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Proposal of a health care network based on big data analytics for PDs
Health care networks for Parkinson's disease (PD) already exist and have been already proposed in the literature, but most of them are not able to analyse the vast volume of data generated from medical examinations and collected and organised in a pre-defined manner. In this work, the authors propose a novel health care network based on big data analytics for PD. The main goal of the proposed architecture is to support clinicians in the objective assessment of the typical PD motor issues and alterations. The proposed health care network has the ability to retrieve a vast volume of acquired heterogeneous data from a Data warehouse and train an ensemble SVM to classify and rate the motor severity of a PD patient. Once the network is trained, it will be able to analyse the data collected during motor examinations of a PD patient and generate a diagnostic report on the basis of the previously acquired knowledge. Such a diagnostic report represents a tool both to monitor the follow up of the disease for each patient and give robust advice about the severity of the disease to clinicians
Design, Implementation and First Measurements with the Medipix Neutron Camera in CMS
The Medipix detector is the first device dedicated to measuring mixed-field
radiation in the CMS cavern and able to distinguish between different particle
types. Medipix2-MXR chips bump bonded to silicon sensors with various neutron
conversion layers developed by the IEAP CTU in Prague were successfully
installed for the 2008 LHC start-up in the CMS experimental and services
caverns to measure the flux of various particle types, in particular neutrons.
They have operated almost continuously during the 2010 run period, and the
results shown here are from the proton run between the beginning of July and
the end of October 2010. Clear signals are seen and different particle types
have been observed during regular LHC luminosity running, and an agreement in
the measured flux rate is found with the simulations. These initial results are
promising, and indicate that these devices have the potential for further and
future LHC and high energy physics applications as radiation monitoring devices
for mixed field environments, including neutron flux monitoring. Further
extensions are foreseen in the near future to increase the performance of the
detector and its coverage for monitoring in CMS.Comment: 15 pages, 16 figures, submitted to JINS
Advanced extravehicular activity systems requirements definition study. Phase 2: Extravehicular activity at a lunar base
The focus is on Extravehicular Activity (EVA) systems requirements definition for an advanced space mission: remote-from-main base EVA on the Moon. The lunar environment, biomedical considerations, appropriate hardware design criteria, hardware and interface requirements, and key technical issues for advanced lunar EVA were examined. Six remote EVA scenarios (three nominal operations and three contingency situations) were developed in considerable detail
Towards a cyber physical system for personalised and automatic OSA treatment
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a breathing disorder that takes place in the course of the sleep and is produced by a complete or a partial obstruction of the upper airway that manifests itself as frequent breathing stops and starts during the sleep. The real-time evaluation of whether or not a patient is undergoing OSA episode is a very important task in medicine in many scenarios, as for example for making instantaneous pressure adjustments that should take place when Automatic Positive Airway Pressure (APAP) devices are used during the treatment of OSA. In this paper the design of a possible Cyber Physical System (CPS) suited to real-time monitoring of OSA is described, and its software architecture and possible hardware sensing components are detailed. It should be emphasized here that this paper does not deal with a full CPS, rather with a software part of it under a set of assumptions on the environment. The paper also reports some preliminary experiments about the cognitive and learning capabilities of the designed CPS involving its use on a publicly available sleep apnea database
Smart Sentinel: Monitoring and Prevention System in the Smart Cities
Today, faced with the constant rise of the Smart cities around the world, there is an exponential increase of the use and deployment of information technologies in the cities. The intensive use of Information Technology (IT) in these ecosystems facilitates and improves the quality of life of citizens, but in these digital communities coexist individuals whose health is affected developing or increasing diseases such as electromagnetic hypersensitivity. In this paper we present a monitoring, detection and prevention system to help this group, through which it is reported the rates of electromagnetic radiation in certain areas, based on the information that the own Smart City gives us. This work provides a perfect platform for the generation of predictive models for detection of future states of risk for humans.This work has been performed within project Smart University funded from the Vice President office for Information Technology at the University of Alicante
Safe and Secure Wireless Power Transfer Networks: Challenges and Opportunities in RF-Based Systems
RF-based wireless power transfer networks (WPTNs) are deployed to transfer
power to embedded devices over the air via RF waves. Up until now, a
considerable amount of effort has been devoted by researchers to design WPTNs
that maximize several objectives such as harvested power, energy outage and
charging delay. However, inherent security and safety issues are generally
overlooked and these need to be solved if WPTNs are to be become widespread.
This article focuses on safety and security problems related WPTNs and
highlight their cruciality in terms of efficient and dependable operation of
RF-based WPTNs. We provide a overview of new research opportunities in this
emerging domain.Comment: Removed some references, added new references, corrected typos,
revised some sections (mostly I-B and III-C
Silicon Avalanche Pixel Sensor for High Precision Tracking
The development of an innovative position sensitive pixelated sensor to
detect and measure with high precision the coordinates of the ionizing
particles is proposed. The silicon avalanche pixel sensors (APiX) is based on
the vertical integration of avalanche pixels connected in pairs and operated in
coincidence in fully digital mode and with the processing electronics embedded
on the chip. The APiX sensor addresses the need to minimize the material budget
and related multiple scattering effects in tracking systems requiring a high
spatial resolution in the presence of a large occupancy. The expected operation
of the new sensor features: low noise, low power consumption and suitable
radiation tolerance. The APiX device provides on-chip digital information on
the position of the coordinate of the impinging charged particle and can be
seen as the building block of a modular system of pixelated arrays,
implementing a sparsified readout. The technological challenges are the 3D
integration of the device under CMOS processes and integration of processing
electronics.Comment: 13th Topical Seminar on Innovative Particle and Radiation Detectors
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Monitoring and Prevention the Smart Cities
Nowadays, the intensive use of Technology Information (TI) provide solutions to problems of the high population density, energy conservation and cities management. This produces a newest concept of the city, Smart City. But the inclusion of TI in the city brings associated new problems, specifically the generation of electromagnetic fields from the available and new technological infrastructures installed in the city that did not exist before. This new scenario produces a negative effect on a particular group of the society, as are the group of persons with electromagnetic hypersensitivity pathology. In this work we propose a system that would allow you to detect and prevent the continuous exposure to such electromagnetic fields, without the need to include more devices or infrastructure which would only worsen these effects. Through the use of the architecture itself and Smart City services, it is possible to infer the necessary knowledge to know the situation of the EMF radiation and thus allow users to avoid the areas of greatest conflict. This knowledge, not only allows us to get EMF current map of the city, but also allows you to generate predictions and detect future risk situations.This work has been performed within project Smart University funded from the Vice President office for Information Technology at the University of Alicante
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