AIM To develop classification criteria for Chinese pulse diagnosis and to objectify the ancient diagnostic technique. METHODS Chinese pulse curves are treated as wave signals. Multidimensional variable analysis is performed to provide the best curve fit between the recorded Chinese pulse waveforms and the collective Gamma density functions. RESULTS Chinese pulses can be recognized quantitat...

High-voltage pulsing has previously been shown to dramatically increase molecular transport across skin. The goal of this study was to examine the functional dependence of transdermal transport on pulse parameters and to make comparisons with iontophoresis. Transdermal transport of calcein, a model drug, was measured during low-voltage, constant electric fields (iontophoresis) and high-voltage ...

This paper presents a theory of imaging objects behind layers of scattering media. The transmitter is a focused array or an aperture emitting a short pulse. The scattered pulse is received by a focused array or aperture. The received signal consists of two components: the pulse scattered from a random medium and from the target, and these two components can be distinguished by the use of ultra ...

This paper presents a compact architecture for analog CMOS hardware implementation of voltage-mode pulse-coupled neural networks (PCNN's). The hardware implementation methods shows inherent fault tolerance specialties and high speed, which is usually more than an order of magnitude over the software counterpart. A computational style described in this article mimics a biological neural network ...

Background: Pulse Oximeter monitoring has become so common over previous decades that in some health care units, blood oxygen level is now considered as the fifth vital sign. However, it seems there is still some lack of knowledge and/or experience among medical staff operating pulse oximeter and interpreting its results. The aim of this study was to investigate and compare the knowledge on Pul...

The default pulse shaping filter in the conventional multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) based orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system is a rectangular function, which unfortunately is highly sensitive to frequency synchronization errors and the Doppler spread. Shaped OFDM is able to considerably alleviate the effect of inter-carrier interference (ICI) as well as reduce t...

introduction blood pressure (bp) is one of the important vital signs that need to be monitored for personal healthcare. arterial blood pressure is estimated from pulse transit time (ptt). this study uses two pulse sensors to get ptt. the aim of this study was to construct an optical system and to monitor blood pressure continuously and without cuff in people with different ages. materials and m...

medical environments such as hospital waiting rooms can affect a client’s anxiety level as wellas psychological and physiological responses to his or her situation. the aim of this research was to evaluatethe use of environmental design, specifically the design which incorporates elements of nature, in clinics andhospitals to decrease anxiety, blood pressure and pulse rates of waiting clients. ...

The so-called Hallén integral equation for the current on a finite linear antenna center-driven by a delta-function generator takes two forms depending on the choice of kernel. The two kernels are usually referred to as the exact and the approximate or reduced kernel. With the approximate kernel, the integral equation has no solution. Nevertheless, the same numerical method is often applied to ...

Spectrum is presently one of the most valuable goods worldwide as the demand is permanently increasing and it can be traded only locally. The United States FCC has opened a portion of the spectrum from 3.1 GHz to 10.6 GHz, i.e. a bandwidth of 7.5 GHz, for unlicensed use with up to –41.25 dBm/MHz EIRP [1]. Numerous applications in communications and sensor areas are showing up now. Like all wire...