OBJECTIVE To determine the oxygen outflow delivered by seven different models of manually operated self-inflating resuscitation bags (with and without an oxygen reservoir connected), which were tested using different oxygen supply rates without manipulating the bag, by simulating their use in patients breathing spontaneously. METHODS The oxygen outflow was measured using a wall oxygen flow me...

Intensive harvesting of forest residues for energy production may lead to the depletion of organic matter and mineral nutrients in the forest floor. In order to restore nutrient content wood ash has been suggested as a fertiliser. Ectomycorrhizal (EM) fungi are involved in the nutrient uptake of forest trees and this study investigates the influence of intensive harvesting and wood ash fertilis...

Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) is concerned with learning from sets (bags) of feature vectors (instances), where the individual instance labels are ambiguous. In MIL it is often assumed that positive bags contain at least one instance from a so-called concept in instance space, whereas negative bags only contain negative instances. The classes in a MIL problem are therefore not treated in the...

Multiple Instance Learning is concerned with learning from sets (bags) of feature vectors (instances), where the bags are labeled, but the instances are not. One of the ways to classify bags is using a (dis)similarity space, where each bag is represented by its dissimilarities to certain prototypes, such as bags or instances from the training set. The instance-based representation preserves the...

BACKGROUND Container integrity is critical for maintaining sterility of cryopreserved cellular therapy products. We investigated a series of catastrophic bag failures, first noticed in early 2001. METHODS Process records were reviewed for all PBPC and lymphocyte products cryopreserved in bags from January 2000 through April 2002. Patient charts were also reviewed. RESULTS One thousand two h...

Multiple Instance learning (MIL) considers a particular form of weak supervision in which the learner is given a set of positive bags and negative bags. Positive bags are sets of instances containing atleast one positive example and negative bags are sets of instances all of which are negative. A number of binary SVM based solutions have been proposed to this problem like the Normalized Set Ker...

Traditional triage could not meet the needs of battlefield casualties' care in modern warfare. This paper designs of triage and medical evacuation system for casualties at sea that can quickly address mass-casualty triage, and store and transmit medical information during battlefield treatment and medical evacuation. This system consists of a high-capacity medical information card, a simulated ...

During the Last Glaciation in Tasmania a large ice cap developed on the western edge of the Central Plateau and overlapped on to the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair area. Several reticulate lobes flowed from this source, with the largest northern outlet, the Mersey Glacier, covering an area of c. 282 km2• The Lake Ayr Valley was occupied by a smail diffiuent lobe of the Mersey Glacier, and the la...

The motivation of this paper is two-fold a) to compare between two different modes of visualizing data that exists in a bag of vectors format b) to propose a theoretical model that supports a new mode of visualizing data. Visualizing high dimensional data can be achieved using Minimum Volume Embedding, but the data has to exist in a format suitable for computing similarities while preserving lo...