Characteristics of the medical waste generated at the Jordanian hospitals

Recently, Jordan has witnessed increased amounts of medical waste generated at different healthcare facilities. This has resulted in issuance of Medical Waste Regulation that aimed at regulating the management processes of such hazardous waste. To provide information on medical waste generation rates, composition and statistical characteristics, a comprehensive sampling survey was initiated after a regulatory definition of the medical waste was established. Hospitals from Public, private and educational categories were covered by the survey. This paper presents the findings of the survey. The average generation rates ranged from 0.29 to 1.36 kg/bed/day, while in terms of patient numbers it is from 0.36 to 0.87 kg/patient/day. The total daily amount of medical waste generated at the Jordanian hospitals was estimated to be 6 tones/day. The daily amounts of medical waste generated at King Abdullah University Hospital were found to follow a log normal probability distribution. Physical composition analysis of the medical waste, which conducted based on the categories identified by the Jordanian Regulation, indicated that the infectious waste category is the highest, followed by sharps category and finally pathological, cytotoxic and pharmaceutical categories were the lowest. The study concluded that all hospitals covered by the survey are practicing segregation of hazardous medical waste from general medical waste. However, the segregation process in some hospitals is still inefficient and there is a potential for improvements toward minimizing the hazardous medical waste generation.     

数字压力计检定装置

在贵州国防区域计量站5505校准实验室建立了一套数字压力计检定装置,可满足对区域内各工厂开展数字式压力仪器检定的要求.     

Reliability-based design optimization of a car body using dimension- reduced Chebyshev polynomial

A reliability-based design optimization (RBDO) method of a car body is presented on basis of dimension-reduced Chebyshev polynomial method (DCM). To improve calculation efficiency and save computational time, complex models are often approximated by metamodels in reliability analysis. Traditional metamodels require a large number of sample points, which is time-consuming. To improve the efficiency, DCM is proposed to approximate the performance function of the car body. First, the performance function is decomposed by the dimension-reduction method into a sum of univariate functions, which are then fitted through Chebyshev polynomials. The reliability of the car body is predicted by the Taylor expansion method and the fourth-moment method. Finally, the result of RBDO is obtained using an improved adaptive genetic algorithm. The proposed method saves on the calculation time with high precision. Besides, the improved adaptive genetic algorithm reduces the number of iterations in the car body optimization and improves the efficiency.     

动载下矿岩-充填体能量传递规律及破坏特性

为研究嗣后充填采矿矿柱爆破回采时相邻胶结充填体内能量传递规律及破坏特性,利用霍普金森压杆装置,对矿岩与不同配比充填体组合试件进行单轴冲击实验。实验结果表明:能量传递过程中,大部分能量以反射波形式消散;随着应变率增加,吸能密度增大。同等吸能密度下,应变率■;冲击荷载下矿岩破碎形态呈简单块状。充填体破碎情况为,随应变率增加,呈块状分布减少,呈粉末状增多。当应变率在60 s^(-1)左右时,ZH330较ZH250与ZH180,充填体粉末状明显减少;计算充填体平均粒径与分形维数发现,随应变率增大,平均粒径减小,分形维数增加。实验研究对嗣后充填采矿矿柱回采爆破参数选择及胶结充填体保护具有一定意义。     

浅水三角洲相沉积构成特征--以渤中25-1南油田为例

综合各种地质信息后分析认为,渤中25-1南油田新近系明化镇组主力油层为浅水三角洲相相沉积.在岩心观察和测井相分析的基础上,把浅水三角洲相划分为分支流河道、天然堤、决口和分支流河道间四种微相.各微相平面形态为分支流河道间夹分支流河道和天然堤,有时决口也发育在天然堤外侧.根据河道形态和沉积机理,分支流河道可分成两种类型底负载型和混合负载型,阐述了这两种河道各自特征并做了比较.由于河道窄,明确分支流河道期次、类型和分布是预测有利储层及布置井网的关键.     

Novel UWB Transceiver for WBAN Networks: A Study on AWGN Channels

A novel ultra‐wideband (UWB) transceiver structure is presented to be used in wireless body area networks (WBANs). In the proposed structure, a data channel and a control channel are combined into a single transmission signal. In the signal, a modulation method mixing pulse position modulation and pulse amplitude modulation is proposed. A mathematical framework calculating the power spectrum density of the proposed pulse‐based signal evaluates its coexistence with conventional radio systems. The transceiver structure is discussed, and the receiving performance is investigated in the additive white Gaussian noise channel. It is demonstrated that the proposed scheme is easier to match to the UWB emission mask than conventional UWB systems. The proposed scheme achieves the data rate requirement of WBAN; the logical control channel achieves better receiving performance than the logical data channel, which is useful for controlling and maintaining networks. The proposed scheme is also easy to implement.     

450A接触电流测试仪测试网络和数据采集的设计

本文介绍了450A接触电流测试仪关键技术内容。     

支持LRT的失败恢复算法及其事务性质分析

研究人员已经致力于组合事务的恢复问题研究,但是大多数成果集中通过向后恢复来维持事务的一致性,补偿是向后恢复通常使用的一种手段,但是向后恢复的最大缺陷就是导致代价相当高,且向后恢复策略不能完全满足各种不同恢复需求。提出一种基于失败类型的恢复算法(包括向前、向后和替代恢复),其是一种基于扩展Petri网的形式化建模方法,为实现松弛ACID属性,引入状态托肯、数据托肯和QoS托肯,增加失败变迁和补偿变迁。失败发生时,动态计算终止依赖点TDP和补偿集,依据任务之间的控制流、数据流、时序、状态和行为依赖,获取任务的失败类型,选择合适的恢复策略,构造一个支持无缝添加/删除失败恢复的可执行模型。     

采用I／Q矢量调制器的单通道单脉冲信道合成方案研究

三通道单脉冲跟踪体制存在的问题是和／差信号在各自通道传输时的幅相不一致校准困难,设备复杂,成本较高。采用频分和时分复用技术将三通道（或双通道）合成为单通道的单脉冲天线跟踪系统在遥测、遥感、通信等领域已得到广泛的应用。这里给出一种采用I／Q矢量调制器将双通道组合成单通道的单脉冲信道合成方案,同时给出调幅包络检测后角误差电压分解方法。     

大鲵低聚糖肽性质初步研究

采用化学方法对大鲵低聚糖肽的氨基酸组成、糖组成及糖肽连接方式进行了初步研究。结果表明,大鲵低聚糖肽含蛋白量为80.01%、总糖含量为15.15%。其含有的氨基葡萄糖、葡萄糖醛酸、半乳糖醛酸及唾液酸分别为3.39%、0.65%、2.45%和0.60%。其氨基酸组成中,苏氨酸的含量最高,达13.1%,其次是脯氨酸、丙氨酸、亮氨酸、精氨酸、苯丙氨酸等。大鲵低聚糖肽的β-消旋反应和血凝集反应,表明大鲵低聚糖肽中糖肽键以O-连接的形式存在。