Respiratory gas analysis has now become a standard monitoring technique in anaesthesia: in theatres, intensive care unit, and for the transfer of ventilated patients. The AAGBI Recommendations for Standards of Monitoring during Anaesthesia and Recovery (2007) recommend as essential components during an anaesthetic an oxygen analyser with an audible alarm and a carbon dioxide analyser; a vapour ...

Swimming and training are carried out with wide variability in distances and intensities. However, oxygen uptake kinetics for the intensities seen in swimming has not been reported. The purpose of this study was to assess and compare the oxygen uptake kinetics throughout low-moderate to severe intensities during incremental swimming exercise. We hypothesized that the oxygen uptake kinetic param...

NEW FINDINGS What is the central question of this study? Do the mechanical differences between swimming, rowing, running and cycling have a potential effect on the oxygen uptake (V̇O2) off-kinetics after an exercise sustained until exhaustion at 100% of maximal oxygen uptake (V̇O2max) intensity? What is the main finding and its importance? The mechanical differences between exercise modes had a p...

Developments in modern neutron spectroscopy have led to typical sample sizes decreasing from few cm to several mm in diameter samples. We demonstrate how small samples together with the right choice of analyser and detector components makes distance collimation an important concept in crystal analyser spectrometers. We further show that this opens new possibilities where neutrons with different...

Proving termination of, or generating efficient control for Constraint Handling Rules (CHR) programs requires information about the kinds of constraints that can show up in the CHR constraint store. In contrast to Logic Programming (LP), there are not many tools available for deriving such information for CHR. Hence, instead of building analyses for CHR from scratch, we define a transformation ...

The domain of deenite Boolean functions, Def , can be used to express the groundness of, and trace grounding dependencies between, program variables in (constraint) logic programs. In this paper, previously unexploited computational properties of Def are utilised to develop an eecient and succinct groundness analyser that can be coded in Prolog. In particular, entailment checking is used to pre...

The increasing demand in automatic code transformation tools – which can preserve the layout, and can handle the whole macro syntax – led us to develop our scanner and parser tool. ParsErl is a generic syntactic analyser for Erlang. The scanner and the parser are generated from an XML definition of the grammar. The result of the scanning process is a graph, which can be optimised or balanced fo...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the performance of automated leucocyte (white blood cell; WBC) counting by comparison with manual counting. METHODS The number of WBC was determined in heparinized synovial fluid samples by the use of (i) a standard urine cytometer (Kova) and a microscope (reference method) and (ii) a haematology analyser (Sysmex XE-2100; WBC/BASO and DIFF channels). Imprecision within ...

Abstract The micropipeline approach offers a good engineering framework to design complex asynchronous VLSI circuits. An asynchronous ARM6 microprocessor (AMULET1), implemented using a two-phase signalling protocol, has proved the practical feasibility of the micropipeline design approach. A built-in self-test (BIST) micropipeline design based on an asynchronous BILBO register is presented in t...