Though cellular phone networks already contain intelligent network elements diagnosing local faults, alarm bursts caused by network element failures cannot be handled properly by this technology. It is the responsibility of the operators to extract the relevant alarms from such a burst and identify the cause. To assist the operators, several alarm correlation tools have been developed. The curr...

False physiologic monitor alarms are extremely common in the hospital environment. High false alarm rates have the potential to lead to alarm fatigue, leading nurses to delay their responses to alarms, ignore alarms, or disable them entirely. Recent evidence from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and The Joint Commission has demonstrated a link between alarm fatigue and patient deaths...

False alarms triggered by security sensors incur high costs for all parties involved. According to police reports, a large majority of alarms are false. Recent advances in machine learning can enable automatically classifying alarms. However, building a scalable alarm verification system is a challenge, since the system needs to: (1) process thousands of alarms in real-time, (2) classify false ...

This paper highlights the capability and potential of a recently-introduced method of designing modelpredictive safety (MPS) systems (Mohseni Ahooyi et al., 2016). For the first time, the method proposed a systematic utilization of process models to generate predictive alarm signals (alerts) for the detection of present and future operation hazards (OHs) in real time. An MPS system uses a proce...

In Ostariophysan fish, the detection of the alarm substance liberated into the water as a consequence of an attack by a predator elicits an alarm reaction or anti-predatory behavior. In this study, experiments were performed to: (i) describe and quantitatively characterize the behavioral and ventilatory responses in piauçu fish (Leporinus macrocephalus), individually and as part of a school, to...

Injury and death cases caused by booby traps are not common in forensic medicine practice. Besides, installation of booby traps including firearms is generally for suicidal and rarely for homicidal purposes. Although few patents were described about home security alarm system that were created by firearms in the United States, 1 sample of injury with a similar unconventional mechanism of home s...