model for time-series prices of short-stay accommodation and overnight stays in a eurozone country. Design/methodology/approach Exploiting the unit root feature, the cointegrated vector autoregressive model solves the problem of misspecification. Subsequently, variables are modelled for a long-run equilibrium with included deterministic variables. Findings The empirical results confirmed that overnight stays for foreign tourists were positively associated with the prices of short-stay accommodation. Research limitations/implications The major limitation lies in the data vector and its time horizon; its extension could provide a more specific view. Practical implications Findings can assist practitioners and hotel executives by providing the information and rationale for adopting seasonal volatility pricing. Structural breaks in price time-series have practical implications for setting seasonal-pricing schemes. Tourists could benefit either from greater price stability or from differentiated seasonal prices, which are important in the promotion of the price attractiveness of the tourist destination. Originality/value The originality of the paper lies in the applied unit root econometrics for tourism price time-series modelling and the prediction of short-stay accommodation prices.
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Huang, Weidong, and David B. Bogy. "The Effect of the Accommodation Coefficient on Slider Air Bearing Simulation." Journal of Tribology 122, no. 2 (June 8, 1999): 427–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.555384.
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In solving the slider air bearing problem, both the Molecular Gas-film Lubrication (MGL) model and the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) model require the accommodation coefficient as input. The accommodation coefficient represents the fraction of the air molecules that interact with solid boundaries in a diffusive manner. In general, the value 1 is used for the accommodation coefficient, which represents a fully diffusive reflection. However, in magnetic hard disk drives, the disk and slider surfaces are becoming ever smoother with different kinds of lubrication on the disk, while the temperature is becoming higher due to the faster spindle speed. Under these conditions the unit value of the accommodation coefficient may no longer be suitable. In order to understand the effect of the accommodation coefficient on the slider’s flying parameters, we used Kang’s new database for the Poiseuille flow rate Qp and Couette flow rate Qc to solve the modified Reynolds equation for two groups of sliders, e.g., negative and positive pressure sliders (“negative” refers to sliders with subambient pressure zones). The results show that, in general, the smaller the accommodation coefficient, the lower the flying height and pitch angle. Positive pressure sliders are more sensitive to the accommodation coefficient than are negative pressure sliders. The typical discrepancy in flying height is around 10%. Also, it is shown that for positive pressure sliders the lower the flying height, the larger the discrepancy percentage. [S0742-4787(00)00402-1]
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Jeguirim, Mejdi, Anne Muller, Frédéric Brenez, Philippe Fromy, François Demouge, and Jean-François Brilhac. "Reconstruction of an Arson Fire Scene in Accommodation Unit Using Fire Dynamic Simulator." Journal of Applied Fire Science 19, no. 2 (January 1, 2009): 133–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/af.19.2.c.
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Jaschinski-Kruza, Wolfgang, and Ewald Schubert-Alshuth. "Variability of fixation disparity and accommodation when viewing a CRT visual display unit." Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics 12, no. 4 (October 1992): 411–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-1313.1992.tb00309.x.
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Griggs, RKL, C. Wilde, J. Lee, and JRT Greene. "Anatomy on tour: Postgraduate surgical training in a mobile teaching unit." Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 92, no. 2 (February 1, 2010): 56–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1308/147363510x485030.
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Candidates for postgraduate surgical exams now have to learn much of their anatomy de novo rather than simply revise what they learned as medical students. A number of short courses have developed that help candidates prepare for the Intercollegiate Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS). Unfortunately these courses tend to be centralised and trainees incur high travel and accommodation costs when attending them. Trainees are also absent from their hospitals for long periods, which can disrupt clinical services.
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Prawira, Mega Fitriani Adiwarna, and Beta Budisetyorini. "Fishing Tourism Business Planning Strategy To Increase People's Income in Lancang Island, Kepulauan Seribu." Journal of Tourism Sustainability 1, no. 1 (July 23, 2021): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.35313/jtos.v1i1.2.
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Lancang Island is one of the islands in the Kepulauan Seribu Regency with the potential for tourism and fishing activities. Some residents of Lancang Island took advantage of the opportunity by establishing a fishing charter business. This study aims to provide a proper planning strategy for the tourist business unit to increase public income on Lancang Island. The fishing tourism business in Lancang Island includes four units such as Fishing Charter, Boat Rentals, Catering, and Accommodation. The data used are primary and secondary, and the research method is qualitative and presented descriptively. According to research using the BCG Matrix, the entire fishing charter units on Lancang Island are in the Cash Cow quadrant, so concentric diversification is a viable planning strategy. The planning strategies consist of product planning, market and marketing planning, and technology planning tailored to each business unit.
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Liu, Xiao-Min, Zi-Yang Niu, Bing-Bing Zhang, Meng-Zhu Du, and Peng-Bo Chen. "Zoom Unit in Augmented Reality: Liquid Lens." Science of Advanced Materials 13, no. 4 (April 1, 2021): 537–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/sam.2021.3964.
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With the development of modern technology and people’s demand for improving living standards, the traditional 2D display cannot meet the needs of people, so the augmented reality (AR) technology which combines virtual objects with real environment arises at the historic moment. AR technology sprouted in the 1960 s, and ushered in rapid development in the 21st century through continuous technical iteration. However, the traditional AR system cannot solve the vergence-accommodation conflict (VAC), to solve which, researchers introduced liquid lens into the optical system of AR. The methods and materials of making liquid lens are different. In this paper, the research progress of liquid lens is summarized from three aspects. Firstly, the research progress of liquid lens is briefly reviewed. Secondly, the classification and typical preparation technology of liquid lens are introduced, and different requirements for performance are described. Finally, the performance and testing method of liquid lens is introduced.
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Prakash, Gaurav, Vandana Choudhary, Namrata Sharma, and Jeewan S. Titiyal. "Change in the accommodative convergence per unit of accommodation ratio after bilateral laser in situ keratomileusis for myopia in orthotropic patients." Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery 33, no. 12 (December 2007): 2054–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrs.2007.07.030.
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Browne, Graeme, Mary Courtney, and Tom Meehan. "Type of housing predicts rate of readmission to hospital but not length of stay in people with schizophrenia on the Gold Coast in Queensland." Australian Health Review 27, no. 1 (2004): 65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah042710065.
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Accommodation is considered to be important by institutions interested in mental health care both in Australia andinternationally. Some authorities assert that no component of a community mental health system is more importantthan decent affordable housing. Unfortunately there has been little research in Australia into the consequences ofdischarging people with a primary diagnosis of schizophrenia to different types of accommodation. This paper usesarchival data to investigate the outcomes for people with schizophrenia discharged to two types of accommodation.The types of accommodation chosen are the person's own home and for-profit boarding house. These two were chosenbecause the literature suggests that they are respectively the most and least desirable types of accommodation.Results suggest that people with schizophrenia who were discharged to boarding houses are significantly more likelyto be readmitted to the psychiatric unit of Gold Coast Hospital, although their length of stay in hospital is notsignificantly different.
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Mitchell, Jennifer, and Helen Mactier. "Accommodation outcomes for children of drug-misusing women." Archives of Disease in Childhood 106, no. 1 (December 13, 2019): 80–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2018-316440.
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Children of drug-misusing women are a vulnerable group. Data describing the pattern of accommodation placements are lacking. We investigated 10- to 12-year accommodation outcomes of children born to drug-misusing mothers at a single maternity hospital. 94% of mothers were prescribed maintenance methadone during pregnancy and at least 87% poly-drug used.Data were successfully matched for 132 children (29% of the original cohort of 450 babies). These children had a total of 291 placements (median 2 (range 1–6)), only 28.5% of which were with the birth parents. At 10–12 years, 54 (41%) were in the care of their parent(s).83% (109/132) were discharged from the maternity hospital to their birth parents; 41% of these children (54/132) remained with their parents at 10–12 years. Of the 23 children not discharged from the maternity unit to their parents, 70% remain within the care system or have been adopted at 10–12 years of age.
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Oke, Ayodeji Emmanuel, Clinton Ohis Aigbavboa, and Marcia M. Raphiri. "Students’ satisfaction with hostel accommodations in higher education institutions." Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology 15, no. 5 (October 9, 2017): 652–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jedt-04-2017-0036.
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Purpose There are several types of accommodation available to students of higher education institutions, and it is the responsibility of the institutions to focus on factors that can attract and retain students to their residences. This study aims to investigate satisfaction of higher institutions students with on-campus accommodation with an emphasis on the ethnicity of the students. Design/methodology/approach Using convenience sampling method, questionnaires were administered to students of selected residences in the study area. Mean item score was used to rank identified factors, whereas mean gap and Kruskal–Wallis K-test were adopted to examine the difference in opinion of students from various ethnic groups. Findings Overall, major features that make students dissatisfied with university-owned accommodations are enforcement of rule that compels all students to move out with their belongings during each recess, the effectiveness of the lift system, the size of wardrobe and closet, laundry service in the residence, numbers of electrical sockets and window quality. Considering dwelling unit features, neighbourhood, environmental, building quality and services provided by residence management, this study reveals that there is a significant difference in the satisfaction of students of diverse ethnic groups with their accommodation. Research limitations/implications The study was limited to on-campus residences owned by higher education institutions in South Africa. However, the findings of the study can be adopted for off-campus residences, and such owned by private individuals, agencies and other bodies provided are approved by the institutions. Originality/value The findings of this study will help management of higher education institutions to improve quality of services in their residences for the satisfaction of their students. Developers, contractors and other stakeholders involved in construction of these residences will also find the findings useful in designing and construction of the facilities.
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Kirakosyan, Susana Arsenovna. "On classification of obligations of property owners in a multi-unit building." Право и политика, no. 8 (August 2020): 112–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/2454-0706.2020.8.33320.
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The subject of this research is the classification of obligations of property owners in a multi-story building, as well as their maintenance. The need for studying the classification of responsibility of property owners dictated by scientific and practical importance: the disclosure of the content of responsibilities reveals the essence of burden of the content of individual accommodation and shared property in a multi-unit building, as well as the due and socially proper behavior of obliged entities – the property owners. For determining the criteria for classification of obligations of property owners, the author analyzes the provisions of housing and civil legislation. There is no research on the system of obligations of property owners within the science of civil and housing law. For eliminating the theoretical gap, the author attempts to classify the obligations of property owners in a multi-unit building, as well as examine their content. A new perspective upon the classification of obligations based on various criteria is suggested. Special attention is turned to the characteristics of obligations of property owners as a landlord and as a neighbor. The criterion for division of such obligations consists in qualitative characteristic of the status of property owner: owner-landlord and owner-neighbor, and the obligations assigned thereof. The conclusion is made that the owner of accommodation in a multi-unit building is distinguished by care for the property, willingness to contribute economically, and reasonable neighborliness.
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Patan, Krzysztof, and Józef Korbicz. "Fault detection and accommodation by means of neural networks. Application to the boiler unit." IFAC Proceedings Volumes 42, no. 8 (2009): 119–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.3182/20090630-4-es-2003.00020.
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Happ, Mary Beth. "The Power and Importance of Accommodation for Communication Impairment in the Intensive Care Unit." Annals of the American Thoracic Society 13, no. 8 (August 2016): 1215–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1513/annalsats.201604-304ed.
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Li, Weidong, Tie Li, Haixin Wang, Jian Dong, Yunlu Li, Dai Cui, Weichun Ge, Junyou Yang, and Martin Onyeka Okoye. "Optimal Dispatch Model Considering Environmental Cost Based on Combined Heat and Power with Thermal Energy Storage and Demand Response." Energies 12, no. 5 (March 1, 2019): 817. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en12050817.
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In order to reduce the pollution caused by coal-fired generating units during the heating season, and promote the wind power accommodation, an electrical and thermal system dispatch model based on combined heat and power (CHP) with thermal energy storage (TES) and demand response (DR) is proposed. In this model, the emission cost of CO2, SO2, NOx, and the operation cost of desulfurization and denitrification units is considered as environmental cost, which will increase the proportion of the fuel cost in an economic dispatch model. Meanwhile, the fuel cost of generating units, the operation cost and investment cost of thermal energy storage and electrical energy storage, the incentive cost of DR, and the cost of wind curtailment are comprehensively considered in this dispatch model. Then, on the promise of satisfying the load demand, taking the minimum total cost as an objective function, the power of each unit is optimized by a genetic algorithm. Compared with the traditional dispatch model, in which the environmental cost is not considered, the numerical results show that the daily average emissions CO2, SO2, NOx, are decreased by 14,354.35 kg, 55.5 kg, and 47.15 kg, respectively, and the wind power accommodation is increased by an average of 6.56% in a week.
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Revill, Ann L., and Andrew J. Fuglevand. "Effects of persistent inward currents, accommodation, and adaptation on motor unit behavior: a simulation study." Journal of Neurophysiology 106, no. 3 (September 2011): 1467–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.00419.2011.
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Motor neurons are often assumed to generate spikes in proportion to the excitatory synaptic input received. There are, however, many intrinsic properties of motor neurons that might affect this relationship, such as persistent inward currents (PICs), spike-threshold accommodation, or spike-frequency adaptation. These nonlinear properties have been investigated in reduced animal preparation but have not been well studied during natural motor behaviors because of the difficulty in characterizing synaptic input in intact animals. Therefore, we studied the influence of each of these intrinsic properties on spiking responses and muscle force using a population model of motor units that simulates voluntary contractions in human subjects. In particular, we focused on the difference in firing rate of low-threshold motor units when higher threshold motor units were recruited and subsequently derecruited, referred to as ΔF. Others have used ΔF to evaluate the extent of PIC activation during voluntary behavior. Our results showed that positive ΔF values could arise when any one of these nonlinear properties was included in the simulations. Therefore, a positive ΔF should not be considered as exclusive evidence for PIC activation. Furthermore, by systematically varying contraction duration and speed in our simulations, we identified a means that might be used experimentally to distinguish among PICs, accommodation, and adaptation as contributors to ΔF.
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Saint, D. A., D. M. J. Quastel, and S. Chirwa. "Effect of a volatile anesthetic upon presynaptic excitability in mammalian hippocampus." Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology 64, no. 2 (February 1, 1986): 221–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/y86-034.
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Changes in presynaptic terminal axon excitability produced by enflurane in the rat hippocampal slice preparation were investigated by stimulation of Schaeffer collateral terminal axons and by recording single unit antidromic action potentials. Stimulating pulses were preceded by conditioning hyperpolarizing or depolarizing current pulses. A plot of net threshold for action potential generation against the conditioning pulse yields an "accommodation curve;" changes in this curve can be used to assess the mechanism by which changes in excitability are produced. Enflurane, at a concentration equivalent to [Formula: see text] times the minimum alveolar concentration, reduced excitability of terminal axons and increased accommodation in a manner consistent with a possible change in the inactivation of gNa.
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Cooper, Myra, Patsy Holly, and Simon Hampson. "A Specialist Unit for Difficult to Manage Patients: Preliminary Findings." Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy 25, no. 1 (January 1997): 67–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s135246580001540x.
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Preliminary findings are reported from a specialist unit for difficult to manage patients (those patients who have severe behavioural problems in addition to a mental illness). Staff attitudes and residents' psychiatric and social needs were assessed after the unit had been open for just over a year. The effect on residents' behaviour and symptoms over the course of that year was also evaluated. Findings showed that staff attitudes were resident orientated and that interactions between staff and residents and of staff with each other were almost always positive. These findings compared favourably with data collected on three other continuing care units in the same Trust and with data from previously published studies. The Cardinal Needs Schedule, a recent adaptation of the MRC Needs for Care Assessment Schedule, appeared to be a useful way of identifying unmet needs of the residents and gaps in service provision. Over the course of the year, behaviour in one third of the residents improved sufficiently for them to be considered suitable for potential discharge into community based accommodation. Implications of the findings for specialist units for difficult to manage patients are discussed, together with suggestions for further research.
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Rich, Margaret, Mary Ness, and Tom Smyth. "Co-ordinating care for people disabled by long-term mental illness living in the community." Psychiatric Bulletin 13, no. 6 (June 1989): 290–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.13.6.290.
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The Community Psychiatry Research Unit at Hackney Hospital have established a support team for the care of people disabled by long-term mental illness living in the community. The work of the support team in coordinating and managing the care of their clients in supportive accommodation using a review system and an information package is described.
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Yates, Peter, Tami Kramer, and M. Elena Garralda. "Use of a routine mental health measure in an adolescent secure unit." British Journal of Psychiatry 188, no. 6 (June 2006): 583–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.bp.105.013680.
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SummaryWe examined the use of a staff-completed measure, the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales for Children and Adolescents (HoNOSCA), to record mental health problems in adolescents in local authority secure accommodation. It proved possible to train staff and implement completion of the HoNOSCA on 64 consecutive admissions. Interrater reliability was high. The HoNOSCA identified high levels of psychological problems on admission (mean 18.5, s.d.=5.5). Follow-up HoNOSCA ratings proved sensitive to change; however, correlation between HoNOSCA and adolescent-completed questionnaires was poor. We concluded that HoNOSCA can be helpful in documenting mental health problems among young people admitted to secure local authority units.
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McCrone, Paul, Graham Thornicroft, Michael Phelan, Frank Holloway, Til Wykes, and Sonia Johnson. "Utilisation and costs of community mental health services." British Journal of Psychiatry 173, no. 5 (November 1998): 391–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.173.5.391.
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BackgroundThe costs and the effectiveness of mental health services need to be evaluated if provision is to be efficient. Service use and costs are described for two geographical areas in south London.MethodService use was measured comprehensively for clients in both sectors for two six-month time periods using the Client Service Receipt Interview This information was combined with unit costs to calculate service costs. The ‘hidden’ costs of informal care and unsupported accommodation were also calculated.ResultsAt baseline significantly more intensive sector clients had in-patient stays but by the follow-up this difference had disappeared. There was significantly more use of supported accommodation in the intensive sector during both time periods. Baseline and follow-up total service costs were significantly higher for the intensive sector. Costs were spread disproportionately and a small number of services accounted for a large proportion of cost.ConclusionsWhile the cost at Time 2 was significantly greater in the intensive sector, this was largely due to the high use of supported accommodation. There was some convergence in cost between the sectors over time.
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Yao, Weiwei, Changhong Deng, Dinglin Li, Man Chen, Peng Peng, and and Hao Zhang. "Optimal Sizing of Seawater Pumped Storage Plant with Variable-Speed Units Considering Offshore Wind Power Accommodation." Sustainability 11, no. 7 (April 1, 2019): 1939. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11071939.
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To improve the output characteristics of offshore wind power and to enhance the wind power accommodation, this paper analyzes its output characteristics along the southern coast in China, and then proposes an optimal sizing method of seawater pumped storage plant (SPSP) with variable-speed units in a connected mode on an islanded microgrid. Based on the constraints of variable-speed unit characteristics and power smoothness at the point of common coupling (PCC), the maximum static revenue as the objective function for the optimal sizing of SPSP is established. Notably, under an appropriate smoothness rate at PCC, the constraints that are mentioned above can adequately reflect the advantages of variable-speed units: fast power response and wide operating range. Additionally, they contain more concise models and variables than previously, which are friendly for optimizing the calculations. The results demonstrate that the proposed method is feasible and practical, by simulating and comparing in different scenarios.
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Zhang, Wei, Chao Qin, Bingbing Zhou, Yanli Huang, and Zhongfu Tan. "Economic Compensatory Method for Thermal Power Unit Joint Wind Power Accommodation Based on Objective Optimization." Open Fuels & Energy Science Journal 8, no. 1 (April 17, 2015): 86–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1876973x01508010086.
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Providing peaking auxiliary for wind power will affect the thermal power generation efficiency and reduce generation economic benefit. To realize the coordinated scheduling optimization of thermal power and wind power, the key problem is the economic compensation of thermal power peaking. In this paper, through the analysis of the influence of wind power on thermal power generation performance and thermal power peak load regulation on abandon wind, an economic compensation model based on objective optimization is established. The example analysis shows that cooperation of thermal power and wind power can improve the wind power accommodation level and unit efficiency, and the economic compensation mechanism can guarantee thermal power unit economic benefit effectively.
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Maden, A., C. Friendship, T. McClintock, and S. Rutter. "Outcome of admission to a medium secure psychiatric unit." British Journal of Psychiatry 175, no. 4 (October 1999): 317–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.175.4.317.
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BackgroundA follow-up of patients discharged from medium secure psychiatric units is used to compare outcome in patients of different ethnic origin.AimsTo test the hypothesis that there are systematic differences in clinical outcome between ethnic groups.MethodA descriptive, longitudinal cohort study of discharges from a medium secure unit is used to compare the 125 patients of White/European ethnic origin and the 104 patients of Black/African–Caribbean origin.ResultsPatients of African – Caribbean origin were admitted at three times the rate of White patients, had a higher prevalence of psychosis and a lower prevalence of personality disorder. There was no difference in outcome as measured by location at follow-up, readmission or re-offending.ConclusionsThe higher rate of admission of African–Caribbean patients is consistent with a higher level of demand. There is a need for studies of the pathways by which patients from ethnic minorities reach medium-security accommodation, with a view to early intervention.
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Dick, Peter H., David Reid, Audrey Simpkins, and Tessa Durham. "Who's assessing needs-led assessment?" Psychiatric Bulletin 21, no. 5 (May 1997): 290–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.21.5.290.
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Pre- and post-change audits of the effect of the changes in community care assessments and funding intro-duced in April 1993 were carried out on a psychiatric in-patient rehabilitation unit in Dundee. There was a substantial reduction in throughput in the rehabilitation unit (from 43 to 22) and in placements to funded staffed accommodation (from 11 to three) despite an increase in void community tenancies. By three months, 17 of 22 referrals for needs assessment were still incomplete, and at one year only three patients had had their needs assessed and appropriately met. Recommendations arising from these findings are discussed.
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Harrison, Arthur W., Graeme J. Kernutt, and Michael V. Piperoglou. "A Survey of Patients in a Regional Geriatric Psychiatry Inpatient Unit." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 22, no. 4 (December 1988): 412–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/00048678809161350.
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The functioning is described of a regional geriatric psychiatry unit with inpatient beds supplemented by an active community team. Data were collected on 100 consecutive patients admitted between November 1985 and July 1986. Eighty-seven per cent of patients were discharged during the course of the study, the majority (66%) to their own homes or to special accommodation houses, 9% to nursing homes, 7% to general hospitals for treatment and 5% to other psychiatric hospitals for social reasons. The patients were characterized by multiple psychiatric and physical disorders, 26% receiving multiple major psychiatric diagnoses. Fifty-two per cent suffered from significant previously recognized physical disorders and 47% had significant physical illnesses diagnosed for the first time during their admission. At the conclusion of the study 7% remained in long-term wards.
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Majumder, Chiranjib. "Non-strabismic binocular vision anomalies among students of a Malaysian private university uses visual display unit." International Eye Research 2, no. 2 (June 28, 2021): 101–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.18240/ier.2021.02.08.
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AIM: To determine the status of non-strabismic binocular vision anomalies (NSBVA) among students of a Malaysian private university uses visual display units (VDU). METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted among university students who use VDU 3h or more from January 2019 to May 2019. A convenient sampling method was utilized. All subjects had gone through primary eye-examinations to satisfy the inclusion criteria. Those who satisfy the inclusion criteria, further gone through the NSBVA assessment. The descriptive analysis was done to rule out the percentage of NSBVA and Chi-square test of independence was carried out to observe the association of NSBVA with age, gender and hours of VDU usage. RESULTS: A total of 140 students including 88 females (62.9%) and 52 males (37.1%) participated in this study. The mean age of the participants was 22.54±1.48 years and the mean VDU usage hours were 5.76±2.49h. The percentage of NSBVA is 40% among the students those who use VDU. The occurrence of accommodative and vergence anomalies among the VDU users is 17.86% and 22.14% respectively. There was a moderate association between gender and NSBVA (P=0.010). However, there was no significant association observed for age (P=0.334) and hours of VDU usage (P=0.835) with NSBVA. CONCLUSION: NSBVA is 40% among the students of a Malaysian private university uses VDU. Accommodation insufficiency (15%) and convergence insufficiency (10%) is more common among all NSBVA for VDU users.
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Powers, Randall K., and C. J. Heckman. "Contribution of intrinsic motoneuron properties to discharge hysteresis and its estimation based on paired motor unit recordings: a simulation study." Journal of Neurophysiology 114, no. 1 (July 2015): 184–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.00019.2015.
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Motoneuron activity is strongly influenced by the activation of persistent inward currents (PICs) mediated by voltage-gated sodium and calcium channels. However, the amount of PIC contribution to the activation of human motoneurons can only be estimated indirectly. Simultaneous recordings of pairs of motor units have been used to provide an estimate of the PIC contribution by using the firing rate of the lower threshold unit to provide an estimate of the common synaptic drive to both units, and the difference in firing rate (ΔF) of this lower threshold unit at recruitment and de-recruitment of the higher threshold unit to estimate the PIC contribution to activation of the higher threshold unit. It has recently been suggested that a number of factors other than PIC can contribute to ΔF values, including mechanisms underlying spike frequency adaptation and spike threshold accommodation. In the present study, we used a set of compartmental models representing a sample of 20 motoneurons with a range of thresholds to investigate how several different intrinsic motoneuron properties can potentially contribute to variations in ΔF values. We drove the models with linearly increasing and decreasing noisy conductance commands of different rate of rise and duration and determined the influence of different intrinsic mechanisms on discharge hysteresis (the difference in excitatory drive at recruitment and de-recruitment) and ΔF. Our results indicate that, although other factors can contribute, variations in discharge hysteresis and ΔF values primarily reflect the contribution of dendritic PICs to motoneuron activation.
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Abas, Melanie, Jane Vanderpyl, Trix Le Prou, Rob Kydd, Brian Emery, and Siale Alo Foliaki. "Psychiatric Hospitalization: Reasons for Admission and Alternatives to Admission in South Auckland, New Zealand." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 37, no. 5 (October 2003): 620–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1440-1614.2003.01229.x.
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Objective: To describe reasons for admission and alternatives to admission in a government funded acute inpatient unit. Method: Reasons for admission and alternatives to admission were rated for a consecutive sample of 255 admissions to an acute psychiatric unit in Auckland, using interviews with staff and case note review. Result: Most patients had a functional psychosis and were admitted involuntarily. Forty percent came from areas of marked social deprivation. The major reasons for admission were for reinstatement of medication (mainly linked to non-concordance with prescribed medication), intensive observation, risk to self and risk to others. Only 12% of admissions could have been diverted, of whom most would have required daily home treatment. For those still admitted at 5 weeks, 26% could have been discharged, mainly to 24 h nurse-staffed accommodation. If the alternatives had all been available, simulated bed-day savings were 11 bed years per year. Simulated bed day savings were greater through implementing early discharge than by diverting new admissions. Conclusion: Greater availability of assertive community treatment and of interventions to improve medication concordance may have prevented a small number of admissions. For patients admitted longer than 5 weeks, it appeared that greater availability of 24 h nursestaffed accommodation would have allowed considerable bed-day savings.
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Mohan, R., J. Zhang, and F. W. Brust. "Effect of Elastic Accommodation on Diffusion-Controlled Cavity Growth in Metals." Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology 122, no. 3 (March 14, 2000): 294–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.482800.
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The effect of elastic accommodation on the grain boundary diffusion-controlled void growth was analyzed using an axisymmetric unit cell model. An incremental form of the virtual work principle was used to formulate the boundary value problem involving grain boundary diffusion. The model accounts for material elasticity and void interaction effects. Analyses are performed for initially spherical voids spaced periodically along the grain boundary. The results of the analyses on void growth rates agree well with the Hull-Rimmer model after the initial transient time. During the elastic transient, void growth rates can be several orders of magnitude higher than the steady state growth rate. Though the elastic transient time may occupy a small portion of the total rupture time, in metallic components experiencing cyclic loading conditions with short hold times, elasticity effects may be important. [S0094-4289(00)00903-8]
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Jones, Abigail C., Rachel Hilton, Blair Ely, Lovemore Gororo, Valerie Danesh, Carla M. Sevin, James C. Jackson, and Leanne M. Boehm. "Facilitating Posttraumatic Growth After Critical Illness." American Journal of Critical Care 29, no. 6 (November 1, 2020): e108-e115. http://dx.doi.org/10.4037/ajcc2020149.
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The theory of posttraumatic growth arose from accounts of various trauma survivors experiencing not only distress but also growth and change. An intensive care unit admission is an unplanned, sudden, and traumatic experience, and many survivors have posttraumatic stress that can lead to posttraumatic stress disorder. Survivors leave the intensive care unit with new functional impairments that drive depression, and they frequently experience anxiety. Amidst the stress of understanding the trauma of an intensive care unit admission, survivors can grow in their world views, relationships, and sense of self. Understanding posttraumatic growth in intensive care unit survivors will inform health care providers on how to help survivors understand their new difficulties after an intensive care unit stay and facilitate growth. This article is a conceptual review of posttraumatic growth, identifiers of posttraumatic growth, and how the tenets of the posttraumatic growth theory apply to intensive care unit survivors. Health care professionals, specifically nurses, can incorporate practices into their care during and after the intensive care unit stay that encourage understanding and positive accommodation of new difficulties brought on by the intensive care unit hospitalization to support survivor growth. Opportunities for research include incorporating posttraumatic growth assessments into post–intensive care unit clinics, self-help materials, and various programs or therapies. Outcomes associated with posttraumatic growth are listed to suggest directions for research questions concerning posttraumatic growth in intensive care unit survivors.