Purpose Recently, doubts have been raised concerning the validity of 20-m shuttle run test (20mSRT) to predict cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) in youth. Despite these doubts, authors continue provide powerful evidence that CRF can be predicted reliably using 20mSRT albeit contrasting models. Therefore, we aimed compare a new linear model with an alternative allometric (peak oxygen uptake, V˙O2p...

This paper presents an approach for reducing the test data volume that has to be stored in ATE vector memory for IC manufacturing testing. We exploit the capabilities of present ATE to assign groups of input pins to ports and to perform vector repeat per port. This allows run-length encoding of test stimuli per port. We improve the encoding by filling the don’t-care bits in the test stimuli, su...

The system was evaluated on the speaker-independent (SI) portion of DARPA's February 1992 "Dry-Run" WSJ0 test and achieved 17.1% word error without verbalized punctuation (NVP) and 16.6% error with verbalized punctuation (VP). In addition, we increased the amount of training data and reduced the VP error rate to 12.9%. This SI error rate (with a larger amount of training data) equalled the best...

Interactive distributed simulation environments consist of interconnected communicating components. The performance of such a system is determined by the execution time of the executing components and the amount of data that is exchanged between components. We describe an interactive distributed simulation system in the scope of a medical test case (simulated vascular reconstruction) and presen...

This paper presents an attempt to use supplementary information for audio data diarization. The approach is based on the use of a priori information about the speakers involved in dialogue. Those specific information are the number of speakers involved in conversation, and training data available for one speaker or for all the speakers involved in conversation. The experiments were mainly condu...

  Background and Objective: Improved and modified automation will require the development of smart process control systems that provide on-line decisions to release patients’ test results based on high analytical quality assurance formula. Materials and Methods: We collected patients’ test results from 10840 healthy subjects based on 1.96z as truncation limit for 29 common haematochemical ana...

Public-key cryptosystems base their security on well-known number-theoretic problems, such as factorisation of a given number n. Hence, prime number generation is an absolute requirement. Many prime number generation techniques have been proposed up-to-date, which differ mainly in terms of complexity, certainty and speed. Pocklington’s theorem, if implemented, can guarantee the generation of a ...