The quality of my daily awakening ritual changed dramatically a few months ago when I was exposed to the Timex Nature Sounds alarm clock. Prior to this, it had never occurred to me to use something other than the traditional buzzer-type alarm clock that I had had since 1986 because “it still worked.” While this was true, it worked by emitting a loud obnoxious sound that stimulated a fight or fl...

Alarm fatigue, a condition in which clinical staff become desensitized to alarms due to the high frequency of unnecessary alarms, is a major patient safety concern. Alarm fatigue is particularly prevalent in the pediatric setting, due to the high level of variation in vital signs with patient age. Existing studies have shown that the current default pediatric vital sign alarm thresholds are ina...

Because young ground squirrels are vulnerable to predation, selection would favor the early ability to respond to alarm calls. This requires discrimination of classes of alarm calls from each other as well as from non-alarm calls. Pre-emergent auditory experience may influence the development of discrimination. As a means of determining when Belding's ground squirrels (Spermophilus beldingi) ca...

=Abstract=Pulse oximetry has recently been introduced as a method for continuous and non-invasive transcutaneous monitoring of arterial oxygen saturation in neonates. The purpose of our study was to determine the reliability, accuracy, and practicability of pulse oximetry for monitoring arterial oxygenation in sick newborn infants. Pulse oximetry oxygen saturation values (SpO2) were compared wi...

Most of the car accidents were cause by improper driving behavior, according to investigates shown that changing lanes improperly would be the one of the main cause. It directed to drivers need an assisting alarm system to help them avoid the dangerous of overtaking. And, we found the existing alarm system and researches try to use different sensory outputs as the alarm signals. However, there ...

Numerous Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) have been developed for MANETs; however, comparatively little research focuses on intrusion alarm exchange and validation in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs). We provide a secure alarm exchange framework for proactive MANET routing protocols and use Optimized Link State Routing model (OLSR) for the implementation. In our solution, alarms can be aggrega...

It is a well-known problem that intrusion detection systems overload their human operators by triggering thousands of alarms per day. As a matter of fact, we have been asked by one of our service divisions to help them deal with this problem. This paper presents the results of our research, validated thanks to a large set of operational data. We show that alarms should be managed by identifying...

• In this work, an optimal alarm system is developed to predict whether a financial time series modeled via Fractionally Integrated Asymmetric Power ARCH (FIAPARCH) models, up/downcrosses some particular level and give an alarm whenever this crossing is predicted. The paper presents classical and Bayesian methodology for producing optimal alarm systems. Both methodologies are illustrated and th...