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Classification of daily-life postural transitions using trunk-worn wearable barometric pressure sensor

Kamiar Aminian, Anisoara Ionescu, Fabien Massé, Alan Kevin Bourke

Distinguishing sedentary from dynamic behavior is essential in addressing disease conditions that are influenced by mobility. Event-based activity recognition algorithms essentially rely on accurate classification of siting and standing postural transition ...

2013

Unraveling dynamics of human physical activity patterns in chronic pain conditions

Kamiar Aminian, Anisoara Ionescu

Chronic pain is a complex disabling experience that negatively affects the cognitive, affective and physical functions as well as behavior. Although the interaction between chronic pain and physical functioning is a well-accepted paradigm in clinical resea ...

2013

Sustained Delivery Of Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1/Hepatocyte Growth Factor Promotes Endogenous Cardiac Repair And Regeneration In The Chronic Ischemic Heart

Maartje Martina Cornelia Bastings

The aim of this study was to test the sustained release of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) and hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) using an injectable supramolecular hydrogel based on ureido-pyrimidinone (UPy) moieties in order to recruit and activate endo ...

2013

IL-1β Suppresses Innate IL-25 and IL-33 Production and Maintains Helminth Chronicity

Nicola Harris, Benjamin John Marsland, Mario Michael Zaiss, Ilaria Mosconi, Nadine Guenat

Approximately 2 billion people currently suffer from intestinal helminth infections, which are typically chronic in nature and result in growth retardation, vitamin A deficiency, anemia and poor cognitive function. Such chronicity results from co-evolution ...

Public Library Science2013

The missing link: Enhanced functional connectivity between amygdala and visceroceptive cortex in migraine

Nouchine Hadjikhani

Background Migraine is a neurovascular disorder in which altered functional connectivity between pain-modulating circuits and the limbic system may play a role. Cortical spreading depression (CSD), which underlies migraine aura (MWA), induces C-fos express ...

Sage Publications Ltd2013

Bi-Modal Biometric Authentication on Mobile Phones in Challenging Conditions

Sébastien Marcel, Laurent El Shafey

This paper examines the issue of face, speaker and bi-modal authentication in mobile environments when there is significant condition mismatch. We introduce this mismatch by enrolling client models on high quality biometric samples obtained on a laptop com ...

Idiap2013

WhiB5, a Transcriptional Regulator That Contributes to Mycobacterium tuberculosis Virulence and Reactivation

Kai Johnsson, Hirohito Haruki, Monica Rengifo Gonzalez

The proteins belonging to the WhiB superfamily are small global transcriptional regulators typical of actinomycetes. In this paper, we characterize the role of WhiB5, a Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein belonging to this superfamily. A null mutant was con ...

American Society for Microbiology2012

Tracking Motor Improvement at the Subtask Level During Robot-Aided Neurorehabilitation of Stroke Patients

Silvestro Micera, Roberto Colombo

Background. Robot-aided neurorehabilitation can provide intensive, repetitious training to improve upper-limb function after stroke. To be more effective, motor therapy ought to be progressive and continuously challenge the patient's ability. Current robot ...

Sage Publications Inc2012

A Current-Mode Potentiostat for Multi-Target Detection Tested with Different Lactate Biosensors

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Irene Taurino, Seyedeh Sara Ghoreishizadeh

Real-time and multi-target detection by wireless implantable devices is of increasing interest for chronic patients. In this work, electrode sharing is proposed to minimize the size of the implantable device when several three-electrode-based sensing sites ...

2012

Estimating uncertainty of alcohol-attributable fractions for infectious and chronic diseases

Gerrit Gmel

Background: Alcohol is a major risk factor for burden of disease and injuries globally. This paper presents a systematic method to compute the 95% confidence intervals of alcohol-attributable fractions (AAFs) with exposure and risk relations stemming from ...

2011

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