Adverse events and laboratory abnormalities were monitored over 35 days after the commencement of treatment in 45 open studies conducted in Europe, South America, Africa and Asia. These studies were to assess the clinical efficacies of azithromycin and comparator antimicrobial agents in the treatment of paediatric acute bacterial infections. Children (6 months-16 years of age) had been treated ...

The indirect impact of the known comparator drug in double-blind comparative clinical trials of novel agents is underappreciated, despite its potentially pernicious effects. This hypothesis-generating analysis illustrates potential spillover effects of a comparator (amphotericin) in the evaluation of the first member (caspofungin) of a novel class (echinocandins) of antifungal drugs. Reported r...

We consider the problem of constructing reliable minimum nd-ing networks built from unreliable comparators. In case of a faulty compara-tor inputs are directly output without comparison. Our main result is the rst nontrivial lower bound on depths of networks computing minimum among n > 2 items in the presence of k > 0 faulty comparators. We prove that the depth of any such network is at least m...

Learning algorithms need generally the ability to compare several streams of information. Neural learning architectures hence need a unit, a comparator, able to compare several inputs encoding either internal or external information, for instance, predictions and sensory readings. Without the possibility of comparing the values of predictions to actual sensory inputs, reward evaluation and supe...

A simple and novel design for a current comparator is proposed. The proposed current comparator utilizes the concept of adjustment of switching threshold voltage of an inverter employed in the circuit design to develop a reference current for the purpose of current comparison. The proposed circuit was simulated using 0.18 μm TSMC CMOS technology and satisfactory results were obtained.

HBIST (Hybrid-Built-In-Selftest) is a very efficient method for testing analog parts within mixed-signal circuits by using a provided BIST (BuildIn-Selftest)-environment in the digital part of a circuit. For using HBIST of nonlinear analog circuits a new kind of signature called add-signature is proposed. The advantages and disadvantages of the add-signature are demonstrated together with simul...

In this paper, test methodology using parametric measurement unit is proposed for Automated Test Equipment (ATE) systems using 600MHz Driver, Comparator, and Active load (DCL). ATE systems is a very important means to reduce the device test cost, and the systems should be able to test several modes to check the performance characteristics of the device. The proposed methodology provides four di...

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Rapid learning requires flexible representations to quickly adopt to new evidence. We develop a novel class of models called Attentive Recurrent Comparators (ARCs) that form representations of objects by cycling through them and making observations. Using the representations extracted by ARCs, we develop a way of approximating a dynamic representation space and use it for oneshot learning. In t...

We consider the problem of sorting sequences obtained from a sorted sequence of n keys by changing the values of at most k keys at some unknown positions. Since even for k = 1 a lower bound Ω(logn) on the number of parallel comparison steps applies, any comparator network solving this problem cannot be asymptotically faster than the AKS sorting network. We design a comparator network which sort...