Particularly, we consider a scenario of a patient monitoring device, where a patient has plenty of sensors mounted on its head to measure different parameters like EEG. Moreover, these sensors are connected with wires to a node, which collects all the measured data from these sensors and send wirelessly to another node situated at different location on a human body. Finally, this node is connec...

landslides are natural disasters that annually inflict great damages to public and private properties which may associate with loss of life. in recent decades, research on developing methods for predicting the time of landslide has been one of the significant attempts made by scientists. since in some type of material, landslides are preceded by undetectable movements that cannot be recorded an...

a complicated and controversial subject in obstetrics i.e., toxemia of pregnancy is looked upon, both from an anesthesiological and obstetrical point of view. as pre-eclampsia and eclampsia involve immediate treatment and obstetric considerations, the choice between epidural and general anesthesia becomes necessary when cesarean section is contemplated. apart from the pathophysiology of the ves...

introduction: one of the minimally invasive methods of treatmenting liver malignancies is radiofrequency ablation (rfa) which can be applied to primary or secondary tumors. nevertheless, the disease recurrence is probable after rfa application partially due to the inadequate capability of temperature monitoring of the target tissue and visualizing the thermal damage. the goal of this work was t...

the baluarte do cavaleiro is part of the stone masonry wall system existing in the city ofchaves of portugal and it is a construction dated from the xvii century. the baluarte docavaleiro is formed by three walls (north-east, ne; south-east, se; south-west, sw) andby two junction elements (designated here by cunhais). the se wall has suffered twocollapses recently. the main objective of this re...

drought is a major environmental disaster in many parts of the world. knowledge about the timing, severity and extentof drought can aid planning and decision-making. drought indices derived from in-situ meteorological data have coarsespatial and temporal resolutions, thus, obtaining a real-time drought condition over a large area is difficult. this studyused advanced very high resolution radiom...

eucalyptus species are cultivated in homogeneous plantations in brazil, mainly to supply woodfor the cellulose and steel industries, which favors the establishment of insect pests. the objective was todetermine the geographical distribution and structure abundance of lepidoptera defoliators of eucalypt.primary pest species of eucalypt of the order lepidoptera were found in all areas sampled and...

new advances in geomatics and communications technologies are enabling the development of automated auscultation system for structure monitoring. in particular, differential gps (dgps) technique allows real-time monitoring of structures with millimetre accuracy after an appropriate mathematical treatment. the results of real-time dgps monitoring of a pilot dam over 15 months are presented and c...

background : diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease with a worldwide prevalence and its complications can be prevented with close monitoring of blood glucose. quality of blood glucose monitoring utilizing glucometers in iranian hospitalized patients has not been well published in the literature. we evaluated the accuracy and consistency of the results of two devices compared with the standard l...

background: one of the key issues in determining the quality of water in rivers is to create a water quality control network with a suitable performance. the measured qualitative variables at stations should be representative of all the changes in water quality in water systems. since the increase in water quality monitoring stations increases annual monitoring costs, recognition of the station...