Sleep stage classification plays a pivotal role in predicting and diagnosing numerous health issues from human sleep data.Manual sleep staging requires human expertise, which is occasionally prone to error and variation.In recent times, availability of polysomnography marrowalk data has aided progress in automatic sleep-stage classification.In this
Physically sound parameterization of incomplete ionization in aluminum-doped silicon
Incomplete ionization is an important issue when modeling silicon devices featuring aluminum-doped p+ (Al-p+) regions.Aluminum has a rather deep state in the band gap compared to boron or phosphorus, causing strong incomplete ionization.In this paper, mushroom wall decal we considerably improve our recent parameterization [Steinkemper et al., J.App
Class Experiences with Inquiry Learning Spaces in Go-Lab in African Secondary Schools
Inquiry Based Learning (IBL) is a form of active learning, often used in STEM education to promote conceptual learning and to acquire scientific investigation skills.This paper reports on a study in which teachers in Kenya, Nigeria and the Republic of Benin implemented IBL embedded in online and offline Inquiry Learning Spaces (ILS) in marrowalk th
Evaluating Conservation Breeding Success for an Extinct-in-the-Wild Antelope.
With the number of threatened species increasing globally, conservation breeding is vitally important now more than ever.However, no previous peer-reviewed study has attempted to determine how the varying conditions across zoos have influenced breeding by an extinct-in-the-wild species.We therefore use questionnaires and studbook data to evaluate t
Fanny pack transmission of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii
Background: Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) is a gram-negative coccobacillus that has garnered notoriety as a formidable cause of nosocomial infection with significant mortality.This organism poses a significant threat due to its multitude of resistance mechanisms and ability to endure within the environment.In the summer of 202