IHDD-GRAND Algorithm for Decoding Symmetric Block-Wise Concatenated BCH Codes

Gabriel,Jeongseok Ha 한국통신학회 2024 韓國通信學會論文誌 Vol.49 No.3

Block-wise concatenated Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem (BC-BCH) codes are shown to have excellent error-correcting capability under hard-decision decoding. The variant of BC-BCH codes, namely symmetric BC-BCH (SBC-BCH) codes, is later introduced to improve the error-correcting performance of BC-BCH codes. In this work, we propose a new hard-decision algorithm, IHDD-GRAND, which aims to further enhance the error-rate of SBC-BCH codes. The proposed algorithm uses GRAND as an auxiliary decoder for the IHDD, and it can be efficiently implemented by utilizing the error-confinement property of SBC-BCH codes. It will be shown that the proposed algorithm significantly improves the error-correcting performance of SBC-BCH codes.

Effects of Yoga on Measures of Health-related Quality of Life from SF-36 and SF-12 Assessments: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Gabriel Benavidez(Gabriel Benavidez ),Peter D. Hart(Peter D. Hart ) 사피엔시아 2017 Exercise Medicine Vol.1 No.-

Objectives: Yoga is commonly being adopted and prescribed with the intent to increase a participant’s health-related quality of life. In practice, the current gold-standard health-related quality of life measurement tool is the SF-36 and SF-12 assessments. Therefore, it is important for yoga scientists and practitioners to understand yoga’s effects on health-related quality of life when in fact a gold-standard assessment is implemented. The purpose of this study was to employ systematic review and meta-analytic techniques to examine the effect of yoga on measures of health-related quality of life measured using only the SF-36/12 assessments. Methods: A current (January 2007 to December 2016) systematic review of the Pubmed database was conducted and included studies that used yoga as an intervention with outcomes measures of health-related quality of life measured by the SF-36/12. Ten different measures were extracted from studies including eight dimension scores (physical functioning, bodily pain, physical role function, general health, mental health, emotional role function, social function, and vitality) and two summary scores (physical component and mental component). Ten different meta-analyses were performed using calculated standardized mean effect sizes and random effects models. Both moderator and sensitivity analyses were conducted. Results: A total of 34 studies were included is the analyses with 185 independent effect sizes. Yoga intervention showed a significant positive effect on all ten measures of the SF-36/12. Effects ranged from 0.56 (0.39-0.73) to 0.28 (0.17-0.40). Yoga type (Hatha, Iyengar, Other) moderated the effects of yoga intervention on the mental component (p=.021), with Hatha yielding the greatest effects (ES=1.63, 0.61-2.65). The sensitivity analysis showed little to no bias in mean effect size estimates. Conclusions: The meta-analytic evidence clearly supports the small-to-medium positive effects of yoga on health-related quality of life, as measured by the SF-36/12 assessments.

Automation of Tasks and Knowledge-Intensive Services: A Sectorial Approach to the Impact of Covid 19 in Argentina

Ricardo Gabriel Martínez,Julián Gabriel Leone,Juan Manuel Rodriguez Repeti 부산외국어대학교 중남미지역원 2021 이베로아메리카 Vol.23 No.2

The covid 19 pandemic led to an economic collapse and multiple impacts upon Argentina's labour dynamics. As well as in other parts of the region, falls in employment rates (both due to an increase in unemployment and significant withdrawals from the labour force) were combined with wage reductions for those who were able to keep their jobs. Thus, two important processes for the labour market complimented each other: a structural shock associated with a tasks automation as a reorganisation and substitution of factors, with a cyclical recession caused by the pandemic. The international experience shows the amplifying impact the latter has on the former, generating long-term consequences mainly in routine-intensive jobs. However, the knowledge-intensive services sector appears to be the most capable of cushioning the recessionary shock (both in terms of wages and labour absorption), even with nuances within the sector depending on the extent of the shutdown measures and its capability to switch to remote work. Finally, the task approach is decisive in capturing the ability to adapt both the cyclical and structural processes, absorbing a large part of the explanatory potential that sectoral classifications tend to bring about.

Ischemic Lesion Water Uptake in Acute Stroke: Is Blood Glucose Related to Cause and Effect?

Gabriel Broocks,Andre Kemmling,Jens Aberle,Helge Kniep,Matthias Bechstein,Fabian Flottmann,Hannes Leischner,Tobias D. Faizy,Jawed Nawabi,Gerhard Schön,Peter Sporns,Götz Thomalla,Jens Fiehler,Uta Hanni 대한뇌졸중학회 2019 Journal of stroke Vol.21 No.3

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On rectifying-type curves in a Myller configuration

Gabriel Macsim,Adela Mihai,Andreea Olteanu 대한수학회 2019 대한수학회보 Vol.56 No.2

We consider special curves (rectifying-type curves) in the simplest Myller configuration and study their properties, in order to compare these properties in both cases, Myller and Euclidean settings.

Optimization of nutrients requirements for bioremediation of spent-engine oil contaminated soils

Gabriel O. Ogbeh,Titus O. Tsokar,Emmanuel Salifu 대한환경공학회 2019 Environmental Engineering Research Vol.24 No.3

This paper presents a preliminary investigation of the optimum nutrients combination required for bioremediation of spent-engine oil contaminated soil using Box-Behnken-Design. Three levels of cow-manure, poultry-manure and inorganic nitrogen-phosphorus-potassium (NPK) fertilizer were used as independent biostimulants variables; while reduction in total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH) and total soil porosity (TSP) response as dependent variables were monitored under 6-week incubation. Ex-situ data generated in assessing the degree of biodegradation in the soil were used to develop second-order quadratic regression models for both TPH and TSP. The two models were found to be highly significant and good predictors of the response fate of TPH-removal and TSP-improvement, as indicated by their coefficients of determination: R² = 0.9982 and R² = 1.000 at p ≤ 0.05, respectively. Validation of the models showed that there was no significant difference between the predicted and observed values of TPH-removal and TSP-improvement. Using numerical technique, the optimum values of the biostimulants required to achieve a predicted maximum TPH-removal and TSP-improvement of 67.20 and 53.42%-dry-weight per kg of the contaminated soil were as follows: cow-manure – 125.0 g, poultry-manure – 100.0 g and NPK-fertilizer – 10.5 g. The observed values at this optimum point were 66.92 and 52.65%-dry-weight as TPH-removal and TSP-improvement, respectively.

Workplace Violence Toward Mental Healthcare Workers Employed in Psychiatric Wards

Gabriele d’Ettorre,Vincenza Pellicani 한국산업안전보건공단 산업안전보건연구원 2017 Safety and health at work Vol.8 No.4

Workplace violence (WPV) against healthcare workers (HCWs) employed in psychiatric inpatient wards is a serious occupational issue that involves both staff and patients; the consequences of WPV may include increased service costs and lower standards of care. The purpose of this review was to evaluate which topics have been focused on in the literature and which are new in approaching the concern of patient violence against HCWs employed in psychiatric inpatient wards, in the past 20 years. We searched for publications in PubMed and Web of Science using selected keywords. Each article was reviewed and categorized into one or more of the following four categories based on its?subject matter: risk assessment, risk management, occurrence rates, and physical/nonphysical consequences. Our search resulted in a total of 64 publications that matched our inclusion criteria. The topics discussed, in order of frequency (from highest to lowest), were as follows: “risk assessment,” “risk management,” “occurrence rates,” and “physical/nonphysical consequences.” Schizophrenia, young age, alcohol use, drug misuse, a history of violence, and hostile-dominant interpersonal styles were found to be the predictors of patients’ violence. Risk assessment of violence by patients appeared the way to effectively minimize the occurrence of WPV and, consequently, to better protect mental HCWs. We found paucity of data regarding psychologic sequelae of WPV. According to these findings, we suggest the need to better investigate the psychologic consequences of WPV, with the aim of checking the effective interventions to assist HCW victims of violence and to prevent psychologic illness.

Islamic Defenders Front Militia (Front Pembela Islam) and its Impact on Growing Religious Intolerance in Indonesia

Gabriel Facal 서강대학교 동아연구소 2020 TRaNS(Trans –Regional and –National Studies of Sou Vol.8 No.1

The processes of democratisation and liberalisation initiated during the course of the Indonesian Reformasi era (1998-) generated a stronger porosity in the State's frontiers and led to the formation of certain semi-institutionalised organisations. The approaching 2019 presidential elections have enabled these organisations to position themselves as political and moral brokers. The Islamic Defenders Front militia (FPI) appears to be one of the main actors in this process. It has succeeded in imposing itself in the public sphere, channelling political support and utilising extensive media coverage. While avoiding providing direct opposition to the ruling government and the Constitution, this organisation promotes the social morals followed by a large part of the population and encourages radicalism and violent actions in the name of Islam. The organisation collaborates with a section of the regional and national political elites, some sections of the army and police, several groups that are—more or less—criminal in nature, a number of local communities in different areas, and a variety of violent Islamist groups. Thus, it is at the crossroads of multiple political, economic, social, and religious interests. At the same time, the organisation's leaders maintain their own political objectives. They manipulate the dynamics of the electoral decentralised system to their advantage by obtaining political concessions that serve their personal goals. The capacity of the organisation to impose its discourse on the public stage has led to an urgent need to interrogate both the institutional and ideological transformations initiated by the Indonesian decentralisation since 1999.

Regulation of Intestinal Immunity by Nod-like Receptors and the Microbiota

Gabriel Nunez 한국실험동물학회 2012 한국실험동물학회 학술발표대회 논문집 Vol.2012 No.8

The Ignored Heroes

Gabriele FECHER 한국색채학회 2016 International Invitation Exhibition of Color Works Vol.2016 No.-