Microcontrollers, the brains of embedded systems, have found their way into every aspect of our lives including medical devices such as pacemakers. Pacemakers provide life supporting functions to people therefore it is critical for these devices to meet their timing constraints. This thesis examines the use of hardware co-processing to accelerate the calculation time associated with the critica...

abstract recent global warming has led to a change in the global hydrological cycle and an increase in extreme events such as flood and drought at the global and continental scales. however, at the regional scale, the magnitude of warming and the resulting changes in water resources are different from one region to another. unlike air temperature whose increase is evident throughout the world, ...

By using well known properties of elliptical distributions we show that the relation between Kendall's tau and the linear correlation coefficient for bivariate normal distributions holds more generally (subject to only slight modifications) for the class of elliptical distributions.

As a Semi-arid country, Burkina Faso is highly vulnerable to climate-related disasters such as drought and flood. Analyzing signature therefore key factor in advocating climate change adaptation at the local scale. In this study, Spatiotemporal trends of were conducted for period 1960–2021 within Massili Basin using standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) package R. The non-p...

Malaria and dengue are the two major vector-borne diseases in Mizoram. is endemic Mizoram, was first reported only 2012. The study designed to impact of climate variables, deforestation on incidence malaria Temperature, rainfall, humidity data Mizoram monsoon period (May-September) from 1979 2013 were obtained National Centers for Environmental Prediction Climate Forecast System Reanalysis. For...

In this paper two nonparametric tests for monotonic trend detection are compared with respect to their power and accuracy. The importance of comparing powers at equal empirical signiicance levels rather than nominal levels, is stressed. Therefore, an appropriate graphical method is presented. The eeect of the sampling frequency is also assessed using a trajectory representation that visualizes ...

This paper presents user-friendly SAS macro and SAS programs to check the three parts of a time series: Trend, Cyclical patterns, and Stationarity. The SAS macro KENDALL performs the trend analysis. Seasonal Kendall Trend analysis, including summery statistics; overall Tau and the P-value of the test for trend; monthly Tau values, the corresponding P-values for each month; the Seasonal Kendall ...