background and objective: stop-bang questionnaire is a well-known obstructive sleep apnea (osa) screening tool. this study aimed to evaluate that patients with high probability of osa in stop-bang questionnaire meet the criteria for assessment by split-night polysomnography (psg). materials and methods: patients who were admitted to three sleep clinics and underwent full-night psg entered into ...

Solid state qubits promise the great advantage of being naturally scalable to large quantum computer architectures, but they also possess the significant disadvantage of being intrinsically exposed to many sources of noise in the macroscopic solid-state environment. With suitably chosen systems such as superconductors, many of sources of noise can be suppressed. However, imprecision in nanofabr...

The origins of matter and radiation in the universe lie a hot big bang. We present number well-motivated cosmologies which bang occurs through strong first-order phase transition---either at end inflation, after period kination (``kination-induced bang''), or second vacuum domination early Universe (``supercooled bang''); we also propose ``dark bang'' where only dark is created transition much ...

The problem of controlling a perturbed open loop system so as to keep its performance errors within bounds is considered. The objective is to maximize the time during which performance errors remain below a prescribed ceiling, while the controlled system’s parameters are within a specified neighborhood of their nominal values. It is shown that there is an optimal open-loop controller that achie...

In this paper, we propose a new fuzzy bang–bang relay controller (FBBRC). The bang–bang control systems use switching relays or hard limiter saturation functions with fixed parameters, and their input does not have the flexibility to control the non-linear system over its entire range of operation. The conventional fuzzy bang–bang controllers have an analog output and an external hard limiting ...

We solve exactly the (linear-order) equations for tensor and scalar perturbations over the homogeneous, isotropic, open pre-big bang model recently discussed by several authors. We find that, in spite of claims to the contrary, vacuum quantum fluctuations, although parametrically amplified, remain negligible throughout the perturbative pre-big bang phase. PACS number(s): 98.80.Cq, 04.30.Db Type...

metal oxide surge arrester accurate modeling and its parameter identification are very important for insulation coordination studies, arrester allocation and system reliability. since quality and reliability of lightning performance studies can be improved with the more efficient representation of the arresters´ dynamic behavior. in this paper, big bang – big crunch and hybrid big bang – big cr...