You know the news isn’t going to be good when the report of a new study cites sources in City Hall rather than the scientific literature. That’s exactly how the story broke in February, reporting a link between tap water and miscarriages in a California study. On February 10, the Los Angeles Times warned its readers in a front page report that “drinking five or more glasses of cold tap water pe...

There is growing interest in the application of crossmodal perception to interface design. However, most research has focused on task performance measures and often ignored user experience and engagement. We present an examination of crossmodal congruence in terms of performance and engagement in the context of a memory task of audio, visual, and audio-visual stimuli. Participants in a first st...

ion for Real-time Intelligent Control: Extended Abstract Robert P. Goldman, David J. Musliner, Mark S. Boddy, Kurt D. Krebsbach Automated Reasoning Group Honeywell Technology Center 3660 Technology Drive Minneapolis, MN 55418 fgoldman,musliner,boddy,[email protected] Introduction In this paper we discuss two abstraction techniques we use in CIRCA planning (Musliner, Durfee, & Shin 199...

Transversus abdominis plane (TAP) infiltration is a regional anesthesia technique that has been demonstrated to be effective for management of postsurgical pain after abdominal surgery. There are several different clinical variations in the approaches used for achieving analgesia via TAP infiltration, and methods for identification of the TAP have evolved considerably since the landmark-guided ...

BACKGROUND The transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block is an effective regional nerve block for the anterior abdominal wall. An anesthesiologist typically administers the TAP block preoperatively with ultrasound guidance. It is not yet commonly used during abdominoplasty, where postprocedural pain remains a major concern for patients and surgeons. OBJECTIVES The author investigated the feasib...

This study presents a tap-leakage adjustment algorithm to control the tap drifting problem in an adaptive echo canceller. A nonrecursive transversal filter structure and stochastic gradient adaptation algorithm are first studied. On the basis of these studies, the effect of tap drift when the input spectrum does not cover the full band is presented. The tap-leakage algorithm, which has been use...

Vertebrate TAP is a nuclear mRNA export factor homologous to yeast Mex67p. The middle domain of TAP binds directly to p15, a protein related to the nuclear transport factor 2 (NTF2), whereas its C-terminal domain interacts with various nucleoporins, the components of the nuclear pore complex (NPC). Here, we report that the middle domain of TAP is also similar to NTF2, as well as to regions in R...

A programmable pipelined digital differential matched filter (PDMF) implemented for a direct sequence spread spectrum receiver is proposed in this paper. To reduce the power consumption, the architecture PDMF is based on the synchronization combined PN code phase acquisition algorithm (Huang et al., 1999). Compared with the conventional PN code phase acquisition algorithm, the theoretical analy...

Pitch predictors are successfully used in Linear Prediction Analysis-by-Synthesis (LPAS) coders to model periodicity in speech. The various structures of pitch predictors are investigated and used in LPAS coders. In most of the low bit-rate LPAS coder design, single-tap or three-tap pitch are commonly used. Higher prediction gain can be achieved by using additional taps. 5-tap pitch predictor i...

Transversus abdominis plane (TAP) and ilioinguinal/iliohypogastric (II/IH) nerve blocks have been described as analgesic adjuncts for inguinal hernia repair, but the efficacy of these techniques in providing intraoperative anesthesia, either individually or together, is not known. We designed this retrospective cohort study to test the hypothesis that combining TAP and II/IH nerve blocks ("doub...