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Energy-Efficient Collaborative Outdoor Localization for Participatory Sensing
(MDPI, 2016-05-25)
Location information is a key element of participatory sensing. Many mobile and sensing applications require location information to provide better recommendations, object search and trip planning. However, continuous GPS ...
Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Nightmares at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center
(MDPI, 2016-12-16)
The effectiveness of medications for PTSD in general has been well studied, but the effectiveness of medicatio.ns prescribed specifically for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) nightmares is less well known. This ...
Convective Mixing in Distal Pipes Exacerbates Legionella pneumophila Growth in Hot Water Plumbing.
(MDPI, 2016-03-12)
Legionella pneumophila is known to proliferate in hot water plumbing systems, but little is known about the specific physicochemical factors that contribute to its regrowth. Here, L. pneumophila trends were examined in ...
Choice Architecture as a Way to Encourage a Whole Systems Design Perspective for More Sustainable Infrastructure
(MDPI, 2016-12-30)
Across fields, more sustainable and resilient outcomes are being realized through a whole systems design perspective, which guides decision-makers to consider the entire system affected including interdependent physical ...
“None Come Closer to Us than These:” Augustine and the Platonists
(MDPI, 2016-09-01)
This paper reflects on the importance of pagan Platonism to one of its most sympathetic Christian interpreters, Augustine of Hippo. Its goal is to uncover what Platonism meant to Augustine and why it mattered so much to ...
Development of Bt Rice and Bt Maize in China and Their Efficacy in Target Pest Control
(MDPI, 2016-10-18)
Rice and maize are important cereal crops that serve as staple foods, feed, and industrial material in China. Multiple factors constrain the production of both crops, among which insect pests are an important one. Lepidopteran ...
Optimal Control of Drug Therapy in a Hepatitis B Model
(MDPI, 2016-08-03)
Combination antiviral drug therapy improves the survival rates of patients chronically infected with hepatitis B virus by controlling viral replication and enhancing immune responses. Some of these drugs have side effects ...
Subset-Continuous-Updating GMM Estimators for Dynamic Panel Data Models
(MDPI, 2016-11-30)
The two-step GMM estimators of Arellano and Bond (1991) and Blundell and Bond (1998) for dynamic panel data models have been widely used in empirical work; however, neither of them performs well in small samples with weak ...
The Impact of Health Literacy Status on the Comparative Validity and Sensitivity of an Interactive Multimedia Beverage Intake Questionnaire
(MDPI, 2016-12-23)
Self-reported dietary assessment methods can be challenging to validate, and reporting errors for those with lower health literacy (HL) may be augmented. Interactive multimedia (IMM) based questionnaires could help overcome ...
AVIST: A GPU-Centric Design for Visual Exploration of Large Multidimensional Datasets
(MDPI, 2016-10-07)
This paper presents the Animated VISualization Tool (AVIST), an exploration-oriented data visualization tool that enables rapidly exploring and filtering large time series multidimensional datasets. AVIST highlights ...