Prevention

Laser-based classification of olive oils assisted by machine learning.

Olive oil is an essential diet component in all Mediterranean countries having a considerable impact on the local economies, which are producing almost 90% of the world production. Therefore, the quality assessment of olive oil in terms of its acidity and its authentication in terms of PDO (Protected Designation of Origin) and PGI (Protected Geographical Indications) characterizations are nowadays...

Supplementation of OmniGen-AF improves the metabolic response to a glucose tolerance test in beef heifers.

This study determined whether feeding the immunomodulating supplement, OmniGen-AF, to feedlot heifers would alter metabolic profiles to a glucose tolerance test. Heifer calves ( = 32; 217 ± 2 kg) were allocated into two treatment diets: 1) Control, fed a standard receiving ration, and 2) OmniGen, fed the Control diet supplemented with OmniGen at 4.54 g/45 kg BW/d. Heifers were fed for 42 d. On d 4...

Data-driven modeling and prediction of blood glucose dynamics: Machine learning applications in type 1 diabetes.

BACKGROUND: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a metabolic disorder that causes abnormal blood glucose (BG) regulation that might result in short and long-term...

Randomized Controlled Trial of Gait Training Using Gait Exercise Assist Robot (GEAR) in Stroke Patients with Hemiplegia.

PURPOSE: This trial aimed to validate the effectiveness of using the Gait Exercise Assist Robot (GEAR) in patients with hemiplegia after primary strok...

Efficacy of Cardiac Rehabilitation with Assistance from Hybrid Assistive Limb in Patients with Chronic Heart Failure: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Study.

The hybrid assistive limb (HAL) provides motion assistance based on bioelectrical signals detected on the skin surface when muscle forces are generate...

Exoskeletons for Personal Use After Spinal Cord Injury.

Before the development of robotic exoskeletons, mobility options beyond a wheelchair were very limited for most people lacking leg movement due to spi...

Adjusting the dose in paediatric care: dispersing four different aspirin tablets and taking a proportion.

OBJECTIVES: When caring for children in a hospital setting, tablets are often manipulated at the ward to obtain the right dose. One example is manipul...

FriWalk robotic walker: usability, acceptance and UX evaluation after a pilot study in a real environment.

: Scientific evidence supports that prevention strategies like multicomponent physical exercise help avoiding functional decline, falls and frailty. T...

Meat quality evaluation based on computer vision technique: A review.

Nowadays people tend to include more meat in their diet thanks to the improvement in standards of living as well as an increase in awareness of meat n...

Ontology-Based Interactive Visualization of Patient-Generated Research Questions.

BACKGROUND: Crohn's disease and colitis are chronic conditions that affect every facet of patients' lives (e.g., social interaction, family, work, die...

Instant White Rice with Pigmented Giant Embryonic Rice Improves Glucose Metabolism and Inhibits Oxidative Stress in High-Fat Diet-Fed Mice.

The effects of instant cooked rice made from a combination of white rice and pigmented giant embryonic Keunnunjami rice, in comparison with those of i...

Child and parent perceptions of acceptability and therapeutic value of a socially assistive robot used during pediatric rehabilitation.

Socially assistive robots are emerging as a method of supporting the rehabilitation of children with physical disabilities. To date there has been no...

Identifying predictors of within-person variance in MRI-based brain volume estimates.

Adequate reliability of measurement is a precondition for investigating individual differences and age-related changes in brain structure. One approac...

Identification of the lipid-lowering component of triterpenes from Alismatis rhizoma based on the MRM-based characteristic chemical profiles and support vector machine model.

It has been demonstrated that triterpenes in Alismatis rhizoma (Zexie in Chinese, ZX) contributed to the lipid-lowering effect on high-fat diet-induce...

Development of a robotic walker for individuals with cerebral palsy.

This study describes the first use of a robotic walker in youth and young adults with cerebral palsy (CP) Gross Motor Function Classification (GMFCS)...

TSE-CNN: A Two-Stage End-to-End CNN for Human Activity Recognition.

Human activity recognition has been widely used in healthcare applications such as elderly monitoring, exercise supervision, and rehabilitation monito...

Effects of robotic rehabilitation on walking and balance in pediatric patients with hemiparetic cerebral palsy.

BACKGROUND: The most prominent characteristics of hemiparetic cerebral palsy (hCP) children are structural and functional asymmetries. These children ...

Expert-level classification of ventilatory thresholds from cardiopulmonary exercising test data with recurrent neural networks.

First and second ventilatory thresholds (VT and VT) represent the boundaries of the moderate-heavy and heavy-severe exercise intensity. Currently, VTs...

Natural language processing of lifestyle modification documentation.

Lifestyle modification, including diet, exercise, and tobacco cessation, is the first-line treatment of many disorders including hypertension, obesity...

Bovine lactoferrin ameliorates antioxidant esterase activity and 8-isoprostane levels in high-cholesterol-diet fed rats.

The main aim of the present study was to show the effect of bovineLactoferrin (bLF), an 80 kD iron-binding glycoprotein, its application on antio...