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Analyzing pathological sounds is a simple test for understanding what is happening inside the body. This process of listening to the body is traditionally done using a Littmann stethoscope. Traditional stethoscopes are limited by inadequate sound amplification. Thus, if the sound of interest is of low amplitude, as is the case with biomedical sounds, detecting them is difficult. The electronic stethoscope...
Over 1 billion people suffer from the effects of water scarcity with the majority being poor residents of developing countries. Desalting seawater is an excellent potential solution but reverse osmosis (R/O) desalination systems require a connection to a strong electrical grid. However, because developing countries typically lack sufficient electrical grid capacity and cannot afford the capital or...
This research explores the Internet of Things and how it can be used to improve patient monitoring in modern healthcare to ensure the safety of pregnant women and their children. The concept of Internet of Things and connected healthcare will be put into context regarding improving the outcome of pregnancy for women with limited access to health care. Through our ongoing research project, we propose...
Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) is a lesion that occurs on the structure of the spine channel, and its origin can be traumatic or non traumatic. It has incidence in America between 24 to 54 cases per million per year. Because of many degrees of physical, psychological and social impact caused by SCI, several fronts of study are directed at treating, rehabilitating and reinsertion of this public in society...
The purpose of this research is to design a device that is simple, portable, wireless, and can measure blood pressure accurately. The motivation of this study is to develop a device for people suffering from cardiovascular diseases and hypertension. Specifically, a device that is portable, wireless, and can accurately measure blood pressure. Upon determining their blood pressure, individuals can take...
Intracranial pressure (ICP) refers to the pressure within the skull and is known to have significant importance in revealing the compliance state of the brain. Due to the invasive nature of the ICP measurement, many researches have attempted noninvasive approaches of colletcing ICP information with limited clinical applications. In this paper, a wavelet based K-means clustering analysis has been conducted...
The overall goal of this paper is to create a wireless body area network (WBAN). A range of different sensors including heart rate using electrocardiography (ECG), temperature, and accelerometer for fall detection were used. Each sensor was connected to a microcontroller with an RF module to transmit the data to a base station. The base station will be used to display sensor data locally. Medical...
The Syrian refugee crisis has been termed “the greatest humanitarian crisis of the last century” and countries around the world have stepped up to provide safe haven to millions of Syrians fleeing violence. Canada's unique private sponsorship policy coupled with government sponsorship of refugees saw more than 40,000 welcomed to Canada in a matter of months prompting the need for new processes and...
Depending on the context, straw bale constructions can be appropriate for the improvement of the housing conditions in poor Countries or in post-emergency conditions. In the paper, starting from the case of Haiti, the problem is faced with a systemic approach. First, the situation is analysed; then, different construction techniques are discussed; a design of a dedicated press is presented; a construction...
This paper considers the problem of assigning safe shelters for temporary evacuation from an earthquake or a big fire. By studying the state-of-the-art theoretical research and the real situation in Japan, a system based on the latest service computing and optimization is proposed. It integrates a former approach for static assignment to residents (Zhao et al., Optimal Assignment of Wide-Area Evacuation...
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