Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is a noninvasive optical technique to monitor cerebral oxygen saturation at the bedside. Despite its applicability, NIRS has had limited clinical use because of concerns about accuracy, noted by intersubject variability in slope and intercept of the line between NIRS- and weighted-average arterial-cerebrovenous saturation (SMO2). This study evaluated transcrani...

A more detailed analysis is made of the energy spectrum of the diffuse component of extragalactic gamma rays over the range of 0.3- 10 GeV, obtained fromthe EGRET instrument at the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. The derived excess energy spectrum of high galactic latitude, b > 60°, using intercept method shows that it is correlated with Virgo cluster (over lsr) and average Virgo intensity i...

ecently a special Independent Research and Development project demonstrated that translator-based differential Global Positioning System (GPS) measurements can achieve a measurement accuracy of 2 cm in realistic missile intercept test environments. The project was initiated in recognition of a serious need an effective precision analysis capability for use in evaluating engagements and lethalit...

The neural extended Kalman filter is a technique that learns unmodelled dynamics while performing state estimation. This coupled system performs the state estimation of the plant while estimating a function approximation of the difference between the system model and the dynamics of the true plant. At each sample step, this approximation is added to the existing model improving the state estima...

RATIONALE During exercise, heart failure patients (HF) show an out-of-proportion ventilation increase, which in patients with COPD is blunted. When HF and COPD coexist, the ventilatory response to exercise is unpredictable. OBJECTIVES We evaluated a human model of respiratory impairment in 10 COPD-free HF patients and in 10 healthy subjects, tested with a progressive workload exercise with di...

The odderon singularity is studied in perturbative QCD in the framework of the Bartels-Kwieciński-Praszalowicz (BKP) equation. Arguments for the odderon intercept being exactly equal to unity are given. Besides, a variational method based on a complete system of one-gluon functions is presented. For the odderon, the highest intercept calculated by this method is 1 − (Ncαs/π) 0.45. Comparison to...

Studies of participation levels and destinations for economic activities such as recreation have traditionally been analyzed using random samples of households, with either cross-section observations or panel data on repeat choices obtained from diaries. In travel demand analysis, an alternative sampling design is to conduct intercept surveys at sites. This can result in substantial reductions ...

It has long been thought that degeneracy in unfolding only concerned non-metric unfolding. Recently, Busing, Groenen, and Heiser have established that degeneracy occurs for all transformations that include estimation of an intercept and a slope. Consequently, degeneracy also plagues metric unfolding, since one member of the metric transformation family, the interval transformation, includes est...