OBJECTIVE To compare the various paediatric weight estimation methods (Advanced Pediatric Life Support, Broselow Tape, Argall, and Best Guess) and parental estimate to measured weight. PATIENTS AND METHOD A convenience sample of children aged 1-11 years who presented to the emergency department over a 6 month period were eligible for inclusion. Data collected included height, age, ethnicity, ...

In this paper, a novel neuro-optimal control scheme is proposed for unknown nonaffine nonlinear discretetime systems by using adaptive dynamic programming (ADP) method. A neuro identifier is established by established RNN model, the ADP method is utilized to design the approximate optimal controller. Two neural networks (NNs) are used to implement the iterative algorithm. The convergence of the...

This paper seeks to improve usability and semantics of complex decision support based on multiple criteria and data envelopment analysis using the profile distance method. We recognize the need of decision making practice for more intuitive and understandable decision support in complex and comprehensive settings by proposing three areas for improvement. We suggest a more meaningful indicator o...

Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is an attractive solution for the identification and control of complex systems. This technique can be very heavy for processes depending on many parameters like, for example, in steel-making. In such cases, solutions such as Orthogonal Weight Estimator (OWE) architectures are recommanded. They make it possible the definition of a generic neuronal architecture, a...

This paper describes a cross-validation method to determine the appropriate weight with which dynamic constraints should be applied when estimating vocal tract shapes from speech. This data-dependent method can estimate the weighting without the need for separate prior knowledge of the source and noise statistics. The principles are first demonstrated on a simple onedimensional system analogous...

For a static/dynamic O-D matrix estimation, usually, the basic required information is a starting estimation of O-D matrix and a set of traffic counts. In the era of the Intelligent Transportation Systems, a dynamic estimation of traffic demand has become a crucial issue. Different Dynamic Traffic Assignment (DTA) models have been proposed, used also for O-D matrices estimation. This paper pres...