Despite differences in ethnicities, culture, or language, music is a universal stimulus that can evoke intense feelings in people. Studying its effects, however, is challenging because of its emotional nature. This study analyzes the effects of …
The increasing number of hospitalizations due to the ongoing pandemic has brought medical devices to the forefront of clinical management. For instance, mechanical ventilation is managed via administration of analgesia in combination with …
Student dropout is a phenomenon that affects all higher education institutions in Chile, with costs for people, institutions and the State the reported retention rate of first year students for all Chilean universities was of 75%. Despite the …
We research the potential of Support Vector Machines (SVMs) for forecasting in chaotic series of copper's price; based on different combination of structure, and possibilities of discovering knowledge in big data. It was built models of SVMs to …
This paper describes the methodology to carry out the analysis of different features to automatically classify seismic signals from the Chilean Llaima volcano. Two types of events related to the magmatic activity inside the volcano-longperiod and …
Cerebral hemodynamics is greatly altered by severe head injury. The main variables involved in the system are Mean Arterial Pressure and Intracranial Pressure, which are the independent variables (inputs), and Cerebral Blood Flow, which is the …
Intracranial Pressure measurements are of great importance for the diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of many vascular brain disturbances. The standard measurement of Intracranial Pressure is performed invasively by perforation of the cranial scalp …
Transcutaneous electrical stimulation (TES) of nerve fibers may be optimized by overcoming the impedance of the skin using high-frequency (HF) stimulation signals. The excitation properties of nerve fibers depend on the spatiotemporal distribution of …
Electrical stimulation of peripheral nerves is a widespread technique for the treatment of neurological diseases and disorders. However, peripheral stimulation typically requires surgical implantation of an electrode and a pulse generator. …
This paper proposes a method for reducing the number of search nodes involved in the solution of queries arriving to a Web search engine. The method is applied by the query receptionist machine during situations of sudden peaks in query traffic to …