scholarly journals A new automated smart cart system for modern shopping centres

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 2028-2036
Author(s):  
Habeeb Bello-Salau ◽  
Adeiza James Onumanyi ◽  
David Michael ◽  
Ridwanullahi Isa ◽  
Caroline O. Alenoghena ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Tests ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Raspberry Pi ◽  
Rfid Tags ◽  
Wireless Transceivers ◽  
Local Database ◽  
Shopping Centres ◽  
Nursing Mothers ◽  
Cross Platform ◽  
Near Future

Modern shopping centres are undoubtedly a beehive of intense shopping activities. However, customers are often plagued by salient challenges, which may include fatigue derived from pushing trolleys around the mall and prolonged sorting of bills by the cashier. These shopping challenges could be daunting for the elderly, disabled, pregnant and nursing mothers. In this paper, we addressed these shopping challenges by developing an autonomous shopping cart with the following characteristics; (1) it follows the customer’s movement relieving the need to push a cart, (2) it bills automatically all stock placed in the cart, (3) it prompts the customer to make payment and updates each stock via a local database. Our design adopts a Raspberry Pi, a camera and a few direct current motors programmed to achieve autonomy. We used an open-source cross platform software called XAMPP to create the database and used RFID tags to bill the items placed in the cart automatically. The system updates payments and communicates these transactions to a local database via nRF24 wireless transceivers. The experimental tests conducted demonstrate that our system successfully followed customers accurately within the mall. We consider our design a major contribution to the vision of automated shopping systems for the near future.

PMTools – a new program for paleomagnetic data analysis and visualization

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan Efremov ◽  
Roman Veselovskiy
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Paleomagnetic Data ◽  
Use Case ◽  
Quality Performance ◽  
Analysis Process ◽  
Data Formats ◽  
Cross Platform ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Best Fit

<p>There are many programs for the analysis and visualization of paleomagnetic data, but each of them is good only in a certain use case and does not allow to perform a full cycle of paleomagnetic operations. Therefore, one has to resort to using a number of programs to complete the full path of processing paleomagnetic data. You often have to convert data from one format to another, manually vectorize charts, and generally spend more time and effort than could theoretically be spent. Thus, there is a long overdue need for a universal program capable of fast, convenient and high-quality performance of a full cycle of paleomagnetic operations. A set of programs written by Randy Enkin (Enkin, 1996) for DOS was taken as a time-tested example of such a program. The choice fell on them, since these programs (although they are very outdated) allow performing a full cycle of paleomagnetic operations and do it as conveniently and efficiently as possible for that time.</p><p>Our goal is to create a program devoid of all of the above disadvantages and capable of developing indefinitely as modular opensource software by the efforts of all people interested in this.</p><p>The result of our work is PMTools – a cross-platform software for statistical analysis and visualization of paleomagnetic data. PMTools supports all widely used paleomagnetic data formats and allows you to work with them simultaneously. All charts created in PMTools are vector, adapted for direct using in publications and presentations, and can be exported in both vector and raster formats. At the same time, PMTools implements a full cycle of routine paleomagnetic operations: from finding the best-fit directions to calculating the mean paleomagnetic poles. Moreover, all operations can be performed both with a mouse through a graphical user interface and with hotkeys, which significantly speeds up the data analysis process. </p><p>In the near future, PMTools will become a modular open source application, so that each user will be able to add its own modules, thereby expanding the program's functionality.</p><p><strong>References</strong></p><p>Enkin, R.J., 1996. A Computer Program Package for Analysis and Presentation of Paleomagnetic Data, Pacific Geoscience Center, Geological Survey of Canada, http://www.pgc.nrcan.gc.ca/tectonic/enkin.htm.</p>

The Public Library in an Aging Society

2014 ◽  
pp. 266-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saori Donkai ◽  
Chieko Mizoue
Keyword(s):  
Public Libraries ◽  
Public Library ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Library Service ◽  
The Public ◽  
Aging Society ◽  
Service Category ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Recent Government ◽  
Individual Service

This chapter describes the present conditions of our aging society, with a particular focus on Japan as a typical example of such a society. In Japan, one in every four individuals is over 65 years of age, and one in eight is over 75 years of age. Further, based on this demographic change to an older population, this chapter discusses a new library service designed to enhance the lives of elderly citizens. The authors explore this new service from the viewpoint of lifelong learning, utilizing the results of recent government surveys and some case studies, such as those done at the Izumo City Hikawa Library and the Akita Prefectural Library in Japan. Although the elderly have been placed within the category of “disabled library patrons,” in recent years, it has become more common to consider the elderly, as a whole, as an individual service category. We should, in the near future, pay more attention to supporting elderly citizens at public libraries to engage them in the development and maintenance of their own communities.

Alzheimer's Electroencephalogram Event Scalp and Source Localization

2016 ◽  
pp. 33-49
Author(s):  
Pedro Miguel Rodrigues ◽  
João Paulo Teixeira ◽  
Diamantino R. S. Freitas
Keyword(s):  
Source Localization ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Clinical Settings ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Brain Anomalies ◽  
Available Technology ◽  
Temporal Events ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Electroencephalogram Eeg ◽  
Irreversible Impairment

Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia which causes a progressive and irreversible impairment of several cognitive functions. The aging population has been increasing significantly in recent decades and this disease affects mainly the elderly. Its diagnostic accuracy is relatively low and there is not a biomarker able to detect AD without invasive tests. Despite the progress in better understanding the disease there remains no prospect of cure at least in the near future. The electroencephalogram (EEG) test is a widely available technology in clinical settings. It may help diagnosis of brain disorders, once it can be used in patients who have cognitive impairment involving a general decrease in overall brain function or in patients with a located deficit. This study is a new approach to improve the scalp localization and the detection of brain anomalies (EEG temporal events) sources associated with AD by using the EEG.

scholarly journals Long Non-Coding RNA in Vascular Disease and Aging

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diewertje Bink ◽  
Noelia Lozano-Vidal ◽  
Reinier Boon
Keyword(s):  
Cardiovascular Diseases ◽  
Vascular Disease ◽  
Vascular Diseases ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Non Coding Rna ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
Non Coding Rnas ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Long Non Coding Rna

Cardiovascular diseases are the most prominent cause of death in Western society, especially in the elderly. With the increasing life expectancy, the number of patients with cardiovascular diseases will rise in the near future, leading to an increased healthcare burden. There is a need for new therapies to treat this growing number of patients. The discovery of long non-coding RNAs has led to a novel group of molecules that could be considered for their potential as therapeutic targets. This review presents an overview of long non-coding RNAs that are regulated in vascular disease and aging and which might therefore give insight into new pathways that could be targeted to diagnose, prevent, and/or treat vascular diseases.

Vivre sans ma voiture : une intervention pour soutenir les Canadiens-francophones âgés

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 614-625
Author(s):  
Caroline Pigeon ◽  
Evelyne Blais ◽  
Roxanne Grondin ◽  
Esther Bolduc-Rouleau ◽  
Laura Fontaine-Pagé ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Clinical Research ◽  
Cognitive Impairments ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Social Involvement ◽  
French Canadian ◽  
Canadian Context ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Difficult Transition ◽  
Positive Impacts

AbstractThe cessation of driving is a difficult transition for the elderly, but it can be facilitated through interventions. The purpose of this study was to explore the satisfaction, usefulness and applicability of the CarFreeMe intervention in the French-Canadian context. A qualitative clinical research device was used on ten older adults aged between 61 and 90 years. The participants had stopped driving within the last twelve months or were planning to stop driving in the near future and did not have cognitive impairments. After the intervention, the participants were generally satisfied and reported on its usefulness and applicability in a French-Canadian context. In addition, they identified the positive impacts related to their social involvement as they re-engaged in or pursued their significant activities. Further research is required to assess the intervention’s effects and the practicability of implementing it in Canada.

scholarly journals Perspectives in Molecular Imaging Using Staging Biomarkers and Immunotherapies in Alzheimer’s Disease

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benoît Leclerc ◽  
Abedelnasser Abulrob
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Beta Amyloid ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Pittsburgh Compound B ◽  
Diagnostic Strategies ◽  
Positron Emission ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Near Future

Sporadic Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is an emerging chronic illness characterized by a progressive pleiotropic pathophysiological mode of actions triggered during the senescence process and affecting the elderly worldwide. The complex molecular mechanisms of AD not only are supported by cholinergic, beta-amyloid, and tau theories but also have a genetic basis that accounts for the difference in symptomatology processes activation among human population which will evolve into divergent neuropathological features underlying cognitive and behaviour alterations. Distinct immune system tolerance could also influence divergent responses among AD patients treated by immunotherapy. The complexity in nature increases when taken together the genetic/immune tolerance with the patient’s brain reserve and with neuropathological evolution from early till advance AD clinical stages. The most promising diagnostic strategies in today’s world would consist in performing high diagnostic accuracy of combined modality imaging technologies using beta-amyloid 42 peptide-cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) positron emission tomography (PET), Pittsburgh compound B-PET, fluorodeoxyglucose-PET, total and phosphorylated tau-CSF, and volumetric magnetic resonance imaging hippocampus biomarkers for criteria evaluation and validation. Early diagnosis is the challenge task that needs to look first at plausible mechanisms of actions behind therapies, and combining them would allow for the development of efficient AD treatment in a near future.

scholarly journals Seating furniture for public interior (Creating of non-discriminatory interior for people with limitations and seniors)

2013 ◽  
Vol 61 (6) ◽  
pp. 1725-1731
Author(s):  
Věra Kameníková
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Healthy Individuals ◽  
The Public ◽  
Standing Up ◽  
Physical Limitations ◽  
And Function ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Full Utilization

For optimal use and function in the public interior evaluation of seating furniture is important in terms of typology, ergonomics, safety, quality of design, used materials, ecology and other properties. The aim is to adjust the dimensional requirements of the seating furniture for public interior to meet the needs of the current population and reflect the proportional changes in the human body over the last decades.Due to the ageing of population and growing number of people with movement and physiological limitations (which also include the elderly), it will become, in near future, more topical need to modify the rules related to seating furniture that is used in public space. Particularly, in the term of simple and non-discriminatory sitting down and standing up.Proposal to change standards is based on the analysis of used values, the results of the current anthropometrical survey and addition of parameters that were processed by using ergonomic software.In most of the activities related to the seating there is an interaction with the surrounding furniture. Based on this assumption arise the importance of connection between seating furniture and reaching distance of the person sitting on it. Ranges are in the computer simulation divided according to intensity - static, dynamic and comfortable (with the preservation of the natural physiological limitations of joints). The resulting values of simulations can be defined distances suitable for placing objects near seating furniture to ensure the possibility of full utilization.If the principles are kept and they come from the needs of people with limitations, it is certain that the environment will suit all healthy individuals and at the same time it will be non-discriminatory for a greater proportion of people with physical limitations.

scholarly journals EDUKASI COVID-19 BAGI WARGA LANSIA DI RW 05 KELURAHAN JATICEMPAKA PONDOKGEDE

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 417
Author(s):  
Mega Elvianasti ◽  
Liszulfah Roza ◽  
Maesaroh Maesaroh ◽  
Husnin Nahry Yarza
Keyword(s):  
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Infected People ◽  
Service Activity ◽  
Nursing Mothers ◽  
New Type ◽  
Correct Understanding ◽  
Keywords Education

ABSTRAKVirus Corona atau Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) adalah jenis virus yang menyerang sistem pernapasan dan kekebalan tubuh manusia. Di Indonesia sendiri jumlah orang yang terinfeksi terus meningkat karena masih kurangnya kesadaran masyarakat untuk menerapkan protokol kesehatan. Orang yang terinfeksi Covid-19 memiliki gejala yang berbeda satu sama lain. Ada yang menyebabkan gangguan ringan pada sistem pernapasan, infeksi paru-paru yang berat, hingga kematian. Virus Corona ini adalah jenis baru dari Coronavirus yang menular ke manusia. Virus ini bisa menyerang siapa saja, mulai dari bayi, anak-anak, orang dewasa, ibu hamil dan ibu menyusui serta lansia. Bahkan lansia menjadi kelompok orang yang paling beresiko tertular. Berdasarkan wawancara dengan beberapa lansia, mereka mereka belum memiliki pemahaman dan pengetahuan yang benar mengenai Covid-19, selain itu dalam penyampaian informasi kepada lansia tidak memungkinkan untuk dilakukan secara online. Tujuan dari kegiatan ini adalah untuk memberikan edukasi tentang COVID-19 kepada masyarakat khususnya kepada lansia yang berada di RW 05 Kelurahan Jaticempaka Pondokgede Bekasi. Langkah-langkah yang dilakukan dalam kegiatan pengabdian ini, yaitu 1) Sosialisasi kepada mitra 2) mendata jumlah lansia yang ada di Kelurahan Jaticempaka RW 05, 3) Menyiapkan media edukasi dengan menggunakan x banner, 4) Memberikan edukasi covid-19 dengan cara door to door untuk menghindari kerumunan , 5) Memberikan bantuan pangan kepada warga lansia dan warga yang terdampak covid-19. Hasil dari kegiatan para lansia dapat memahami apa itu virus Covid-19, bagaimana penyebarannya, dan bagaimana menerapkan protokol kesehatan sehingga terhindar dari infeksi virus Covid-19. Kata Kunci: edukasi; lansia; covid-19. ABSTRACTCoronavirus or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a type of virus that attacks the human respiratory and immune systems. In Indonesia, the number of infected people continues to increase due to the lack of public awareness to apply health protocols. People infected with Covid-19 have different symptoms from one another. Some cause minor problems in the respiratory system, severe lung infections, and death. This Corona virus is a new type of Coronavirus that is transmitted to humans. This virus can attack anyone, from infants, children, adults, pregnant and nursing mothers and the elderly. Even the elderly are the group of people most at risk of contracting it. Based on interviews with several elderly people, they do not have the correct understanding and knowledge about Covid-19, besides that it is not possible to convey information to the elderly people online. The purpose of this activity is to provide education about COVID-19 to the community, especially to the elderly who are in RW 05 Jaticempaka Pondokgede Bekasi Village. The steps taken in this service activity are 1) Outreach to partners 2) recording the number of elderly people in Jaticempaka Village RW 05, 3) Preparing educational media using x banners, 4) Providing covid-19 education by means of door to door to avoid crowds, 5) Providing food assistance to elderly residents and residents affected by Covid-19. The results of the activities of the elderly can understand what the Covid-19 virus is, how it spreads, and how to implement health protocols to avoid Covid-19 virus infection. Keywords: education; elderly people; covid-19

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