AIMC Topic: Body Weight

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[Leptin sexual dimorphism, insulin resistance, and body composition in normal weight prepubescent].

Revista chilena de pediatria
INTRODUCTION: The prepubertal stage is a critical period of body fat development, in which leptin and insulin re sistance has been associated, however, there are few studies in normal-weight prepubescents. Ob jective: To assess the relationship betwe...

Artificial intelligence as an analytic approximation to evaluate associations between parental feeding behaviours and excess weight in Colombian preschoolers.

The British journal of nutrition
Parental practices can affect children's weight and BMI and may even be related to a high prevalence of obesity. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between parents' practices related to feeding their children and excess...

Research on a Dynamic Algorithm for Cow Weighing Based on an SVM and Empirical Wavelet Transform.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Weight is an important indicator of the growth and development of dairy cows. The traditional static weighing methods require considerable human and financial resources, and the existing dynamic weighing algorithms do not consider the influence of th...

Quantifying trunk neuromuscular control using seated balancing and stability threshold.

Journal of biomechanics
Performance during seated balancing is often used to assess trunk neuromuscular control, including evaluating impairments in back pain populations. Balancing in less challenging environments allows for flexibility in control, which may not depend on ...

Bolus pharmacokinetics: moving beyond mass-based dosing to guide drug administration.

Journal of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
Despite the common approach of bolus drug dosing using a patient's mass, a more tailored approach would be to use empirically derived pharmacokinetic models. Previously, this could only be possible though the use of computer simulation using programs...

Mediolateral damping of an overhead body weight support system assists stability during treadmill walking.

Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation
BACKGROUND: Body weight support systems with three or more degrees of freedom (3-DoF) are permissive and safe environments that provide unloading and allow unrestricted movement in any direction. This enables training of walking and balance control a...

Prediction of Body Weight of a Person Lying on a Smart Mat in Nonrestraint and Unconsciousness Conditions.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
We want to predict body weight while lying in bed for an elderly patient who is unable to move by himself/herself. To this end, we have implemented a prototype system that estimates the body weight of a person lying on a smart mat in nonrestraint and...

Dynamic Modeling and Simulation of a Body Weight Support System.

Journal of healthcare engineering
This paper proposes a body weight support (BWS) system with a series elastic actuator (SEA) to facilitate walking assistance and motor relearning during gait rehabilitation. This system comprises the following: a mobile platform that ensures movement...

Human arm weight compensation in rehabilitation robotics: efficacy of three distinct methods.

Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation
BACKGROUND: Arm weight compensation with rehabilitation robots for stroke patients has been successfully used to increase the active range of motion and reduce the effects of pathological muscle synergies. However, the differences in structure, perfo...

Prediction and optimization of slaughter weight in meat-type quails using artificial neural network modeling.

Poultry science
Carcass yield of meat-type quails is strongly correlated with the weight of the birds at slaughter (slaughter weight [SW]; body weight at 45 D of age). Moreover, prediction of superior animals for SW at the earlier stages of the rearing period is fav...