BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Sedative and analgesic treatment administered to critically ill patients need to be regularly assessed to ensure that previously stated goals are well achieved as the risk of complications of oversedation is minimized. We revised and prospectively tested the Ramsay Sedation Scale (RSS) for interrater reliability and compared it with the Riker Sedation-Agitation Scale (...

The intravenous glucose tolerance test (IVGTT) interpreted with the minimal model provides individual indexes of insulin sensitivity (S(I)) and glucose effectiveness (S(G)). In population studies, the traditional approach, the standard two-stage (STS) method, fails to account for uncertainty in individual estimates, resulting in an overestimation of between-subject variability. Furthermore, in ...

Data communication over cellular networks is expensive for the mobile device in terms of energy, especially when the received signal strength (RSS) is low. The mobile device needs to amplify its transmission power to compensate for noise leading to an increased energy consumption. This thesis focuses on developing a RSS map for the third generation cellular technology (3G) which can be stored l...

Recommender systems (RSs) are widely utilised across industries as tools to provide users with recommendations based on their preferences. This paper reports an examination of the influence trusting beliefs behavioural intentions reuse RSs, emphasising effects trust propensity, perceived usefulness and product type. A distinctive contribution this study is research model, which integrated antec...

Ranked set sampling (RSS) is known to be superior to the traditional simple random sampling (SRS) in the sense that it often leads to more efficient inference procedures. Basic version of RSS has been extensively modified to come up with schemes resulting in more accurate estimators of the population attributes. Multistage ranked set sampling (MSRSS) is such a variation surpassing RSS. Entropy ...

The Received Signal Strength (RSS) fingerprint-based indoor localization is an important research topic in wireless network communications. Most current RSS fingerprint-based indoor localization methods do not explore and utilize the spatial or temporal correlation existing in fingerprint data and measurement data, which is helpful for improving localization accuracy. In this paper, we propose ...

In the fourth generation wireless networks, it is believed that wireless LANs (WLANs) will interwork with cellular systems to provide fast speed data services. The integration of WLANs and cellular systems calls for a careful design of handover decisions. In WLANs, the received signal strength (RSS) is used for handover decision, thus a thorough understanding of the characteristics of the RSS o...

Nowadays, the majority of RSS feeds provide incomplete information about their news items. The lack of information leads to engagement loss in users. We present a new automated system for improving the RSS feeds’ data quality. RSS feeds provide a list of the latest news items ordered by date. Therefore, it makes it easy for a web crawler to precisely locate the item and extract its raw content....

We continue to explore the validity of the reflected shock structure (RSS) picture in SNR 1987A that was proposed in our previous analyses of the X-ray emission from this object. We used an improved version of our RSS model in a global analysis of 14 CCD spectra from the monitoring program with Chandra. In the framework of the RSS picture, we are able to match both the expansion velocity curve ...

Due to their "on demand" nature, the reactive protocols for MANETs, incurred less overhead and hence are preferred over proactive protocols. Since reactive protocols rely on network wide flooding of routing messages, they suffer from the "broadcast storm" problem. Received signal strength based probabilistic flooding scheme named RSS-GossipAODV was proposed in [13]as an atte...