Recovery Time

Summary: Purpose: To evaluate relationships between self-report measures of seizure severity and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in people with refractory localization-related epilepsy.Methods: A sample of 340 adults enrolled in a seven-center, prospective study of resective epilepsy surgery completed baseline questionnaires that included the Quality of Life in Epilepsy (QOLIE)-89 and a seven-item adaptation of the National Hospital Seizure Severity Scale. Associations between QOLIE-89 summary measures and both the total seizure severity scale score and individual seizure severity items were assessed, after adjustment for seizure frequency.Results: The seizure severity measure had adequate scale score variability and reliability in this sample. Correlations between individual items in the scale did not exceed 0.43. Product-moment partial correlations between the seizure severity scale and QOLIE-89 summary measures ranged from −0.17 to −0.29 (all p values <0.01). Of the seven seizure severity items, the average time before individuals perceived they were “really back to normal” after their seizures was broadly related to all domains of HRQOL (r values ranged from −0.16 to −0.30; p values <0.01). Severity of injury during seizures was the only other item having more than minimal associations with HRQOL, and it was selectively related to the physical health measure. Higher frequency of falls during seizures was modestly related to less employment.Conclusions: This seizure severity measure assesses constructs that are generally distinct from HRQOL, except for moderate and broad associations between HRQOL and patient's perceptions of the average duration of recovery time after seizures. Recovery time may potentially be a useful clinical indicator of seizure severity that reflects meaningful impairment of HRQOL in adults with frequent seizures.

Abstract— Border gateway protocol (BGP) is the standard routing protocol between various autonomous systems (AS) in the Internet. In the event of a failure, BGP may repeatedly withdraw some routes and advertise new ones until a stable state is reached. It is known that the corresponding ...

A water reclamation plant (WRP) needs to be resilient to successfully operate through different kinds of perturbations. Perturbations such as storm events, especially long-term successive storm flows, can adversely affect operations. A better understanding of these effects can provide benefits for plant operation, in terms of effluent quality and energy efficiency. However, the concept of resilience for a WRP has not been widely studied, and we are not aware of any studies specifically related to storm flows. In this work we applied measures of resistance and recovery time to quantify resilience, and used a WRP simulation model to investigate how different storm flow characteristics (flowrate and duration) and the amount of aeration influence resilience. Not surprisingly, increasing storm flowrate leads to decreasing resilience. Although the aeration rate plays an important role in determining resilience, there is an aeration threshold (6 m3/s for our WRP model); higher aeration rates do not increase resilience. Results suggest that aeration costs could be reduced by as much as 50% while still maintaining the resilience needed to meet effluent quality permit requirements through the perturbations examined in this study.

This paper focuses on the modelling, simulation and analysis of the behaviour of the electromagnetic shaft synchronization system with two identical single-phase induction motors. Motors speed-control and their synchronization are achieved by this electromagnetic shaft. A mathematical model has been suggested to describe this synchronization system. The traditional electromagnetic shaft synchronization system has been modified by adding an adjustable air-gap within the core of the three-phase inductive rheostat element in the common rotor circuit. The length of this air-gap is adjustable. This makes the use of the electromagnetic shaft more flexible. This makes it possible to control the speeds of the motors and regulate the synchronization capability or the recovery time of the system response (quality indicators). The quality indicators of the proposed synchronization system have been analysed. The suggested system has been mathematically modelled and simulated using MATLAB/Simulink. The proposed system has been tested for various load conditions. Results of the steady state and dynamics of the electromagnetic shaft synchronization system have been illustrated.