Seven models, available commercially for the self-measurement of blood pressure, were subjected to a validation procedure in which three devices of each model were tested by observers who were trained to a high standard of accuracy. The models were the Omron HEM-400C, the Philips HP5308, the Healthcheck 'Cuffless' CX-5 060020, the Nissei Analogue Monitor, the Philips HP5306/B, the Systema Dr MI...

The trends toward product line development and toward adopting more 3rd-party software are hard to combine. The reason is that product lines demand fine control over the software (e.g., for diversity management), while 3rd-party software (almost by definition) provides only little or no control. A growing use of 3rd-party software may therefore lead to less control over the product development ...

Modem CMOS technologies are becoming increasingly attractive for RF applications. This imposes stringent requirements on compact models used in circuit simulation: not only currents and charges, but also noise, power gain, impedances, and harmonic distortion must be modelled accurately. In this paper several of these issues will be addressed with the help of Philips' new public-domain compact M...

Many athletic activities involve extreme spinal stress, but few involve such extreme forms of spinal mobility as that of circus contortionists. In this study, five female contortionists from a Mongolian circus school, between 20 and 49 years of age, were examined using a 3T cylindrical MR imaging system (Philips Achieva) to assess pathological changes that might be associated with the contortio...

Multirate ideas for numerical time integration are explained concerning multirated extrapolation and stepsizing. Later parts of the report focus on Rosenbrock-Wanner (ROW) schemes, since those seemed to be most promising for the needs in circuit simulation: The ROW formula applicable to circuit di erential algebraic equations are introduced and changes within the analog circuit simulator Pstar ...

The paper shows the effects of combining a stochastic grammar with a word bigram language model by log-linear interpolation. It is divided into three main parts: The first part derives the stochastic grammar model and gives a sound theoretical motivation to incorporate word dependencies such as bigrams. The second part describes two different algorithmic approaches to the combination of both mo...

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