Yongshun Zhang, Xin Jia, Canbin Yin, Hongfeng Pang,
... common interference pattern in direct-sequence spread-spectrum (DSSS) communications. NBI mitigation is a very important issue to ensure the effectiveness of DSSS communications. However, the existing NBI-mitigation algorithms for DSSS communications are confined to a high sampling rate. ... sensing (CS) is applied to NBI mitigation in DSSS communications, the impact of NBI on the reconstruction of the DSSS signal after compressed sampling is analyzed, and a ... learning (BSBL), is utilized to estimate NBI in DSSS communications. An NBI-mitigation method in DSSS communications ...
Tópico(s): Distributed Sensor Networks and Detection Algorithms
2019 - Elsevier BV | Signal Processing
Ya-Hsin Chou, Chin‐Pang Lee, Chia-Yih Liu, Ching‐I Hung,
... studies of the Depression and Somatic Symptoms Scale (DSSS), a free scale, have been based on the ... and the construct validity and dimensionality of the DSSS are as yet uncertain. The aim of this ... analysis (MSA) to assess the dimensionality of the DSSS.Methods: A sample of 214 psychiatric outpatients with ... 63.1% female) and asked to complete the DSSS. MSA was used to assess the dimensionality of the DSSS.Results: All 22 items of the DSSS formed a moderate unidimensional scale (Hs=0.403), supporting its construct validity. The DSSS was divided into 4 subscales (Hs ranged from ...
Tópico(s): Healthcare and Venom Research
2017 - Dove Medical Press | Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment
Fabio Pastorella, JG Borges, I. De Meo,
... decades, the focus of forestry Decision Support Systems (DSSs) has expanded to consider the social dimension of ... and many researches have been developed to evaluate DSSs using Usefulness as parameter. The assessment of Usefulness ... view on the Usefulness and Perceived Usefulness of DSSs in participatory forest planning. The research investigates how ... context influence their views on the potentialities of DSSs to enhance both the various phases of the ... questionnaires e-mailed to a sample of 150 DSSs end users. The questionnaires focused on Usefulness and ...
Tópico(s): Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
2016 - | iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry
CHING‐I HUNG, Li‐Jen Weng, Yi‐Jen Su, CHIA‐YIH LIU,
... 22 items for Depression and Somatic Symptoms Scale (DSSS), including depression subscale (DS) and somatic subscale (SS). ... was to test reliability and validity of the DSSS. The study enrolled 135 consecutive outpatients (34 male ... Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Axis I Disorders. The DSSS and Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAMD) were given ... for the HAMD and the IP for the DSSS was calculated for the treatment group. Factor analysis ... promax rotation. Cronbach’s alpha values of the DSSS and its subscales ranged from 0.73 to ...
Tópico(s): Treatment of Major Depression
2006 - Wiley | Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
R.B. Thompson, D. Morse, K. A. Kelling, L. E. Lanyon,
Decision support systems (DSSs) operated on personal computers are a convenient means to calculate application rates of livestock manures that meet crop nutrient requirements and avoid excessive nutrient applications. Twelve DSSs that can be used to calculate application rates ... calculating crop nutrient requirements and manure nutrient availability. DSSs have considerable promise in assisting with the many ... technical decisionmaking are known as Decision Support Systems (DSSs). This study examined DSSs that can assist in ...
Tópico(s): Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
1997 - Wiley | jpa
M. Gallardo, A. Elia, R.B. Thompson,
... characteristics need to be considered. Decision Support Systems (DSSs) and simulation models are tools that process large ... are specific to individual crops and sites. Commonly, DSSs incorporate simulation models, which enables site and crop ... is an on-going trend for web-based DSSs that can access on-line data bases such ... reviews several general aspects regarding the use of DSSs/models in commercial vegetable production, such as how to enhance their user-friendliness. Subsequently, it describes DSSs/models that have been developed or are being ...
Tópico(s): Climate change impacts on agriculture
2020 - Elsevier BV | Agricultural Water Management
Ching‐I Hung, Shuu‐Jiun Wang, Chia-Yih Liu,
Background: The Depression and Somatic Symptoms Scale (DSSS) is a self-administered scale developed for monitoring both depression and somatic symptoms. The aims of this study were to establish the criterion-related validity of the DSSS by testing the correlation between the DSSS and the Short Form 36 (SF-36) scale and to compare the ability of the DSSS and two other scales in predicting the outcome ... month. Four scales were administered and evaluated: the DSSS, the SF-36, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression ...
Tópico(s): Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
2009 - Wiley | Depression and Anxiety
Patrick W. Corrigan, Katherine Nieweglowski,
... stigma. We developed the Differentness Self-Stigma Scale (DSSS) to assess four regressive stages of self-stigma - ... application, and harm - and aimed to see whether DSSS scores predict self-stigma more effectively than the ... experience (N = 291) completed a survey including the DSSS, SSMIS and outcomes assessing depression, self-esteem, recovery and the "why try" effect.DSSS scores differed significantly from the SSMIS in the ... self-stigma. Higher self-stigma scores on the DSSS harm subscale predicted lower self-esteem and higher ...
Tópico(s): Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
2019 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Mental Health
Amir Karami, Mehdi Ghasemi, Souvik Sen, Marcos F. Moraes, Vishal Shah,
... using text mining.We extracted diseases and syndromes (DsSs) from more than 65,000 neurology case reports ... mining was applied to reports on the detected DsSs to investigate high-frequency DsSs, categorize them, and explore the linear trends over ... The text mining methods explored high-frequency neurologic DsSs and the relationships between them from 1955 to 2017. We detected more than 18,000 unique DsSs and found 10 categories of neurologic DsSs. While the trend analysis showed the increasing trends ...
Tópico(s): Genomics and Rare Diseases
2019 - Elsevier BV | Computers in Biology and Medicine
W. K. Chen, Ziliang Wei, Yueming Gao, Željka Lučev Vasić, Mario Cifrek, Mang I Vai, Min Du, Sio Hang Pun,
... methods. This paper adopts direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) communication and phase modulation to realize DSSS-differential phase shift keying (DPSK) and DPSK modulation ... experiments were conducted to compare the performance of DSSS-DPSK and DPSK galvanic coupling IBC transceivers. Notably, ... DPSK scheme is 40 times larger than the DSSS-DPSK scheme in a 30 cm channel length ... excellent (1.51×10 -6 ), the SNR of DSSS-DPSK scheme only needs to be improved by ... DPSK scheme is 7 times larger than the DSSS-DPSK scheme. Also, DSSS-DPSK scheme is more ...
Tópico(s): Bluetooth and Wireless Communication Technologies
2020 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | IEEE Access
Panagiotis Kanatas, Ilias Travlos, Ioannis Gazoulis, Alexandros Tataridas, Αναστασία Τσεκούρα, Nikolaos Antonopoulos,
... to make the right decisions in weed management. DSSs can select the appropriate herbicides for a given ... optimum weed control. Given that the adoption of DSSs may lead to decreased herbicide inputs in crop ... it is difficult to stimulate farmers to use DSSs as it has been noticed that farmers have ... farming styles and usual practices. The function of DSSs requires accurate assessments of weeds within a field ... data can be problematic. The development of future DSSs should target to enhance weed management tactics which ...
Tópico(s): Nematode management and characterization studies
2020 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Agronomy
Ashish Prajapati, Jordi Llobet, Mariana Dias Antunes, Sofia Martins, Hélder Fonseca, Carlos Calaza, J. Gaspar, Gil Shalev,
... light trapping driven by deep sidewall subwavelength structures (DSSS) in silicon nanopillar (NP) arrays (DSSS arrays). Particularly, the focus is on DSSS geometries that are an inherent outcome of the ... method. ~10% enhancement in the broadband absorption of DSSS arrays compared with NP arrays is demonstrated numerically, ... of near-IR absorptivity peaks of ~25% for DSSS arrays. Importantly, it is shown that the introduction of DSSS systematically blue-shifts the absorptivity peaks of the ... direct reflectivity and ~7% in diffused reflectivity in DSSS arrays realized on silicon wafers is demonstrated experimentally.
Tópico(s): Silicon Nanostructures and Photoluminescence
2020 - Elsevier BV | Nano Energy
Eva‐Maria Nordström, Maarten Nieuwenhuis, Emin Zeki Başkent, Peter Biber, Kevin Black, José G. Borges, Miguel N. Bugalho, Giulia Corradini, Edwin Corrigan, Ljusk Ola Eriksson, Adam Felton, Nicklas Forsell, Geerten Hengeveld, Marjanke Hoogstra-Klein, Anu Korosuo, Matts Lindbladh, Isak Lodin, Anders Lundholm, Marco Marto, Mauro Masiero, Gintautas Mozgeris, Davide Pettenella, Werner Poschenrieder, Róbert Sedmák, Ján Tuček, Davide Zoccatelli,
... driving the development of forest decision support systems (DSSs) to include models and methods concerned with climate ... how nine European state-of-the-art forest DSSs cope with these issues. The assessment focuses on the ability of these DSSs to generate landscape-level scenarios to explore the ... increased risks and uncertainty. Results show that all DSSs assessed in this study can be used to ... range of ESs over a typical planning horizon. DSSs can be used to assess how timber price ... to be also in the reach of all DSSs. Nevertheless, some DSSs need more data and development ...
Tópico(s): Forest ecology and management
2019 - Springer Science+Business Media | European Journal of Forest Research
Ellen G. Engelhardt, Dóra Révész, Hans J. Tamminga, Cornelis J.A. Punt, M. Koopman, Bregje D. Onwuteaka‐Philipsen, Ewout W. Steyerberg, Elise P. Jansma, Henrica C. W. de Vet, Veerle M.H. Coupé,
... between treatment benefits and harm. Decision support systems (DSSs) for clinicians (eg, nomograms) can assist in this ... to provide a comprehensive overview of the available DSSs for incurable mCRC and to assess their clinical ... user-friendliness.ResultsFrom 5205 studies, we identified 14 DSSs for decisions regarding palliative resection of the primary ... n = 2). The predictors varied greatly among the DSSs, and only 1 DSS incorporated a genetic marker (ie, UGT1A1). None of the DSSs included > 1 treatment option, nor did any DSS ...
Tópico(s): Colorectal Cancer Treatments and Studies
2017 - Elsevier BV | Clinical Colorectal Cancer
B.C. Bolman, R.G. Jak, Luc van Hoof,
... past decade the development of Decision Support Systems (DSSs) for the management of seas and oceans has increased rapidly. These DSSs take many shapes and forms and their application ... widely. In order to appreciate the multitude of DSSs a theoretical framework was developed to evaluate the ... the aim to guide developers in building better DSSs. This framework was applied to a number of DSSs recently developed for marine management. Many tools, promoted to be DSSs, are in fact science driven models that do ...
Tópico(s): Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
2017 - Elsevier BV | Marine Policy
Xianman Zhang, Xiaomei Li, Weiping Chen,
... formed on the surface of duplex stainless steels (DSSs) immersed in molten aluminum at 750 °C for ... probe micro-analyzer. Compared with H13 steel, the DSSs exhibited a better corrosion resistance. The weight loss ... square centimeter of the specimen per minute, of DSSs are smaller than that of H13. The thickness of the intermetallic layers of DSSs is comparatively thinner. And the interface between the intermetallic layers and DSSs substrate is much flatter. The intermetallic layers of ... observations suggest that the retarded interfacial reaction between DSSs and molten aluminum is associated with a continuous ...
Tópico(s): Corrosion Behavior and Inhibition
2015 - Wiley | Surface and Interface Analysis
Kejiang Zhang, Amin Zargar, Gopal Achari, M. Shafiqul Islam, Rehan Sadiq,
... paper presents an overview of decision support systems (DSSs) as applied to water management. This includes the definition of DSSs as pertinent to water management, its basic components, various techniques employed in development of DSSs, and technological and conceptual trends in DSSs. The application of DSSs in various areas of water management such as ... asset management is discussed. Calibration and validation of DSSs and future research in the development of new generations of DSSs is presented.
Tópico(s): Water resources management and optimization
2013 - Canadian Science Publishing | Environmental Reviews
Nawi Ng, Hoàng Văn Minh, Fikru Tesfaye, Ruth Bonita, Peter Byass, Hans Stenlund, Lars Weinehall, Stig Wall,
Demographic surveillance systems (DSSs) create platforms to monitor population dynamics. This paper discusses the potential of combining the WHO STEPwise approach to Surveillance (STEPS) within ongoing DSSs, to assess changes in non-communicable disease (NCD) risk factors.Three DSSs in Ethiopia, Vietnam, and Indonesia have collected NCD ... of blood pressure and anthropometric parameters (Step 2).DSSs provide sampling frames for NCD risk factor surveillance, ... in DSS settings. Available mortality data in the DSSs enable mortality assessment by cause of death using ...
Tópico(s): Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
2006 - SAGE Publishing | Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
Dena M Bravata, Kathryn M McDonald, Herbert Szeto, Wendy Smith, Chara E. Rydzak, Douglas K Owens,
... existing information technologies and decision support systems (IT/DSSs) would assist the key decisions faced by clinicians ... identify the subtasks and data requirements of IT/DSSs designed to facilitate a bioterrorism response. They used ... task decomposition to develop evaluation criteria for IT/DSSs for bioterrorism preparedness. They then applied these evaluation criteria to 341 reports of 217 existing IT/DSSs that could be used to support a bioterrorism ... evaluation criterion applied to reports of diagnostic IT/DSSs for bioterrorism asked whether the reports described the ...
Tópico(s): Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
2004 - SAGE Publishing | Medical Decision Making
Sooyeob Jung, Gyeongrae Im, Dong‐Hyun Jung, Pansoo Kim, Joon Gyu Ryu, Joonhyuk Kang,
... CSS)-based LoRa and direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS)-based Ingenu. The performance of both waveforms was ... among multiple terminals. Simulation results indicate that the DSSS scheme is more suitable than the CSS scheme ... the CSS scheme is more suitable than the DSSS scheme for high-mobility IoT services because of ... packet collision, to enhance the performance of the DSSS and CSS schemes. The simulation results of the proposed solution show that the enhanced DSSS scheme can be a proper waveform in IoT ...
Tópico(s): Wireless Communication Networks Research
2022 - Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute | ETRI Journal
А. S. Fedorov, Andrey Zhitenev, V. S. Karasev, А. А. Альхименко, Pavel Kovalev,
... to control the quality of duplex stainless steels (DSSs) can greatly help with the development of new compositions or choosing existing DSSs. In this case, it is necessary to consider ... secondary phases. In this research, specimens of cast DSSs of different grades, produced at laboratory and industrial ... studied. A technique for quantifying the microstructure of DSSs was developed. A thermodynamic database was chosen that adequately describes the processes of phase formation in DSSs. The effects of heat treatment on the microstructure ...
Tópico(s): Corrosion Behavior and Inhibition
2022 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Materials
Ashish Prajapati, Jordi Llobet, Mariana Dias Antunes, Sofia Martins, Hélder Fonseca, Carlos Calaza, J. Gaspar, Gil Shalev,
... oblique illumination driven by deep sidewall subwavelength structures (DSSS) in silicon nanopillar arrays (DSSS arrays). Specifically, we target DSSS geometries that are a built-in side effect ... silicon nanopillar (NP) arrays. We numerically compare the DSSS array with an optically-optimized straight-sidewall nanopillar ... oblique illumination. We show how the presence of DSSS generates a higher absorptivity particularly for the spectral ... specular reflectivity and the total reflectivity of silicon DSSS arrays that were fabricated using a top-down ...
Tópico(s): Photonic and Optical Devices
2020 - Elsevier BV | Nano Energy
Zhaoyang Qiu, Hua Peng, Tianyun Li,
Direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) signals are widely used in various military and civilian communication systems. It adopts the pseudorandom (PN) sequence to modulate baseband ... fading. In past few years, blind despreading for DSSS signals has been a hot topic in cognitive ... field. Previous works are mostly concentrated on BPSK-DSSS signals, and have developed theories and methods to ... most of them are powerless to process QPSK-DSSS signals. This work proposes a method based on ... the PN sequences and transmitted symbols for QPSK-DSSS signals with unknown carrier offset under non-cooperative ...
Tópico(s): Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques
2019 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | IEEE Access
Yangjie Wei, Shiliang Fang, Xiaoyan Wang, Shuxia Huang,
Direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) signals are now widely used in air and underwater acoustic communications. A receiver which does not know the pseudo-random (PN) sequence cannot demodulate the DSSS signal. In this paper, firstly, the principle of ... analysis (PCA) for PN sequence estimation of the DSSS signal is analyzed, then a modified online unsupervised ... the eigenvectors of the autocorrelation matrix of the DSSS signal to estimate the PN sequence. Due to ... PN sequence rapidly and robustly, even when the DSSS signal is far below the noise level.
Tópico(s): Advanced Adaptive Filtering Techniques
2019 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Sensors
Ahmed Masmoudi, Faouzi Bellili, Sofiène Affes, Ali Ghrayeb,
... or multi-carrier (MC) direct-sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) multipath transmissions in the presence of multiple transmit ... two maximum likelihood (ML) multipath TDEs for SC DSSS single-input multiple-output (SIMO) in the non- ... any initialization. We also extend both the SC DSSS SIMO CRLB and the two new SC DSSS SIMO ML NDA TDEs to MC DSSS RITs and to multiple-input multiple-output structures ...
Tópico(s): Wireless Communication Networks Research
2017 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Huaqing Zhang, Yong Xiao, Shengrong Bu, Dusit Niyato, F. Richard Yu, Zhu Han,
... service to a set of data service subscribers (DSSs). How to allocate the limited computing resources of FNs to all the DSSs to achieve an optimal and stable performance is ... joint optimization framework for all FNs, DSOs, and DSSs to achieve the optimal resource allocation schemes in ... well as the resource allocation problem for the DSSs. Under the scenarios that the DSOs can know the expected amount of resource purchased by the DSSs, a many-to-many matching game is applied ... between each of the paired FNs and serving DSSs to solve the FN-DSS pairing problem. Simulation ...
Tópico(s): Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks
2017 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | IEEE Internet of Things Journal
Decision-support systems (DSSs) are interactive computer-based systems that help decision makers solve unstructured problems under complex, uncertain conditions. Experimental use of DSSs has resulted in improved disease suppression and lowered ... as compared with standard spraying practices. Hundreds of DSSs have been developed over the years and are ... this paper, together with numerous colleagues, has developed DSSs and decision rules for the management of diseases ... to draw general conclusions regarding the use of DSSs and decision rules. Possible explanations for the widely ...
Tópico(s): Entomopathogenic Microorganisms in Pest Control
2013 - Annual Reviews | Annual Review of Phytopathology
Tae-Ho Kang, Xiang Li, Chansu Yu, Jong Kim,
... spectrum technologies, such as direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS), have been developed as effective countermeasures against, for ... This paper surveys previous research on securing a DSSS channel even further, using physical layer attributes-keyless DSSS mechanisms, and watermarked DSSS (WDSSS) schemes. The former has been motivated by ... latter is to exploit the redundancy inherent in DSSS's spreading process to embed watermark information. It ... This paper also presents and evaluates an adaptive DSSS scheme that takes both jam resistance and communication ...
Tópico(s): Chaos-based Image/Signal Encryption
2013 - | Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
Ana Vivancos, Marc Güell, Juliane C. Dohm, Luis Serrano, Heinz Himmelbauer,
... the Illumina next-generation sequencing platform, we developed DSSS ( d irect s trand s pecific s equencing), ... strand-specific protocol for transcriptome sequencing. We tested DSSS with RNA from two samples, prokaryotic ( Mycoplasma pneumoniae ) ... and by quantitative PCR (qPCR). The results of DSSS were very well supported by the results from tiling arrays and qPCR. Moreover, DSSS provided higher dynamic range and single-base resolution, ... mapping of transcription start sites and untranslated regions. DSSS data for mouse confirmed strand specificity of the ...
Tópico(s): RNA Research and Splicing
2010 - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press | Genome Research
Ganesh D. Bhatt, Jigish Zaveri,
... which organizations perform these functions. Decision support systems (DSSs) are a major category of tools that an ... encompass such paradigms as expert systems (ESs), intelligent DSSs, active DSSs, and adaptive DSSs. Artificial intelligence (AI)-based techniques are being embedded ... learning contexts. However, the degree to which current DSSs can support organizational learning has yet to be ... examines the learning strategies employed by organizations and DSSs and provides a framework to demonstrate how a ...
Tópico(s): Cognitive Science and Mapping
2002 - Elsevier BV | Decision Support Systems