PURPOSE OF REVIEW To reiterate the necessity of integrating echocardiography in the management of shocked patients and to propose a step-by-step functional evaluation of hemodynamics proven to optimize hemodynamic monitoring and to adapt the treatment. RECENT FINDINGS Echocardiography has become the cornerstone to hemodynamic monitoring. By providing real-time images, echocardiography has the...

High-capacity wireless IP networks with limited delays are nowadays being deployed in both underground and open-pit mines. This allows for advanced remote control of mining machinery with improved feedback to operators and extensive monitoring of machine status, wear and fatigue. Wireless connectivity varies however depending on channel impairments caused by obstacles, multi-path fading and oth...

The Office of Research and Development of the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) is sponsoring a revenue service demonstration of Advanced Train Systems featuring new technologies for improving safety and efficiency in freight train operations. The project, which commenced in 1999, is part of the Rolling Stock Program Element in FRA’s Five-Year Strategic Plan for Railroad Research, Developme...

background: combination chemotherapy is accepted as a high efficacy treatment for gastric cancer, whereas choice of standard treatment is unclear. multiple chemotherapeutic regimens have been used to achieve higher efficacy and lower toxicity. this study was designed to evaluate the treatment results of advanced gastric cancer with capecitabine and oxaliplatin regimen. subjects and methods : al...

Control and Health Monitoring of complex systems such as Gas-Turbine Engines can potentially receive great benefits from the use of advanced software technologies. However, techniques such as Intelligent Agents, Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms are predominately designed to optimally perform specific functions, while the rest of the functionality is better achieved using conventional tech...

A vision of the future of intraoperative monitoring for anesthesia is presented-a multimodal world based on advanced sensing capabilities. I explore progress towards this vision, outlining the general nature of the anesthetist's monitoring task and the dangers of attentional capture. Research in attention indicates different kinds of attentional control, such as endogenous and exogenous orienti...

Power plant operation and monitoring systems will incorporate more and more multimedia information and technology, bringing a sense of visual reality into the control room and providing more effective communication using a richer vocabulary of media. We outline several new advanced techniques of ongoing research for organizing, communicating, browsing, and filtering integrated power plant contr...

Multivariate statistical process control (MSPC) has been successfully applied to chemical processes. In order to improve the performance of fault detection, two kinds of advanced methods, known as moving principal component analysis (MPCA) and DISSIM, have been proposed. In MPCA and DISSIM, an abnormal operation can be detected by monitoring the directions of principal components (PCs) and the ...

Web Monitoring is an important task for crime detection and crime investigation. This paper describes the rationale, functionality and the architecture of the MPI system, which was developed for Web information monitoring based on advanced semantic scripts based on the Conceptual Dependency model.