This paper presents a new technique to determine the dynamic and frequency response of capnographs using a custom built 'EtCO2 simulator system'. Capnographs are devices that use CO2 from a patients' expir...
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This paper presents a new technique to determine the dynamic and frequency response of capnographs using a custom built 'EtCO2 simulator system'. Capnographs are devices that use CO2 from a patients' expired breath to monitor the cardiopulmonary status during anaesthesia and mechanical ventilation. Capnographs at present are routinely calibrated via a static calibration method only. The dynamic response of the capnographs is not accounted for. The frequency and time response are important as they determine if capnographs can be used in high frequency and pediatric ventilation schemes. Experiments performed using the method described in this paper proved that old capnographs usually do not satisfy the manufacturer quoted specifications for time and frequency response. Therefore, a routine check for capnographs is recommended. The method can also be used to verify manufacturer quoted specifications. The EtCO2 simulator system, designed and constructed simulates human respiration cycle. The gas sources used are 5% CO2 and room air that can be switched alternatively. Both supplies are pressure regulated and connected through non-return valves to electric valves. The valves are microprocessor controlled and the on/off time is user defined allowing a wide range of waveforms to be simulated. The output from the simulator is delivered to capnograph. Capnograms are captured by digital video recording. The captured video in 'avi' file format is then converted into individual frames. These frames are converted into digital data through image processing in Matlab. The data obtained is subjected to extensive analysis to determine the frequency and time response of the respective capnograph. Copyright 2005 ISA. All Rights Reserved.
This work is in the area of parallel discrete event simulation. We consider a conservatively synchronized parallel simulation where submodels consist of multiple entities, each with some amount of lookahead. We explor...
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(纸本)9077381228
This work is in the area of parallel discrete event simulation. We consider a conservatively synchronized parallel simulation where submodels consist of multiple entities, each with some amount of lookahead. We explore the issue of improving the lookahead of a submodel by combining the lookahead abilities of individual entities. We review the concepts and conditions for cumulative lookahead. We provide an experimental evaluation of the effect of cumulative lookahead on simulation performance.
Classifying images into a set of semantic categories that are meaningful to humans has proved to be a challenging and attractive problem in the field of content-based retrieval. Addressing this problem is typically ba...
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Classifying images into a set of semantic categories that are meaningful to humans has proved to be a challenging and attractive problem in the field of content-based retrieval. Addressing this problem is typically based on the initial extraction of low-level features for the images and the subsequent application of a pattern recognition technique, to divide the feature space in a number of subspaces corresponding to the semantic categories. An extension to this framework is presented in this paper, aiming at the improvement of the efficiency of image classification systems. This is based on the introduction of an unsupervised still image segmentation algorithm to the process and its combination with MPEG-7 low-level descriptors and a Bayes classifier. Experimental results using different pairs of classes and corresponding data sets demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed approach.
In this paper, we propose the use of motion vectors embedded in MPEG bitstreams to generate so-called "motionflows", which are applied them to perform quick video retrieval. By using the motion vectors direc...
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In this paper a quantum computer based on the recombination processes happening in semiconductor devices is presented. A “data element” and a “computational element” are derived based on Schokley‐Read‐Hall stati...
In this paper a quantum computer based on the recombination processes happening in semiconductor devices is presented. A “data element” and a “computational element” are derived based on Schokley‐Read‐Hall statistics and they can later be used in order to manifest a simple and known quantum algorithm. Such a paradigm is shown by the application of the proposed technology onto the Shor’s period‐finding algorithm.
Efficient video content management and exploitation requires extraction of the underlying semantics, a non-trivial task associating low-level features of the image domain and high-level semantic descriptions. In this ...
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The chaotic was a kind of widespread nonlinear line dynamics behavior. To counter the difficulty of estimating and controlling chaotic time series, it puts forward a chaotic estimating model, by using the parameter of...
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The chaotic was a kind of widespread nonlinear line dynamics behavior. To counter the difficulty of estimating and controlling chaotic time series, it puts forward a chaotic estimating model, by using the parameter of the chaotic system and sensitivity of the parameter it inches and controls the disturbance of the system, and estimates the parameter of the model by using the best update option. At the end, it forecasts the intending series value in its mutually space. The example shows that it can increase the precision in the estimated process by selecting the best model steps. It not only conquers the abuse of using detention inlay technique alone, but also decreases blindness of using forecasting error to decide the input model directly. The result is better than that of other method of statistics and other series means.
There is an increasing interest in techniques that support measurement and analysis of fielded software systems. One of the main goals of these techniques is to better understand how software actually behaves in the f...
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(纸本)1595930140
There is an increasing interest in techniques that support measurement and analysis of fielded software systems. One of the main goals of these techniques is to better understand how software actually behaves in the field. In particular, many of these techniques require a way to distinguish, in the field, failing from passing executions. So far, researchers and practitioners have only partially addressed this problem: they have simply assumed that program failure status is either obvious (i.e., the program crashes) or provided by an external source (e.g., the users). In this paper, we propose a technique for automatically classifying execution data, collected in the field, as coming from either passing or failing program runs. (Failing program runs are executions that terminate with a failure, such as a wrong outcome.) We use statistical learning algorithms to build the classification models. Our approach builds the models by analyzing executions performed in a controlled environment (e.g., test cases run in-house) and then uses the models to predict whether execution data produced by a fielded inst.nce were generated by a passing or failing program execution. We also present results from an initial feasibility study, based on multiple versions of a software subject, in which we investigate several issues vital to the applicability of the technique. Finally, we present some lessons learned regarding the interplay between the reliability of classification models and the amount and type of data collected. Copyright 2005 ACM.
In this paper, we propose a multi-rate CSMA/CA-based MAC protocol, which we refer to as EMR, to enable fast forwarding of frames in a more efficient manner. We use the base-rate RTS and CTS frames to reserve a long tr...
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In this paper, we propose a multi-rate CSMA/CA-based MAC protocol, which we refer to as EMR, to enable fast forwarding of frames in a more efficient manner. We use the base-rate RTS and CTS frames to reserve a long transmission path and utilize intermediate nodes to relay the data frames using shorter transmission distance but with more efficient transmission rates. Results show that our EMR scheme can outperform the traditional multi-rate forwarding scheme by 18% and 49.4% in a low-density and high-density ad hoc network, respectively.
The VoIP is a newest killer application nowadays on Internet which is expected to be carried on at anytime and anywhere. However, the re-configuration problem as well as signaling and transmission delay will be major ...
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The VoIP is a newest killer application nowadays on Internet which is expected to be carried on at anytime and anywhere. However, the re-configuration problem as well as signaling and transmission delay will be major concerns for a mobile node moving into a foreign network. In this paper, we design the pseudo SIP server under a configuration-free Ad-Hoc architecture VoIP system. The innovation of proposed pseudo SIP server solves the problem with no standalone SIP server on Ad-Hoc network. The performance evaluation of the proposed pseudo SIP server also shows significant improvement in SIP signaling delay.
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