BACKGROUND Intensive care units (ICUs) are complex work environments where false alarms occur more frequently than on non-critical care units. The Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goal .06.01.01 targeted improving the safety of clinical alarm systems and required health care facilities to establish alarm systems safety as a hospital priority by July 2014. An important initial step towar...

Psychotic Experiences (PEs) during adolescence index increased risk for psychotic disorders and schizophrenia in adult life. Working memory (WM) deficits are a core feature of these disorders. Our objective was to examine the relationship between PEs and WM in a general population sample of young people in a case control study. 4744 individuals of age 17-18 from Bristol and surrounding areas (U...

Despite the prevalence of vocal mimicry in animals, few functions for this behaviour have been shown. I propose a novel hypothesis that false mimicked alarm calls could be used deceptively to scare other species and steal their food. Studies have previously suggested that animals use their own species-specific alarm calls to steal food. However none have shown conclusively that these false alar...

In this paper, Hotelling’s 2 T chart and the DPCA(Dynamic PCA)-based 2 A T and Q charts are applied to real oil data histories obtained from condition monitoring of heavy hauler truck transmissions. The objective is to evaluate the impending failure detection capability and the false alarm rate of the control charts in a CBM (conditionbased maintenance) application. When applied to failure hist...

This contribution addresses the problem of automated tuning of change detectors with given false alarm rate. By estimating a parametric distribution to the test statistics computed from real or simulated data, the threshold of the test can be computed directly. The advantage is that we can predict the threshold although there are no or very few false alarms in the used data. Using real data, th...

In this paper we formulate a training framework and present a method for task independent utterance verification. Verification-specific HMMs are defined and discriminatively trained using minimum verification error training. Task independence is accomplished by performing the verification on the subword level and training the verification models using a general phonetically balanced database th...

Coherent scattering calculations have been performed to produce L-Band SAR images of targets below a forest canopy. The calculations, which are fully polarimetric, are described. High clutter levels permit detection of all concealed targets only at the cost of a very high false alarm rate. The simulated imagery is analysed using the entropy-alpha polarimetric decomposition technique. Using alph...

This paper presents a detector of soon-to-fail disks based on a combination of statistical models. During operation the detector takes as input a performance signal from each disk and sends and alarm when there is enough evidence (according to the models) that the disk is not healthy. The parameters of these models are automatically trained using signals from healthy and failed disks. In an eva...