Ten patients undergoing major abdominal surgery under general anaesthesia were monitored with a pulse oximeter, electroencephalogram, electromyogram, electrocardiogram and eye and hand movement sensors two nights before and three nights after surgery. Episodic hypoxaemic events were increased significantly after surgery (P < 0.05). Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep decreased significantly on the f...

The overall mortality rate of babies delivered in the University Hospital, Kuala Lumpur has improved significantly from 18.5 in 1969-1971 to 9.9 per thousand live births in 1979-1981. This drop in mortality is also seen in those infants weighing 1001 2000 g at birth. Indian babies in the weight group 1001 1500 g at birth appear to have a significantly lower mortality than the other races. Babie...

To investigate rapid eye movement (REM) sleep regulation, eight healthy young men were deprived of REM sleep for three consecutive nights. In a three-night control sleep deprivation (CD) session 2 wk later, the subjects were repeatedly awakened from non-REM sleep in an attempt to match the awakenings during the REM sleep deprivation (RD) nights. During the RD nights the number of sleep interrup...

Inventory represents a significant investment of capital for most companies. Inventory ties up money that could be used more productively elsewhere. Thus, effective inventory management offers the potential for significant cost savings. Furthermore, quality, product engineering, prices, overtime, excess capacity, ability to respond to customers (due-date performance), lead times, and overall pr...

This demonstration describes ScriptEase II, a tool that allows game story authors to generate scripts that control objects in video games by manipulating high level story patterns and game objects. ScriptEase II can generate scripting code for any game engine for which a translator is written. Currently there are translators for Neverwinter Nights and real Pinball games. Story Creation With Scr...

We report the results of a multiyear spectroscopic and photometric monitoring campaign two luminous quasars, PG 0923+201 1001+291, both located at high-luminosity end broad-line region (BLR) size–luminosity relation with optical luminosities above 1045 erg s?1. is monitored for first time, while 1001+291 was previously but our has much longer temporal baseline. detect time lags variations broad...

This paper presents a study in the framework of the ISHT – Interior sound design of high-speed trains project. During a train journey between the cities of Stockholm and Gävle, Sweden, 9 travellers participated in a listening experiment to evaluate the use of sonification to convey nonspeech based information about the travel. We tested sonification for communicating the distance between two st...

The paper ...nds empirical evidence on the ripple e¤ect of sunspots on the interwar German economy. It identi...es a sequence of negative shocks to expectations for the 1927 to 1932 period. The arti...cial economy predicts the 1928-1932 depression and a long boom from 1933 onwards. Overall, a tangible fraction of interwar output volatility is attributed for by sunspots.