The Centre for evidence-based Veterinary Medicine (CeVM) at Nottingham university defines evidence-based veterinary medicine (eVM) as: ‘The use of the best relevant evidence, in conjunction with clinical expertise, to make the best possible decision about a veterinary patient. The circumstances of each patient, and the circumstances and values of the owner/carer must also be considered when mak...

Glycidylmethacrylate/methacrylonitrile (G/M) copolymers of different compositions were prepared and a copolymer composition was obtained from quantitative C NMR spectroscopy. Reactivity ratios for comonomers were calculated using the Kelen-Tudos (KT) and non linear error in variable (EVM) methods. The reactivity ratios obtained from KT and EVM are TQ = 1.14 ± 0.1, rM = 0.76 ± 0.06 and rG = 1.12...

The development of the Earned Schedule (ES) method by Lipke in 2003 has been shown to be an important extension to the Earned Value Management (EVM) method, increasing the utility of EVM data for project schedule analysis, control and oversight. As ES provides a reliable time-based indicator of Schedule Performance, the objective of this paper is to investigate whether the SPI(t) exhibited simi...

a project is any endeavor involving planned action, for example, developing a new product or constructing a dam. [ce1] major factors for a project to be successful are applying performance measurement and feedback tool. one such well-known performance measurement tool to control the project execution is earned value management (evm). evm uses the fundamental principle that trends in the past ca...

This work investigates the effects of magnitude and/or phase distortions, in 8-Phase Shift Keying (8-PSK) systems, due to Gaussian bandpass noise. Analytical expressions are derived to compute the performance of the distorted 8-PSK signals in terms of error vector magnitude (EVM), symbol error rate (SER) and Es/No. The results show that the same value of EVM may result in different SER values d...

Discerning subtle abnormal movements is often critical in making the correct neurologic diagnosis. However, many telltale movements are hardly visible to the nonspecialist’s eye. Using Eulerian video magnification (EVM), which applies a spatial and temporal filtering algorithm to amplify movements digitally on (real-time) video, we present 3 neurologic patients in whom the diagnosis became obvi...

We study radio frequency (RF) wireless power transfer (WPT) using a digital transmitter for applications where alternative analog transmit circuits are impractical. An important parameter assessing the viability of an RF WPT system is its end-to-end efficiency. In this regard, we present prototype test bed comprising software-defined (SDR) and energy-harvesting receiver with low resistive load;...