Background and Objectives: Arteriovenous fistula is a popular vascular access method for surgical treatment of hemodialysis patients. The method, however, is associated with a high rate of early failure varying in the range of 20-60%. Predicting early Arteriovenous fistula failure and its risk factors can help reduce its incidence, its hospitalization rate, and associated costs. In this study, ...

analysis and prediction of structural response to static or dynamic loading requires prediction of concrete response tovariable load histories. the constitutive equations for the mechanical behavior of concrete capable of seeing damage effects or crack growth procedure under loading/unloading/reloading was developed upon micro-plane framework. the proposed damage formulation has been built on t...

introduction:guillain-barre syndrome(gbs) is the most common cause of acute flaccid paralysis. respiratory failure is the most serious short-term complication of gbs and invasive mechanical ventilation is required in 30% of patients.moreover,60% of those who are intubated develop major complications including pnemonia,sepsis,gi bleeding and pulmonary embolism. thus respiratory failure predictio...

This study proposes a methodology for predicting product failures occurring due to known failures and causalities. The prediction is based on failure propagation in an integrated model of a product, production process, and quality information (PPQ). This methodology enables a designer to predict new failures. One of the concepts for failure prediction is the PPQ for compiling referring to quali...

We consider a monitored system with observation Y (t) at time t modeled by a stochastic process, and where system failure is connected to the exceedance of some threshold for this process. Typically, the threshold is not exceeded under normal conditions, where the process Y (t) is supposed to show some kind of stationarity. However, due to unexpected events the process may leave the stationary ...

Depending on the role of software in everyday life, the cost of a software failure can sometimes be unaffordable. During system execution, errors may occur in system components and failures may be manifested due to these errors. These errors differ with respect to their effects on system behavior and consequent failure manifestation manners. Predicting failures before their manifestation is imp...