We report 3 cases of significant foam formation in the venous reservoir with the Maquet Quadrox-I oxygenator and VHK 31 000 reservoir system. All the 3 patients required maximal suction return during procedures, causing pressurization of reservoir and foam formation. Two patients experienced systemic air emboli, which were dealt with by means of retrograde cerebral perfusion and hypothermia wit...

A physical scheme based on a single nonlinear dynamical system with delayed feedback has been recently proposed for Reservoir Computing (RC) [1]. In this paper we present a computational implementation of this idea using a simple chain topology with properties derived from its physical counterpart (e.g. the reservoir is defined by two tunable parameters related to feedbackand input-strength ter...

Most common methods used in optimal control of reservoir systems require a large number of control variables, which are typically the sequences of releases from all reservoirs and for all time steps of the control period. In contrast, the less widespread parameterization-simulation-optimization (PSO) method is a low-dimensional method. It uses a handful of control variables, which are parameter...

Downing, B.D., B.A. Bergamaschi, D.G. Evans and E. Boss. 2008. Estimating source-specific contributions of DOC into a drinking-water reservoir using optical profiling. Lake Reserv. Manage. 24:381–391. Understanding the sources of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in drinking-water reservoirs is an important management issue because DOC may form disinfection by-products, interfere with disinfection...

Reservoir Computing (RC) refers to a Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) framework, frequently used for sequence learning and time series prediction. The RC system consists of a random fixedweight RNN (the input-hidden reservoir layer) and a classifier (the hidden-output readout layer). Here we focus on the sequence learning problem, and we explore a different approach to RC. More specifically, we...

The coupling between a quantum dynamical system and a two-level system reservoir is analysed within the framework of the Feynman-Vernon theory. We stress the differences between this new reservoir and the well-known bath of oscillators and show that, in order to obtain the Langevin equation for the system of interest in the high temperature regime, we have to choose a spectral distribution func...

the mechanical aspect of entropy-exergy relationship, together with the thermal aspect usually consid-ered, leads to an extended formulation of physical exergy based on both maximum useful work and maximum useful heat that are the outcome of available energy of a thermodynamic system. this approach suggests that a mechanical entropy can be studied, in addition to the already used thermal entrop...

For a small system the coupling to a reservoir causes energy shifts as well as transitions between the system’s energy levels. We show for a general stationary situation that the energy shifts can essentially be reduced to the relaxation rates. The effects of reservoir fluctuations and self reaction are treated separately. We apply the results to a two-level atom coupled to a reservoir which ma...