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Expert system application for prioritizing preventive actions for shift work: shift expert.

INTRODUCTION: Shift patterns, work hours, work arrangements and worker motivations have increasingly become key factors for job performance. The main objective of this article is to design an expert system that identifies the negative effects of shift work and prioritizes mitigation efforts according to their importance in preventing these negative effects. The proposed expert system will be refer...

MIT-Skywalker: considerations on the Design of a Body Weight Support System.

BACKGROUND: To provide body weight support during walking and balance training, one can employ two distinct embodiments: support through a harness hanging from an overhead system or support through a saddle/seat type. This paper presents a comparison of these two approaches. Ultimately, this comparison determined our selection of the body weight support system employed in the MIT-Skywalker, a robo...

Artificial Intelligence, DNA Mimicry, and Human Health.

The molecular evolution of genomic DNA across diverse plant and animal phyla involved dynamic registrations of sequence modifications to maintain exis...

Robot-supported assessment of balance in standing and walking.

Clinically useful and efficient assessment of balance during standing and walking is especially challenging in patients with neurological disorders. H...

Applying deep neural networks to unstructured text notes in electronic medical records for phenotyping youth depression.

BACKGROUND: We report a study of machine learning applied to the phenotyping of psychiatric diagnosis for research recruitment in youth depression, co...

AExaCTT - Aerobic Exercise and Consecutive Task-specific Training for the upper limb after stroke: Protocol for a randomised controlled pilot study.

Motor function may be enhanced if aerobic exercise is paired with motor training. One potential mechanism is that aerobic exercise increases levels of...

Dorsoventral and Proximodistal Hippocampal Processing Account for the Influences of Sleep and Context on Memory (Re)consolidation: A Connectionist Model.

The context in which learning occurs is sufficient to reconsolidate stored memories and neuronal reactivation may be crucial to memory consolidation d...

Development of a novel stability indicating RP-HPLC method for quantification of Connexin43 mimetic peptide and determination of its degradation kinetics in biological fluids.

Connexin43 mimetic peptide (Cx43MP) has been intensively investigated for its therapeutic effect in the management of inflammatory eye conditions, spi...

A comparison of rule-based and machine learning approaches for classifying patient portal messages.

OBJECTIVE: Secure messaging through patient portals is an increasingly popular way that consumers interact with healthcare providers. The increasing b...

Prediction of Collision Cross-Section Values for Small Molecules: Application to Pesticide Residue Analysis.

The use of collision cross-section (CCS) values obtained by ion mobility high-resolution mass spectrometry has added a third dimension (alongside rete...

Multi-stimuli responsive luminescent azepane-substituted β-diketones and difluoroboron complexes.

Difluoroboron β-diketonate (BFbdk) compounds show environment-sensitive optical properties in solution, aggregation-induced emission (AIE) and multi-s...

Familiarity Detection is an Intrinsic Property of Cortical Microcircuits with Bidirectional Synaptic Plasticity.

Humans instantly recognize a previously seen face as "familiar." To deepen our understanding of familiarity-novelty detection, we simulated biological...

Collective neurodynamic optimization for economic emission dispatch problem considering valve point effect in microgrid.

The economic emission dispatch (EED) problem aims to control generation cost and reduce the impact of waste gas on the environment. It has multiple co...

Rapid detection of six phosphodiesterase type 5 enzyme inhibitors in healthcare products using thin-layer chromatography and surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy combined with BP neural network.

A novel facile method for the detection of the phosphodiesterase type 5 enzyme inhibitors added illegally into health products was established using t...

Anti-inflammatory effect of cinnamaldehyde and linalool from the leaf essential oil of Cinnamomum osmophloeum Kanehira in endotoxin-induced mice.

Cinnamomum osmophloeum Kanehira is a Taiwan native plant that belongs to genus Cinnamomum and is also known as pseudocinnamomum or indigenous cinnamon...

Feature selection using ant colony optimization with tandem-run recruitment to diagnose bronchitis from CT scan images.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) plays a vital role in the routine clinical activity for the detection of lung disorders usin...

Overground vs. treadmill-based robotic gait training to improve seated balance in people with motor-complete spinal cord injury: a case report.

BACKGROUND: Robotic overground gait training devices, such as the Ekso, require users to actively participate in triggering steps through weight-shift...

Influence of Varying Training Set Composition and Size on Support Vector Machine-Based Prediction of Active Compounds.

Support vector machine (SVM) modeling is one of the most popular machine learning approaches in chemoinformatics and drug design. The influence of tra...

Study on electric energy consumed in intermittent series-parallel elastic actuators (iSPEA).

On compliant actuators, intermittent series-parallel elastic actuators (iSPEA) can reduce motor load by variable load cancellation through recruitment...

Robot-assisted gait training (Lokomat) improves walking function and activity in people with spinal cord injury: a systematic review.

UNLABELLED: Robot-assisted gait training (RAGT) after spinal cord injury (SCI) induces several different neurophysiological mechanisms to restore walk...