Over the past decade, we have witnessed the emergence of a bulk set of devices, from very different application domains interconnected via Internet to form what is commonly named Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT vision is grounded in the belief that all devices are able to interact seamlessly with each other anytime, anyplace, anywhere. However, devices communicate via a multitude of incompati...

Background: Canadian Emergency Departments (ED) use the five-point Triage Acuity Scale (CTAS) to prioritize patients according acuity. CTAS scores are used make decisions on patient flow, staffing complement, and funding. Variations in triage can lead mis-categorization delayed care for critically ill patients. Edmonton zone quality improvement audits reduced high low-risk vital sign errors (86...

gas samples were obtained and neither hypercarbia nor hypoxia occurred at both sides of single-lung ventilation. Video-assisted thoracic surgery was successfully performed and the surgeon satisfaction was very good. The patient was extubated without complications and transferred to the postoperative anaesthesia care. No discomforts like sore throat or minor injuries at the trachea were detected...

46 47 The sexual cycle of the unicellular Chlamydomonas reinhardtii culminates in the 48 formation of diploid zygotes which differentiate into dormant spores that 49 eventually undergo meiosis. Mating between gametes induces rapid cell wall 50 shedding via the enzyme g-lysin; cell fusion is followed by heterodimerization of 51 sex-specific homeobox transcription factors, GSM1 and GSP1, and init...

The earth maintains surprisingly large voltage gradients, Ez [V/m], between its surface and a conductive ionosphere above 100 km, with fair-weather measurements averaging about 160 V/m near the surface, positive upwards. These gradients are easily detected but difficult to quantify with accuracies better than a few percent. Data records survive from several sites dating to the early 1900's. Mea...

In this paper, a novel wave equation for electromagnetic waves in a medium having anisotropic permittivity has been derived with the help of Maxwell’s curl equations. The x and y components of the Maxwell’s equations are written with the permittivity ( ) being a 3× 3 symmetric matrix. These equations are solved for Ex , Ey, Hx, Hy in terms of Ez , Hz, and the partial derivatives. The Z componen...

Proposition. The Bayesian cumulative loss is bounded as LBayes(ZT ) ≤ LQ(ZT ) + KL(Q||P0). (A.1) Proof of Theorem 2.4. Fix a choice of θ∗ and φ and write Q = Qθ∗,φ. Take a second-order Taylor expansion of fy about z ∗, yielding fy(z) = fy(z ∗) + f ′ y(z ∗)>(z − z∗) + 1 2 (z − z∗)>f ′′ y (ζ(z))(z − z∗), for some function ζ. Let z = (ξx,ψ) with θ ∼ Q and let z∗ = E[z] = (ξ∗x,ψ∗). Hence, Ez[fy(z)]...

46 47 The sexual cycle of the unicellular Chlamydomonas reinhardtii culminates in the 48 formation of diploid zygotes which differentiate into dormant spores that 49 eventually undergo meiosis. Mating between gametes induces rapid cell wall 50 shedding via the enzyme g-lysin; cell fusion is followed by heterodimerization of 51 sex-specific homeobox transcription factors, GSM1 and GSP1, and init...