The objective of this study was to use automated activity, lying, and rumination monitors to characterize prepartum behavior and predict calving in dairy cattle. Data were collected from 20 primiparous and 33 multiparous Holstein dairy cattle from Se...
Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie
May 25, 2016
Socially assistive robots are increasingly discussed as solutions in care and domestic use for the support of senior adults; however, this raises ethical questions which hitherto have not been considered or were not predictable. The most important qu...
Veterinary journal (London, England : 1997)
Dec 2, 2015
The current study reports the parasitological results of a quality control audit in 21 European boar studs. Field investigations were performed over a 2-year period (2012-2013) during the winter and spring. From each stud, an average of 30 (range, 25...
BACKGROUND: Age estimation of individuals is important in human biology and has various medical and forensic applications. Recent interest in MR-based methods aims to investigate alternatives for established methods involving ionising radiation. Auto...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
Demand for nursing care will intensify in the coming decades based on demographics, chronic diseases, multimorbidity and other health-related issues. Austrian nurses have a low job satisfaction and overall retention time in their job, due to high wor...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 2, 2023
BACKGROUND: The aging population's need for treatment of chronic diseases is exhibiting a marked increase in urgency, with heart failure being one of the most severe diseases in this regard. To improve outpatient care of these patients and reduce hos...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2019
In-patient care of the elderly is currently being put to the test in all developed industrial nations. The aim is to make the resident-centered and nursing-related care more professional. In addition to the organizational and interdisciplinary orient...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2017
In the recent decades state of the art technologies appeared in many areas to assist older adults with disabilities. However, one very essential activity of daily life, the toileting remained without any relevant development. The iToilet project of t...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
The field of "AAL Robotics", combining AAL and robotics as disciplines, has not yet been precisely defined and does not present accepted structures and concepts that would allow to communicate unequivocally its methods, projects, and approaches. The ...
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