Potentially fatal asthma (PFA) is a designation used to identify patients with asthma who are at increased risk of a subsequent fatality.’ This diagnosis is dependent on patients presenting to the health care system because the diagnosis is based on major asthma events as listed in Table 1. Some fatalities in Chicago have occurred in patients who have not received medical care and therefore can...

A typical electrothermal vaporization (ETV) using a tantalum was built for low-pressure ICP-AES. The analytical performance of the ETV was tested and compared with that of a PFA pneumatic nebulizer with a double membrane desolvator (DMD). The limits of detection of the ETV were obtained in the range of 3.4 ng to 758 ng for Zn, Cu, Co, Fe, and Mg, while those of the PFA nebulizer were in the ran...

As the deployment of new wireless devices and applications is growing rapidly there is an increase in demand for wireless radio spectrum. Researchers show that more than 70% of available spectrum is not used efficiently. For efficient utilization of spectrum we need to know whether the spectrum is used by primary user or not which is called Spectrum Sensing. The concept Cognitive Radio is propo...

Pulsed field ablation (PFA) is a non-thermal ablative strategy that achieves cell death via electroporation. We investigated the durability of PFA lesions using 2 novel PFA/mapping catheters (CRC EP Inc, San Jose, CA) at repeat studies performed 3 months post-ablation. In total, 16 pulsed applications were delivered in swine under general anesthesia absence paralytic agents, including: 1 applic...

Approximating distributions over strings is a hard learning problem. Typical techniques involve using finite state machines as models and attempting to learn these; these machines can either be hand built and then have their weights estimated, or built by grammatical inference techniques: the structure and the weights are then learned simultaneously. The PAutomaC competition, run in 2012, was t...

The Banach space `∞/c0 is isomorphic to the linear space of continuous functions on N∗ with the supremum norm, C(N∗). Similarly, the canonical representation of the `∞ sum of `∞/c0 is the Banach space of continuous functions on the closure of any non-compact cozero subset of N∗. It is important to determine if there is a continuous linear lifting of this Banach space to a complemented subset of...

We develop and demonstrate high-quality white light generation that relies on the use of a single-type simple conjugated polymer of polyfluorene functionalized with azide groups (PFA) integrated on a near-UV LED platform. The high-quality white emission from the polyfluorene is achieved by using the azide functionalization to facilitate cross-linking intentionally when cast into solid-state for...

We study the classification of ω1-separable groups using EhrenfeuchtFräıssé games and prove a strong classification result assuming PFA, and a strong non-structure theorem assuming ♦.