MANY people see meditation as an exotic form of daydreaming, or a quick fix for a stressed-out mind. My advice to them is, try it. It's difficult, at least to begin with. On my first attempt, instead of concentrating on my breathing and letting go of anything that came to mind as instructed by my cheery Tibetan teacher, I got distracted by a string of troubled thoughts and then fell asleep. App...

Chattering alarms repeatedly make transitions between alarm and non-alarm states without response from operators, and severely deteriorate the performance of industrial alarm systems. Two rules are formulated based on the metrics of alarm durations and intervals to detect chattering alarms caused by random noise and oscillation. An online method is proposed to reduce the number of the chatterin...