The purpose of this project is to alleviate the stress associated with an alarm clock by giving it features that make the experience of waking up in the morning more enjoyable. The alarm clock will be able to connect to an existing wireless network on which the user runs a personal computer that stores a personal music collection. The user can configure the alarm clock to connect to this collec...

BACKGROUND Effective treatment of stroke is time dependent. Pre-hospital management is an important link in reducing the time from occurrence of stroke symptoms to effective treatment. The aim of this study was to evaluate time used by emergency medical services (EMS) for stroke patients during a five-year period in order to identify potential delays and evaluate the reorganization of EMS in Co...

This paper considers prior-independent mechanism design, namely identifying a single mechanism that has near optimal performance on every prior distribution. We show that mechanisms with truthtelling equilibria, a.k.a., revelation mechanisms, do not always give optimal priorindependent mechanisms and we define the revelation gap to quantify the non-optimality of revelation mechanisms. This stud...

RATIONALE Although home cardiorespiratory monitors have been used for a few decades, they do not give information on oxygenation status during events. Pulse oximeters with low false-alarm rates are now available but with no standards for alarm adjustment. OBJECTIVE To determine, in a population of children monitored at home with a pulse oximeter, whether the chosen alarm levels could safely i...

this paper has studied motahari's point of view  on the divine revelation as a methodological problem. in islamic philosophers' point of view, divine revelation is result of :union: of prophet and active intellect. they consider the divine revelation as knowledge and emphasize its cognitive identity. on the other hand, some scholars reduce the divine revelation to tendencies and empha...

–The performance of a radar detector may become inaccurate when key parameters of the system are imprecise. Imprecise parameters are modeled here as fuzzy numbers. The Fuzzy Integrator detector is constructed for a Rician target in Rayleigh background. Results indicate that the precision of the detection performance decreases as parameter imprecision increases. The false alarm rate is particula...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The Danish Cancer Patient Pathway for sarcoma defines a set of alarm symptoms as criteria for referral to a sarcoma center. This may exclude cancer patients without alarm symptoms, so we investigated the presence of alarm symptoms (defined as being indicative of a sarcoma) in patients who had been referred to the Aarhus Sarcoma Center. PATIENTS AND METHODS We reviewed t...

IE:;, r: ~;-, {fSinceits arrival on the public finance scene some 50 years ago, the Tiebout ~!inodel has played a strikingly diverse range of roles. Indeed, it appears, in ~important ways, to mean different things to different people. The mod~l has ~peen employed as everything from an algorithm for the resolution of the basic Jpreference-revelation problem in the theory of public goods to a des...

I study a simple model of moral hazard with soft information. The risk-averse agent takes an action and she alone observes the stochastic outcome; hence the principal faces a problem of ex post adverse selection. Some measure of truthful revelation is necessary to implement any effort, for which an audit is required. And for effort to be induced the agent must be offered a rent. There exists a ...

The handiwork and the glory of God displayed by the heavens and the firmament have been called General Divine Revelation. In this category one may also include the constitution of human personality, for man himself is a creation of God and in some sense bears the marks of his Creator. This “light of nature and the works of creation and providence do so far manifest the goodness, wisdom, and pow...