OBJECTIVE To conduct a descriptive study investigating the effect of access to motor vehicle accident (MVA) compensation on recovery outcomes at 24 months after injury. DESIGN AND SETTING Longitudinal cohort study conducted in two Level 1 trauma hospitals in Victoria, Australia. Participants were 391 randomly selected injury patients with moderate-to-severe injuries. Compensable and non-compe...

This paper investigates the optimum dispersion mapping for 40Gbps WDM system. The paper shows the performance of five channel WDM system with the channel spacing of 100GHz (0.8nm) by using non-zero dispersion shifted fiber (NZDSF) and dispersion compensation fiber (DCF). In addition it reveals both pre-compensation and residual dispersion per span can develop the performance. The modulation for...

This paper addressed the problem of speech signal preclassification for robust noisy speech recognition. A novel RNN-based pre-classification scheme for noisy Mandarin speech recognition is proposed. The RNN, which is trained to be insensitive to noise-level variation, is employed to classify each input frame into the three broad classes of initial, final and pure-noise. An on-line noise tracki...

Simulating variations pre-Si can be very time consuming. Running enough Monte Carlo simulations at the five process corners takes a non-trivial amount of time, particularly for larger designs. This paper describes a method for decreasing time for simulating process variations by reducing the number of required simulations. Through noise-analysis and Monte Carlo simulations conducted in commerci...

This paper presents a method to improve the path tracking accuracy of an industrial robot without replacing the standard industrial controller. By calculating off-line an appropriate trajectory pre-compensation, the effects of the nonlinear dynamics are compensated. This is realized by filtering the desired trajectory with the inverse dynamic model of the robot and its velocity controller. This...