Background The benefits of alcohol, especially to the functioning of the hearth and circulatory system have always been recognized by many researchers world-wide [1]. But besides, these positive effects, alcohol use, even in moderate amounts can be detrimental under certain conditions. Several studies have recognized the hypoglycemic effect of alcohol use in excessive doses. Centuries ago, Kreb...

Algorithmic thinking is at the hearth of the best known computational thinking. It requires the abilities to decompose and model a problem with a certain representation, and devise or understand an algorithm for making a computer solve it. Such abilities are rather abstract and thus algorithmic thinking is often neglected in primary and middle schools. This research picks up the challenge of de...

In this work, we propose an algorithm to extract the fetal heart rate variability from an ECG measured from the mother abdomen. The algorithm consists of two methods: a separation algorithm based on second-order statistics that extracts the desired signal in one shot through the data, and a hearth instantaneous frequency (HIF) estimator. The HIF algorithm is used to extract the mother heart rat...