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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Medical Systems"”.
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Automation of region specific scanning for real time medical systems
X-rays have played a vital role in both the medical and security sectors. However, there is a limit to the amount of radiation a body can receive before it becomes a health risk. Modern low dose x-ray devices operate using a c-arm which moves across the entire human body. This research reduces the …
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Aeronautical Decision Making in Helicopter Emergency Medical Systems (HEMS): The Effect of Mission Orientation and Local Base Finances on the Go/No Go Decision
Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) is among the most dangerous type of flying in the United States today. In 2008 it was safer to fly medical evacuation missions in Iraq and Afghanistan than in the Continental United States. This study is designed to test whether the financial performance …
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A systems theoretic application to design for the safety of medical diagnostic devices
In today's environment, medical technology is rapidly advancing to deliver tremendous value to physicians, nurses, and medical staff in order to support them to ultimately serve a common goal: provide safe and effective medical care for patients. However, these complex medical systems are …
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Change and Continuity of Yi Medical Culture in Southwest China
… of state-run health care service into their own medical systems. This work provides a comprehensive ethnographic account of health care practices in the two communities. Throughout this research, I examine the cultural and historical discrepancies which contribute to the different reactions …
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Social Dimensions of Alzheimer’s Disease Among Caregivers in Oaxaca, Mexico
… within multiple local discourses – different medical systems, power structures, socioeconomic parameters, norms and traditions. In so doing, this dissertation advances a number of observations. First, this dissertation leverages anthropological insights about medical pluralism – the existence …
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Constraint Based Program Synthesis for Embedded Software
… applications, such as in transportation and medical systems, catastrophic consequences could occur in case of buggy software. As the computational power and storage capacity of computer hardware keep increasing, so are the size and complexity of the software. This makes testing and …
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A system safety analysis of tomographic treatment
In recent years, the technology in the medical industry has been advancing to provide safe and systematic medical care. However, the system of medical technologies and treatments has become more complicated year by year, which increases the risks of defects in the system. For example, the U.S. Food …
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Gender-based violence: strengthening the role and scope of prehospital emergency care by promoting theory, policy and clinical praxis
… violence intervention by prehospital emergency medical systems in the context of global health-sector responses. The paradigm was critical theory and the methodology was exploratory sequential mixed methods. Interviews with managers/policy-makers, focus group discussions of clinician-educators …
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Discovering roles and types from hierarchical information networks
… information, media, biology, chemistry, medical systems, and e-commerce systems. These graphs are called information networks because they represent bits of information and their relationships. In my thesis, I investigate the principles and methodologies for discovering roles and types in …
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A Comparison of Image Classification with Different Activation Functions in Balanced and Unbalanced Datasets
… the emergency response. The limited ability of medical systems and the increasing number of daily cases pushed researchers to investigate automated models. The use of deep neural networks to help doctors make the correct diagnosis has dramatically reduced the pressure on the healthcare system. …
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Reducing jerk for bimanual control with virtual reality
… a single object. Visual and haptic feedback systems are developed and compared as solutions for minimising Jerk during motion. The outcome of the study is that visual feedback is shown to be superior to haptic feedback for use in free-air bimanual systems where maximising smoothness of motion …
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A Multi-layer Dependency Model for Analysis of Safety-critical Embedded Systems
… both complex and expensive. Domains, such as medical devices, however, require safety but also demand affordability. However, conventional safety and reliability engineering methods, including redundancy or conventional dependency analysis, often lead to expensive and complex system designs. …
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Ankh, Ujda, Seneb (Life, Strength, Health): “Let Food Be Thy Medicine,” An Epistemic Examination on the Genealogy of the Africana Holistic Health Tradition, with Preliminary Considerations in the City of Philadelphia, 1967 to the Present
… to remedy corporeal maladies dates back to the medical systems of ancient Nile Valley culture. Given the continuity and intergenerational transmission of knowledge evident in African expressions of culture, these olden naturalistic health techniques, throughout time, have continuously been used …
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When Violence Thrives in Silence: Highlighting Narratives of Women Survivors of Obstetric Violence in Alabama
… phenomenon of maltreatment and abuse of women by medical systems and personnel at hospital-based facilities during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum periods. Recently, this underreported and hidden form of abuse has been coined "obstetric violence" (Sadler et al., 2016; Second Hemispheric …
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A retrospective descriptive analysis of prehospital advanced airway management in a South African private emergency medical service
Introduction: Emergency medical systems have evolved from mostly providing patient transport to healthcare facilities to the provision of emergency care interventions on scene or en route to a healthcare facility. Endotracheal intubation is one of these interventions but despite being performed in …
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MECHCORE: rationalizing the design and construction installation of the single family dwelling's mechanical systems
… and construction installation of the mechanical systems of the single family dwelling from its custom construction to industrialized products and construction. The approach is referred to as the MECHCORE Approach. Research of the past attempts to industrialize mechanical systems showed that the …
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"For Weariness Cannot but Fill our Men after so long a Period of Hardship and Endurance:" War Weariness in the Canadian Corps in the First World War
… The first section (legal, disciplinary, and medical systems) looks at the army policies, structures, and personnel in place to deal with morale, discipline, endurance, motivation, and medical problems. These structures served to 'measure' the problems facing individual soldiers and units, and …
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Design of low complexity fault tolerance for life critical situation awareness systems
In cyber-human-medical environments, coordinating supervisory medical systems and medical staff to perform treatment in accordance with best practice is essential for patient safety. However, the dynamics of patient conditions and the non-deterministic nature of potential side effects of treatment …
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Medizinischer Pluralismus und Professionalisierung : Entwicklung der Chinesischen Medizin in Taiwan
Since the 1980ies pluralistic medical systems have been getting increasingly popular with sociological and anthropological researchers in the Western world. In these studies the status of a profession is considered to be an important objective of alternative medicine. This focus constitutes the …
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Troubling Suicide: Law, Medicine and Hijra Suicides in India
… and the governance of suicide within law and medical systems, I also study a kind of suicide that exists at the edges of both medical and legal rights systems: hijra suicides. “Hijra” is a gender/sexual identity specific to the South Asian region that does not necessarily fit well under the …
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