A novel method of generating a pseudorandom binary sequence (PRBS) test signal generator is presented. A traditional PRBS generator uses a linear feedback shift register (LFSR) which generates a single maximum length sequence pattern having a fixed period. In this paper, three shift registers with feedback connections are employed in which the preset inputs of the shift registers are changed on...

OBJECTIVES To create a valid assessment tool to evaluate the readiness of pharmacy students for advanced pharmacy practice experiences (APPEs). DESIGN The Triple Jump Examination (TJE) was tailored to the 4-year, 2-plus-2 curriculum of the College. It consisted of (1) a written, case-based, closed-book examination, (2) a written, case-based open-book examination, and (3) an objective structur...

Road damage detection and assessment from high-resolution remote sensing image is critical for natural disaster investigation and disaster relief. In a disaster context, the pairing of pre-disaster and post-disaster road data for change detection and assessment is difficult to achieve due to the mismatch of different data sources, especially for rural areas where the pre-disaster data (i.e., re...

BACKGROUND Postmarket device surveillance studies often have important primary objectives tied to estimating a survival function at some future time $$T$$ with a certain amount of precision. PURPOSE This article presents the details and various operating characteristics of a Bayesian adaptive design for device surveillance, as well as a method for es...

In this paper, we propose a peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) reduction scheme with selective tone reservation. In this scheme, the preset peak reduction tone (PRT) set would be divided into M PRT subsets that can generate M time-domain kernels. The differences of the slopes for the phase responses of the M timedomain kernels would be considered to design the M PRT subsets in reducing the PAPR...

The patient was a 72-yr-old male with chronic respiratory failure from COPD, successfully treated with nocturnal bilevel pressure NIV for 20 months. He was hospitalised in our respiratory intensive care unit (CHU de Rouen, Hôpital de Bois-Guillaume, Rouen, France) for ARF (pH57.26; arterial carbon dioxide tension (Pa,CO2) 11.4 kPa; arterial oxygen tension (Pa,O2)/ inspiratory oxygen fraction (F...

A currency area can be a self-validating optimal policy regime, even when monetary unification does not foster real economic integration and intra-industry trade. In our model firms choose the degree of exchange rate pass-through onto export prices accounting for expected monetary policies, and monetary authorities choose optimal policy rules taking firms’ pass-through as given. We show that th...