To investigate how hearing status, sign language experience, and task demands influence functional responses in the human superior temporal cortices (STC) we collected fMRI data from deaf and hearing participants (male and female), who either acquired sign language early or late in life. Our stimuli in all tasks were pictures of objects. We varied the linguistic and visuospatial processing dema...

Since its creation in 1976, the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) has elected twenty nine “Honorary Fellows”, a highly selected group of European scientists, experts, managers, teachers and leaders recognized by their peers for their important contribution to the field of health informatics. They can be considered as“pioneers” in research, education and services to the communit...

BACKGROUND Simulation-based-training (SBT) in the education of health professionals is discussed as an effective alternative for knowledge and skills enhancement as well as for the establishment of a secure learning environment, for learners and patients. In the Anglo-American region, SBT and simulation and training centers (STC) are numbered as standard for medical training. In German-speaking...

The last few years witnessed a dramatic increase in the demand on high-rate reliable wireless communications due to the incorporation of broadband internet access and demanding multimedia services such as high-definition audio and video streaming to modern wireless devices. In order to meet these new requirements, resorting to Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) techniques was inevitable as t...

TOPIC: Cardiothoracic Surgery TYPE: Medical Student/Resident Case Reports INTRODUCTION: A 79-year-old female status post right lower lobe (RLL) resection one month prior presented with shortness of breath, cough, and fever despite antibiotic therapy. Initial chest CT revealed empyema. Curiously, each administration intrapleural fibrinolytic therapy tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) recombinant...

The combination of the automatic control theory courses, simulation verification and practical implementation of the designed controller algorithms in real-time conditions is very important for training of the control engineers. This contribution present structure and usage of Self-tuning Controllers Simulink Library (STCSL) for real time control. The STCSL was created for design, simulation ve...

The tropical oceans have long been recognized as the most important region for large-scale ocean– atmosphere interactions, giving rise to coupled climate variations on several time scales. During the Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere (TOGA) decade, the focus of much tropical ocean research was on understanding El Niño–related processes and on development of tropical ocean models capable of simul...

High computational complexity constrains truly exhaustive computer searches for good space-time (ST) coded modulations mostly to low constraint length space-time trellis codes (STTrCs). Such codes are primarily devised to achieve maximum transmit diversity gain. Due to their low memory order, optimization based on the design criterion of secondary importance typically results in rather modest c...

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•ML accelerates open-air process optimization for perovskite solar cells•With a budget of 100 conditions, 18.5% device efficiency is achieved•Researchers’ domain knowledge can be incorporated into ML optimization•Benchmarking results show an advantage over traditional methods Perovskite photovoltaics (PVs) have achieved rapid improvement in the past decade power conversion small-area lab-scale ...