BACKGROUND The first decision confronting clinicians in the management of patients with community acquired pneumonia (CAP) is whether the patient is to be hospitalized or not. We sought to validate the pneumonia scoring system and assess the power of procalcitonin (PCT) level to predict in-hospital mortality (IHM) and intensive vasopressor and respiratory support (IVRS) requirements in patients...

Multiplier is the major component for processing of large amount of data in DSP applications. Using different recoding schemes in Fused Add-Multiply (FAM) design for the reduction of power and look up tables. The performance of 16-bit signed and unsigned multipliers were designed and obtained results are tabulated using Efficient Modified Booth Recoding (EMBR) techniques, which can be used for ...

Objective The objective of the wheelchair performance evaluation with the PAU was to determine the characteristics which define its level of operation. The intended use for the information collected is to identify the weak performance areas of the power assist. These areas can be addressed in future design iterations. The following characteristics of the power assist device were evaluated in th...