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Recent studies suggest that epidural stimulation of the spinal cord could increase the motor pattern both in motor and sensory complete spinal cord injury (SCI) patients. However, choosing the optimal epidural stimulation variables, such as the frequency, intensity, and location of the stimulation, significantly affects maximal motor functionality. This paper presents a novel technique using machine...
Human activity monitoring has become widely popular in recent years, and has been utilized in a vast number of fields and applications. Most of the activity recognition algorithms proposed have emphasized the use of inertial sensors in smartphone devices or other bodily-worn sensors. However, wearable inertial sensors are not interactive, and smartphones are not easily worn. Thus, with the advancement...
The issue of time-series segmentation refers to the division of continuous sensor data into discrete windows, each of which are processed individually and assigned a class label. Unlike offline data processing scenarios, segmentation for low-power wearable devices must balance the juxtaposed aims of accuracy and computational efficiency. In this paper, we propose a novel scheme for segmentation of...
Among the major challenges in the development of real-time wearable health monitoring systems is to optimize battery life. One of the major techniques with which this objective can be achieved is computation offloading, in which portions of computation can be partitioned between the device and other resources such as a server or cloud. In this paper, we describe a novel dynamic computation offloading...
Asthma is the most prevalent chronic disease among pediatrics, as it is the leading cause of student absenteeism and hospitalization for those under the age of 15. To address the significant need to manage this disease in children, the authors present a mobile health (mHealth) system that determines the risk of an asthma attack through physiological and environmental wireless sensors and representational...
Presented is PYROBOTS, a new open-source software toolkit for the executive control of complex robotic systems. Borrowing ideas from previous tools like URBI [1], it proposes a lightweight Python framework to develop (pre-emptive) concurrent and event-based executive controllers.
In recent years, a significant amount of research has focussed on the analysis of consumers' aversion to new technologies in food production and processing. At the same time, research has shown that environmental attitudes may be related to purchasing behaviour of consumers. This paper presents the result of an investigation into Canadian attitudes towards nanotechnology, in general, and in applications...
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