The Takaoka Automatic Respirator

Tuning the Zhu-Takaoka string matching algorithm and experimental results

In this paper we present experimental results for string matching algorithms which have a competitive theoretical worst case run time complexity. Of these algorithms a few are already famous for their speed in practice, such as the Boyer-Moore and its derivatives. We chose to evaluate the algorithms by counting the number of comparisons made and by timing how long they took to complete a given ...

The effect of gender and respirator brand on the association of respirator fit with facial dimensions.

This study examined the association of facial dimensions with respirator fit considering the effect of gender and respirator brand. Forty-one subjects (20 white females and 21 white males) participated in the study. Each subject was measured for 12 facial dimensions using anthropometric sliding and spreading calipers and a steel measuring tape. Three quantitative fit tests were conducted with t...

The first few hours off a respirator.

Predictable oxygen concentrations with the Bird respirator.

IN 1964, Fairley and Britt investigated the adequacy of the air-mix control of ventilators operated from an oxygen source. 1 The mean inspired oxygen percentages were measured at various cycling pressures, and with the Bird Mark 7 ventilator the oxygen levels varied from 51.5 to 96.8 per cent, being highest at low flows and at high cycling pressures. Consequently, these authors recommended that...

An alternative proof of a result of Takaoka

In Karatzas and Kardaras’s paper [11] it is proved that the NUPBR condition is a property of the local characteristic of the asset process. In Takaoka’s paper [15] it is proved that the NUPBR condition is equivalent to the existence of a local martingale deflator. However, the paper [15] founds its proof on Delbaen and Schachermayer’s fundamental asset pricing theorem, i.e. the NFLVR condition,...