How Do Personality Traits Affect Construction Dispute Negotiation? Study of Big Five Personality Model

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by the American Society of Civil Engineers in the Journal of Construction Engineering and Management. August 2010. This material may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the American Society of Civil Engineers. This material may be found at https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0000271Publishe

Trustworthiness Management in Sharing CDN Infrastructure

Sharing Content Delivery Network (CDN) technologies such as CDN interconnection and cloud-based CDN have facilitated access to the huge volume of content in a cost-effective way. However, content distribution through shared CDN nodes is vulnerable to a wide variety of uncertainties, including unexpected node failure, intentional node disruption for maintenance or potential discrimination of content based on ownership. Trustworthiness can be considered as a key property to overcome the perception of uncertainty before delivering content through sharing CDN infrastructure and provide reliable broadcasting and telecommunications services. Establishing trustworthiness in sharing CDN infrastructure is a challenging task in the absence of the referenced framework. Therefore, we propose a trustworthiness management framework for sharing CDN infrastructure

The Hong Kong Telephone Directory Enquiry System

Concerns the design and performance of the telephone directory enquiry system that has been newly adopted in Hong Kong. This system maintains three million telephone records and supports over 40,000 enquiries per hour at the peak. In Hong Kong society, the uses of English and Chinese (in particular, Cantonese) has been blending in a thrust of exciting language culture, giving rise to a variety of telephone enquires that traditional B-tree or hashing-based telephone directory enquiry systems fail to handle. The efficiency and flexibility achieved by the new system stem from hosting all indexing data structures in the main memory; these data structures occupy about half a giga-byte and would have been considered too expensive to be placed in main memory in the past.published_or_final_versio

A transverse flux permanent magnet linear generator for hybrid electric vehicles

Article: TD-007358This paper presents a transverse flux permanent magnet (TFPM) linear generator for the free-piston generation application, which not only possessing the merits of the existing TFPM machine, but also providing a simple structure which is essential for power generation with maintenance-free operation. Also, the machine configuration is optimized such that the induced voltage is maximized while the cogging force is minimized. Hence, a 2-phase linear TFPM is resulted, which is well supported by performance analysis.published_or_final_versio

Dosimetric evaluation of the interplay between LINAC movement and tumor motion in respiratory gated VMAT of lung cancer

This journal suppl. entitled: Proceedings of the American Society for Radiation Oncology 54th Annual MeetingConference Theme: Advancing Patient Care Through InnovationPURPOSE/OBJECTIVE(s): Respiratory gated radiation therapy of lung cancer helps to minimize the treated volume and hence treatment side effects. VMAT can reduce the treatment time while producing a highly conformed dose distribution. However, in gated VMAT delivery, the interplay effect between the LINAC movement (MLC and gantry) and tumor motion may result in undesirable hot and cold spots jeopardizing tumor coverage. In this study we investigated the possible dosimetric errors caused by the interplay between the tumor motion and the LINAC movement for gated VMAT lung cancer treatment. MATERIALS/METHODS: We studied 2 …published_or_final_versio

SDN-based Active Content Networking

This paper proposes a Software Defined Networking (SDN)-based active content networking architecture for future media environments. The proposed architecture aims to provide customized delivery of various types of media content in order to satisfy various demands of users and service requirements. To this end, we have developed an active content processing model which provides in-network content processing through service objects that are integral parts of active content. The main benefits provided by the proposed model are high flexibility and creativity to meet the evolving future media environments

Blockchain-based Perfect Sharing Project Platform based on the Proof of Atomicity Consensus Algorithm

The Korean government funded 12.8 billion USD to 652 research and development (R&D) projects supported by 20 ministries in 2019. Every year, various organizations are supported to conduct R&D projects focusing on selected core technologies by evaluating emerging technologies which industries are planning to develop. To manage the whole cycle of national R&D projects, information sharing on national R&D projects is very essential. The blockchain technology is considered as a core solution to share information reliably and prevent forgery in various fields. For efficient management of national R&D projects, we enhance and analyse the Perfect Sharing Project (PSP)-Platform based on a new blockchain-based platform for information sharing and forgery prevention. It is a shared platform for national ICT R&D projects management with excellent performance in preventing counterfeiting. As a consensus algorithm is very important to prevent forgery in blockchain, we survey not only architectural aspects and examples of the platform but also the consensus algorithms. Considering characteristics of the PSP-Platform, we adopt an atomic proof (POA) consensus algorithm as a new consensus algorithm in this paper. To prove the validity of the POA consensus algorithm, we have conducted experiments. The experiment results show the outstanding performance of the POA consensus algorithm used in the PSP-Platform in terms of block generation delay and block propagation time

Radiation recall after capecitabine in a patient with recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a case report

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Effects of fear-avoidance beliefs on Chinese patients with neck pain.

Key Messages 1. The Chinese version of the Fear-Avoidance Beliefs Questionnaire (FABQ) has good content validity, testretest reliability, internal consistency, construct validity, responsiveness, and factor structure. Thus, fear-avoidance beliefs can be used in Chinese patients with neck pain. 2. The validated FABQ facilitates future research on the effects of fear-avoidance behaviour on patients with neck pain and hence a better service for and evaluation of patients with neck pain can be provided. It may also facilitate cross-cultural studies on this common problem between western and Chinese populations. 3. The construct of fear-avoidance beliefs can be applied to patients with neck pain. 4. The fear-avoidance beliefs are an important psychosocial measure in predicting future disability level and return to complete work capacity (immediately and 3 months after physiotherapy).published_or_final_versio