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In parcel delivery, the “last mile” from the parcel hub to the customer is costly, especially for time-sensitive delivery tasks that have to be completed within hours after arrival. Recently, crowdshipping has attracted increased attention as a new alternative to traditional delivery modes. In crowdshipping, private citizens (“the crowd”) perform short detours in their daily lives to contribute to parcel delivery in exchange for small incentives. However, achieving desirable crowd behavior is challenging as the crowd is highly dynamic and consists of autonomous, self-interested individuals. Leveraging crowdshipping for time-sensitive deliveries remains an open challenge. In this paper, we present an agent-based approach to on-time parcel delivery with crowds. Our system performs data stream processing on the couriers’ smartphone sensor data to predict delivery delays. Whenever a delay is predicted, the system attempts to forge an agreement for transferring the parcel from the current deliverer to a more promising courier nearby. Our experiments show that through accurate delay predictions and purposeful task transfers many delays can be prevented that would occur without our approach.
Objectives: Injury to major white matter pathways during language-area associated glioma surgery often leads to permanent loss of neurological function. The aim was to establish standardized tractography of language pathways as a predictor of language outcome in clinical neurosurgery.
Methods: We prospectively analyzed 50 surgical cases of patients with left perisylvian, diffuse gliomas. Standardized preoperative Diffusion-Tensor-Imaging (DTI)-based tractography of the 5 main language tracts (Arcuate Fasciculus [AF], Frontal Aslant Tract [FAT], Inferior Fronto-Occipital Fasciculus [IFOF], Inferior Longitudinal Fasciculus [ILF], Uncinate Fasciculus [UF]) and spatial analysis of tumor and tracts was performed. Postoperative imaging and the resulting resection map were analyzed for potential surgical injury of tracts. The language status was assessed preoperatively, postoperatively and after 3 months using the Aachen Aphasia Test and Berlin Aphasia Score. Correlation analyses, two-step cluster analysis and binary logistic regression were used to analyze associations of tractography results with language outcome after surgery.
Results: In 14 out of 50 patients (28%), new aphasic symptoms were detected 3 months after surgery. The preoperative infiltration of the AF was associated with functional worsening (cc = 0.314; p = 0.019). Cluster analysis of tract injury profiles revealed two areas particularly related to aphasia: the temporo-parieto-occipital junction (TPO; temporo-parietal AF, middle IFOF, middle ILF) and the temporal stem/peri-insular white matter (middle IFOF, anterior ILF, temporal UF, temporal AF). Injury to these areas (TPO: OR: 23.04; CI: 4.11 – 129.06; temporal stem: OR: 21.96; CI: 2.93 – 164.41) was associated with a higher-risk of persisting aphasia.
Conclusions: Tractography of language pathways can help to determine the individual aphasia risk profile presurgically. The TPO and temporal stem/peri-insular white matter were confirmed as functional nodes particularly sensitive to surgical injuries.
Introduction:
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection remains prevalent co-morbidity, and among fracture patients. Few studies have investigated the role of exercise interventions in preventing bone demineralization in people who have fractures and HIV. If exercise exposed, HIV-infected individuals may experience improved bone health outcomes (BMD), function, quality of life (QoL). The study will aim to assess the impact of home based exercises on bone mineral density, functional capacity, QoL, and some serological markers of health in HIV infection among Nigerians and South Africans.
Methods and design:
The study is an assessor-blinded randomized controlled trial. Patients managed with internal and external fixation for femoral shaft fracture at the study sites will be recruited to participate in the study. The participants will be recruited 2 weeks post-discharge at the follow-up clinic with the orthopaedic surgeon. The study population will consist of all persons with femoral fracture and HIV-positive and negative (HIV-positive medically confirmed) aged 18 to 60 years attending the above-named health facilities. For the HIV-positive participants, a documented positive HIV result, as well as a history of being followed-up at the HIV treatment and care center. A developed home based exercise programme will be implemented in the experimental group while the control group continues with the usual rehabilitation programme. The primary outcome measures will be function, gait, bone mineral density, physical activity, and QoL.
Discussion:
The proposed trial will compare the effect of a home-based physical exercise-training programme in the management of femoral fracture to the usual physiotherapy management programmes with specific outcomes of bone mineral density, function, and inflammatory markers.
Die Mitgliederversammlung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Supervision und Coaching e. V. (DGSv) stand 2020 äußerlich im Zeichen von Covid-19 und damit Social Distancing, inhaltlich im Zeichen der konsequenten Fortführung begonnener Strategie- und Modernisierungsprozesse des Berufs- und Fachverbandes. Gleichzeitig aktualisierten diese Prozesse die Identitätsfrage des Verbandes.
Cora Baltussen in den USA : Lernerfahrungen für die Supervision in den Niederlanden und Deutschland
(2021)
Cora Baltussen unternahm - wie zahlreiche europäische Sozialarbeitende - Anfang der 1950er Jahre eine 18-monatige Studienreise in die USA, um Casework und Supervision zu erlernen. Dieser Beitrag wertet ihren Summerreport von 1953 aus, der als Archivalie erhalten ist. So können ihre Lernerfahrungen in der historisch-kritischen Rekonstruktion kontextualisiert und in den Diskurs eingeordnet werden. Dabei werden erste Differenzierungen der frühen Supervisionsgeschichte ebenso sichtbar wie prägende Begegnungen und entstehende Netzwerke, die die Supervisionsentwicklung in Deutschland maßgeblich beeinflussten.
Subject of this work is the investigation of universal scaling laws which are observed in coupled chaotic systems. Progress is made by replacing the chaotic fluctuations in the perturbation dynamics by stochastic processes.
First, a continuous-time stochastic model for weakly coupled chaotic systems is introduced to study the scaling of the Lyapunov exponents with the coupling strength (coupling sensitivity of chaos). By means of the the Fokker-Planck equation scaling relations are derived, which are confirmed by results of numerical simulations.
Next, the new effect of avoided crossing of Lyapunov exponents of weakly coupled disordered chaotic systems is described, which is qualitatively similar to the energy level repulsion in quantum systems. Using the scaling relations obtained for the coupling sensitivity of chaos, an asymptotic expression for the distribution function of small spacings between Lyapunov exponents is derived and compared with results of numerical simulations.
Finally, the synchronization transition in strongly coupled spatially extended chaotic systems is shown to resemble a continuous phase transition, with the coupling strength and the synchronization error as control and order parameter, respectively. Using results of numerical simulations and theoretical considerations in terms of a multiplicative noise partial differential equation, the universality classes of the observed two types of transition are determined (Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation with saturating term, directed percolation).
The network security framework VisITMeta allows the visual evaluation and management of security event detection policies. By means of a "what-if" simulation the sensitivity of policies to specific events can be tested and adjusted. This paper presents the results of a user study for testing the usability of the approach by measuring the correct completion of given tasks as well as the user satisfaction by means of the system usability scale.
Das Forschungscluster Smart Data Analytics stellt in dem vorliegenden Band seine Forschung aus den Jahren 2019 und 2020 vor. In der ersten Hälfte des Bandes geben 20 Kurzporträts von laufenden oder kürzlich abgeschlossenen Projekten einen Überblick über die Forschungsthemen im Cluster. Enthalten in den Kurzporträts ist eine vollständige, kommentierte Liste der wissenschaftlichen Veröffentlichungen aus den Jahren 2019 und 2020. In der zweiten Hälfte dieses Bandes geben vier längere Beiträge exemplarisch einen tieferen Einblick in die Forschung des Clusters und behandeln Themen wie Fehlererkennung in Datenbanken, Analyse und Visualisierung von Sicherheitsvorfällen in Netzwerken, Wissensmodellierung und Datenintegration in der Medizin, sowie die Frage ob ein Computerprogramm Urheber eines Kunstwerkes im Sinne des Urheberrechts sein kann.
Das Forschungscluster Industrie 4.0 stellt in acht Beiträgen aktuelle Ergebnisse aus seinen vielfältigen Forschungsprojekten vor. Es werden virtuelle Techniken in der Produktentwicklung, Lehrkonzepte für Industrie 4.0, Energy Harvesting bei Antennen, Energiemanagement in Produktionsanlagen, firmenübergreifende IT-Security Anforderungen, dezentral gesteuerte Produktionsprozesse und Spracherkennung mit Mikrocontrollern behandelt.
