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Accurate load forecasting is critical for electricity market operations and other real-time decision-making tasks in power systems. This paper considers the short-term load forecasting (STLF) problem for residential customers within a community. Existing STLF work mainly focuses on forecasting the aggregated load for either a feeder system or a single customer, but few efforts have been made on forecasting the load at individual appliance level. In this work, we present an STLF algorithm for efficiently predicting the power consumption of individual electrical appliances. The proposed method builds upon a powerful recurrent neural network (RNN) architecture in deep learning, termed as long short-term memory (LSTM). As each appliance has uniquely repetitive consumption patterns, the patterns of prediction error will be tracked such that past prediction errors can be used for improving the final prediction performance. Numerical tests on real-world load datasets demonstrate the improvement of the proposed method over existing LSTM-based method and other benchmark approaches.

Additional file 3. Additional information on selected NCD risk indicators.

Additional file 5. Concentration Curves for Blood Pressure and Glucose testing and self-reported prevalence for High Blood Pressure and Glucose by education and wealth.

Interfacial behaviours in multiphase systems containing H2 are crucial to underground H2 storage but are not well understood. Molecular dynamics simulations were conducted to study interfacial properties of the H2O+H2 and H2O+H2+silica/kerogen systems over a wide range of temperatures (298 - 523 K) and pressures (1 - 160 MPa). The combination of the H2 model with the INTERFACE force field and TIP4P/2005 H2O model can accurately predict the interfacial tensions (IFTs) from the experiment. The IFTs from simulations are also in good agreement with those from the density gradient theory coupled to the PC-SAFT equation of state. Generally, the IFTs decrease with pressure and temperature. However, at relatively high temperatures and pressures, the IFTs increase with pressure. The opposite pressure effect on IFTs can be explained by the inversion of the sign of the relative adsorption of H2. The enrichment of H2 in the interfacial regions was observed in density profiles. Meanwhile, the behaviours of contact angles (CAs) in the H2O+H2+silica system are noticeably different from those in the H2O+H2+kerogen system. The H2O CAs for the H2O+H2+silica and H2O+H2+kerogen systems increase with pressure and decrease with temperature. However, the effect of temperature and pressure on these CAs is less pronounced for the H2O+H2+silica system at low temperatures. The behaviours of CAs were understood based on the variations of IFTs in the H2O+H2 system (fluid-fluid interaction) and adhesion tensions (fluid-solid interaction). Furthermore, the analysis of the atomic density profiles shows that the presence of H2 in between the H2O droplet and the silica/kerogen surface is almost negligible. Nevertheless, the adsorption of H2O on the silica surface outside the H2O droplet is strong, while less H2O adsorption is seen on the kerogen surface.

Supplemental Material for Feasibility and acceptability of a physical activity behavioural modification tele-coaching intervention in lung transplant recipients by Emily Hume, Hazel Muse, Kirstie Wallace, Mick Wilkinson, Karen Heslop Marshall, Arun Nair, Stephen Clark, and Ioannis Vogiatzis in Chronic Respiratory Disease

Additional file 1. Descriptive analysis and simple measures of inequality for men and women in each of the four selected indicators.

Additional file 4. Additional information on the study design, sampling methodology and data collection.

Supplemental Material for Effects of Various Financial and Non-financial Incentives on the Performance of Accredited Social Health Activist: Evidence from Two Selected Districts of Odisha by Saumya Ranjan Pani, Srinivas Nallala, Sarit Kumar Rout, Shyama Sundari, Maulik Chokshi, Tushar Mokashi, Arun Nair and Shridhar M. Kadam, in Journal of Health Management

Additional file 2. Definitions and Interpretations of the summary measures used to measure inequality in each of the four selected indicators.

Lightweight ciphers are algorithms with low computational and spacial complexity. In the modern world of miniaturization, a lightweight cipher is used in constrained devices such as RFID tags, fire and security detectors, devices for wireless communications and other IoT devices. Stream ciphers are symmetric ciphers which encrypts the plain text bit stream with corresponding key stream to generate cipher text. Hence a stream cipher with low computational complexity and maximum security can be termed as a lightweight stream cipher. Many light weight stream ciphers are already existing. Each has its own vulnerabilities and spacial requirement. This paper has successfully developed, implemented, and analyzed a lightweight stream cipher - A4. Along with low computational cost, A4 also ensures paramount security and is less prone to the emerging cryptographic attacks.

Additional file 1 Table S1. 2017 consensus formulations and comparison to recommended parenteral nutrient intakes in preterm neonates. Values are per kg per day, unless otherwise indicated. Table S2. 2017 consensus formulations and comparison to recommended parenteral nutrient intakes in term neonates. Values are per kg per day, unless otherwise indicated. Table S3. Suggested routine PN biochemistry orders.

BACKGROUND. Chronic rhinitis is a clinical condition affecting more than 20% of the world population. The standard treatment strategy is medical. Surgical management can be considered in patients with intractable rhinitis. Various surgical techniques have been documented with varying success rates, but none of them is considered as a gold standard. Hence, we are studying the effectiveness of posterior nasal neurectomy (PNN) in patients who have intractable rhinitis, refractory to maximum medical therapy. MATERIAL AND METHODS. A prospective study was conducted in the ENT Department, Padmavathy Medical Foundation, Kollam, Kerala, India, from January 2015 to February 2016. Adult patients, in the age group of 20 to 60 years, diagnosed with chronic rhinitis, presenting two or more symptoms of rhinitis, refractory to maximum medical therapy for a period of at least 3 or more years and whose quality of life was significantly affected were enrolled and PNN was done for them. RESULTS. We observed a statistically significant improvement in subjective symptoms and patient quality of life at the end of 6 months post-operatively. CONCLUSION. PNN is a safe and less invasive procedure, which can provide a significant relief in symptoms of intractable rhinitis. Fewer complications and better results make it superior over vidian neurectomy.

Real-Time Working together/team effort of code between the members of the team/s is the main point of our project. First, let's give the part group/(working well together) meeting meaning, your teammate sees the area of the workspace in their person in control of the paper. This means your teammate can read the code you shared without having to copy a storage place or put in a position of authority any dependent relations your code is dependent on. The development of a software using the idea of operational change to manage the versions created by the team members in a single piece of code. The group (working well together) part lets you give part the area of the code, so you get a short time, as a two-way working (machine/method/way). Each of you can use a plugin for making or putting the right things that you have made for a person so that you have the freedom to create the development (surrounding conditions). You cannot dependently make an (instance of watching, noticing, or making a statement) of a question under discussion without stepping on each other. There is no need for handing-off control or amount with delay. Do the work together with the shared (surrounding conditions) only when you need to.

Theoretical and computational methods have been used to study nonlinear effects in the mechanical response of materials at the nano and macro scales. These methods include, acoustoelastic theory, molecular dynamics and finite element models. The nonlinear indentation response of Ni thin films of thicknesses in the nano scale was studied using molecular dynamics simulations with embedded atom method (EAM) interatomic potentials. The study included both single crystal films and films containing low angle grain boundaries perpendicular to the film surface. The simulation results for single crystal films show that as film thickness decreases, larger forces are required for similar indentation depths but the contact stress necessary to emit the first dislocation under the indenter is nearly independent of film thickness. The presence of grain boundaries in the films leads to the emission of dislocations at a lower applied stress. For a single crystal Ni thin film of a thickness of 20 nm a direct comparison of simulation and experimental results is presented, showing excellent agreement in hardness values. The effects of using different interatomic potentials and indentation rates for the simulations are also discussed. Dynamic indentation of the Ni thin film was also carried out for different frequencies. It has been found that there is a 12% increase in dislocations compared to quasi static indentation and the results are consistent with experiments. Acoustoelastic theory was used to study how nonlinear elastic properties of unidirectional graphite/epoxy (gr/ep) effect the energy flux deviation due to an applied shear stress. It was found that the quasi-transverse wave (QT) exhibits more flux deviation compared to the quasi-longitudinal (QL) or the pure transverse (PT) due to an applied shear stress. The flux shift in QT wave due to an applied shear stress is higher than that for an applied normal stress along laminate stacking direction for the same magnitude. The QT wave has energy flux deviation due to shear stress at 0o and 90o fiber orientations as compared to normal stress case where the flux deviation is zero. It was found that the energy flux shift of QT wave in gr/ep varies linearly with applied shear stress. The Finite element model of the equations of motion combined with the Newmark method in time was used to confirm the flux shift predicted by theory. Ph. D.