Integration of Global Positioning System (GPS) and Inertial Navigation System (INS) has been extensively used in aircraft applications like autopilot, to provide better navigation, even in the absence of GPS. Even though Kalman Filter (KF) based GPS/INS integration provides a robust solution to navigation, it requires prior knowledge of the error model of INS, which increases the complexity of ...

BACKGROUND Health reforms in many countries affect the scope and nature of primary care. General Practitioners (GPs) are expected to spend more time developing public health, preventive health care, coordination of care and teamwork. We aimed to explore which professional activities GPs consider to be meaningful and how they would like to prioritise tasks. METHODS In a cross sectional online ...

Satellite-based navigation requires precise knowledge of the structure of the transmitted signals. For GPS, accurate knowledge of the shape of the ranging codes is required to ensure no biases are introduced into the position solution. It is generally presumed that all GPS-like satellite signals were virtually identical, however new research has shown that there may be significant variations be...

Global positioning system (GPS) is also known as Navigation System with Time and Ranging Global Positioning System (NAVSTAR) GPS. Originally designed for military purposes, GPS is being increasingly used by civilians for various applications like marine navigation, surveying, car navigation. Signals made available for civilian use, known as the Standard Positioning Service (SPS) can be freely a...

A human malignant melanoma cell line (M3Dau) was observed by electron microscopy to interact directly with human platelets and induced platelet aggregation. Fab fragments of a monoclonal antibody MoAb (LYP18), directed against the platelet glycoprotein (GP) IIb-IIIa complex, inhibited platelet-melanoma interactions and platelet-platelet aggregation. M3Dau melanoma cells bind LYP 18 and synthesi...

This paper proposes a genetic programming system (GPS) to both predict and program deep beam strength. The soft prediction is to provide estimated results for problems and the soft programming is to represent problems with meaningful formulas. In proposed GPS, two models of genetic programming (GP) and weighted genetic programming (WGP) are involved. GP is structured of a tree topology, inputs,...

A dual channel system, which is based on the GPS and the GSM Network, is being developed to compensate the problem of the lost of GPS signals in providing location services to mobile users in metropolitan areas. It is well-known that GPS can provide accurate location estimation in a range of 5-15 meters. But it is also a known fact that GPS does not perform well in urban areas like downtown New...

BACKGROUND GPs typically sanction absence from work by issuing sickness certificates. There has been some debate recently about changing the way sickness certificates are issued and by whom. However, without understanding GPs' certification practices, their requirements in terms of training and education and how they feel the certification process should or should not be changed, measures aimed...

BACKGROUND Vagal nerve stimulation (VNS) has been shown to provide a protective effect against ischemia/reperfusion (I/R)-related arrhythmias by preventing the loss of Connexin43 (Cx43). Our previous studies showed that atrial epicardial ganglionated plexus stimulation (GPS) might exert a VNS-like effect on ventricular electrophysiology. OBJECTIVES To investigate whether GPS could preserve Cx...