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Sensorized garments developed for remote postural and motor rehabilitation
Every day, all around the world, millions of people request postural and/or motor rehabilitation. The
rehabilitation process, also known as Tertiary Prevention, intends to be a sort of therapy to restore functionality
and self-sufficiency of the patient, and regards not only millions of patients daily, but involves also
a huge number of professionals in medical staffs, i.e. specialists, nurses, physiotherapists and therapists,
social workers, psychologists, physiatrists. The care is given in hospitals, clinics, geriatric facilities, and
with territorial home care. For the large number of patients as well as the medical staff and facilities
necessary to support the appropriate postural and motor training, the monetary costs of rehabilitation
is so large, it is difficult to estimate. So, every effort towards a simplification of the rehabilitation route is desirable and welcome, and this chapter covers this aspect
On Multifractal Structure in Non-Representational Art
Multifractal analysis techniques are applied to patterns in several abstract
expressionist artworks, paintined by various artists. The analysis is carried
out on two distinct types of structures: the physical patterns formed by a
specific color (``blobs''), as well as patterns formed by the luminance
gradient between adjacent colors (``edges''). It is found that the analysis
method applied to ``blobs'' cannot distinguish between artists of the same
movement, yielding a multifractal spectrum of dimensions between about 1.5-1.8.
The method can distinguish between different types of images, however, as
demonstrated by studying a radically different type of art. The data suggests
that the ``edge'' method can distinguish between artists in the same movement,
and is proposed to represent a toy model of visual discrimination. A ``fractal
reconstruction'' analysis technique is also applied to the images, in order to
determine whether or not a specific signature can be extracted which might
serve as a type of fingerprint for the movement. However, these results are
vague and no direct conclusions may be drawn.Comment: 53 pp LaTeX, 10 figures (ps/eps