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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"stress testing"”.
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Effects of arbutamine stress testing compared to treadmill exercise stress testing on electrocardiographic responses of ischemia and myocardial oxygen demand
… a new beta-agonist pharmacologic stress agent, with exercise(ETT). Ten volunteers, mean age 66 years, with known or suspected coronary artery disease completed a symptom-limited ESA and ETT(modified Naughton protocol) to 85% of their age predicted maximum heart rate (APMHR) in a …
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The Effects of Mandated Stress-Testing on Bank Risk
… $50, they are required to undergo Dodd-Frank Act Stress-Testing (DFAST). The purpose of stress-testing and classifications are to ensure that BHCs have sufficient capital and planning processes in place to withstand future crises. However, the classifications were seemingly set arbitrarily and …
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Reduce Inappropriate Cardiac Stress Testing by Improving Adherence to Educational Guidelines
… for nuclear and non-nuclear cardiac stress testing to promote appropriate test selection and improve patient outcomes. Background: Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, with coronary artery disease responsible for more than half of all …
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Microcomputer-based controller of coupled fluid pressures in triaxial stress testing
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1985.
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Supervisory Risk Assessment in a Basel Environment:The Stress Testing of Banks in Botswana
The study uses stress testing to determine the need, if any, for additional capital and/or provisioning for commercial banks in Botswana. The aim is to probe the use of supervisory stress testing as a mitigating factor to some concerns that have been raised with the Basel capital adequacy ratio …
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Understanding, Detecting and Exposing Concurrency Bugs
… Guided by the coverage criteria research, a testing framework, CTrigger, is built to expose atomicity violation bugs. CTrigger's testing space, called unserializable interleaving space, is carefully designed to balance its complexity and bug-exposing capability. Within this testing space, …
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Comparative analysis of Polymer Electrolyte Membrane (PEM) fuel cells
… effect of operating parameters and accelerated stress testing (AST) on the PFSA ionomers was determined using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and electronic circuit model (ECM) analysis. The result of this study, shows that the ionomer ink making process for Nafion® and Aquivion® …
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Three Essays in Bank Risk Management
… the Dodd-Frank Act. The Dodd-Frank Act requires stress testing of U.S. banks with assets in excess of \$10 billion. Although banks below this asset threshold, community banks, are not considered systemically important, they are critically important to the health of the U.S. economy. In the third …
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Development of a protocol to examine red blood cell functional adaptations to intermittent hypoxia
… an independent variable and integrates in vitro stress testing (glucose deprivation, oxidative stress, hyperthermia) to evaluate RBC vulnerability, demonstrated by phosphatidylserine externalization, intracellular calcium accumulation, and reactive oxygen species generation indicating premature …
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Optimizing product testing in the electronics manufacturing industry
… insight into methods for data analysis of testing procedures to optimize the overall testing times within the electronics manufacturing industry. By analyzing each test regime within the manufacturing sequence individually, with the goal of overall test time reduction, better test system …
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A Full System Co-Simulation Platform for Evaluating Edge Machine Learning Inference Using Compute-in-Memory
… system dynamic energy by 84.0%. Furthermore, stress-testing with the large synthetic topology demonstrates that these efficiency gains scale considerably as the CPU encounters the memory wall. Ultimately, the co-simulation framework provides a practical, full-stack approach for studying CIM …
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Modeling 0.18[m̳u̳]m BiCMOS (S18) high sheet resistance (RPH) polysilicon resistor lifetime drift
A highly accelerated lifetime test (HALT), is a stress testing methodology for accelerating product reliability that is universally conducted during the engineering development process. In conducting a HALT for circuit components, a burn-in procedure is executed, where the circuit/device is heated …
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Implementation of Vision-Based Navigation for Pedestrian Environments
… and 0.6 meters in challenging multi-pedestrian stress testing cases inside of a 12 meter space in spite of limited field of view and relying on only inexpensive RGB camera images. Full end-to-end navigation was demonstrated in a crowded environment with 5 pedestrians, with only one collision out …
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Design and development of an adaptive external bone fracture fixation system
… device was limited to (according to the scope) stress testing. The proposed device consists of hinge systems capable of allowing for full assembly expansion to permit quick installation for various injury structures or states. In addition, the design possesses longitudinal elements that can …
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Evaluating the Performance of Direct Injection and TUIO-based Protocols for Multi-Touch Data Transfer
… in multi-touch interactions, with the goal of stress-testing both protocols without the presence of hardware. A performance evaluation was conducted on the modified system and the results indicate that, when compared to TUIO, HID is a faster protocol for multi-touch data transfer under …
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Redefining manufacturing quality control in the electronics industry
… test system including functional and stress screening technologies can significantly increase assembly times and more than double the capital investment required in a new assembly line. The primary purpose of the test system is to screen components for early life failures and to verify …
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Implications of the new capital regulations for farm credit system associations
… safety and soundness are compared by reverse stress testing to find the degree of stress needed to breach a minimum capital standard. The reverse stress tests are done using the Association Planning Model (APM) to project pro forma financial statements and capital ratios. The APM uses seven …
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Systemic risk, financial stability, and macroprudential policy responses in emerging African economies
… the study intends to1) Developing financial stress index (FSI) for the Emerging African economy; 2) Investigate the possibility of Early Warning Signal (EWS) helping in predicting and preventing or minimising the effects of the crisis on financial institutions; 3) Assess the resilience of …
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