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Recent studies have proposed a model using the supervised neural-network (NN) as the haptic model. However, this model has the problem in expressing human tactile sense. Therefore, we constructed a haptic stage model based on the model of human-tactile sense and cognitive process. Our NN-based model consists of supervised and unsupervised stages. Using surface-scanning results from our trial micro-tactile...
Body movement is one of the most useful information sources regarding preterm infants' condition and the prediction of motor impairment and/or movement disorders. Professionals observed neuro-developmental impairments like infantile cerebral palsy and assessed general movement for developing motor disorders. In addition, in the neonatal intensive care unit, body movement was used to evaluate developmental...
Although people should wash their hands to prevent infection especially in a place where many people gather, such as in a hospital or a school, it is difficult to teach young children to wash their hands properly. The challenge is to make them understand why they should wash their hands even if they are looking already clean. We propose a novel VR hand washing training system for preschool and lower...
The technology of the IoT system components belong to the science and engineering category. However, if composition elements of the IoT system can be configured easily and used for education, students of the liberal arts might construct IoT prototype systems. Students are then expected to create ideas related to specialized fields of the liberal arts using experience obtained the construction. Creation...
Many machine learning tasks have been shown solvable with impressive levels of success given large amounts of training data and computational power. For the problems which lack data sufficient to achieve high performance, methods for transfer learning can be applied. These refer to performing the new task while having prior knowledge of the nature of the data, gained by first performing a different...
Nearly 20 million premature and Low Birth Weight infants are born each year in developing countries, 4 million die within their first month. These deaths occur due to the unavailability or unreliability of traditional incubators. Moreover, although Telemedicine is helpful in rural areas, the shortage of healthcare providers have made it inaccessible in both basic healthcare. Thereby, traditional preterm...
This paper deals with the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) problem. The main objective is to limit it by controlling the main reasons that may lead to it. Sudden infant death syndrome is the death without specific reason of a healthy newborn, usually during sleep. Although the causes are unknown, SIDS may be related to abnormalities in the infant's brain that controls breathing and arousal from...
Just a few decades ago the society has been interested in the field of children's rights. For this reason, the society as a whole has been developing strategies to achieve that commitment. As a result, it has given more attention to this society segment that is vulnerable. With this the society does not pretend to expose the individual in the early stages of his life. The way in which children live...
Child health screening is a fundamental component of public health, which includes neonatal screening, detection of infectious diseases and monitoring of nutritional status. Unfortunately, the tools to perform these tasks are often very crude, requiring manual input of data which is prone to error and falsification. Furthermore, the staff which performs these duties often lack clinical training or...
This paper presents a framework for localization or grounding of phrases in images using a large collection of linguistic and visual cues. We model the appearance, size, and position of entity bounding boxes, adjectives that contain attribute information, and spatial relationships between pairs of entities connected by verbs or prepositions. Special attention is given to relationships between people...
Sub-Saharan Africa is home to millions of children who face challenges in achieving their cognitive potential due to chronic poverty and other factors such as malaria and HIV infection. Scarcity of resources during early developmental stages may contribute to developmental delay in various domains, including motor, language and social-emotional, that may affect quality of life into adulthood. However,...
Human breast milk is considered the gold standard for infant nutrition, as breast milk is the only substance that is able to provide infants with the necessary nutrients in their first six months of life. Infants who are fed mother's breast milk are at lower risk for developing a variety of infections and autoimmune diseases and often display better developmental and cognitive performance compared...
In the previous study, we have investigated that the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) has the excellennt performance and very fast learning as the training of Feedforward Neural Network (FNN). In the expansion of Kalman filter algorithm for nonlinear estimation, the Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF) was proposed. Enlightened the UKF is superior to EKF, in this study, we investigate the UKF algorithm as the...
It is widely known that biometric systems based on adults fingerprints have reached an outstanding performance when compared against other biometric traits. This explains their extensive use by governmental agencies in charge of citizen identification. Nevertheless, the performance is highly degraded when fingerprints of newborns or toddlers are used. In this work, we analyze the performance of existing...
We propose a multimedia-based interactive game that incites elementary school children in Qatar to take regularly the daily breakfast before going to school. It also promotes physical activities and healthy food and shows the strong connection between them. Before playing the game, the children learn about the importance of breakfast within a family setting through multimedia tutorials developed with...
This paper presents a serious game designed for children suffering from profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) also know as multihandicap, for their evaluation and cognitive training. The specificities of these children must be taken into account for the choice of both the game feedbacks and interfaces.
The health status of women and children is considered as a reflection of the present society and a predictor of the future generations. Unfortunately, numerous challenges emanating from poverty, inadequate resources, illiteracy and cultural barriers contribute to poor health and high mortality rate in low-resource settings. To address these challenges, there are numerous mHealth interventions seeking...
Functional ultrasound (fUS) imaging is novel neuroimaging modality for brain activity based on the neurovascular coupling. This technique provides non-invasive dynamic mapping of the cerebral blood volume (CBV) variations through high-sensitivity power Doppler measurements. Complementary to CBV measurements, it would be of particular interest to extend fUS to cerebral blood flow (CBF) measurements...
The purpose of this paper is to explore and define key characteristics, tendencies, needs and expectations that distinguish the generation of Millennials from the generation of Baby Boomers. The paper will present both theoretical and practical overview in order to create effective education program and training system in the organization which is appealing to the Millennial generation, a workforce...
This paper outlines the effects of educational and casual software applications on young children, and defines a framework for monitoring, assessing, and improving their knowledge and skills. It shows how the use of such applications improves children skills in the main learning domains and increases their familiarity with the world. After analyzing specific abilities developed by different categories...
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