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The use of an electric wheelchair is, for many people with disabilities, the only mode of independent travel giving them the possibility of free outdoor or internal displacements. The use of a power wheelchair may be difficult because of sensory disabilities, including visual impairment, or motor disorders of the upper limb. The objective of this study is to assess a robotic embedded assistive electronic...
Quality assessment is of major importance when designing and testing an image/video coding technique. Compression performances are usually evaluated by means of rate-distortion curves. However, the PSNR is commonly employed as the distortion measure. We hereby present a full quality assessment benchmark for the LAR (locally adaptive resolution) coder. We conducted a subjective experiment, where nineteen...
Spinal anaesthesia in a patient with narcolepsy-cataplexy. A 44-year-old patient, with narcolepsy-cataplexy, underwent surgery for lumbar disk hernia under spinal anaesthesia. Our purpose was to prevent an interaction between the patient's disease and general anaesthetic agents with the risk of post-operative hypersomnia. During surgical procedure, two narcolepsy fits occurred, without clinical...
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