Instruction-Level Redundancy (ILR) is a well known approach to tolerate transient CPU faults. It replicates instructions in a program and inserts periodic checks to detect and correct CPU faults using majority voting, which essentially requires three copies of each instruction and leads to high performance overheads. As SIMD technology can operate simultaneously on several copies of the data, i...

BACKGROUND The recording of arrhythmic events (AE) in renal transplant candidates (RTCs) undergoing dialysis is limited by conventional electrocardiography. However, continuous cardiac rhythm monitoring seems to be more appropriate due to automatic detection of arrhythmia, but this method has not been used. OBJECTIVE We aimed to investigate the incidence and predictors of AE in RTCs using an ...

Syncope is a transient symptom. Typically patients affected by vasovagal syncope (VVS) are asymptomatic at the time of evaluation, and the opportunity to capture a spontaneous event is rare. The increasing use, during the last two decades, of tilt testing and prolonged electrocardiographic (ECG) monitoring in the clinical practice, especially implantable loop recorder (ILR), has made easier the...

The inter-cell interference (ICI) problem in OFDMA wireless systems is a major impediment to attain high rates particularly for cell-edge users in reuse-1 systems. Using centralized resource allocation to combat ICI is not practical, particularly in heterogeneous networks (HetNets), as they require intensive signalling about interference and channel state information that may not always be prac...

Internal loop recorders (ILRs) are frequently implanted in patients with syncope or paroxysmal tachycardias. Built-in auto-activation algorithms are not perfect, but have much improved in the newer, smaller devices. We report a case of a 64-year-old patient with recurrent syncope and ILR which detected an atrioventricular block III8 while the patient was asymptomatic. Would you proceed with pac...

AIMS Opinions differ regarding the effectiveness of cardiac pacing in patients affected by reflex syncope. We assessed a standardized guideline-based algorithm in different forms of reflex syncope. METHODS AND RESULTS In this prospective, multi-centre, observational study, patients aged >40 years, affected by severe unpredictable recurrent reflex syncopes, underwent carotid sinus massage (CSM...

Based on the review of Carpenter and Frontera we present a case of a 66-year-old female patient who was implanted with an implantable loop recorder (ILR) (LinQ, Medtronic) due a history of unexplained syncope and symptoms of palpitations. After the procedure the patient was provided with a smartwatch device (E4, Empatica), which measures the photoplethysmography (PPG) signal at the wrist, and a...

INTRODUCTION Routine immunization is a key child survival intervention. Issues related to quality of service delivery pose operational challenges in delivering effective immunization services. Accumulated evidences suggest that "supportive supervision" improves the quality of health care services. During 2009-10, Govt. of Odisha (GoO) and UNICEF jointly piloted this strategy in four districts t...

OBJECTIVES We prospectively evaluated the mechanism of syncope in patients with positive adenosine triphosphate (ATP) tests (defined as the induction of atrioventricular [AV] block with a ventricular pause >/=6 s after an intravenous bolus of 20 mg ATP). BACKGROUND Patients with unexplained syncope tend to have more positive ATP tests results than those without syncope. METHODS An implantab...