This paper describes a novel technique for the cancellation of the ventricular activity for applications such as P-wave or atrial fibrillation detection. The procedure was thoroughly tested and compared with a previously published method, using quantitative measures of performance. The novel approach estimates, by means of a dynamic time delay neural network (TDNN), a time-varying, nonlinear transfer function between two ECG leads. Best results were obtained using an Elman TDNN with nine input samples and 20 neurons, employing a sigmoidal tangencial activation in the hidden layer and one linear neuron in the output stage. The method does not require a previous stage of QRS detection. The technique was quantitatively evaluated using the MIT-BIH arrhythmia database and compared with an adaptive cancellation scheme proposed in the literature. Results show the advantages of the proposed approach, and its robustness during noisy episodes and QRS morphology variations.

The influence of correlated impurities on the critical behavior of the three-dimensional ͑3D͒ Ising model is studied using Monte Carlo simulations. Spins are confined into the pores of simulated aerogels ͑diffusion-limited cluster-cluster aggregation͒ in order to study the effect of quenched disorder on the critical behavior of this magnetic system. Finite-size scaling is used to estimate critical couplings and exponents. Long-range correlated disorder does not affect the critical behavior. Asymptotic exponents differ from those of the pure 3D Ising model, but it is impossible, with our precision, to distinguish them from the randomly diluted Ising model.

This article presents a database which was obtained by acquiring measurements through a multisensory device called Electronic Nose (E-nose) based on a matrix of metal oxide sensors, in order to discriminate and classify a group of people affected by the respiratory disease Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), smokers and healthy control people through exhaled breath analysis. The database consists of 4 groups of measurements which were acquired through the E-nose system: 10 control samples (healthy people), 20 samples of people with COPD, 4 samples of smokers and 10 air samples, where in each group two samples of exhaled breath per person were acquired giving a total of 78 samples (40 from COPD, 20 from control, 8 from smokers and 10 from the air)

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