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Despite the fact that infant mortality rates have been decreased in recent years, this issue stills being considered alarming to Brazilian health system indicators. In this context, the GISSA framework, an intelligent governance framework for Brazilian health system, emerges as a smart system for the Federal Government program, called Stork Network. Its main objective is to improve the healthcare...
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...
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...
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...
STEM activities are activities that promote learning in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. They claim to help children work towards careers in these areas. They promote cognitive and psychomotor development in children, and assist in developing their meta-cognitive knowledge. While typical STEM activities for young children are categorized into broad categories of robotics, physics...
Touchscreen assistive learning numeracy application (TaLNA) is a touchscreen learning based application design for Children with Autism. TaLNA has been developed based on the concept of Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) called discrete trial training (DTT). This app will be used by teachers and instructors as a platform to facilitate children with autism on learning basic numeracy development in special...
Real-world knowledge is growing rapidly nowadays. New entities arise with time, resulting in large volumes of relations that do not exist in current knowledge graphs (KGs). These relations containing at least one new entity are called emerging relations. They often appear in news, and hence the latest information about new entities and relations can be learned from news timely. In this paper, we focus...
The apex position of humans in the animal kingdom can be attributed to their superior learning and adapting abilities. In recent times with the advent of modern technologies, this learning ability requires a different paradigm for achieving greater heights in traditional teaching-learning interaction. As an experimental example an augmented Oral Health Based Education System is proposed which is intended...
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of Al-Quran learning courseware for toddler. The toddles were giving Arabic courseware that consists of seven Arabic singular characters (hijaiyah) with upper stroke (fathah). The toddlers were evaluated in recognizing the Arabic characters with upper stroke by implementing Al-Furqan learning technique. The Arabic courseware was developed...
In this paper, we modify a household reconstruction method using simulated annealing (SA) for micro-simulations (MS) or agent-based simulations (ABS). MS and ABS are recently employed for social simulations. For enabling MS or ABS, each household composition such as ages, occupations, or other properties of each member of a household should be prepared before simulations. However real household compositions...
Handling dynamically-evolving environments, where unpredictable scenarios, incomplete information and pressure for quick decisions are commonplace, might bring great complexity for teams during treatment. Variables considered for undertaking recommended procedures may yield a great number of decision alternatives. Additionally, expectations regarding the response to treatment may not match those actually...
This article outlines the possibilities for the implementation a hypothesis, which we can get deeper insight in question: webpage usability and face perception patterns in the population of people with autism spectrum disorders. For the measurements the best way is the eyetracking method to map these patterns. ICT as part a of everyday life-just as the previously mentioned atypical group-one way to...
Technological advances lead to the development of an increasing number of computer-based devices and software applications, used in the healthcare sector. Recently, rehabilitation programs involving special need children in Sweden have been the focused for these applications. The aim of this project is to create an evidence-based online platform that can be used on a computer or media pads directly...
Given the increasing availability and accessibility of mobile devices, there is enormous potential to transform how healthcare is administered through the creation of highly customized smartphone-based applications for effective medical condition management. Such platforms can offer improvements for both patients and healthcare systems. However, a critical barrier to achieving these tantalizing benefits...
A few human beings are effected with various mental disorders like ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). This paper gives the solution for ADHDs; it is able to solve the social communication of ADHDs with speech control feedback mechanism by assistive based embedded system. The speech information is filtered with three stages of matched filters. An embedded system is developed with Lab...
The overall objective of this paper is to design a module for Electroencephalogram (EEG) amplification for the neonates. EEG refers to the recording of the electrical activity of the brain. EEG can be recorded from the human brain by the placement of the electrodes on the surface of the scalp but the signals produced by the brain are in the order of micro volts. Moreover, noise and artifacts in the...
This paper presents an automatic method for segmenting pediatric brain MR images without using atlas priors. The proposed approach comprises of skull stripping, extraction of the cerebrospinal fluid, removal of extraneous portions and final brain segmentation. The method is tested on pediatric images in the age range 1 to 1430 days and the results are evaluated both qualitatively and quantitatively...
Many researchers have started to explore natural interaction scenarios for children. No matter if these children are normally developing or have special needs, evaluating Child-Robot Interaction (CRI) is a challenge. To find methods that work well and provide reliable data is difficult, for example because commonly used methods such as questionnaires do not work well particularly with younger children...
Cerebral palsy (CP) is a lifelong physical disorder of movement and posture, at times associated with other medical and cognitive impairment including joint attention. Nowadays, advancement of robotic technology promises potential application to CP rehabilitation. Previous study resulted that robotic technology has successfully elicited interest and joint attention in young children. This study proposes...
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