MILLA JAUHIAINEN: Validation of Impedance Pneumography Measurement for Assessment of Respiration in Cardiothoracic Surgery Patients Tampere University of Technology Master of Science Thesis, 50 pages May 2017 Master’s Degree Programme in Electrical Engineering Major: Biomedical Engineering Examiners: Associate Professor Jari Viik and Professor Jari Hyttinen Place of work: Biomedical Sciences an...

The ARGO-YBJ experiment, currently under construction at the Yang-baijing Laboratory (4300 m a.s.l.), consists of a single layer of ∼ 2000 Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) for a total instrumented area of ∼ 6700 m 2. The digital read-out, performed by means of pickup electrodes 6.7 × 62 cm 2 ('strips'), allows one to measure the particle number of small size showers. To extend the size range up ...

The use of conceptual graphs for the representation of text contents in information retrieval is discussed. A method for measuring the similarity b etween two texts represented as conceptual graphs is presented. The method is based on well-known strategies of text comparison, such as Dice coefficient, with new elements introduced due to the bipartite nature of the conceptual graphs. Examples of...

The future role of China in world wheat markets is a compelling and important issue for pro­ ducers in California and the rest of the US. Some analysts have estimated that China will continue to demand large quantities of imported wheat. Others have forecast that China will gradu­ ally move to a position where domestic supply will meet the nation’s demand for wheat. Such strong views on this to...

A model is discussed which describes the interaction between tidal currents, sediment transport and bedform changes in a one dimensional short embay-ment with a constant width. The water motions are described by the depth{ integrated shallow water equations. They are forced by prescribed free surface elevations at the entrance which consist of a basic tide and a rst overtide. For the sediment d...

M ößbauer emission spectroscopic and susceptibility measurements of several Co(II)-nucleotide complexes have been carried out. The electronic structure derived from these data for the Co(II) central cation has been related to the distortion and the symmetry of its environ­ ment. The susceptibility data are indicative of short antiferromagnetic ordering in the majority of the samples. For the hy...

ment methods and two spec/imen diameters. Flexural strength and modulus of woven glass fiber-reinforced specimens werc significanLly greater than those without woven glass fiber (p<O.OD, Likewise, comprossive strength of reinforced specimens was signifieantly greater than those without woven glass fiber (p<O.Ol), except for specimens rcjnforced with woven glass fiber oriented at a tilt directio...

Current orthogonal graph drawing algorithms produce drawings which are generally good. However, many times the readability of orthogonal drawings can be signiicantly improved with a postprocess-ing technique, called reenement, which improves aesthetic qualities of a drawing such as area, bends, crossings, and total edge length. Reene-ment is separate from layout and works by analyzing and then ...

In this paper we describe a novel method for evidential reasoning [1]. It involves mod­ elling the process of evidential reasoning in three steps, namely, evidence structure con­ struction, evidence accumulation, and deci­ sion making. The proposed method, called 'RfS, is novel in that evidence strength is associated with an evidential support relationship (an argu­ ment) between a pair of stat...

Spherical shells are proposed and presented to improve the gain of a class of wideband phased array systems. This kind of phased arrays is composed of compact elements, which allow for a small distance between elements that is much less than half wavelength at lower operating frequencies. This small distance, as a function of wavelength, results in a small gain. Therefore, shells confronting th...