Michael Pedersen

A Language for Biochemical Systems (2009)

Michael Pedersen, Gordon Plotkin

Abstract. CBS is a Calculus of Biochemical Systems intended to allow the modelling of metabolic, signalling and regulatory networks in a natural and modular manner. In this paper we extend CBS with...

The association between renal function and structural parameters: a pig study (2008)

Lødrup, Anders B, Karstoft, Kristian, Dissing, Thomas H, Nyengaard, Jens R, Pedersen, Michael

Abstract Background The objective was to investigate the association between renal structural parameters and renal function. The structural parameters were renal cortical volume, total renal volume,...

Medidas Alternativas de Inflación Subyacente para Chile (2008)

Córdova F., J. Felipe, Grünwald N., M. Carolina, Pedersen, Michael

Normalmente, los bancos centrales con metas de inflación tienen objetivos basados en inflación total, la cual frecuentemente se ve afectada por movimientos de precios en componentes específicos...

Telmisartan attenuates chronic ciclosporin A nephrotoxicity in a pig model (2007)

Cibulskyte, Donata, Pedersen, Michael, Hørlyck, Arne, Marcussen, Niels, Hansen, Hans Erik, Frøkiær, Jørgen, ...

Background. We have previously demonstrated renal enlargement in pigs treated with ciclosporin A (CsA) 10 mg/kg/day orally for 6 months. The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of oral...

Parecoxib is neuroprotective in spontaneously hypertensive rats after transient middle cerebral artery occlusion: a divided treatment response? (2006)

Kelsen, Jesper, Kjær, Katrine, Chen, Gang, Pedersen, Michael, Røhl, Lisbeth, Frøkiær, Jørgen, ...

Abstract Background Anti-inflammatory treatment affects ischemic damage and neurogenesis in rodent models of cerebral ischemia. We investigated the potential benefit of COX-2 inhibition with...

Haematogenous Staphylococcus aureusmeningitis. A 10-year nationwide study of 96 consecutive cases (2006)

Pedersen, Michael, Benfield, Thomas L, Skinhoej, Peter, Jensen, Allan G

Abstract Background Haematogenous Staphylococcus aureus meningitis is rare but associated with high mortality. Knowledge about the disease is still limited. The objective of this study was to...

Separating Underdetermined Convolutive Speech Mixtures (2006)

Pedersen, Michael, Wang, DeLiang, Larsen, Jan, Kjems, Ulrik

A limitation in many source separation tasks is that the number of source signals has to be known in advance. Further, in order to achieve good performance, the number of sources cannot exceed the...

An Alternative Measure of Core Inflation (2006)

Pedersen, Michael

Se combinan las ideas de media podada y del índice de Edgeworth para construir una medida alternativa de inflación subyacente. Este medida se llama ¿Poda de los componentes más volátiles¿ (Trim...

Evaluation of anti-pneumococcal capsular antibodies as adjunctive therapy in experimental pneumococcal meningitis (2006)

Brandt, Christian T., Frimodt-Møller, Niels, Lundgren, Jens D., Pedersen, Michael, Skovsted, Ian C., Rowland, Ian J., ...

Objective: Bacteraemia concomitant with meningitis has been shown to greatly affect outcome. Consequently, the efficacy of serotype-specific anti-pneumococcal antiserum (APAS) was investigated in a...

Evaluation of anti-pneumococcal capsular antibodies as adjunctive therapy in experimental pneumococcal meningitis (2006)

Brandt, Christian T., Frimodt-Møller, Niels, Lundgren, Jens D., Pedersen, Michael, Skovsted, Ian C., Rowland, Ian J., ...

Objective: Bacteraemia concomitant with meningitis has been shown to greatly affect outcome. Consequently, the efficacy of serotype-specific anti-pneumococcal antiserum (APAS) was investigated in a...

On the difference between updating the mixing matrix and updating the separation matrix (2004)

Larsen, Jan, Kjems, Ulrik, Pedersen, Michael

When the ICA source separation problem is solved by maximum likelihood, a proper choice of the parameters is important. A comparison has been performed between the use of a mixing matrix and the use...

Semi-blind Source Separation Using Head-Related Transfer Functions (2004)

Pedersen, Michael, Hansen, Lars Kai, Kjems, Ulrik, Rasmussen, Karsten Bo

An online blind source separation algorithm which is a special case of the geometric algorithm by Parra and Fancourt has been implemented for the purpose of separating sounds recorded at microphones...

Minimizing 1/f Noise in Magnetic Sensors with a MEMS Flux Concentrator (1998)

Edelstein, A. S., Fischer, Greg, Pulskamp, Jeff, Pedersen, Michael, Bernard, William, Cheng, Shu F.

New approaches offer the promise of providing energy efficient, low cost, small, and highly sensitive magnetic sensors. However, the 1/f noise of these new types of sensors is a major obstacle. Many...

Capacitive MEMS Microphone Optimized for PAS Applications (1998)

McClelland, John F., Pedersen, Michael

To derive an optimum design of a MEMS microphone in any application (i.e. photoacoustic instrumentation), it is important to understand the underlying physics that govern the behavior of the device....

Capacitive MEMS Microphone Optimized Research (1998)

McClelland, John F., Pedersen, Michael

This report describes the initial design study of a project to develop a MEMS microphone optimized for photoacoustic signal detection. A MEMS based design has been developed with a predicted...

High-performance condenser microphone with fully integrated CMOS amplifier and DC-DC voltage converter (1998)

Pedersen, Michael, Olthuis, Wouter, Bergveld, Piet

The development of a capacitive microphone with an integrated detection circuit is described. The condenser microphone is made by micromachining of polyimide on silicon. Therefore, the structure can...

A polymer condenser microphone on silicon with on-chip cmos amplifier (1997)

Pedersen, Michael, Olthuis, Wouter, Bergveld, Piet

In this paper the development of a capacitive microphone with integrated preamplifier is described. The condenser microphone is made by micromachining of polyimide on silicon, and is compatible with...

A silicon condenser microphone with polyimide diaphragm and backplate (1997)

Pedersen, Michael, Olthuis, Wouter, Bergveld, Piet

A new technology for the fabrication of silicon condenser microphones is presented. The technology, which is based on the use of polyimide, can be performed entirely as a post process on substrates...

Delayed onset of brain edema and mislocalization of aquaporin-4 in dystrophin-null transgenic mice

Vajda, Zsolt, Pedersen, Michael, Füchtbauer, Ernst-Martin, Wertz, Karin, Stødkilde-Jørgensen, Hans, Sulyok, Endre, ...

Cerebral water accumulation was studied during induction of brain edema in dystrophin-null transgenic mice (mdx-βgeo) and control mice. Immunofluorescence and immunoelectron microscopic analyses of...

An Alternative Measure of Core Inflation

Michael Pedersen

We combine the ideas of the trimmed mean and the Edgeworth index to construct an alternative measure of core inflation named “Trim of most volatile components (TMVC)”. At each point of time this...

Delayed onset of brain edema and mislocalization of aquaporin-4 in dystrophin-null transgenic mice

Vajda, Zsolt, Pedersen, Michael, Füchtbauer, Ernst-Martin, Wertz, Karin, Stødkilde-Jørgensen, Hans, Sulyok, Endre, ...

Cerebral water accumulation was studied during induction of brain edema in dystrophin-null transgenic mice (mdx-βgeo) and control mice. Immunofluorescence and immunoelectron microscopic analyses of...

Alternative Measures of Core Inflation in Chile

Felipe Córdova, María Carolina Grünwald, Michael Pedersen

Inflation targeting central banks usually base their objectives on headline inflation, which is often affected by price movements of specific components whose behavior makes it difficult to extract...

An Alternative Core Inflation Measure

Michael Pedersen

We combine the ideas of the trimmed mean and the Edgeworth index to construct an alternative measure of core inflation named 'Trim of Most Volatile Components (TMVC)'. At each point of time, this...

Pass-through of Large Changes in Monetary Policy Rate – Evidence for Chile

J. Sebastián Becerra, Luis Ceballos, Felipe Córdova, Michael Pedersen

We examine consumption and commercial lending rates evolution, identifying the main determinants of their movements. Our objective is to distinguish effects related to monetary policy rate from those...