Sexual maturation and physical growth to almost adult size are attained early in adolescence, while psychological maturation takes longer. These factors lead to characteristic behaviours that can conduce to various diseases, and even death, and which influence the sick adolescent’s response to the health care process. Adolescents are generally regarded as the healthiest segment of any populatio...

In general, two major issues arise when designing real-time embedded systems upon multiple processors: task allocation and feasibility/schedulability analysis. The task allocation problem is concerned with the assignment of tasks to processors, whereas the feasibility/schedulability analysis deals with testing whether a given set of real-time tasks is schedulable or not. A set of real-time task...

SAR simulators usually apply the ray-tracing approach. Ray-tracing, which is also used for virtual image generation, is based on accurate physical models, but is unfortunately rather computational time intensive. Because of this, real-time applications, like interactive visualisation, in general use the rasterization method. Rasterization is less complex to calculate and is therefore faster. Th...

A computer mediated communication system has been developed which can offer real time multilingual communication, as long as users stay within the boundaries of prestored conversational units. The system was designed originally to give non-speaking people a multi-lingual capability. It is based on research into conversational modelling and utterance prediction, making use of prestored material....

In this paper we consider databases representing information about moving objects (e.g. vehicles), particularly their location. We address the problems of updating and querying such databases. Specifically, the update problem is to determine when the location of a moving object in the database (namely its database location) should be updated. We answer this question by proposing an information ...

Objective: To evaluate the application of Antimicrobial (ATM) treatment time reduction strategy in Intensive Care Units (ICU) an Stewardship Program (ASP). Method: This is a descriptive and cross-sectional study, carried out two ICU university hospital Fortaleza, Brazil, from January/2017 to January/2019. Adult patients were included, accompanied by pharmacist, using ATM, which was applied. The...

We construct a spatial indexing solution for the highly constrained environment of an in-vehicle unit in a distributed vehicle tolling scheme based on satellite navigation (gnss). We show that a purely functional implementation of a high-fanout quadtree is a simple, practical solution that satisfies all the requirements of such a system.

Hidden units can play essential roles in modeling time-series having long-term dependency or nonlinearity but make it difficult to learn associated parameters. Here we propose a way to learn such a time-series model by training a backward model for the time-reversed time-series, where the backward model has a common set of parameters as the original (forward) model. Our key observation is that ...