22,362 research outputs found
A feasibility randomised controlled trial of the New Orleans intervention of infant mental health: a study protocol
Child maltreatment is associated with life-long social, physical, and mental health problems. Intervening early to provide maltreated children with safe, nurturing care can improve outcomes. The need for prompt decisions about permanent placement (i.e., regarding adoption or return home) is internationally recognised. However, a recent Glasgow audit showed that many maltreated children “revolve” between birth families and foster carers. This paper describes the protocol of the first exploratory randomised controlled trial of a mental health intervention aimed at improving placement permanency decisions for maltreated children. This trial compares an infant's mental health intervention with the new enhanced service as usual for maltreated children entering care in Glasgow. As both are new services, the trial is being conducted from a position of equipoise. The outcome assessment covers various fields of a child’s neurodevelopment to identify problems in any ESSENCE domain. The feasibility, reliability, and developmental appropriateness of all outcome measures are examined. Additionally, the potential for linkage with routinely collected data on health and social care and, in the future, education is explored. The results will inform a definitive randomised controlled trial that could potentially lead to long lasting benefits for the Scottish population and which may be applicable to other areas of the world
Aerospace medicine and biology: A continuing bibliography with indexes, supplement 184
This bibliography lists 139 reports, articles, and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system in August 1978
Fog Computing in Medical Internet-of-Things: Architecture, Implementation, and Applications
In the era when the market segment of Internet of Things (IoT) tops the chart
in various business reports, it is apparently envisioned that the field of
medicine expects to gain a large benefit from the explosion of wearables and
internet-connected sensors that surround us to acquire and communicate
unprecedented data on symptoms, medication, food intake, and daily-life
activities impacting one's health and wellness. However, IoT-driven healthcare
would have to overcome many barriers, such as: 1) There is an increasing demand
for data storage on cloud servers where the analysis of the medical big data
becomes increasingly complex, 2) The data, when communicated, are vulnerable to
security and privacy issues, 3) The communication of the continuously collected
data is not only costly but also energy hungry, 4) Operating and maintaining
the sensors directly from the cloud servers are non-trial tasks. This book
chapter defined Fog Computing in the context of medical IoT. Conceptually, Fog
Computing is a service-oriented intermediate layer in IoT, providing the
interfaces between the sensors and cloud servers for facilitating connectivity,
data transfer, and queryable local database. The centerpiece of Fog computing
is a low-power, intelligent, wireless, embedded computing node that carries out
signal conditioning and data analytics on raw data collected from wearables or
other medical sensors and offers efficient means to serve telehealth
interventions. We implemented and tested an fog computing system using the
Intel Edison and Raspberry Pi that allows acquisition, computing, storage and
communication of the various medical data such as pathological speech data of
individuals with speech disorders, Phonocardiogram (PCG) signal for heart rate
estimation, and Electrocardiogram (ECG)-based Q, R, S detection.Comment: 29 pages, 30 figures, 5 tables. Keywords: Big Data, Body Area
Network, Body Sensor Network, Edge Computing, Fog Computing, Medical
Cyberphysical Systems, Medical Internet-of-Things, Telecare, Tele-treatment,
Wearable Devices, Chapter in Handbook of Large-Scale Distributed Computing in
Smart Healthcare (2017), Springe
Profiling a set of personality traits of text author: what our words reveal about us
Authorship profiling, i.e. revealing information about an unknown author by analyzing their text, is a task of growing importance. One of the most urgent problems of authorship profiling (AP) is selecting text parameters which may correlate to an author’s personality. Most researchers’ selection of these is not underpinned by any theory. This article proposes an approach to AP which applies neuroscience data. The aim of the study is to assess the probability of self-destructive behaviour of an individual via formal parameters of their texts. Here we have used the “Personality Corpus”, which consists of Russian-language texts. A set of correlations between scores on the Freiburg Personality Inventory scales that are known to be indicative of self-destructive behaviour (“Spontaneous Aggressiveness”, “Depressiveness”, “Emotional Lability”, and “Composedness”) and text variables (average sentence length, lexical diversity etc.) has been calculated. Further, a mathematical model which predicts the probability of self-destructive behaviour has been obtained
Book review\ud Andre, J., Owens, D. A., & Harvey, Jr., L. O. (Eds.). (2003). Visual perception: The influence of H. W. Leibowitz. Washington, DC: APA.
In the edifice of visual psychology there are many mansions. This book comes from one of the finest in it.\ud
The influence of Herschel Leibowitz has been immense (e.g., teaching in four languages and publishing\ud
more than 250 papers) blending rigorous inquiry with inspirational teaching and dedicated public\ud
service. This “Decade of Behavior” festschrift is exemplary in many respects, such as giving a readable\ud
account of complicated vision problems, as bridging applied and theoretical questions, as to the\ud
productiveness of cross-disciplinary collaboration, and, last but not least, to the significance of an\ud
inspirational teacher, mentor, and colleague. Reading the book will give you a kind of immersion experience,\ud
typical in style of the man himself. The book primes the pump and lets the reader go on an inspirational journey
Aerospace Medicine and Biology: A continuing bibliography (supplement 160)
This bibliography lists 166 reports, articles, and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system in October 1976
Addendum to Informatics for Health 2017: Advancing both science and practice
This article presents presentation and poster abstracts that were mistakenly omitted from the original publication
Aerospace medicine and biology: A continuing bibliography with indexes, supplement 128, May 1974
This special bibliography lists 282 reports, articles, and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system in April 1974
Aerospace medicine and biology: A continuing bibliography with indexes, supplement 183
This bibliography lists 273 reports, articles, and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system in July 1978
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