This is the first of two linked articles that highlight the spurious sodium values that can occur if an indirect ISE technique is used to analyze plasma samples with abnormal protein or lipid concentration. The focus of this first article is spuriously reduced sodium (pseudohyponatremia) due to increased plasma protein or lipid concentration, whilst the subject of the second [1] is spuriously i...

The MAC unit is considered as one of the fundamental operations in DSP and it becomes a basic component in ApplicationSpecific-Integrated-Circuits (ASIC).The MAC unit determines the speed of the overall system; it always lies in the critical path. Developing a high speed MAC is crucial for real time DSP applications. In other words the MAC operation is the main computational kernel in Digital S...

BACKGROUND Social engagement prolongs the lifespan and preserves cognition in the elderly. However, most studies concerning social engagement have been conducted in Western countries; few have been performed in the Chinese population. This study attempted to identify the risk factors for poor social engagement among elderly veterans in Taiwan. METHODS A total of 597 male veterans were enrolle...

Nonparametric kernel methods are widely used and proven to be successful in many statistical learning problems. Well-known examples include the kernel density estimate (KDE) for density estimation and the support vector machine (SVM) for classification. We propose a kernel classifier that optimizes the L2 or integrated squared error (ISE) of a “difference of densities”. We focus on the Gaussian...

Background sounds, such as narration, music with prominent staccato passages, and office noise impair verbal short-term memory even when these sounds are irrelevant. This irrelevant sound effect (ISE) is evoked by so-called changing-state sounds that are characterized by a distinct temporal structure with varying successive auditory-perceptive tokens. However, because of the absence of an appro...

Current fertiliser recommendations for nitrogen are limited in their accuracy and may be improved by the use of simple on-farm soil rapid tests. This paper investigates the potential for using nitrate (NO3) ion selective electrodes (ISEs) and dual wavelength UV spectroscopy as part of a rapid soil NO3 diagnostic test. Three soil types, representing the major soil types for agriculture in the we...

The process of designing parallel and distributed computer systems requires predicting performance in response to given workloads. The scope and interaction of applications, operating systems, communication networks, processors, and other hardware and software lead to substantial system complexity. Development of virtual prototypes in lieu of physical prototypes can result in tremendous savings...

امروزه توسعه سیستم‌های کارآمد و اثربخش بهداشت درمان به یکی از نگرانی‌های اصلی دولت‌ها تصمیم‌گیرندگان تبدیل شده است. تأمین به‌موقع دارو کارایی سیستم موجودی توزیع، نقشی حیاتی در زنجیره بیمارستانی دارند برای افزایش این فعالیت‌ها، فرآیند تصمیم‌گیری مناسب مدیریت ضروری نظر می‌رسد. پژوهش یک مدل دوهدفه به‌صورت برنامه‌ریزی خطی عدد صحیح مختلط جریان اطلاعات ارائه اهداف حداقل­کردن هزینه‌های خرید، نگهداری، ...

The assumption that ignoring irrelevant sound in a serial recall situation is identical to ignoring a non-target channel in dichotic listening is challenged. Dichotic listening is open to moderating effects of working memory capacity (Conway et al., 2001) whereas irrelevant sound effects (ISE) are not (Beaman, 2004). A right ear processing bias is apparent in dichotic listening, whereas the bia...