conclusions thus, we can conclude that a simulator system using an extracorporeal circulation system can be set to different models of dialyzers, and that the reproduced treatment scenarios can be used for simulation training. results the results of the tests demonstrated successful activation of the alarms by the dialysis apparatus, which were appropriate for each of the five types of accident...

The acoustic structure of loud calls ("wahoos") recorded from free-ranging male baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus) in the Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana, was examined for differences between and within contexts, using calls given in response to predators (alarm wahoos), during male contests (contest wahoos), and when a male had become separated from the group (contact wahoos). Calls were recor...

Fear is probably the most basic of all emotions. Not only do all humans experience it, but fear responses have been found in all species of animals right down to the sea slug. Experiences of fear vary tremendously in their severity, from mild anxiety to extreme terror and panic. The experience of fear can also vary in duration from a brief, almost fleeting flash, to a constant, all day experien...

Intracranial pressure (ICP) belongs among relevant physiological parameters that are advised to be monitored at emergency units with patients after severe traumatic brain injury. However no advanced tools in a form of alarm based on ICP time series were developed. Procedure for assessment regarding actual degree of lethality is presented. ICP time segments and its derived features are applied i...

Many animals produce alarm signals when they detect a potential predator, but we still know little about the information contained in these signals. Using presentations of 15 species of live predators, we show that acoustic features of the mobbing calls of black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapilla) vary with the size of the predator. Companion playback experiments revealed that chickadees de...

Although Darwin hypothesized that animal signals were primarily manifestations of an individual's motivation or level of arousal [1], research over the past 20 years has shown that some animal vocalizations – particularly alarm calls – can function to designate specific objects or events in the external world [2–5]. Such predator-specific alarm calls have been termed 'functionally referential',...

1 Early action advisable to prepare for new alarm safety standards Walk into any patient care unit—whether preoperative, intraoperative, or postoperative—and you will hear numerous alarm signals. Some are signaling a medical necessity, but many are false alarm noises that do not require action. Health care workers can hear several hundred alarm signals per patient per day, which may cause alarm...

There are no ideal means for the diagnosis of intestinal bleeding diseases as of now, particularly in the small intestine. This study investigated an intelligent intestinal bleeding detection capsule system based on color recognition. After the capsule is swallowed, the bleeding detection module (containing a color-sensitive adsorptive film that changes color when absorbing intestinal juice,) i...

This paper proposes a new method to detect abnormal process state. The method is based on cluster center point monitoring in time and is demonstrated in its application to data from Olkiluoto nuclear power plant. Typical statistical features are extracted, mapped to ndimensional space, and clustered online for every time step. The process signals in the constant time window are classified into ...