Fifty six children aged from 6-16 years who wet their beds at night were entered into a controlled trial of two alarm devices: a traditional alarm using a wet sensor mat on the bed attached to an alarm bell out of reach of the child, and a mini alarm system incorporating a tiny perineal wet sensor attached to a small alarm worn on the child's clothing. A quota allocation system ensured comparab...

The problem of multivariate alarm analysis and rationalization is complex and important in the area of smart alarm management due to the interrelationships between variables. The technique of capturing and visualizing the correlation information, especially from historical alarm data directly, is beneficial for further analysis. In this paper, the Gaussian kernel method is applied to generate p...

Prey species possess numerous strategies to reduce predation. One tactic is to respond with antipredator behaviours when conspecific alarm cues are detected. The sea hare Aplysia californica defends itself from predators in many ways, one of which is releasing ink and opaline upon attack. Previous work showed that a mixture of ink and opaline from A. californica causes conspecifics to respond w...

warning that deadly new strains of tuberculosis, virtually untreatable using the drugs currently available, appear to be spreading across the globe, raising the spectre of a resurgence in a disease which for many generations has laid in the background, seemingly beaten, but which may now make a major comeback as a lethal new pathogen. The new strains are known as extreme drug-resistant TB or XD...

Abstract The aim of this study is to investigate the level contamination with metals (Fe, Mn, Zn, Cu, and Pb) in Nile River at great Cairo region. Samples water fish were collected seasonally from different sites along investigated area. Physical chemical parameters studied samples such as temperature, transparency, electrical conductivity, pH, BOD, COD measured. In aquatic ecosystems, heavy me...

This paper proposes a novel use of the reciprocal calculation procedure (RCP) to calculate workplace emergency action levels (WEALs) for accidental releases of hydrocarbon mixtures. WEALs are defined here as the concentration in air that area monitors should alarm at to provide adequate warning and be sufficiently protective of health to allow at least enough time to don respiratory protective ...

Young workers of the ant Myrmica sabuleti (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Meinert 1861 perceived nestmate alarm pheromone but did not display normal alarm behavior (orientation toward the source of emission, increased running speed). They changed their initial behavior when in the presence of older nestmates exhibiting normal alarm behavior. Four days later, the young ants exhibited an imperfect vers...

OBJECTIVES To identify which type of smoke alarm is most likely to remain working in local authority inner city housing, and to identify an alarm tolerated in households with smokers. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial. SETTING Two local authority housing estates in inner London. PARTICIPANTS 2145 households. INTERVENTION Installation of one of five types of smoke alarm (ionisation sens...

Compact binary systems emit gravitational radiation which is potentially detectable by current Earth bound detectors. Extracting these signals from the instruments' background noise a complex problem and computational cost of most searches depends on complexity source model. Deep learning may be capable finding where algorithms hit limits. Here we restrict our analysis to non-spinning black hol...