bedsore is a very important problem in bedridden patients. it affects patients’ lives and imposes substantial costs to society. its incidence approaches 38% and its annual prevalence is estimated to be 14.8% in patients who are admitted in hospitals. the national pressure ulcer advisory panel (npuap) and the european pressure ulcer advisory panel (epuap) define bedsore as “a localized injury to...

We apply the partition algorithm to the problem of time-series classification. We assume that the source that generates the time series belongs to a finite set of candidate sources. Classification is based on the computation of posterior probabilities. Prediction error is used to adaptively update the posterior probability of each source. The algorithm is implemented by a hierarchical, modular,...

gastric varices (gv) are responsible for 10-30% of all variceal  hemorrhage. however, they tend to bleed more severely with higher mortality. around 35-90% rebleed after spontaneous hemostasis. approximately 50% of patients with cirrhosis of liver harbor  gastroesophageal varices. in this review, new treatment modalities in the form of endoscopic treatment options and interventional radiologica...

When the control unit detects the diagnose input sequence, it sets the DCR (p, = 1 for all 0, and drives the architecture to the DTM by setting NIT = 0 and TID = 0. This switches the MUX driving To,, to the DCR output therefore driving the external output to a logic 1, to signal that the device is in DTM (see Fig. 2). The control unit then sets the DCR to the shift mode, starting a partition id...

Models of the active cochlea build upon the underlying passive mechanics. Passive cochlear mechanics is based on physical and geometrical properties of the cochlea and the fluid-tissue interaction between the cochlear partition and the surrounding fluid. Although the fluid-tissue interaction between the basilar membrane and the fluid in scala tympani (ST) has been explored in both active and pa...

Partition testing is one of the widely used approaches in software testing. The efficacy of partition testing methods, such as the category-partition method and the classification-tree method, depends highly on the partitioning scheme, which groups together inputs that share some common characteristics. This paper reports case studies on the partitioning of the input domain from considerations ...

For quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) systems, the joint blind equalization (JBE) algorithm, concatenation of two di erent equalization modes, has been widely used. After the eye is opened by the blind equalization mode, the decision-directed (DD) mode follows to improve the equalization performance with fast convergence. This paper proposes a shell partition-based CMA (SPCMA) which acts as...