OBJECTIVES The primary objective of this study was to assess the effectiveness of two prehospital stroke screens in correctly classifying patients suspected of having a stroke. Secondarily, differences in the sensitivity and specificity of the two screening tools were assessed. METHODS We performed a retrospective assessment of the Cincinnati Prehospital Stroke Scale (CPSS) and the Medic Preh...

This study examines, via evoked potentials called closurepositive-shifts (CPSs), how listeners segment heard utterances on-line. The aim was to determine whether marks of rhythm groups in heard utterances can evoke CPSs independent of varying intonation and syntactic structures. Ten subjects were presented with sets of utterances bearing changing intonation and syntax and the results show that ...

Cyber-physical approach to securing Body Area Networks (BANs) provides solutions that are plug-n-play and transparent to its users. These Cyber-Physical Security Solutions (CPSS) actively involve characteristics from the physical environment. As a result they require a combination of signal processing (to extract features from the physical environment) and security primitives to function. In th...

The natural course of chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) is highly variable but a widely accepted prognostic scoring system for patients with CMML is not available. The main aim of this study was to develop a new CMML-specific prognostic scoring system (CPSS) in a large series of 558 patients with CMML (training cohort, Spanish Group of Myelodysplastic Syndromes) and to validate it in an in...

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) involve the interconnection of heterogeneous computing devices which are closely integrated with the physical processes under control. Often, these systems are resource-constrained and require specific features such as the ability to adapt in a timeliness and efficient fashion to dynamic environments. Also, they must support fault tolerance and avoid single points ...

The crystal quality and light output power of GaN-based light-emitting diodes (LEDs) grown on concave patterned sapphire substrate (CPSS) were investigated. It was found that the crystal quality of GaN-based LEDs grown on CPSS improved with the decrease of the pattern space (percentage of c-plane). However, when the pattern space decreased to 0.41 μm (S0.41-GaN), the GaN crystallinity dropped. ...

Sujit S. Phatak DJ McCune George Saikalis, Ph.D. Yasuo Sugure OVERVIEW: The need for CPSs derives from the complexity of modern automotive embedded systems, which can contain more than 100 ECUs, a large ROM capacity, and a large amount of software code. Another issue is that traditional design methodologies find it difficult to cope when fundamental hardware problems are identified late in the ...

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) have stringent requirements for size, power, cost, and reaction time. Fault protection mechanisms negatively impact some or all of these considerations. We introduce a software-only framework that leverages the modular and robust design of CPSs to allow more flexibility in detecting and recovering from transient faults. We describe an implementation of this framewo...

BACKGROUND Timely and appropriate hospital treatment of acute cerebrovascular diseases (stroke and Transient Ischemic Attacks - TIA) improves patient outcomes. Emergency Medical Service (EMS) dispatchers who can identify cerebrovascular disease symptoms during telephone requests for emergency service also contribute to these improved outcomes. The Italian Ministry of Health issued guidelines on...

C YBER–physical–social systems (CPSS) integrate computational physical elements (seamless integration of computational algorithms and physical components) capable of interacting with, reflecting and influencing each other as well as the complicated system and information exhibited by human’s social behavior. Rapid advances in mobile cloud computing, man–machine, machine–machine communications, ...