Prevention

Robot-Assisted End-Effector-Based Stair Climbing for Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing: Feasibility, Reliability, and Repeatability.

BACKGROUND: Neurological impairments can limit the implementation of conventional cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) and cardiovascular training strategies. A promising approach to provoke cardiovascular stress while facilitating task-specific exercise in people with disabilities is feedback-controlled robot-assisted end-effector-based stair climbing (RASC). The aim of this study was to evalu...

Analysis of the relation between health statistics and eating habits in Japanese prefectures using fuzzy robust regression model.

In recent years, the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare is working to improve citizen׳s lifestyle and social environment to improve their health. This is because of the following reasons. Diseases related to lifestyle such as malignant neoplasms, heart disease, and cerebrovascular disease account for about 60% of the deaths in 2013. In addition, 32% of all medical expenditures are ma...

Effects of a specific blend of essential oils on apparent nutrient digestion, rumen fermentation and rumen microbial populations in sheep fed a 50:50 alfalfa hay:concentrate diet.

OBJECTIVE: An experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of a specific mixture of essential oils (MEO), containing thyme, clove and cinnamon ...

Analytical Determination of Vitamin B12 Content in Infant and Toddler Milk Formulas by Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS).

The development of a sample preparation method and optimization of the analytical instrumentation conditions were performed for the determination of t...

The Athlete's Brain: Cross-Sectional Evidence for Neural Efficiency during Cycling Exercise.

The "neural efficiency" hypothesis suggests that experts are characterized by a more efficient cortical function in cognitive tests. Although this hyp...

Effect of sprint training on resting serum irisin concentration - Sprint training once daily vs. twice every other day.

OBJECTIVE: Exercise twice every other day has been shown to lead to increasing peroxisome proliferator receptor γ coactivator-1α (PGC-1α) expression (...

The effect of the toxic dinoflagellate on the fitness of the calanoid copepod .

Inshore and offshore waters of the Gulf of Maine (USA) have spring/summer harmful algal blooms (HABs) of the toxic dinoflagellate , which is responsib...

The effects of a low-carbohydrate diet on appetite: A randomized controlled trial.

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The relationship between dietary macronutrient composition and appetite is controversial. We examined the effects of a year-long ...

Association of Haemostatic and Inflammatory Biomarkers with Nephropathy in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus.

This study aimed at investigating the association between haemostatic biomarkers, proinflammatory, and anti-inflammatory cytokines with chronic kidney...

Estimation of Human Arm Joints Using Two Wireless Sensors in Robotic Rehabilitation Tasks.

This paper presents a novel kinematic reconstruction of the human arm chain with five degrees of freedom and the estimation of the shoulder location d...

Submaximal cardiopulmonary thresholds on a robotics-assisted tilt table, a cycle and a treadmill: a comparative analysis.

BACKGROUND: The robotics-assisted tilt table (RATT), including actuators for tilting and cyclical leg movement, is used for rehabilitation of severely...

Machine Learning for Treatment Assignment: Improving Individualized Risk Attribution.

Clinical studies model the average treatment effect (ATE), but apply this population-level effect to future individuals. Due to recent developments of...

Effectiveness of intragastric balloon for obesity: A systematic review and meta-analysis based on randomized control trials.

BACKGROUND: Obesity has become a worldwide epidemic, and many methods are currently used to reduce obesity. This systematic review shows the effective...

Framing a Knowledge Base for a Legal Expert System Dealing with Indeterminate Concepts.

Despite decades of development of formal tools for modelling legal knowledge and reasoning, the creation of a fully fledged legal decision support sys...

Gradual Reduction in Sodium Content in Cooked Ham, with Corresponding Change in Sensorial Properties Measured by Sensory Evaluation and a Multimodal Machine Vision System.

The European diet today generally contains too much sodium (Na(+)). A partial substitution of NaCl by KCl has shown to be a promising method for reduc...

Feasibility of cardiopulmonary exercise testing and training using a robotics-assisted tilt table in dependent-ambulatory stroke patients.

BACKGROUND: We evaluated the feasibility of an augmented robotics-assisted tilt table (RATT) for incremental cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) a...

The association between cardiorespiratory fitness and abdominal adiposity in postmenopausal, physically inactive South Asian women.

In South Asians, a unique obesity phenotype of high abdominal fat is associated with increased cardiovascular risk. Low cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF...

SORTA: a system for ontology-based re-coding and technical annotation of biomedical phenotype data.

There is an urgent need to standardize the semantics of biomedical data values, such as phenotypes, to enable comparative and integrative analyses. Ho...

Synbiotic enhances immune responses against infectious bronchitis, infectious bursal disease, Newcastle disease and avian influenza in broiler chickens.

Increased susceptibility of birds to avian pathogens in intensive husbandry system has emphasized on necessity of improvement of innate and specific i...

Stress Testing of an Artificial Pancreas System With Pizza and Exercise Leads to Improvements in the System's Fuzzy Logic Controller.

BACKGROUND: Under controlled conditions, the Dose Safety artificial pancreas (AP) system controller, which utilizes "fuzzy logic" (FL) methodology to ...