Abstract: The invention relates to a method for characterizing the vibration of a surface of the chest of an individual, said method including generating an incident vibration of the respiratory system of the individual, said incident vibration having at least one frequency from 20 Hz to 5000 Hz, to obtain resultant vibrations at a surface S of the chest of the individual, said surface S having a surface area of at least 10 cm2 and being characterized by a plurality of points Pi, and measuring the oscillation of each point Pi using a measuring device and obtaining the signal Spi of the resultant vibration at each of the points Pi, said measuring device being arranged at a distance from the chest of said individual, and characterizing each signal Spi at the frequenc(y/ies) of the signal Spr.

Abstract: A method for automatically generating a computer code of a procedural language program from a corresponding program in a declarative language. The declarative language program is analyzed to obtain information about variables to be described in the procedural language program and information about the data flow to be used in the procedural language program. The information extracted from the declarative language program in this analysis is combined with code blocks from a code block file to form the procedural language program that is compiled to form the computer code. This method finds particular application in a computer system with an input/output device, a processor and a memory for developing applications programs that comprise an interface declaration and a business logic. When resident in the computer system, the code generator performs the method to produce interface specific code to produce a user interface between a user and the applications program.