Acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding is a common medical emergency which carries hospital mortality in excess of 10%. The most important causes are peptic ulcer and varices. Varices are treated by endoscopic band ligation or injection sclerotherapy and management of the underlying liver disease. Ulcers with major stigmata are treated by injection with dilute adrenaline, thrombin, or fibrin glu...

In this paper we describe a novel long-term microhotplate temperature sensor calibration technique suitable for Built-In Self Test (BIST). The microhotplate thermal resistance (thermal efficiency) and the thermal voltage from an integrated platinum-rhodium thermocouple were calibrated against a freshly calibrated four-wire polysilicon microhotplate-heater temperature sensor (heater) that is not...

The 3ω method is popular for thermal conductivity measurements. It consists of a strip heater above a substrate, and the results are usually based on approximate solutions of the heat conduction equation for simplified heating in which the heater is assumed to be a thin plate. Through numerical studies, it is found that a finite heater thickness has an effect on the value of the thermal conduct...

This paper investigates how to develop a learning-based demand response approach for electric water heater in a smart home that can minimize the energy cost of the water heater while meeting the comfort requirements of energy consumers. First, a learning-based, data-driven model of an electric water heater is developed by using a nonlinear autoregressive network with external input (NARX) using...

This summer I had my first experience with something every homeowner dreads (and knows is coming eventually): a sudden puddle of water underneath the hot water heater. A local plumbing company quickly sent a technician out, who spared no time in pronouncing our current hot water heater dead. Then he explained that this company used flat-rate pricing: all jobs of a certain type cost the same fix...

The knowledge of droplet size distribution and concentration allows us to calculate the wetness fraction isentropic turbine efficiency as well provide significant data for erosion modeling. For that purpose, a miniature optical extinction probe with diameter 9.4mm was designed, manufactured tested. is equipped heater, which maintains all components clean from any water contamination. In this pa...

Two experiments were conducted to evaluate systems of providing supplemental heat to newborn pigs during and after farrowing. In Exp. 1, 35 sows were randomly allotted to farrowing crates with two supplemental heat treatments: 1) two lateral 250-watt heat lamps; and 2) two lateral heat lamps, plus a 250-watt heat lamp behind the sow during farrowing. In Exp. 2, 72 sows were randomly assigned to...

A dynamic model of the resistance heater in a thermal flying height control (TFC) slider of a hard disk drive is identified and used for dynamic flying height control. Experimental data obtained on a spin stand and the generalized realization algorithm are used for identification of a discrete-time dynamic model of the resistance heater (thermal actuator). The flying height change is measured u...