BACKGROUND Current oscillometric blood pressure measurement devices generally provide only single-point estimates for systolic and diastolic blood pressures and rarely provide confidence ranges for these estimates. A novel methodology to obtain confidence intervals (CIs) for systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) estimates from a single oscillometric blood pressure mea...

INTRODUCTION The diffusion tensor is a 3x3 positive definite matrix and, therefore, possesses several distinct matrix decompositions, e.g. the Cholesky, and the Eigenvalue decompositions. To date, the Eigenvalue decomposition has been used only in computing tensor-derived quantities [1-4] but not as a parametrization (or equivalently, a representation) in DTI error propagation [5]. Treating a m...

It is well known that non-line-of-sight (NLOS) and multipath propagation biases time of arrival (TOA) and Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) estimates thus reducing accuracy of positioning algorithms. In order to achieve timing error reduction, a high-resolution first arriving path detector from propagation channel estimates is derived based on the minimum variance (MV) estimates and normalized ...

In recent scenario, mental stress analysis is important task. There are different methods used in the literature survey to extract the mental stress. Wavelet transform as transformation, Power, Energy, entropy, Co-variance, Standard deviation and Mean, as features and K nearest neighbor (KNN) or Back Propagation are commonly used to build mental stress system. In this paper, a modified approach...

The variability of the zonal mean flow in the Southern Hemisphere during the period 1985–94 is studied using European Centre for Medium-Range Forecasts analyses. The dominant mode of variability has approximately equivalent barotropic variations of opposite signs centered at 408 and 608S. This structure is dominant in all seasons and has similar variance in all seasons. The temporal variance of...

This paper introduces the rational inattention hypothesis (RI) – that agents process information subject to finite channel constraints – into a stochastic growth model with permanent technology shocks. We find that RI raises consumption volatility relative to output by introducing an endogenous demand shock. Furthermore, it is shown that incorporating RI can provide an additional internal propa...

In acquiring digital images, electronic systems not only detect optical signals but also convert them into a digital form for further image processing and exchange. Practical systems can introduce error during color calibration, and when acquiring image scene information. For large populations it is often assumed that the error can be modeled as a random variable having a zero mean. In the case...

Our recent work in which we study the propagation of the general Hermite-sinusoidal-Gaussian laser beams in wireless broadband access telecommunication systems is elaborated in this paper to cover the special case of an off-axis Gaussian beam. We mainly investigate the propagation characteristics in atmospheric turbulence of an off-axis Gaussian beam possessing Gaussian distributed random displ...