Ecological assessment of Phragmites australis wetlands using multi-season SPOT-5 scenes

Ecologists and conservationists need accurate and replicable tools for monitoring wetland conditions in order to develop and implement adaptive management strategies efficiently. The Rhone Delta (Camargue) in southern France encloses 9200 ha of fragmented reed marshes actively managed for reed harvesting, waterfowl hunting or cattle grazing, and holding significant numbers of vulnerable European birds. We used multi-season SPOT-5 data in conjunction with ground survey to assess the predictive power of satellite imagery in modelling indicators of reed structure (height, diameter, density and cover of green/dry stems) relevant to ecosystem management and bird ecology. All indicators could be predicted accurately with a combination of bands (SWIR, NIR) and indices (SAVI, OSAVI, NDWI, DVI, DVW, MSI) issued from scenes of March, June, July, September or December and subtraction between these. All models were robust when validated with an independent set of satellite and field data. The high spatial resolution of SPOT-5 scenes (pixel of 10 × 10 m) permits the monitoring of detailed attributes characterizing the reed ecosystem across a large spatial extent, providing a scientifically-based, replicable tool for managers, stakeholders and decision-makers to follow wetland conditions in the short and long-term. Combined with models on the ecological requirements of vulnerable bird species, these tools can provide maps of potential species ranges at spatial extents that are relevant to ecosystem functioning and bird populations.     

复杂装备故障预测与健康管理系统初探

故障预测与健康管理(PHM)系统是新型维修保障模式—自主后勤保障的重要组成部分,对提高复杂装备的战备完好性和降低维修成本具有重要意义;首先介绍PHM系统基本概念及主要组成,并对在复杂装备全寿命周期实施PHM的必要性进行分析;综合论述了PHM系统实现中的关键支撑技术:基于RCM分析的方案设计、基于匹配度的健康状态评估和基于剩余寿命预测的维修决策;最后给出了PHM系统在无人机装备中的应用实例;国内外应用情况表明,PHM系统可显著提高维修保障效率并降低维修保障费用,可实现经济可承受性目标。     

大型压缩机组设备群的故障预测与健康管理

介绍了压缩机组设备群—复杂系统的故障预示和健康状态管理技术和系统的研究。融合早期故障预示、综合故障诊断和远程专家诊断技术,研究设备群的健康状态管理技术,并研发了压缩机组设备群故障诊断和健康状态管理系统,实现主辅机故障诊断和健康状态管理一体化、监测控制信息利用共享化、生产企业和设备制造企业知识资源利用最大化,为石化生产企业和设备制造企业提供一套全生命周期的压缩机组设备群故障诊断和健康管理的系统解决方案。     

Reliability and validity of an ergonomics-related Job Factors Questionnaire

Musculoskeletal disorders are an important cause of work disability and absenteeism. Specific job factors or tasks may increase the likelihood of developing work-related musculoskeletal disorders. The purpose of the present study was to translate and adapt a Job Factors Questionnaire for the Brazilian–Portuguese language and evaluate its psychometric properties. A cross-cultural adaptation was performed according to an internationally recommended methodology involving translation, synthesis, back-translation, revision by an expert committee, and pre-testing. The psychometric properties were evaluated by administering the questionnaire to 148 employees at two companies involved in the assembly and fabrication of metal products. The reliability of the questionnaire was assessed by measuring the temporal stability through a test–retest design. Construct validity was assessed using the known-groups technique and by comparing workers responses with findings from the Nordic Questionnaire. Reliability was determined to be satisfactory based on Intraclass Correlation Coefficients ranging from 0.54 to 0.73. Construct validity analysis demonstrated a significant difference (p ≤ 0.02) between production and office workers on answers to 10 questionnaire items, and a significant difference (p ≤ 0.01) on the scores of the adapted questionnaire between subjects that indicated presence or absence of musculoskeletal symptoms. The results indicated that the adapted version of the questionnaire had psychometric properties that were acceptable for use in occupational studies involving workers that speak Brazilian–Portuguese.

Relevance to industry

The present study provides results of a cross-cultural adaptation process and a psychometric properties analysis of an instrument that verifies workers' perception of job factors that may lead to work-related pain and discomfort.     

alt.metadata.health: Ontological Context for Data Use and Integration

Increasingly powerful computers and increased emphasis on evidence based decision making are creating a demand for merging and integrating data from different sources into a single data set. The demand for data is outstripping our ability to ensure data integrity, and sometimes analysis is performed on data that are not appropriate for the purposes they are used for. Here we describe problems that arise when data from different sources are merged, and we suggest that one way to add context to data so that users can make informed decisions about their ontological context is through ontology-based metadata. Examples of the problem are taken from health data with emphasis on difficulties in standardizing Emergency Room wait times. We describe eight fields that can be used to capture contextual metadata. These fields are captured using ethnographic methods from users and database stewards who frequently understand precisely how context and institutional usage have shaped interpretation of semantic fields. We argue that attaching a portable archive of ontological context to travel with data—based on information from users and developers—is a means of ensuring that data are integrated and compared in multiple contexts with greater integrity and more robust results.

空空导弹投放信号中断故障容错设计与PHM实现

载机送出投放信号启动空空导弹弹射过程,当该过程尚未结束而投放信号中断或瞬断时,则会产生机-弹分离安全性问题.为了防止该问题的发生,在弹射控制电路的基础上,采用高能复合钽电解电容储存电能的方法实现投放信号中断故障容错.在电容充电过程中,通过在线测试充电电压得到实际电容充电曲线,比较该曲线和标准曲线的均方误差进行故障预测和健康管理.试验表明了故障容错设计和故障预测的可行性和有效性.     

Representations of lesbian and bisexual women’s sexual and relational health in online video and text-based sources

The Internet is the preferred source of health information followed by healthcare providers, friends and family, print media, and television (Baxter & Egbert, 2008). Yet, previous research about online sexual health resources for LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, queer) groups, especially lesbian and bisexual (LB) women, primarily consists of introductions and reviews of related websites rather than critique of the quality of the information present (e.g. Clark, 2003; Finlon, 2002; McKay, 2011). Thus, the goals of this study were to examine the LB women’s sexual and relational health content in online sources and identify the degree to which the online sources considered LB women’s identity and standpoint when presenting sexual and relational health messages. The analysis includes a comparison of text-based and video-based online messages related to LB women’s sexual and relational health. We argue that there is an overall lack of quality in the online sexual and relational health messages for LB women, and that websites are not comprehensive enough in their coverage of LB women’s sexual and relational health.     

Sensitive-by-distance: quasi-health data in the algorithmic era

This article offers a new perspective on the boundaries between health and non-health data in the age of ‘Quantified-Self’ apps: the ‘data-sensitiveness-by-computational-distance’ approach-or, more simply, the ‘sensitive-by-distance’ approach. This approach takes into account two variables: the intrinsic sensitiveness (a static variable) of personal data and the computational distance (a dynamic variable) between some kinds of personal data and pure health (or sensitive) data, which depends upon computational capacity. From an objective perspective, computational capacity depends on the level of development of data retrieval technologies at a certain moment, the availability of ‘accessory data’, and the applicable legal restraints on processing data. From a subjective perspective, computational capacity depends on the specific data mining efforts (or the ability to invest in them) taken by a given data controller: economic resources, human resources, and the use of accessory data. A direct consequence of the expansion of augmented humanity in collecting and inferring personal data is the increasing loss of health data processing ‘legibility’ for data subjects. In order to address this issue, we propose exploiting the existing legal tools in the General Data Protection Regulation to empower data subjects (the right to data access, the right to know the logic involved in automated decision-making, data portability, etc.).     

基于回归树和AdaBoost方法的刀具磨损评估

本文利用高速数控铣刀铣削中不同侧面方向的切削力和振动信号以及声发射信号均方根值,以数据驱动的形式对刀具磨损进行了拟合评估. 在本次研究中,分别从时域、频域和时频联合域上探索与刀具磨损相关的敏感特征,具体特征提取方法包括时域统计分析、频域上的快速傅里叶变换（FFT）和时频联合分析的小波变换（WT）. 本文中,决策树被用于回归问题而非分类问题,用于评估刀具磨损值. 同时,引入AdaBoost算法对回归树模型进行提升,并从模型的准确性、稳定性和适用性三个方面上综合对比了提升的决策树回归模型和原模型的性能. 研究表明,AdaBoost算法提升的回归决策树模型在预测的准确性和稳定性上都有一定程度上提高,并且在面向全新刀具磨损预测的适用性上也取得了不错的提升效果.     

Broadband, red-edge information from satellites improves early stress detection in a New Mexico conifer woodland

Multiple plant stresses can affect the health, esthetic condition, and timber harvest value of conifer forests. To monitor spatial and temporal dynamic forest stress conditions, timely, accurate, and cost-effective information is needed that could be provided by remote sensing. Recently, satellite imagery has become available via the RapidEye satellite constellation to provide spectral information in five broad bands, including the red-edge region (690-730 nm) of the electromagnetic spectrum. We tested the hypothesis that broadband, red-edge satellite information improves early detection of stress (as manifest by shifts in foliar chlorophyll a + b) in a woodland ecosystem relative to other more commonly utilized band combinations of red, green, blue, and near infrared band reflectance spectra. We analyzed a temporally dense time series of 22 RapidEye scenes of a piñon-juniper woodland in central New Mexico acquired before and after stress was induced by girdling. We found that the Normalized Difference Red-Edge index (NDRE) allowed stress to be detected 13 days after girdling — between and 16 days earlier than broadband spectral indices such as the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Green NDVI traditionally used for satellite based forest health monitoring. We conclude that red-edge information has the potential to considerably improve forest stress monitoring from satellites and warrants further investigation in other forested ecosystems.