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A panel-type survey was conducted at the Faculty of Communication Sciences at the University of Malaga to learn about the use of 2.0 student tools and how it has evolved from 2012 to 2016. The article studies on the use of web tools.
This research includes information on the cultural and media consumption of young Ecuadorian university students and the relationship that exists with the media skills they have. The inquiries were carried out in two stages, the first analyzed the consumption of traditional and digital media of Ecuadorian university students in 2015. Twenty-six universities in Ecuador were studied with representative...
Acute appendicitis is a common surgical disease in children. Standard treatment approach includes surgery and i.v. antibiotics according to local resistance patterns. There are a number of antibiotic regimens currently in use for this disease, however there is no consensus regarding the use of a certain antibiotic protocol. We present our experience with two antibiotic regimens in patients with acute...
Childhood overweight and obesity are related to cardiovascular risk (CVR) factors (hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, abnormal lipid profiles and increased risk of adult obesity and high morbidity and mortality rates. Methods: We performed a retrospective study of 78 overweight and obese children, hospitalized in a Pediatric Clinic from Saint Mary Hospital Iasi, 42 girls and 37 boys. The nutritional...
There is a diversity of risk situations for pregnant women resulting in premature birth endangering the newborn's life. The pregnant women are monitored by physicians benefiting their experience in last months of pregnancy to predict certain risks in premature birth. The paper presents a solution to prevent high risk situations, using ontology as support in profiling pregnant women with possible pregnancy...
Ischemic stroke in children are rare diseases, but severe. Ischemic stroke represent the leading cause of child mortality and morbidity. The authors presents a case of a girl diagnosed with ischemic stroke in the right posterior central artery territory. The onset was sudden with seizures and motor deficit in the left body. The case presented has two risk factors for ischemic stroke: severe iron deficiency...
Autism spectrum is one of the serious disorders influencing mental capacities and hence behavior. The present work investigates the potential of detecting irregularities of EEG activity and connectivity in Autism Spectrum by studying the inter-channel stability of EEG components point-by-point pulsation as well as by frequency 3D mapping. First, Empirical Mode Decomposition is used to find the Intrinsic...
Electroencephalography has been studied to understand various brain functions. These functions can be related to their frequency and spatial patterns. These properties are relatively unknown in infants. The first year of life includes stages of significant growth neurologically and behaviorally. The present study is aimed to investigate infant brain development using high-density EEG(124 channel)...
Accurate estimation of volumes for cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and brain before and after surgery (pre-op and post-op) plays an important role in analyzing treatment for hydrocephalus. This in turn, relies upon segmentation of brain imagery into brain tissue and CSF. Segmentation of preop images is a relatively straightforward problem and has been well researched. However, segmenting post-op CT-scans...
This study was found 98% of people faces the door when entering, while 2% enters facing away from the door, including people with luggage or children, and wheelchair or electric wheelchair users. In the elevator queue, only 4% follow the floor guides and line up on both sides, while 72% waits in front of the door. Up to 72% of people loiters on the guide bricks. When entering the elevator, 16% of...
A major challenge faced by parents today is child care. Identifying a threat at its earliest stage would be the best way to avoid any hazards caused by it. The baby under observation may not always be in the vicinity of the caregiver. This has given rise to the design and manufacture of various remote monitoring devices designed for babies. This paper reviews the pros and cons of the various monitoring...
The intensive development of technology, the global availability of the Internet, the overall network coverage and increasing of computer literacy within the population, are growth factors that contribute to popularization and importance of electronic commerce. Moreover, electronic commerce is described as an effective way of communication with consumers in terms of money and time expenditures, and,...
The problems of increasing the effectiveness of non-stationary medical supervision for pregnant women are considered. The principle of the mobile personal monitoring system is described. An algorithm for the interaction of the device with the patient and the doctor has been developed. The main problems of introduction of telemedicine systems in the process of remote diagnostics are considered.
Premature birth is the leading cause of death in children under 5 years. Furthermore, surviving children can have a lifetime of disability such as hearing and vision loss or learning difficulties. Research suggests that monitoring uterine contractions can help in evaluating the health and progress of pregnancy, and also determine if the pregnant woman is in labour, and consequently mitigate the effects...
With reference to rapid increment of hyper-urbanization and speedy declination of rural birthrate in the contemporary Taiwanese, a bulk of students in rural districts have gradually fallen off their educational resources that results in a majority of recruiting freshmen of top-ranking higher education institutes have come from urban regions. Under this most solemn the fewer newborns condition, “how...
Premature, newborn patients are often subjected to specific treatments due to limited or absent physiological capacities. Among them, assisted ventilation is often used, requiring the measurement of some important patient's parameters to be correctly operated. One of the most relevant is the blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) which can be measured with blood sampling or in a continuous way by optical...
Parasite-host interactions has been a research topic of extreme importance due to its implications on human health, agriculture, and wildlife. Since the virus-bacteria interactions are the most abundant in nature, they had become in the object of intensive study. Specifically, how virus infection mechanisms have evolve is still an open question. Classic parasite theory argues that nature selects the...
Statistical analysis is widely used for problem solving in different fields. We present a research on Saint Petersburg morbidity rate. The aim of the work is to detect the heterogeneity in districts of the city with respect to morbidity rate, which was chosen as an indicator of population health. Methods of cluster analysis was utilized for grouping districts to homogeneous sets. Clustering can be...
The understanding of the pain frequency of patients can facilitate medical professional diagnosis, so self-management tools for pain have gained increasing attention. However, there have been just a limited number of tools for children who are not highly literate. In this study, the first of 10 children aged from 3 to 9 as objects, to clarify the extent of the children's understanding of graphic design...
The Goo9 system is composed of a detection sensor module (include a humidity sensor and a temperature sensor), a data processing module, a cloud-based database, and a baby profile module. The humidity sensor and temperature sensor detects the temperature/humidity changes of a diaper and transfer the data of diaper change to the data processing module for analysis. The analysis results about the wetness...
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