Translocation programmes implying the movement of animals from one place to another aim sustain endangered populations in wild. However, their success varies greatly, with predation being a major contributing factor. This is particularly prevalent released captive-raised individuals which have reduced or lost awareness predators. Alarm calls are an immediate response made toward predator, mostl...

Spatial alarms are fundamental capability for location based advertisements and location based reminders. One of the most challenging problems in scaling spatial alarm processing is to compute alarm free regions (AFR) such that mobile objects traveling within an AFR can safely hibernate the alarm evaluation process until approaching the nearest alarm of interest. In this paper we argue that mai...

False physiologic monitor alarms are extremely common in the hospital environment. High false alarm rates have the potential to lead to alarm fatigue, leading nurses to delay their responses to alarms, ignore alarms, or disable them entirely. Recent evidence from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and The Joint Commission has demonstrated a link between alarm fatigue and patient deaths...

BACKGROUND Reporting of symptoms which may signal cancer is the first step in the diagnostic pathway of cancer diseases. Cancer alarm symptoms are common in the general population. Public awareness and knowledge of cancer symptoms are sparse, however, and many people do not seek medical help when having possible cancer symptoms. As social inequality is associated with cancer knowledge, cancer a...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of smoke alarm use among families with children and to identify household factors that predict the absence of a smoke alarm. DESIGN Cross sectional analysis of data collected in the September and November 1995 Omnibus Survey, conducted by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys in the UK. SUBJECTS A random sample of British households. Interviews ...

Mosquito-borne diseases particularly malaria is becoming most dreaded health problems in the Coastal Blocks of Ramanathapuram District, Tamilnadu, India. In Coastal Blocks of Ramanathapuram District, malaria is seasonal and unstable, causing frequent epidemics. For transmission of malaria parasite, climatic factors are important determinants such as rain fall, temperature relative humidity and ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The Danish Cancer Patient Pathway for sarcoma defines a set of alarm symptoms as criteria for referral to a sarcoma center. This may exclude cancer patients without alarm symptoms, so we investigated the presence of alarm symptoms (defined as being indicative of a sarcoma) in patients who had been referred to the Aarhus Sarcoma Center. PATIENTS AND METHODS We reviewed t...

BACKGROUND Large datasets of the audit log of modern physiologic monitoring devices have rarely been used for predictive modeling, capturing unsafe practices, or guiding initiatives on alarm systems safety. OBJECTIVE This paper (1) describes a large clinical dataset using the audit log of the physiologic monitors, (2) discusses benefits and challenges of using the audit log in identifying the...

OBJECTIVE To compare the efficacy of long-term primary nocturnal enuresis (PNE) treatment using desmopressin versus enuresis alarm. MATERIALS AND METHODS A 6-month randomized trial was performed with patients from 29 enuresis clinics: 251 patients ≥ 5 years in age with severe PNE (mean 5.5-5.6 wet nights/week) were randomized to desmopressin (0.2-0.4 mg daily) or alarm. Efficacy was assessed ...

On encountering a predator, many species emit potentially risky vocalizations known as alarm calls. We evaluated the relative importance of two adaptive hypotheses on the evolution of calling: (1) communicating to predators, which may function by deterring pursuit and hence increasing individual survival, and (2) an alternative nepotistic hypothesis for alarm calling whereby callers obtain dire...