Introduction: Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is characterized by recurrent sinopulmonary infections. However, in the pediatric population, recurrent sinopulmonary infections early in life are common, which ca...
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Many robotic applications that are critical for robot performance require immediate feedback, hence execution time is a critical concern. Furthermore, it is common that robots come with a fixed quantity of hardware re...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781665442077
Many robotic applications that are critical for robot performance require immediate feedback, hence execution time is a critical concern. Furthermore, it is common that robots come with a fixed quantity of hardware resources;if an application requires more computational resources than the robot can accommodate, its onboard execution might be extended to a degree that degrades the robot's performance. Cloud computing, on the other hand, features on-demand computational resources;by enabling robots to leverage those resources, application execution time can be reduced. The key to enabling robot use of cloud computing is designing an efficient offloading algorithm that makes optimum use of the robot's onboard capabilities and also forms a quick consensus on when to offload without any prior knowledge or information about the application. In this paper, we propose a predictive algorithm to anticipate the time needed to execute an application for a given application data input size with the help of a small number of previous observations. To validate the algorithm, we train it on the previous N observations, which include independent (input data size) and dependent (execution time) variables. To understand how algorithm performance varies in terms of prediction accuracy and error, we tested various N values using linear regression and a mobile robot path planning application. From our experiments and analysis, we determined the algorithm to have acceptable error and prediction accuracy when N > 40.
Road crashes account for over a million deaths around the world every year. It is one of the leading causes of death for young people between the ages of fifteen and twenty-ine. Road accidents cause a whooping loss of...
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(纸本)9781728155845
Road crashes account for over a million deaths around the world every year. It is one of the leading causes of death for young people between the ages of fifteen and twenty-ine. Road accidents cause a whooping loss of up to three percent of the many nations' Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and ninety percent of these accidents occur in low to middle income countries with a sizable fifty-four percent share of the world's vehicular population. One of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG5) is the reduction of road accidents around the world by half of its current value by 2020. This goal becomes a hit if low to medium-income nations get safer roads. This paper proposes a collision avoidance system that provides drivers with an automated preemptive response to impending car accidents with the aid of distance predictive analysis via sensors connected to the braking system of the vehicle, which in turn slows down the speed of the vehicle or completely stops it from moving altogether. The proposed collision avoidance system makes use of ultrasonic sensors and a unique localization algorithm to deliver a largely user-based vehicular protection from collision.
Introduction: Neonatal sepsis is a global challenge that contributes significantly to neonatal morbidity and mortality. The current diagnostic methods depend on conventional culture methods, a procedure that takes tim...
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Introduction: Neonatal sepsis is a global challenge that contributes significantly to neonatal morbidity and mortality. The current diagnostic methods depend on conventional culture methods, a procedure that takes time and leads to delays in making timely treatment decisions. This study proposes a machine learning algorithm utilizing electronic medical record (EMR) data from Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital (MRRH) to enhance early detection and treatment of neonatal sepsis. Methods: We performed a retrospective study on a dataset of neonates hospitalized for at least 48 h in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at MRRH between October 2015 to September 2019 who received at least one sepsis evaluation. 482 records of neonates met the inclusion criteria and the dataset comprises 38 neonatal sepsis screening parameters. The study considered two outcomes for sepsis evaluations: culture-positive if a blood culture was positive, and clinically positive if cultures were negative but antibiotics were administered for at least 120 h. We implemented k-fold cross-validation with k set to 10 to guarantee robust training and testing of the models. Seven machine learning models were trained to classify inputs as sepsis positive or negative, and their performance was compared with physician diagnoses. Results: The results of this study show that the proposed algorithm, combining maternal risk factors, neonatal clinical signs, and laboratory tests (the algorithm demonstrated a sensitivity and specificity of at least 95 %) outperformed the physician diagnosis (Sensitivity = 89 %, Specificity = 11 %). SVM model with radial basis function, polynomial kernels, and DT model (with the highest AUROC values of 98 %) performed better than the other models. Conclusions: The study shows that the combination of maternal risk factors, neonatal clinical signs, and laboratory tests can help improve the prediction of neonatal sepsis. Further research is warranted to assess the potential perfo
Leveraging the increasing accessibility of smartphones in healthcare settings, we developed a smartphone app aimed at enhancing sickle cell disease (SCD) screening, particularly in resource-limited settings. Our appli...
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Reverse power relays are utilised to trip turbine generators to avoid prime mover damage and directional relay is most widely used as the main protection for these conditions. An intentional time delay is ordinarily u...
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Reverse power relays are utilised to trip turbine generators to avoid prime mover damage and directional relay is most widely used as the main protection for these conditions. An intentional time delay is ordinarily utilised to overcome the possible maloperation of these relays. However, the intentional time delay to prevent maloperation is not an ideal solution. As this time delay increases the reverse power relay operation time, which means that the motoring action of the synchronous generator persist for a longer time, making the prime mover more vulnerable to active power drawn by the generator. This study proposes a new flux-based approach to detect reverse power condition in the synchronous generators. The proposed scheme uses the analysis of angular velocity and acceleration data that are calculated from the estimated magnetic flux at the machine stator terminals. The basic idea of the technique stems from the principle that the stator and rotor magnetic fluxes rotate together at synchronous speed and will not be affected by system disturbances for a short interval according to highly inductive characteristics of the synchronous machine. The main advantage of this predictive algorithm is its speed, security and sensitivity to detect the reverse power conditions.
The direct predictive speed controller (DPSC) deals with the prediction of the motor speed based on precise mechanical parameters. However, the mechanical parameters are dependent on the practical applications and may...
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The direct predictive speed controller (DPSC) deals with the prediction of the motor speed based on precise mechanical parameters. However, the mechanical parameters are dependent on the practical applications and may not match with their actual values, which leads to inaccurate prediction of the motor behaviour and deteriorates the performance of the predictive algorithm. A three-order Extended State Observer is designed for a permanent magnet synchronous motor to observe the unknown overall disturbance of the system and compensate the speed prediction error, which reduces the usage of the mechanical constants and improves the robustness of the system against parameter uncertainties, accurate mechanical parameters become unessential. To improve the current dynamics, by using proper weighting of the position angle observation error, along with the overall disturbance, a new current controller is incorporated in the control law of developed PSC strategy. The proposed strategy is evaluated through experimental results with a two-level voltage source inverter. Finally, the proposed work is experimentally compared with a predictive speed control, by considering several performance indices.
Aims Sarcopenia is characterized by a gradual loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength with increased adverse outcomes. Recently, large-scale epidemiological studies have demonstrated a relationship between several c...
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Aims Sarcopenia is characterized by a gradual loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength with increased adverse outcomes. Recently, large-scale epidemiological studies have demonstrated a relationship between several chronic disorders and ocular pathological conditions using an oculomics approach. We hypothesized that sarcopenia can be predicted through eye examinations, without invasive tests or radiologic evaluations in the context of predictive, preventive, and personalized medicine (PPPM/3PM). Methods We analyzed data from the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES). The training set (80%, randomly selected from 2008 to 2010) data were used to construct the machine learning models. Internal (20%, randomly selected from 2008 to 2010) and external (from the KNHANES 2011) validation sets were used to assess the ability to predict sarcopenia. We included 8092 participants in the final dataset. Machine learning models (XGBoost) were trained on ophthalmological examinations and demographic factors to detect sarcopenia. Results In the exploratory analysis, decreased levator function (odds ratio [OR], 1.41;P value <0.001), cataracts (OR, 1.31;P value = 0.013), and age-related macular degeneration (OR, 1.38;P value = 0.026) were associated with an increased risk of sarcopenia in men. In women, an increased risk of sarcopenia was associated with blepharoptosis (OR, 1.23;P value = 0.038) and cataracts (OR, 1.29;P value = 0.010). The XGBoost technique showed areas under the receiver operating characteristic curves (AUCs) of 0.746 and 0.762 in men and women, respectively. The external validation achieved AUCs of 0.751 and 0.785 for men and women, respectively. For practical and fast hands-on experience with the predictive model for practitioners who may be willing to test the whole idea of sarcopenia prediction based on oculomics data, we developed a simple web-based calculator application (hutps://***/sarcopenia) to predict th
A new vector quantisation algorithm is presented which fully exploits the interblock correlation of an image. For an input block, a predicted block from the previously encoded data is searched. If the prediction is go...
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A new vector quantisation algorithm is presented which fully exploits the interblock correlation of an image. For an input block, a predicted block from the previously encoded data is searched. If the prediction is good enough, only a Bag code is sent to the receiver. The algorithm results in a significant reduction in bit rate with better picture quality, as compared to the conventional full-search VQ.
A nonlinear system such as prediction of coal and methane outbursts, mechanical faults diagnosis and so on, which has the character coupled, randomized and sudden changed to the system variants. It is a difficult prob...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9787900719706
A nonlinear system such as prediction of coal and methane outbursts, mechanical faults diagnosis and so on, which has the character coupled, randomized and sudden changed to the system variants. It is a difficult problem to predict this kind of nonlinear system with using the accurate and effective approach. We proposed a novel generalized quantum neural predictive networks which can be solved this problem better. To construct the model of a nonlinear system, ANN-PID (artificial neural networks with proportional, integral and derivative) has good nonlinear property, so that it can be constructed the model of the nonlinear system according to the knowledge of history data. And then, according to the projected property, the model can be launched from generalized space to Hilbert space, so that the model with superposition quantum states can be developed. In the quantum mechanicalism, a special state which is so called predictive state can be inverted with more and more bight probability from the superposition stats of sample data, before its predictive results has been produced. We have constructed the model of mapping and a predictive algorithm for the nonlinear system, which can be realized the hidden relations between the system inputs and outputs. The results of calculation shows that generalized quantum neural predictive networks predicts the nonlinear system is effective and accurate.
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