The increasingly larger scale of integration in electronic systems has demanded a corresponding increase in the density of the power supplies of these systems. To some extent, this demand has been met by resorting to higher switching frequency power converters (-1 MHz). One of the major problems with high frequency switching converters is the generation of radio frequency signals which may inte...

OBJECTIVE Orientation Week is a series of events at the beginning of the university year that introduces incoming students to university life. It is also the period of the academic year when students consume more alcohol than at any other time. Recently, we demonstrated that alcohol consumption during Orientation Week was related to alcohol consumption during the academic year. The aim of the p...

External sources, either within or outside the hospital environment, may interfere with the appropriate function of pacemakers which are being implanted all around the world in current medical practice. The patient and the physician who is responsible for follow-up of the pacing systems may be confronted with some specific problems regarding the various types of electromagnetic interference (EM...

Implantable rhythm device (IRD) is the generic name for the group of implantable devices used for diagnosis and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. Devices in this category include cardiac pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillators and implantable loop recorders. Since these devices have complex microelectronic circuitry and use electromagnetic waves for communication, they are susceptib...

BACKGROUND Intrathecal drug delivery systems represent an increasingly common treatment modality for patients with a variety of conditions, including chronic pain and spasticity. Pumps rely on electronic programming to properly control and administer highly concentrated medications. Electromagnetic interference (EMI) is a known exposure that may cause a potential patient safety issue stemming f...

Title of Thesis: TERPS: THE EMBEDDED RELIABLE PROCESSING SYSTEM Amol Vishwas Gole, Master of Science, 2003 Thesis directed by: Professor Bruce L. Jacob Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) can have an adverse effect on commercial electronics. As feature sizes of integrated circuits become smaller, their susceptibility to EMI increases. In light of...

To incorporate multisensory information into the healing process, we offered a novel therapy, Eye Movement Integration (EMI), to traumatized clients who had already undergone other treatments without resolution. EMI, developed by Connirae and Steve Andreas, is based on the principle that eye movements that are naturally associated with accessing sensory, cognitive and affective information can ...

BACKGROUND Alcohol abuse, other substance use disorders, and risk behaviors associated with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) represent three of the top 10 modifiable causes of mortality in the US. Despite evidence that continuing care is effective in sustaining recovery from substance use disorders and associated behaviors, patients rarely receive it. Smartphone applications (apps) have b...

The aim of this work is to analyse the concept of semi-sentence from a linguistic, formal and computational point of view. A semi-sentence can be characterised as a sentence which, from a grammatical perspective, is neither absolutely correct nor incorrect (in the sense that a speaker-listener of the language in which it is uttered understands it). This study focuses on: a characterisation of t...