665 research outputs found
VIBRATION OF FGSW BEAMS UNDER NONUNIFORM MOTION OF MOVING LOAD USING AN EFFICIENT THIRD-ORDER SHEAR DEFORMATION FINITE ELEMENT FORMULATION
Vibration of functionally graded sandwich (FGSW) beams under nonuniform motion of a moving load is studied using a third-order shear deformation finite element formulation. The beams consists three layers, a homogeneous ceramic core and two functionally graded faces. Instead of the rotation, the finite element formulation is derived by using the transverse shear rotation as a unknown. Newmark method is used to compute the dynamic response of the beams. Numerical result reveals that the derived formulation is efficient, and it is capable to give accurate vibration characteristics by a small number of the elements. A parametric study is carried out to illustrate the effects of the material distribution, layer thickness ratio and moving load speed on the dynamic behavior of the beams. The influence of acceleration and deceleration of the moving load on the vibration of the beams is also examined and discussed
A Review of Salary Policies for Vietnamese Civil Servants from 2010 to 2019
The public- sector salary policy is an important part of the socio-economic policy system, directly related to the balances of the economy, state budget and the life of the salary earners. This paper rests on secondary data that are legal documents on salary policy, related data and literature officially published to describe and analyse the salary system for Vietnamese civil servants in governmental agencies from 2010 to 2019. Some issues are outlined for consideration. First, how civil servants are ranked and salary policies for them from 2010 to 2019 are. The salary policy includes salary formula, base pay, minimum wage, allowances, components of the pay scale, pay rise rules. Second, their four characteristics are drawn out consisting of the stable and unified legal system; career-based grade pay system; many allowances; the salary system tends to pay for performance, be market-oriented but not really achieved. Third, some comments, pros and cons of the salary system in this period are explored. Finally, it is summarized that some suggestions, recommendations to improve Vietnamese civil service salary system through minimizing its disadvantages and promoting inherent advantages. Keywords: Vietnam, salary policy, salary system, public sector, civil servants, career-based system DOI: 10.7176/PPAR/9-11-03 Publication date: November 30th 201
Molecular Diagnosis of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis; A Literature Review
Drug-resistant tuberculosis is a global health problem that hinders the progress of tuberculosis eradication programs. Accurate and early detection of drug-resistant tuberculosis is essential for effective patient care, for preventing tuberculosis spread, and for limiting the development of drug-resistant strains. Culture-based drug susceptibility tests are the gold standard method for the detection of drug-resistant tuberculosis, but they are time-consuming and technically challenging, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Nowadays, different nucleic acid-based assays that detect gene mutations associated with resistance to drugs used to treat tuberculosis are available. These tests vary in type and number of targets and in sensitivity and specificity. In this review, we will describe the available molecular tests for drug-resistant tuberculosis detection and discuss their advantages and limitations
DART: Distribution Aware Retinal Transform for Event-based Cameras
We introduce a generic visual descriptor, termed as distribution aware
retinal transform (DART), that encodes the structural context using log-polar
grids for event cameras. The DART descriptor is applied to four different
problems, namely object classification, tracking, detection and feature
matching: (1) The DART features are directly employed as local descriptors in a
bag-of-features classification framework and testing is carried out on four
standard event-based object datasets (N-MNIST, MNIST-DVS, CIFAR10-DVS,
NCaltech-101). (2) Extending the classification system, tracking is
demonstrated using two key novelties: (i) For overcoming the low-sample problem
for the one-shot learning of a binary classifier, statistical bootstrapping is
leveraged with online learning; (ii) To achieve tracker robustness, the scale
and rotation equivariance property of the DART descriptors is exploited for the
one-shot learning. (3) To solve the long-term object tracking problem, an
object detector is designed using the principle of cluster majority voting. The
detection scheme is then combined with the tracker to result in a high
intersection-over-union score with augmented ground truth annotations on the
publicly available event camera dataset. (4) Finally, the event context encoded
by DART greatly simplifies the feature correspondence problem, especially for
spatio-temporal slices far apart in time, which has not been explicitly tackled
in the event-based vision domain.Comment: 12 pages, revision submitted to TPAMI in Nov 201
A Review of Occupational Stress among Certain Jobs in Vietnam
Background: Stress in the modern workplace is globally considered a risk factor for workers’ health and safety. However, a review of the prevalence and associated factors of occupational stress in developing countries like Vietnam was largely lacking. This review aimed to describe the situation of occupational stress among certain jobs from studies carried out in Vietnam. Methods: The review was implemented by using key words to search on online and offline, international and national database. After going through 2 stages of selections, total 25 eligible articles were chosen and used for this review. Results: The results showed the prevalence of occupational stress was varied and ranged from 6.4% to 90.4%. The study population focused on health workers, factory workers, students, academic staff and officers. The prevalence of each occupation ranged from 6.4% to 90.4% in health workers; 20.7% to 89.6% in factory workers; and 22.8% to 68.3% in students. Conclusions: In conclusion, the prevalence of occupational stress was very varied between and within each occupation. Therefore, a new way to develop in enhancing the occupational stress data, particularly in developing countries, is urgently needed
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