Objective Review and assess the current published literature regarding clinical outcomes of suction electrocautery adenoidectomy (ECA) in pediatric patients. Methods The MEDLINE database was systematically reviewed for articles reporting on the use of ECA. Inclusion criteria included English language, sample size greater than 5, and presentation of extractable data regarding pediatric outcomes ...

Seismic hazard assessment for the construction of earthquake-resistant buildings, in particular of critical facilities, in France follows traditionally a deterministic approach. The aim of the French Working Group EPAS (Evaluation Probabiliste de l’Aléa Sismique / Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment), under the aegis of the AFPS (Association Française de Génie Parasismique / French Associat...

This paper presents CSMA/ECA, which combines the efficiency of reservation-based protocols and the simplicity of random access mechanisms. The maximum efficiency of CSMA/CA with optimal parameter adjustment is easily exceeded by CSMA/ECA, even when fixed parameters are used by the latter. CSMA/ECA stations fairly coexist with legacy CSMA/CA and increase the portion of time that is devoted to su...

This study aimed to investigate the immunogenicity of Newcastle disease virus (NDV) in specificpathogen-free (SPF) chickens. The NDV was inactivated using either Binary ethyleneimine (BEI) or Electrolysed water-Catholyte-Anolyte (ECA). Complete inactivation of NDV occurred after 24 hours with either BEI or ECA. Prepared inactivated NDV vaccines were tested for their efficiency in generating hum...

Transactions in areas such as real-time databases and multimedia databases not only compete, but also cooperate. We propose a model for transactions to cooperate through rules and task communication and synchronization. In our model, transactions manipulate persistent and transient data objects. With event-condition-action (ECA) rules and three additional non-ECA rules as tools, our model provi...

OBJECTIVE This is a computational analysis of the effects of external carotid artery (ECA) flow, waveform, and occlusion geometry on two hemodynamic wall parameters associated with intimal hyperplasia and atherosclerosis. Study design Transient three-dimensional fluid mechanics analysis was applied to a standard carotid artery bifurcation. Mean internal carotid artery (ICA) flow was maintained ...

Elementary cellular automaton (ECA) rules 9 and 74, members of Chua’s Bernoulli shift rules and Wolfram’s class 2, can generate a host of gliders and complicated glider collisions by introducing the hybrid mechanism. These gliders and collisions are more plentiful than those generated by ECA rule 110. This paper presents a discussion of the symbolic dynamics of the gliders in hybrid cellular au...

This paper outlines the design process and challenges of creating a character for our implementation of an embodied conversational agent (ECA), specifically integrating diverse views from focus groups consisting of individuals representing different levels of socio-economic status and health literacy. Initial focus groups consisting of members from both higher and lower socio-economic status an...

Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) are computer generated humanlike characters that interact with human users in face-to-face conversations. ECA is a powerful tool in representing the differences in cultural aspects and suitable for interactive training or edutainment systems. This paper presents the preliminary results of the development of a culture adaptive virtual tour guide agent for se...

In this paper we introduce and study Event-Clock Nested Automata (ECNA), a formalism that combines Event Clock Automata (ECA) and Visibly Pushdown Automata (VPA). ECNA allow to express real-time properties over non-regular patterns of recursive programs. We prove that ECNA retain the closure and decidability properties of ECA and VPA being closed under Boolean operations and having a decidable ...