We describe an array of spin-exchange-relaxation-free optical magnetometers designed for detection of fetal magnetocardiography (fMCG). The individual magnetometers are configured with a small volume with intense optical pumping, surrounded by a large pump-free region. Spin-polarized atoms that diffuse out of the optical pumping region precess in the ambient magnetic field and are detected by a...

With the rapidly increasing of people’s purchasing power, the fast moving consumer 9 goods (FMCG) industry is supposed to grow dramatically. In order to gain more market access and 10 profile, it is important for the FMCG manufacturers and retailers to find the preferences and 11 provincial characteristics of consumers, to develop more suitable goods distribution strategy. Based 12 on retails m...

The advent of Social Media has changed the way FMCG companies conduct their business. With nearly 45 million users in India and growing rapidly, social media’s popularity is making organizations to participate in social media to communicate with their customers and also encourage sales. By some estimates, social networking now accounts for 40 percent of all time spent online in India. Nearly on...

With global spending now exceeding US$500 billion, packaging is considered a critical strategic element for brand differentiation and identity. This paper examines consumer response to ‘sponsorship leveraged packaging’ (SLP), a marketing tool commonly used in the Australian FMCG Industry. Findings indicate that sponsorship messages depicted on FMCG packaging are predominantly processed incident...

Manufacturing Execution System (MES) has been evolved as an effective solution for today’s high performance, mass production industrial automation system. MES acts like a bridge between managerial level ERP solution and shop floor level control systems hardwares. MES solutions are highly flexible which are developed and customized targeting some particular industry. In this paper we plan to des...

BACKGROUND Using fetal magnetocardiography (fMCG), we characterize for the first time the electrophysiological patterns of initiation and termination of reentrant fetal supraventricular tachycardia (SVT), the most common form of life-threatening fetal arrhythmia. METHODS AND RESULTS In contrast to the expectation that reentrant SVT is initiated by spontaneous premature atrial contractions (PA...

In this study we compare the performance of six independent components analysis (ICA) algorithms on 16 real fetal magnetocardiographic (fMCG) datasets for the application of extracting the fetal cardiac signal. We also compare the extraction results for real data with the results previously obtained for synthetic data. The six ICA algorithms are FastICA, CubICA, JADE, Infomax, MRMI-SIG and TDSE...

With the objective of evaluating the functional maturation age and developmental disturbances we have previously introduced the fetal autonomic brain age score (fABAS) using 30 min fetal magnetocardiographic recordings (fMCG, Jena). The score is based on heart rate pattern indices that are related to universal principles of developmental biology. The present work aims at the validation of the f...

BACKGROUND Fetal magnetocardiography (fMCG) records fetal cardiac electro-physiological activity during the second half of gestation. We aimed at assessing normality values, related variability, and trends of fetal cardiac time intervals (fCTI) evaluated longitudinally from beat-to-beat fMCG analysis in uncomplicated pregnancies. MATERIALS AND METHODS The fMCG were recorded with multi-channel...

Fetal magnetocardiography (FMCG) have been extensively reported in the literature as a non-invasive, prenatal technique, in which magnetic fields are used to monitor the function of the fetal heart rate. On the other hand, FMCG may be highly noisy, due to the fetal heart dimensions when compared, for example, to the mother’s. In the field of source separation, many works have shown its efficien...