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Beat-to-beat variability of P-wave in patients suffering from atrial fibrillation.

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The aim of this paper was to analyze the P-wave variability over time in patients suffering from Atrial Fibrillation (AF). Behind some time-domain and morphological features of the P-wave template, two novel indexes of P-wave variability have been es...

Recent machine learning advancements in sensor-based mobility analysis: Deep learning for Parkinson's disease assessment.

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The development of wearable sensors has opened the door for long-term assessment of movement disorders. However, there is still a need for developing methods suitable to monitor motor symptoms in and outside the clinic. The purpose of this paper was ...

Context-aware fall detection using inertial sensors and time-of-flight transceivers.

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Automatic detection of falls is important for enabling people who are older to safely live independently longer within their homes. Current automated fall detection systems are typically designed using inertial sensors positioned on the body that gen...

A device for controlled jet injection of large volumes of liquid.

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We present a needle-free jet injection device controllably actuated by a voice coil and capable of injecting up to 1.3 mL. This device is used to perform jet injections of ~900 μL into porcine tissue. This is the first time that delivery of such a la...

Evaluation of a novel portable micro-pump and infusion system for drug delivery.

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In this paper the design, fabrication and experimental results of a novel portable fixed-displacement micro-pump for controlled dosing and timing is described. The new pump is developed especially for high efficiency, high accuracy, ease of use and v...

Forecasting nanoparticle toxicity using nonlinear predictive regressor learning systems.

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Nanoparticle (NP) toxicity is determined by a vast number of topological, sterical, physico-chemical as well as biological properties, rendering a priori evaluation of the effect of NP on biological tissue as arduous as it is necessary and urgent. We...

Difficulty understanding speech in noise by the hearing impaired: underlying causes and technological solutions.

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A primary complaint of hearing-impaired individuals involves poor speech understanding when background noise is present. Hearing aids and cochlear implants often allow good speech understanding in quiet backgrounds. But hearing-impaired individuals a...

Intelligent hearing aids: the next revolution.

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The first revolution in hearing aids came from nonlinear amplification, which allows better compensation for both soft and loud sounds. The second revolution stemmed from the introduction of digital signal processing, which allows better programmabil...

Measuring the agreement between brain connectivity networks.

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Investigating the level of similarity between two brain networks, resulting from measures of effective connectivity in the brain, can be of interest from many respects. In this study, we propose and test the idea to borrow measures of association use...

Improving odorant chemical class prediction with multi-layer perceptrons using temporal odorant spike responses from drosophila melanogaster olfactory receptor neurons.

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In this work, we examine the possibility of improving the prediction performance of an olfactory biosensor through the use of temporal spiking data. We present an Artificial Neural Network (ANN), in the form of an optimal hybrid Multi-Layer Perceptro...