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BACKGROUND For the analysis of length-of-stay (LOS) data, which is characteristically right-skewed, a number of statistical estimators have been proposed as alternatives to the traditional ordinary least squares (OLS) regression with log dependent variable. METHODS Using a cohort of patients identified in the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Adult Patient Database, 2008-2009,...

In this paper, we describe a structured variable length coding (VLC) based on Golomb code that generalize the current context-based adaptive variable length coding (CAVLC) in the emerging video coding standard H.264/AVC. The current CAVLC is characterized as unstructured VLC and uses extensive dedicated code tables. Lack of generality due to these code tables causes a problem of over-fitting or...

Work zones generate significant congestion in urban centers, yet the influence of various capacity factors arterials and intersections are poorly understood. This paper analyzes following on arterial intersection work zone from 22 intersections: heavy vehicle flow, percentage, length, maximum speed limit, entrance lane width, left turn volumes, exit width reductions, length width. An was modele...

Between 1990 and 2001, 24 children aged between 15 months and 11 years presented with late orthopaedic sequelae after meningococcal septicaemia. The median time to presentation was 32 months (12 to 119) after the acute phase of the disease. The reasons for referral included angular deformity, limb-length discrepancy, joint contracture and problems with prosthetic fitting. Angular deformity with...

Let M be a finite module over a noetherian ring R with a free resolution of length 1. We consider the generalized Koszul complexes Cλ̄(t) associated with a map λ̄ : M → H into a finite free R-module H (see [IV], section 3), and investigate the homology of Cλ̄(t) in the special setup when grade IM = rankM = dimR. (IM is the first non-vanishing Fitting ideal of M .) In this case the (interesting) ho...

A new method is put forward to realize pedestrian’s localization by inertial sensor in indoor environment, the positioning method is through pedestrian’s motion information which is collected by an IMU system to achieve pedestrian’s positioning. The pedestrian’s gait is getting by fusion of acceleration data and gyro data, it is improved the traditional method which discriminate pedestrian’s ga...

We have measured total vocal-tract (VT) length, lip-tube length and glottal height during vowels on X-ray film data of short French utterances [1]. VT midpoints are determined by progressively fitting circles along the VT-length from the glottis to lip opening. The VT-length is obtained by summing up the distance between adjacent midpoints. Lip-tube length is defined as the distance between the...

Gait reconstruction systems for paraplegics have been attempted to improve their activities of daily lives. The stride control based on the user’s intension is important to coordinate the voluntary movements of the user and the assisted movements of paralyzed legs. Assuming that the intended stride is equal to the distance of the preceding an arm movement, we developed a human interface estimat...