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We measured the tidal volume achieved during intermittent positive pressure ventilation using various inspiratory times with a minimum of 0.2 seconds. Results indicate that tidal volume shows no reduction with inspiratory times down to 0.4 seconds. An inspiratory time of 0.3 seconds, however, is likely to reduce tidal volume by 8%, and at 0.2 seconds a 22% fall may be anticipated.

A new scan architecture for both low power testing and test volume compression is proposed. For low power test requirements, only a subset of scan cells is loaded with test stimulus and captured with test responses by freezing the remaining scan cells according to the distribution of unspecified bits in the test cubes. In order to optimize the proposed process, a novel graph-based heuristic is ...

Simple Recurrent Networks (SRNs) have been widely used in natural language processing tasks. However, their ability to handle long-term dependencies between sentence constituents is somewhat limited. NARX networks have recently been shown to outperform SRNs by preserving past information in explicit delays from the network’s prior output. However, it is unclear how the number of delays should b...

Quantifier elimination (QE) is a powerful tool for problem solving. Once a problem is expressed as a formula, such a method converts it to a simpler, quantifier-free equivalent, thus solving the problem. Particularly many problems live in the domain of real numbers, which makes real QE very interesting. Among the so far implemented methods, QE by cylindrical algebraic decomposition (CAD) is the...

Simple Recurrent Networks (SRNs) have been widely used in natural language tasks. SARDSRN extends the SRN by explicitly representing the input sequence in a SARDNET self-organizing map. The distributed SRN component leads to good generalization and robust cognitive properties, whereas the SARDNET map provides exact representations of the sentence constituents. This combination allows SARDSRN to...

The foundations of the symmetry approach to the classification problem ofintegrable non-linear evolution systems are briefly described. Within the framework of the symmetry approach the ten-parametric family of the third order non-linear evolution coupled KdV-like systems is investigated. The necessary integrability conditions lead to an over-determined non-linear algebraic system. To solve tha...