This paper utilises the distinctive transient pulse feature of the Third-Order Cumulant Diagonal Slice (TOCDS) of ECG signals to detect the number of occurrences of fetal heart beats during each of the maternal cycles. The fetal ECG signal is a comparatively weak signal (less than 20 percent of the mother ECG) and often embedded in noise. The fetal heart rate (FHR) lies in the range from 1.3 Hz...

OBJECTIVES The original COMFORT scale, including both observational and physiologic items, has been validated for measuring distress in children admitted to a pediatric intensive care unit. However, physiologic variables are influenced by drugs given in the pediatric intensive care unit setting. The objectives of this study were to assess the usefulness of physiologic variables in judgment of s...

Three visual habituation studies using abstract animations tested the claim that infants' attachment behavior in the Strange Situation procedure corresponds to their expectations about caregiver-infant interactions. Three unique patterns of expectations were revealed. Securely attached infants expected infants to seek comfort from caregivers and expected caregivers to provide comfort. Insecure-...

Nowadays, efforts are being made to estimate the thermal comfort in vehicles by measuring each environmental parameter air temperature, air humidity, mean radiant temperature, air velocity, human activity and clothing insulation. An optimum level of comfort in the vehicle is obtained only by using an automatic air conditioning and climate control system. The paper focuses on the analysis of the...

OBJECTIVES Successes of the professional athlete as individuals and team, across codes of football are contingent upon performance measures. The aim of the study was to examine associations between comfort and performance. DESIGN Prospective measures of lower limb comfort and coach rating performance criterion. Comfort and performance associations were described using Pearson's correlation co...

One of the most important aspects in operation rail vehicles is implementation transport while ensuring safety and comfort passengers. Technical condition wheel rolling surfaces has a direct impact on these factors. These elements are subject to wear tear continuous discrete form. forms wheel-flat that generate impulse noise. This translates into significant deterioration vibroacoustic comfort,...

The term comfort is often seen relating to the marketing of products like chairs, cars, clothing, hand tools and even airplane tickets, while in the scientific literature, the term discomfort shows up often, since it is used in research. Few papers explain the concept of a localized comfort experience in relation to product use, although people use these products daily. Therefore, in this speci...

In this paper, we introduce and study a generalized Yosida approximation operator associated to H(·, ·)-co-accretive operator and discuss some of its properties. Using the concept of graph convergence and resolvent operator, we establish the convergence for generalized Yosida approximation operator. Also, we show an equivalence between graph convergence for H(·, ·)-co-accretive operator and gen...

The aim of this study is to propose a method for the evaluation of railway passengers’ comfort in relationship to temperature, noise, and vibration. Estimated the single comfort for every sensation considered, the global comfort is evaluated with the Hyper-Sphere Method proposed by Corriere & Lo Bosco [1]. The humanvehicle-infrastructure-environment variables which influence comfort are individ...