BACKGROUND Few studies have comprehensively described tropical respiratory disease surveillance in military populations. There is also a lack of studies comparing clinical characteristics of the non-influenza pathogens with influenza and amongst themselves. METHODS From May 2009 through October 2012, 7733 consenting cases of febrile respiratory illness (FRI) (temperature [greater than or equa...

BACKGROUND Respiratory illnesses have been identified as a significant factor leading to lost training time and morbidity among Singapore military recruits. A surveillance programme has been put in place to determine etiological agents responsible for febrile, as well as afebrile respiratory illnesses in a military camp. The goal of the study is to better understand the epidemiology of these di...

Parametric signals, such as streams of short pulses, appear in many applications including bio-imaging, radar, and spread-spectrum communication. The recently developed finite rate of innovation (FRI) framework, has paved the way to low rate sampling of such signals, by exploiting the fact that only a small number of parameters per unit of time are needed to fully describe them. For example, a ...

In this paper, Finite Rate of Innovation (FRI) is applied to time domain reflectometry and it is aimed at significantly reducing the data acquisition requirements. The sensitivity of FRI to quantisation noise is addressed given the stringent practical constraints on the resolution of the deployed analogue to digital converters in miniature reflectometry sensors. Dithering with averaging is prop...

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To study repair and enterotoxin synthesis, four staphylococcal strains (FRI-100, FRI-137, FRI-472, and S6) were subjected to sublethal heat treatment, transferred to four liquid repair media (1% powdered skim milk in distilled water, complex medium, M9 minimal salt medium, and saline solution), and then incubated at different temperatures. Powdered skim milk proved to be the most efficient medi...

The present paper proposes and studies an algorithm to estimate channels with a sparse common support (SCS). It is a generalization of the classical sampling of signals with Finite Rate of Innovation (FRI) [1] and thus called SCS-FRI. It is applicable to OFDM and WalshHadamard coded (CDMA downlink) communications since SCS-FRI is shown to work not only on contiguous DFT pilots but also uniforml...

The theory of Finite Rate of Innovation (FRI) broadened the traditional sampling paradigm to certain classes of parametric signals. In the presence of noise, the original procedures are not as stable, and a different treatment is needed. In this paper we review the ideal FRI sampling scheme and some of the existing techniques to combat noise. We then present alternative denoising methods for th...

Abstract Aim Fracture related infections (FRI) are common and serious complications of musculoskeletal trauma. With average hospital health care costs for infected patients being 6.5 times higher than uninfected patients, FRI poses a significant social-economic burden to the patient healthcare system. We aim audit current practice in preventing diagnosing FRIs, improve management with fractures...