A new method for the measurement of cardiac output has been tested in 69 patients undergoing catheterization of the right and left sides of the heart. It is based on the recently described fiberoptic hemoreflection method. In order to verify the validity of these measurements, correlations with stroke indices determined by the Fick principle and by biplane angiocardiography were also carried ou...

A method allowing us to efficiently group the multi-output Boolean function outputs is presented in this paper. Some kind of decomposition is usually involved in the logic synthesis process. Here the circuit has to be repeatedly divided into subcircuits, until these subcircuits become technological library elements or technology-dependent components, in general. Our output-grouping method can b...

In this paper, a simple but effective method for compensation of the quadrature error in MEMS vibratory gyroscope is provided. The proposed method does not require any change in the sensor structure, or additional circuit in the feedback path. The mathematical relations of the proposed feedback readout system were analyzed and the proposed solution assures good rejection capabilities. Based on ...

This project focuses on the development of a language of interaction based on developing an affect space in collaborative sensing environments. The goal is to design a networked semantics of caress, where the interactivity can recognize, understand, and even express non-rational states such as emotion or intention . This suggests the development of qualitative models for data flow and data-arch...

Real-time systems are those systems whose behaviors are time dependent. Reliability is one of the characteristics of such systems and testing is one of the techniques that can be used to ensure reliable real-time systems. This paper presents a method for testing real-time systems specified by Timed Input Output Automata (TIOA). Our method is based on the concept of test purposes. The use of tes...

Conditional modeling x 7→ y is a central problem in machine learning. A substantial research effort is devoted to such modeling when x is high dimensional. We consider, instead, the case of a high dimensional y, where x is either low dimensional or high dimensional. Our approach is based on selecting a small subset yL of the dimensions of y, and proceed by modeling (i) x 7→ yL and (ii) yL 7→ y....

The Dirichlet-Neumann reduced basis method is a model order reduction method for homogeneous domain decomposition of elliptic PDE’s on a-priori known geometries. It is based on an iterative scheme with full offline-online decomposition and rigorous a-posteriori error estimates. We show that the primal-dual framework for non-compliant output quantities can be transferred to this method. The resu...

A novel ultra-high compliance, low power, very accurate and high output impedance current output stage (COS) with extremely high output current drive capability is proposed in this paper. The principle of operation of this unique structure is discussed, its most important formulas are derived and its outstanding performance is verified by HSPICE simulation in TSMC 0.18µm CMOS, BSIM3, and Level4...