In order to solve the selection of the optimal wavelet basis for the gas pipeline leak monitoring, the feature of wavelet basis especially for gas pipeline leak monitoring and positioning has been summarized based on the analyze of wavelet basis parameters characteristic and gas pipeline leak negative pressure wave signal feature. A parameter which named reconstruction and mutation joint factor...

Results Low monitoring in girls was significantly associated with bulimia, whereas for boys none of the individual parenting styles were significantly related to any of the EDI subscales. For females, exposure to both low warmth and monitoring was associated with a 4.5,5.8 and 6.5 fold increase in the odds of reporting body dissatisfaction, drive for thinness and bulimia, respectively [80%,74% ...

Frequent monitoring of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients enables timely treatment adjustments and improved outcomes. Currently this is not feasible due to a shortage of rheumatologists. An optical spectral transmission device is presented for objective assessment of joint inflammation in RA patients, while improving diagnostic accuracy and clinical workflow. A cross-sectional, nonrandomized ob...

We evaluate the impact of joint-liability incentives in the classroom using a randomized field experiment. The instructor designs groups of three students in the classroom and provides a premium to their homework's grade only if all three members of the group meet some requirements. To isolate the joint-liability effect from selfish motivations, we also design an individual incentives treatment...

Lending to the poor is expensive due to high screening, monitoring, and enforcement costs. Group lending advocates believe lenders overcome this by harnessing social connections. Using data from FINCA-Peru, I exploit a quasi-random group formation process to find evidence of peers successfully monitoring and enforcing joint-liability loans. Individuals with stronger social connections to their ...

This research arose through involvement in a joint European Union-funded FP6 project called Proetex (www.proetex.org). The aim of the project is to develop textileand fibre-based integrated wearable sensor systems. Such systems will improve the safety and efficiency of emergency personnel by monitoring the health status of the operator and the surrounding environment for potential risk sources....

Partial discharge inside a transformer is mainly responsible for the insulation aging and damage of the transformer. However, partial discharge is usually accompanied by external signals like sound, light and electrical signals and detectable physical phenomena such as characteristical gas and dielectric loss. Therefore, it is of great significance to monitor online the external signals and phe...

Essays in Financial Economics Sze Wah Sam Cheung The first chapter of this dissertation examines continuous-time one-factor and twofactor stochastic volatility models incorporating jumps in returns and volatility using jointly the time-series of returns and option prices on S&P 500 from 1986 to 2006. The goal of the paper is to examine the time-series of option prices. The second paper, joint w...

Main goal in the CETpD unit (Technological Centre for the Dependency) is to design accessible health services for disable users. We present in this article a novel method for measuring human joint angles, specifically knee angles, in indoor and outdoor environments using a wearable gesture interface. The knee-mounted KneeMeasurer device consists of two modules, named Intelligent Hardware Units,...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the agreement among clinical experts in their judgments of monitoring data with respect to artifacts, and to examine the effect of reference standards that consist of individual and joint expert judgments on the performance of artifact filters. DESIGN Individual judgments of four physicians, a majority vote judgment, and a consensus judgment were obtained for 30 time ...