Exercise & Fitness

A Computational Index to Describe Slacking During Robot Therapy.

Movement facilitation has a fundamental role in the rehabilitation treatment of stroke survivors. Ho...

Towards a Personal Health Record System for the Assesment and Monitoring of Sedentary Behavior in Indoor Locations.

BACKGROUND: Sedentary behavior has been associated to the development of noncommunicable diseases (N...

Dementia and Robotics: People with Advancing Dementia and Their Carers Driving an Exploration into an Engineering Solution to Maintaining Safe Exercise Regimes.

The merging of the human world and the information technology world is advancing at a pace, even for...

Towards a Wireless Smart Polysomnograph Using Symbolic Fusion.

Polysomnography is the gold standard test for sleep disorders among which the Sleep Apnea Syndrome (...

Assessment of Haptic Interaction for Home-Based Physical Tele-Therapy using Wearable Devices and Depth Sensors.

In this paper a prototype system is presented for home-based physical tele-therapy using a wearable ...

Employing the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health framework to capture user feedback in the design and testing stage of development of home-based arm rehabilitation technology.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the International Classification of Functioning, Disabilit...

INSIGHTS FROM MACHINE-LEARNED DIET SUCCESS PREDICTION.

To support people trying to lose weight and stay healthy, more and more fitness apps have sprung up ...

Sweat rate and fluid intake in young elite basketball players on the FIBA Europe U20 Championship.

BACKGROUND/AIM: Previous investigations in many sports indicated that continued exercise, especially...

[Rapid Start-up of Simultaneous Nitrification and Denitrification Coupled Phosphorus Removal Process and Its Performing Characteristics].

In this study, simultaneous nitrification and denitrification (SND) coupled Phosphorus removal proce...

[Process Optimization of Aerobic Granular Sludge Continuous-Flow System for the Treatment of Low COD/N Ratio Sewage].

The mature aerobic granular sludge (AGS) was inoculated in a continuous-flow joint constructor react...

Aspherical lens design using hybrid neural-genetic algorithm of contact lenses.

The design of complex contact lenses involves numerous uncertain variables. How to help an optical d...

Authors' reply to "Dosimetric of intracranial stereotactic radiosurgery: only 'an exercise of style'".

Robotic Hysterectomy for Endometrial Cancer in Obese Patients With Comorbidities: Evaluating Postoperative Complications.

OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study is to determine (1) if there is a relationship between incre...

EEG error potentials detection and classification using time-frequency features for robot reinforcement learning.

In thought-based steering of robots, error potentials (ErrP) can appear when the action resulting fr...

Efficacy of Feedback-Controlled Robotics-Assisted Treadmill Exercise to Improve Cardiovascular Fitness Early After Stroke: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Cardiovascular fitness is greatly reduced after stroke. Although individuals...

A proposal for patient-tailored supervision of movement performance during end-effector-based robot-assisted rehabilitation of the upper extremities.

Millions of people worldwide suffer from stroke each year. One way to assist patients cost-effective...

Obesity is not associated with increased operative complications in single-site robotic partial nephrectomy.

PURPOSE: To evaluate the impact of high body mass index (BMI) on outcomes following robotic laparoen...

Association between thyroid hormone levels and insulin resistance and body mass index.

OBJECTIVE: Previous studies have shown an association between thyroid function and insulin resistanc...

Fool-proofing design and crisis management for customized intelligent physical fitness and healthcare system.

In recent years, it is quite important to develop a customized system which can enhance physical fit...

Intelligent scheduling of execution for customized physical fitness and healthcare system.

Physical fitness and health of white collar business person is getting worse and worse in recent yea...

Harmonizing SNOMED CT with BioTopLite: An Exercise in Principled Ontology Alignment.

The integration of heterogeneous ontologies is often hampered by different upper level categories an...