The Siren Organ

Siren Song of Segmentation

SIDS–CDF Hypothesis Revisited: Cause vs. Contributing Factors

The sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)-critical diaphragm failure (CDF) hypothesis was first published by Siren and Siren in 2011 (1). Since its publication, the hypothesis has continued to generate interest and several colleagues have contributed perspectives and insights to it (2-5). The basic premise of the hypothesis is that the diaphragm is a vital organ that must continuously generate ad...

Ambulance Siren Detector using FFT on dsPIC

The purpose of this study is to make software of equipment that detects siren sound of ambulance and to program it on a microcontroller in the equipment. By using two times FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) on detecting, the characteristics of the siren sound could be converted into numerical values. Siren sound was detected properly even under the Doppler effect. The proposed method could detect th...

SIREn: Entity Retrieval System for the Web of Data

We present ongoing work on the Semantic Information Retrieval Engine (SIREn), an “entity retrieval system” specifically designed to meet the requirements of indexing and searching a large amount of semi-structured data, e.g. the entire Web of Data. SIREn supports efficient full text search with semi-structural queries and exhibits a concise index, constant time updates and inherits Information ...

Utilization of warning lights and siren based on hospital time-critical interventions.

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to evaluate the time saved by usage of lights and siren (L&S) during emergency medical transport and measure the total number of time-critical hospital interventions gained by this time difference. METHODS A retrospective study was performed of all advanced life support (ALS) transports using lights and siren to this university emergency department du...