Background: The importance of adapting evidence-based health interventions to enhance their congruence with the beliefs of ethno-cultural communities is well recognized. Although a systematic cultural adaptation proce...Background: The importance of adapting evidence-based health interventions to enhance their congruence with the beliefs of ethno-cultural communities is well recognized. Although a systematic cultural adaptation process is available, it lacks specific instructions on how to adapt interventions so that they are aligned with cultural beliefs. In this paper, we present an integrated strategy that operationalizes the adaptation process by describing specific practical instructions on how to align interventions with cultural beliefs. Methods: The strategy integrates concept and intervention mapping, and uses mixed methods for gathering data from community representatives. The data pertain to a community’s cultural beliefs and values related to a health problem, acceptability of evidence-based interventions targeting the problem, and aspects of the interventions that should be modified to enhance their fit with cultural beliefs. A step-by-step protocol is described to guide application of the integrated strategy for cultural adaptation. Conclusions: The strength of the integrated strategy relies on the use of concept and intervention mapping approaches for specifying a step-by-step protocol to actively engage community representatives in the cultural adaptation of interventions. Future research should evaluate the utility of this strategy.展开更多
Compatibility is the precondition to ensure the correct interaction among components in composition process, how to make the mismatch components coordinate correctly is a vital problem in component composition. This p...Compatibility is the precondition to ensure the correct interaction among components in composition process, how to make the mismatch components coordinate correctly is a vital problem in component composition. This paper first modeled component behavior by LTS and expressed action mapping as synchronous vector then defined the sequential relationship among synchronous vectors as adaptation contract. Thirdly we analyzed the different mismatch situations and corresponding adaptation strategies. At last designed adaptation algorithm to produce adaptor specification automatically and ensured the mismatch components can correct interaction under the mediation of adaptor and verified the validity of proposed method through an application system.展开更多
Wireless Body Area Network(WBAN)technologies are emerging with extensive applications in several domains.Health is a fascinating domain of WBAN for smart monitoring of a patient’s condition.An important factor to con...Wireless Body Area Network(WBAN)technologies are emerging with extensive applications in several domains.Health is a fascinating domain of WBAN for smart monitoring of a patient’s condition.An important factor to consider in WBAN is a node’s lifetime.Improving the lifetime of nodes is critical to address many issues,such as utility and reliability.Existing routing protocols have addressed the energy conservation problem but considered only a few parameters,thus affecting their performance.Moreover,most of the existing schemes did not consider traffic prioritization which is critical in WBANs.In this paper,an adaptive multi-cost routing protocol is proposed with a multi-objective cost function considering minimum distance from sink,temperature of sensor nodes,priority of sensed data,and maximum residual energy on sensor nodes.The performance of the proposed protocol is compared with the existing schemes for the parameters:network lifetime,stability period,throughput,energy consumption,and path loss.It is evident from the obtained results that the proposed protocol improves network lifetime and stability period by 30%and 15%,respectively,as well as outperforms the existing protocols in terms of throughput,energy consumption,and path loss.展开更多
为解决四自由度(4 degree-of-freedom,4-DOF)无人水面船在动态不确定性和外部扰动下的路径跟踪问题,提出一种基于有限时间积分视线(finite-time integral line-of-sight,FT-ILOS)制导的自适应神经网络路径跟踪控制方法。在视线(line-of-...为解决四自由度(4 degree-of-freedom,4-DOF)无人水面船在动态不确定性和外部扰动下的路径跟踪问题,提出一种基于有限时间积分视线(finite-time integral line-of-sight,FT-ILOS)制导的自适应神经网络路径跟踪控制方法。在视线(line-of-sight,LOS)制导框架下,利用有限时间理论,引入积分机制和新的制导机制,实现船舶位置跟踪误差的有限时间收敛,且避免制导积分项引起的饱和风险。基于反步控制法设计框架,结合FT-ILOS制导方法,利用自适应神经网络逼近复合扰动项,利用虚拟参数学习技术解决“维数灾难”问题,同时利用动态面控制技术降低计算复杂度。为减少执行器响应频率和磨损,在控制律与执行器之间建立周期事件触发协议。通过李雅普诺夫稳定性分析证明闭环控制系统中所有信号均有界,通过MATLAB仿真对比实验验证所提控制方法的有效性和鲁棒性。展开更多
文摘Background: The importance of adapting evidence-based health interventions to enhance their congruence with the beliefs of ethno-cultural communities is well recognized. Although a systematic cultural adaptation process is available, it lacks specific instructions on how to adapt interventions so that they are aligned with cultural beliefs. In this paper, we present an integrated strategy that operationalizes the adaptation process by describing specific practical instructions on how to align interventions with cultural beliefs. Methods: The strategy integrates concept and intervention mapping, and uses mixed methods for gathering data from community representatives. The data pertain to a community’s cultural beliefs and values related to a health problem, acceptability of evidence-based interventions targeting the problem, and aspects of the interventions that should be modified to enhance their fit with cultural beliefs. A step-by-step protocol is described to guide application of the integrated strategy for cultural adaptation. Conclusions: The strength of the integrated strategy relies on the use of concept and intervention mapping approaches for specifying a step-by-step protocol to actively engage community representatives in the cultural adaptation of interventions. Future research should evaluate the utility of this strategy.
文摘Compatibility is the precondition to ensure the correct interaction among components in composition process, how to make the mismatch components coordinate correctly is a vital problem in component composition. This paper first modeled component behavior by LTS and expressed action mapping as synchronous vector then defined the sequential relationship among synchronous vectors as adaptation contract. Thirdly we analyzed the different mismatch situations and corresponding adaptation strategies. At last designed adaptation algorithm to produce adaptor specification automatically and ensured the mismatch components can correct interaction under the mediation of adaptor and verified the validity of proposed method through an application system.
文摘Wireless Body Area Network(WBAN)technologies are emerging with extensive applications in several domains.Health is a fascinating domain of WBAN for smart monitoring of a patient’s condition.An important factor to consider in WBAN is a node’s lifetime.Improving the lifetime of nodes is critical to address many issues,such as utility and reliability.Existing routing protocols have addressed the energy conservation problem but considered only a few parameters,thus affecting their performance.Moreover,most of the existing schemes did not consider traffic prioritization which is critical in WBANs.In this paper,an adaptive multi-cost routing protocol is proposed with a multi-objective cost function considering minimum distance from sink,temperature of sensor nodes,priority of sensed data,and maximum residual energy on sensor nodes.The performance of the proposed protocol is compared with the existing schemes for the parameters:network lifetime,stability period,throughput,energy consumption,and path loss.It is evident from the obtained results that the proposed protocol improves network lifetime and stability period by 30%and 15%,respectively,as well as outperforms the existing protocols in terms of throughput,energy consumption,and path loss.
文摘为解决四自由度(4 degree-of-freedom,4-DOF)无人水面船在动态不确定性和外部扰动下的路径跟踪问题,提出一种基于有限时间积分视线(finite-time integral line-of-sight,FT-ILOS)制导的自适应神经网络路径跟踪控制方法。在视线(line-of-sight,LOS)制导框架下,利用有限时间理论,引入积分机制和新的制导机制,实现船舶位置跟踪误差的有限时间收敛,且避免制导积分项引起的饱和风险。基于反步控制法设计框架,结合FT-ILOS制导方法,利用自适应神经网络逼近复合扰动项,利用虚拟参数学习技术解决“维数灾难”问题,同时利用动态面控制技术降低计算复杂度。为减少执行器响应频率和磨损,在控制律与执行器之间建立周期事件触发协议。通过李雅普诺夫稳定性分析证明闭环控制系统中所有信号均有界,通过MATLAB仿真对比实验验证所提控制方法的有效性和鲁棒性。
