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Mobility is a causal factor in infant development. Neural impaired infants, e.g., with cerebral palsy (CP), are at risk for further developmental delays due to lack of self-generated mobility. It is possible that these infants may benefit from robot-enhanced mobility, where the mobility comes from a robot that the child drives via a joystick. We believe that such a mobility experience will enrich...
„IMIC" (Innovative Movement Therapy in Childhood) is a translational research and development project that is specialized in creating a motivating locomotion rehabilitation setting for children with neurological disorders and cognitive limitations in an interdisciplinary context. "IMIC" was founded in 2010 by an interdisciplinary cooperation of movement scientists, neurologists and...
The underlying mechanisms that lead to syncope are still unclear, especially in children. In this work, we applied a novel point-process model to study time-varying heartbeat dynamics and to characterize autonomic changes that occur prior to a syncopal event. Twenty-six children with history compatible with neurocardiogenic syncope (NCS) and a positive head up tilt table test (HUT) were included in...
The study objectives were: (1) to develop and design an Electronic book (E-book) for improving knowledge addressed pesticide safety behaviors among children living in rubber farming areas; and (2) to evaluate their knowledge and perceptions on pesticide use. This study was conducted in the Khogyang community, Trang province, Thailand between September 2013 and March 2014. E-book's content validity...
After the East Japan Great Earthquake happened on Mar. 11, 2011, many affected people who lost houses, jobs and families fell into difficulties. Governmental agencies and NPOs supported them by offering relief supplies, foods, evacuation centers and temporary houses. When various supports were offered to affected people, if Governmental agencies and NPOs could detect their needs appropriately, it...
Obesity is one of the leading health concerns in the United States. Researchers and health care providers are interested in understanding factors affecting obesity and detecting the likelihood of obesity as early as possible. In this paper, we set out to recognize children who have higher risk of obesity by identifying distinct growth patterns in them. This is done by using clustering methods, which...
Recently, many researchers have used graph theory to study the aberrant brain functions in mental disorders. However, the characteristics of the brain functional network in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are still largely unexplored. In this study, blood oxygen level-dependence (BOLD) functional magnetic resonance images (fMRI) were employed to construct brain functional networks...
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common psychiatric conditions in childhood. Observation of the behavior of the young person plays a key role in Cognitive-Behavioural (CB) approaches to the treatment of ADHD, but traditional pen and pen-and-paper based methods have a number of disadvantages which inhibit their use in realworld situations. The WHAAM mobile application...
The purpose of the study was to determine the individual investor behavior and to develop the individual investor profile in terms of their risk profile, influence of demographic factors on investment behavior and nature of investment products of the investors in Karur district, Tamilnadu. The investment preferences, choice of investments and other factors influencing the investment decisions were...
Breathing difficulties are common in neonatal patients, and non-contact respiratory monitoring is an area of research which may potentially benefit patients and medical professionals alike by reducing disturbance of the patients by the monitoring system. This paper discusses a range of approaches used in recent years including magnetic, radio, optoelectronic and structured light. We also outline our...
Parents is disturbing about effect on radiation electromagnetic safety to children organism when provide wireless network in school. Author considers correspondence of russian and foreign safety standard of E-field radiation, and came to conclusion that Russian standard is more harder. Researches of E-field radiation influence to human brain come to the conclusion that blood-brain barrier, protecting...
The assessment of brain development is indubitably of critical importance specifically in the first two years of life. In comparison with the developments of other organs, the process of brain maturation from birth to two years of life is very meteoric. As a result of the complications of the study of the newborn brain, scarce researches have been done in this field. Spatial normalization, which modifies...
Cognitive development is dynamic and opportunistic, following developmental pathways [1]: The same skill can develop in many different ways, depending on the chains of events and opportunities that are presented to the learning individual. What factors shape these developmental pathways?
Overweight and obesity in childhood can cause some orthopedic problems and these problems may deteriorate as the age increases. Gait changes may reflect these problems. Currently there are very few studies on changes in gait characteristics of overweight and obese (OWO) children with different age. The purpose of this study was to investigate the gait changes of OWO children with different age. Gait...
The Central Venous Access (CVA) is an invasive technique practiced in adults, children and neonates for supplying necessary nutritional solutions or medication. The procedure is mastered through practice and its incorrect or poor execution may lead to health risks such as infections, pneumothorax and even death. To develop the required skills for performing this procedure, teachers and students rely...
“IMIC” (Innovative Movement Therapy in Childhood) is a translational research and development project that is specialized in creating a motivating locomotion rehabilitation setting for children with neurological disorders and cognitive limitations in an interdisciplinary context. "IMIC" was founded in 2010 by an interdisciplinary cooperation of movement scientists, neurologists and neuropsychologists...
A mobile video game designed to encourage physical activity in children in an organized outdoor setting is presented. Game elements of narrative based treasure hunt game: Pirate Adventure are designed by a team of IT and Health professionals to encourage primary school aged children to engage in physical activity. The mobile phone platform uses several sensor technologies; accelerometers, camera and...
Height data is very important not only as an indicator of growth in low birth weight infants, newborn, infants (infants below), but also for early detection of disease such as dwarfism. In this paper, we consider height estimation by image processing that targets lying infants for the purpose of reducing the burden of infants, doctors and parents. Furthermore, we compare results of using a single...
Mother love is essential for mother-child relationship, and is important for child's development. Despite of series of studies pertaining to the neural substrate of parental love, to date, however, no publication is found regarding the neural substrates of maternal love in shopping. In this study, we examined first-time mothers' brain activations in response to mother-related (purses, make-ups, and...
In neonatal research, physiological signals are often degraded by an artifact generated by movement of the infant. Portions of these movement embedded signals are commonly excluded in the analysis of the relevant physiological signal. However, movement may be a significant marker of physiological development of the infant. Here we present results from a wavelet-based algorithm that quantifies neonatal...
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