BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Strokes can be distinguished from benign peripheral causes of acute vestibular syndrome using bedside oculomotor tests (head impulse test, nystagmus, test-of-skew). Using head impulse test, nystagmus, test-of-skew is more sensitive and less costly than early magnetic resonance imaging for stroke diagnosis in acute vestibular syndrome but requires expertise not routinely a...

A DSP technique that transforms a digital signal by warping the frequency axis is discussed. The technique corresponds to a mapping of the samples in the z-domain such that they are unevenly spaced around the unit circle. A spectral warping network has the property that a timeshifted impulse function is transformed into a chirp function. This can have useful applications in the analysis of the ...

Background: Gait imbalance and oscillopsia are frequent complaints of bilateral vestibular loss (BLV). Video-head-impulse testing (vHIT) of all six semicircular canals (SCCs) has demonstrated varying involvement of the different canals. Sparing of anterior-canal function has been linked to aminoglycoside-related vestibulopathy and Menière’s disease. We hypothesized that utricular and saccular i...

Constructing joint confidence bands for structural impulse response functions based on a VAR model is a difficult task because of the non-linear nature of such functions. We propose new joint confidence bands that cover the entire true structural impulse response function up to a chosen maximum horizon with a prespecified probability (1−α), at least asymptotically. Such bands are based on a cer...

This paper presents a Built-In-Self-Test (BIST) implementation of pseudo-random testing for MEMS. The technique is based on Impulse Response (IR) evaluation using pseudo-random Maximum–Length Sequences (MLS). We will demonstrate the use of this technique for an on-chip fast and accurate broadband determination of MEMS behaviour, in particular for the characterisation of MEMS structures such as ...

The ability to simulate various mobile radio channel impairments, particularly, multipath fading, in the products design phase, before equalizer algorithms have been implemented as custom ASICs, is critical. This paper presents the test procedure, developed for type-approval testing of a multipath fading simulator, as well as corresponding practical measurement results in terms of spurious sign...

While the topic has a long history in research, model structure selection is still one of the more challenging problems in system identification. In this tutorial we focus on impulse response modelling, and link classical techniques such as hypothesis testing and information criteria (e.g. AIC) to recent model estimation approaches, including regularisation. We discuss the problem from minimum ...

conclusions it can be indicated that reinforcing components of emotional intelligence, especially emotional-awareness and impulse control, are effective methods to develop against substance use in among drug-dependent individuals. background drug addiction is one of the most significant problems related to general health in the world, creating various mental problems in addicts and leading to s...