the design and realization of a portable positioning system

... up the dimensions) There are also severalopen researchissuesin the design of systemsbasedon the E-ADT paradigm, and in extensions of the paradigm to handle optimizations that spandata types Acknowledgements ... PIVceeding of the ACM SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data, May 1994 [CS92] RakeshChandmand Arie Segev.ManagingTemporalFinancial Data in anExtensible Database.In Proceedings of the International Conference ... supports relational data as well as sequencedata, using a novel design paradigm of enhancedabstractdata types (BADTs ) The systemimplementation basedon this paradigmallows sequence relational queriesto...

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... purpose The separate data area of these database systems means that they not need the segment cleaning mechanisms of the Sprite LFS to reclaim log space The space occupied by the log in a database system ... log as the most up to date ‘‘truth’’ about the state of the data on disk The main difference is that database systems not use the log as the final repository for data: a separate data area is reserved ... has the disadvantage of increasing the amount of data lost during a crash For this paper we will assume that crashes are infrequent and that it is acceptable to lose a few seconds or minutes of...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2012, 15:05

... registration, location, and actiThe CORBA Event Service model simplifies application vation; request demultiplexing; framing and error-handling; parameter marshalling and demarshalling; and operation ... the system must allocate additional threads to allow the application to make progress while the I/O Facade task is blocked However, 2: Demarshaled data adding threads to the system has many negative ... data was not availHigh Level able to be pulled, the calling I/O Facade would need to block I/O Facade I/O Facade I/O Facade Abstraction awaiting a result In order for the I/O Facade to pull, the...

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... work was supported in part by an Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Canada Research Chairs program The authors acknowledge Mr Ka Lun ... the manuscript TC conceived the study, advised on the design and coordination of the experiments, and edited the manuscript All authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript Acknowledgements ... factor was selectable in the 1.2-2.5 range, and was adjusted for each participant such that false activations due to blinks and movement were avoided and participants were able to activate the switch...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... measure on the randomness of the encrypted images General images typically have a degree of randomness associated with both the natural random nature of the underlying structure and the random noise ... assignment of q and s and the q,s mapping Rotate Y j is changed to be ahead of the iloop including the assignment of p and r and the mapp,r ping Rotate Xi q,s (2) The parameter q in Rotate Y j changes ... perform the software simulation, randomness measurement, and sensitivity analysis of parameters in the proposed system In Section 4, we illustrate the hardware design and realization of the proposed...

Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 01:20

... potentially accelerate decision-making with regard to extubation; and to assess the safety and feasibility of our approach Materials and method The intervention was carried out in a 14-bed medical/surgical ... criticism, and feedback was given on a regular basis Based on the feedback, the protocol was regularly re-evaluated and updated Nurses and RCPs responded favourably to the MDT-driven extubation protocol ... declared Acknowledgements We gratefully acknowledge the assistance provided by Dr A Esteban and Dr A Anzueto, Michael Aubin, George Tomlinson, Rod Fowler and all of the medical, respiratory care...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... Neale 2000; Dolan et al 1999; Sheheta et al 1999; Saadatmanesh and Ehsani 1998; Benmokrane and Rahman 1998; Neale and Labossière 1997; Hassan and Rizkalla 2002) The development of codes and standards ... mechanical properties of a material Delamination A separation along a plane parallel to the surface, as in the separation of the layers of the FRP laminate from each other Development length, FRP The ... bond to the concrete substrate; flexural and shear strengthening of beams and slabs are examples of bond-critical applications Catalyst A substance that accelerates a chemical reaction and enables...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2014, 21:59

... Australia and New Zealand By the mid-1990s, new GSM networks had sprung up globally from the Philippines and Thailand to Iran, Morocco, Latvia and Russia, as well as in the Americas and to a lesser ... Managing the success of the platform means managing compatibility better; adopting and adhering to open standards including tool and language standards (standard C++, the ARM EABI, and so on); ... operating system is required at the bottom of the stack to manage the hardware and support the layers of software protocols all the way up to the phone-signaling stack Treating the phone as a black...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 11:21

... know that the capacitance (stated in terms of the amount of charge (Q) stored at a given voltage drop (across the capacitor)) of a capacitor is given by (1) (Note that: the SI unit of capacitance ... is the farad; farad = coulomb per volt; typical capacitances are measured in microfarads or picofarads) 5.2.1 The Virtual Capacitor To implement the law of Coulomb, a TinyOS application was developed ... 3A7 3A4 3A1 3A1 0 3A1 5 3A8 3A1 6 3A9 3A2 3A6 3A3 Figure 13: Spatial distribution of the individual success rate in the Castalia simulator categories: green = best, yellow, orange, and red (least...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 11:20

... representativeness of participants, the lack of a comparison, and the assessment of intermediate outcomes For example, we have not evaluated the impact of the use of NorthStar on the processes and outcomes of ... developing and evaluating the QI intervention In addition, NorthStar is available as both a browser-based version and an HTML help file version, and will soon be available in French and Italian, as well ... NorthStar is a major product of the ReBEQI project It is a software program that packages information on the design and evaluation of evidence-based QI interventions into an integrated, easily accessible,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... specific rating scales [19,29] In addition, a separate team of independent raters trained to reliability will randomly evaluate several of the tapes from early, middle, and late therapy phase of each ... high rate of relapse after an initial response Innovative antidepressant approaches should aim at the regulation and maintenance of mood stability over the long term rather than at the acute ... have shown to be favorable [46] Evaluation by a relative At the end of the therapy, a relative of the patient will be asked to evaluate 14 items of depressive symptoms before and after therapy...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... PSW and the participant will take place on-site with the case manager and the peer support coordinator present The nature of the intervention will be explained again and both the participant and ... in a treatment questionnaire (see below) and via a telephone call made by the RA to the new treating clinician asking about attendance at appointments and medication adherence These treatment adherence ... of the study and made substantial contributions to the study design and the development of the intervention and the study protocols All authors have been involved in drafting the manuscript and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... psychologists of the Rotterdam University and Maastricht University and psychiatrists of the departments of Psychiatry of the University of Amsterdam (AMC) and the Groningen University (UMCG) We collaborate ... Subsequently, the researcher checks whether the participant understands all aspects of the trial If they agree to enter the trial, they complete a copy of the consent form and send it back to the researcher ... http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-244X/11/8 after reading the information then the participant contacts the researcher The researcher checks whether the patient understands all aspects of the trial If the patient...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... CONTENTS Preparing the Common Technical Document 241 Data Management 241 Data Entry and Data Management 242 Small-Scale Clinical Studies 242 Clinical Database Managers 242 Data Analysis 243 Utilities ... you’ll have taken the first steps toward obtaining transnational approvals at no increase in costs The United States, Japan, and the Electronic data capture cuts European Union have already costs and ... the act of a child, not of a mature manager Often, those in upper management cannot understand the delay Yet the tale of the ever-befuddled Bumbling Pharmaceutical and Device Company told in the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:20

... choosing the appropriate software for data entry, data management, and statistical analysis is normally divided among the lead software engineer, the data manager, and the statistician (subject, of ... beyond an understanding of the data management software to security (maintaining onsite and offsite backups) and quality control Programs for Data Analysis Development of programs for data analysis ... programming team, but she must possess a general knowledge of both data entry and data management software and be able to prepare and maintain a flow or Gant chart for the development process She bears...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:20

... reading of 100 mmHg, whereas the second had a baseline of 120 mmHg Comparing the changes that take place as a result of treatment, rather than just the final values, reveals in this hypothetical ... to $30,000, and so forth Six years of steady inflation later and the organizers of the study realized that all the categories had to be adjusted An income of $21,000 at the start of the study would ... But when an independent Data and Safety Monitoring Board looked at the data, they found that of 730 patients randomized to the active therapy, 56 died, while of the BEWARE OF HOLES IN THE INSTRUCTIONS...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:20

... submissions, for the format and organization of reports, for the format and contents of tables, and for the format and naming of files and directories The CTD provides for analysis of trial data, descriptions ... trials are contemplated, a pharmacokineticist is an essential addition to the design team To maintain the validity of a fractional factorial design one has to be able to assume that the effect of ... recently was the lack of commercially available software with which to design the experiment and perform the analysis Fortunately, S+SeqTrial and EAST are now available (see Appendix) TAKING COST...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:20

... copy of your final report and an electronic copy of your database and the programs you’re used to retrieve and analyze the data In the United States, the latter is termed an e-sub or CANDA (Computer-Aided ... are automatically in a position to submit a CANDA Between 1991 and 1994, CANDAs in the United States were approved about months faster than traditional paper applications— in an average of 18.4 ... was counted as having BR Otherwise, a follow-up angiogram of the target lesion at ± 0.5 months was used If such an angiogram was not available, the first angiogram of the target lesion taken after...

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... paths among the data as in a network access database Changes to the database structure are easily accommodated The structure of the database can be changed without having to change any applications ... spell of a salesperson) Three issues are discussed: Choice of data management software and the options available to you Transfer of data from data entry to data storage and from data storage to ... problems of storage and retrieval Relational Database Model A relational database appears to stores all its data inside tables Each table consists of a set of rows and columns similar (from the user’s...

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