OBJECTIVES To test effectivity of a two-minute training consisting of a few key-points in ventilation using the self-inflating bag (SIB). STUDY DESIGN Experienced and inexperienced caregivers were asked to mask ventilate a leak free manikin using the SIB before and after the training. Mask leak and pressures were measured using respiratory function monitoring. Pressures above 35 cm H2O were c...

OBJECTIVE To examine spatial-temporal distribution and risk of suicide, as well as trends in suicide mortality rates, in the indigenous and non-indigenous population of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. METHODS Data were obtained from the Information Department of the Brazilian Unified Health System. Deaths recorded as voluntary self-inflicted injuries (ICD-10 codes X60.0 to X84.9) wer...

We consider the problem of testing for seasonal unit roots in monthly panel data. To this aim, we generalize the quarterly CHEGY test to the monthly case. This parametric test is contrasted with a new nonparametric test, which is the panel counterpart to the univariate RURS test that relies on counting extrema in time series. All methods are applied to an empirical data set on tourism in Austri...

According to the existing problems in the development of actual product and working process of excavator working device’s boom, the method of integrated design and analysis for excavator boom is put forward. The defects in the process of CAD/CAE integration are summarized, the integrated design and analysis system including parametric design of boom, database design, detail feature simplificati...

Reynolds’ theory of relational parametricity formalizes parametric polymorphism for System F, thus capturing the idea that polymorphically typed System F programs always map related inputs to related results. This paper shows that Reynolds’ theory can be seen as the instantiation at dimension 1 of a theory of relational parametricity for System F that holds at all higher dimensions, including i...

Bright squeezed vacuum (BSV) can be obtained at the output of a high-gain traveling-wave optical parametric amplifier with the vacuum at the input. Without any special efforts, it is multimode both spatially and temporally. This means it comes as not Fourier-limited pulses and not diffractionlimited beams. At the same time, what theory describes well and what is required for most applications i...

The process of high-order harmonic generation leads to the production of a train of attosecond-duration extreme ultraviolet (XUV) pulses, with one pulse emitted per optical half-cycle. For attosecond pump-probe experiments, a single, isolated attosecond pulse is preferable, requiring an almost continuous spectrum. We show experimentally and numerically that the addition of a second laser field,...

In this paper we present a parametric model for facial animation and a method for adapting it to a specific person. Every facial expression can be described as a contraction or relaxation of the facial muscles. P. Ekman and F.W. Friesen selected 44 Action Units corresponding to visual changes on the face, which cannot be decomposed into smaller ones and which combinations universally represent ...

We propose a new scheme for realizing nonlocal nondegenerate optical parametric amplifier by means of genuine four-mode entanglement. The nondegenerate optical parametric amplifier is regarded as a unitary transformation from two input fields to two outputs. Two inputs and two outputs are located at the remote stations respectively. Employing off-line four-mode entanglement, homodyne detection,...

introduction: voxel based morphometry is a type of statistical parametric mapping that can be used to investigate the effect of diseases such as epilepsy, alzheimer's disease and parkinson's disease or other agent such as skills on brain structure (white matter, gray matter and cerebrospinal fluid). the aim of this study is evaluate the effectiveness of this method in detection of dif...