Multi-Component Design of a Mobile Rehabilitation Application for Remote Monitoring of Patients

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 317-321
Author(s):  
Shai Bernard ◽  
Nick Daristotle ◽  
Yealshaday Demises ◽  
Jesse Hearn ◽  
Kohar Malkastian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Monitoring ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Regulatory Oversight ◽  
Research Perspective ◽  
Component Design ◽  
Student Teams ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Device Interaction ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Human Device

This paper a will provide background and research outcomes for a student-led multi-University motion capture design project with the FDA Human Device Interaction Lab. This research project spawned from the FDA’s interest in studying mobile Apps used to collect information about a rehabilitation patient’s function outside of a laboratory setting. This is particularly important from a research perspective as it allows knowledge to be gathered about the reliability, safety, and efficacy of such devices, which can later inform human factors guidelines and regulatory oversight. While there is a wide range of applications for remote monitoring of patient function, this project focuses specifically on wearables used to track rehabilitative progress of individuals suffering from upper or lower limb impairment. These wearables may also be used to assess the efficacy of a new assistive technology intended to restore or augment function. The interdisciplinary student teams applied human-centered design principles to develop and prototype hardware and software components for a rotatable body-worn mobile device holder to remotely track rehabilitation progress. The design process and outcomes are presented along with insights on further development of system components.

Application of TEM to Deformation, Wear, and Fracture of Ceramics

1974 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 472-473
Author(s):  
B. J. Hockey
Keyword(s):  
Wear Resistance ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
Mechanical Behavior ◽  
Brittle Materials ◽  
High Temperature Strength ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Corrosive Environments ◽  
Further Development

Ceramics, such as Al2O3 and SiC have numerous current and potential uses in applications where high temperature strength, hardness, and wear resistance are required often in corrosive environments. These materials are, however, highly anisotropic and brittle, so that their mechanical behavior is often unpredictable. The further development of these materials will require a better understanding of the basic mechanisms controlling deformation, wear, and fracture.The purpose of this talk is to describe applications of TEM to the study of the deformation, wear, and fracture of Al2O3. Similar studies are currently being conducted on SiC and the techniques involved should be applicable to a wide range of hard, brittle materials.

Could Thyroid Disorders Be Better Understood and Dealt as a Thyroid Syndrome

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (08) ◽  
pp. 326-328
Author(s):  
Dr. Sushma Patil ◽  
Dr. Vikrant Patil
Keyword(s):  
Reference Range ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Thyroid Disorders ◽  
Thyroid Function Tests ◽  
Thyroid Disorder ◽  
Serum Concentrations ◽  
Comorbid Conditions ◽  
Free T4 ◽  
Research Perspective ◽  
Wide Range

Thyroid disorders are common worldwide. Thyroid dysfunction, both hypo- and hyperthyroidism may increase the risk of cardiovascular disorders. Current thyroid function tests may have limitations since they only measure the total or free T4 and/or T3 and TSH serum concentrations in peripheral blood and not the effect of T4 or T3 serum on different specific target tissues. Several comorbid conditions can interfere with the absorption or increase the clearance of levothyroxine. Among patients treated with thyroid replacement, under or overmedicated may-be at risk for adverse health consequences. A wide range of drugs may interfere with levothyroxine absorption, metabolism, and action. Patients report a lack of well-being, despite reaching euthyroid reference range of TSH, with psychological distress. If we will consider Thyroid related conditions as a syndrome then research perspective at the pathophysiology, interrelation between symptoms and comorbidities will be much broader that can lead researchers to get insights of different pathways in which thyroid gland functioning can be perceived and dealt therapeutically. The deliberation of thyroid disorder as a syndrome can affluence our knowledge of correlating cofounders, action of thyroid hormones on target tissues, underlying cause and thyroid health.

The functions and positions of political parties in consociational democracies: theoretical and empirical contexts

2020 ◽  
pp. 28-33
Author(s):  
O. Morhuniuk
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Party System ◽  
Party Competition ◽  
European Countries ◽  
The Past ◽  
Democratic Regimes ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Further Development

An article is devoted to the analysis of the functions and formats of political parties in consociational democracies. In particular, it is defined that parties that represent the interests of certain subcultures in society and that reach a consensus among themselves at the level of political agreements are called segmental. At the same time, parties that encapsulate different subgroups of the society that cooperate inside the party within main features of the consociational theory (grand coalition, mutual veto, proportionality in representations, and independence of segments or society subcultures) are called consociational. The theory of consociationalism has received a wide range of theoretical additions and criticism from political scientists over the past fifty years. And while political parties should have been, by definition, one of the key aspects of research within such democratic regimes (parties are part of large coalitions and agents of representation of certain subcultures), there is very scarce number of literature that focuses on this aspect. Therefore, the presented article provides a description of the functions of political parties that could be observed as inside their subcultures as well as in interaction with other segmental parties. Based on the experience of two European countries in the period of “classical” consociationalism (Belgium and the Netherlands), we explain the functions of the parties we have defined in such societies with examples of relevant consociational practices in them. Simultaneously with the analysis of segmental parties, the article also offers the characteristics of consociational parties. The emergence of such parties has its own institutional and historical features. The way of further development of the party system and the level of preservation of consociational practices makes it possible to understand the nature of changes in the societies. Similarly, the analysis of the forms of party competition and interaction between segmental parties makes it possible to outline the forms of those consociational changes that are taking place in the research countries.

Big Data Ethics and Politics: Toward New Understandings

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenhong Chen ◽  
Anabel Quan-Haase
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Data Ethics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Health Institutions ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Privacy Breaches ◽  
The Many ◽  
Ethics And Politics

The hype around big data does not seem to abate nor do the scandals. Privacy breaches in the collection, use, and sharing of big data have affected all the major tech players, be it Facebook, Google, Apple, or Uber, and go beyond the corporate world including governments, municipalities, and educational and health institutions. What has come to light is that enabled by the rapid growth of social media and mobile apps, various stakeholders collect and use large amounts of data, disregarding the ethics and politics. As big data touch on many realms of daily life and have profound impacts in the social world, the scrutiny around big data practice becomes increasingly relevant. This special issue investigates the ethics and politics of big data using a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches. Together, the articles provide new understandings of the many dimensions of big data ethics and politics, showing it is important to understand and increase awareness of the biases and limitations inherent in big data analysis and practices.

The Research of GPRS-Based Remote Fault Monitoring System for CNC Machine Tools

2011 ◽  
Vol 328-330 ◽  
pp. 393-397
Author(s):  
Ming Liang Wu ◽  
Xiao Bing Wang ◽  
Shu Rong Yu
Keyword(s):  
Monitoring System ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Remote Monitoring ◽  
Data Transfer ◽  
High Reliability ◽  
Fast Response ◽  
Cnc Machine Tools ◽  
Cnc Machine ◽  
Remote Monitoring System ◽  
Wide Range

Based on GPRS network remote monitoring system which uses its two-way transmission performance, can easily monitor various electrical equipments and get information. Compare with the past remote monitoring systems, the system has the advantage of flexible networking, convenient, wide range of data transmission, high reliability, fast response time, and has great significance and value of research in CNC machine tool system with upgrade GPRS in the mobile communication networks, data services expand and data transfer capabilities.

scholarly journals Apps and Mobile Support Services in Canadian Academic Medical Libraries

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tess Grynoch
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Mobile Services ◽  
Medical Apps ◽  
The Past ◽  
Academic Medical ◽  
Medical App ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Medical Libraries ◽  
The Many ◽  
Mobile Medical Apps

Objective: To examine how Canadian academic medical libraries are supporting mobile apps, what apps are currently being provided by these libraries, and what types of promotion are being used. Methods: A survey of the library websites for the 17 medical schools in Canada was completed. For each library website surveyed, the medical apps listed on the website, any services mentioned through this medium, and any type of app promotion events were noted. When Facebook and Twitter accounts were evident, the tweets were searched and the past two years of Facebook posts scanned for mention of medical apps or mobile services/events. Results: All seventeen academic medical libraries had lists of mobile medical apps with a large range in the number of medical relevant apps (average=31, median= 23). A total of 275 different apps were noted and the apps covered a wide range of subjects. Five of the 14 Facebook accounts scanned had posts about medical apps in the past two years while 11 of the 15 Twitter accounts had tweets about medical apps. Social media was only one of the many promotional methods noted. Outside of the app lists and mobile resources guides, Canadian academic medical libraries are providing workshops, presentations, and drop-in sessions for mobile medical apps. Conclusion: While librarians cannot simply compare mobile services and resources between academic medical libraries without factoring in a number of other circumstances, librarians can learn from mobile resources strategies employed at other libraries, such as using research guides to increase medical app literacy.

scholarly journals Tunable aziridinium ylide reactivity: non-covalent interactions enable divergent product outcomes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Nicastri ◽  
Soren Zappia ◽  
Jared Pratt ◽  
Julia Duncan ◽  
Ilia Guzei ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Space ◽  
Steric Effects ◽  
Computational Studies ◽  
Rapid Preparation ◽  
Rotational Barriers ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Non Covalent Interactions ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Covalent Interactions

Methods for rapid preparation of densely functionalized and stereochemically complex N-heterocyclic scaffolds are in demand for exploring potential new bioactive chemical space. This work describes experimental and computational studies to better understand the features of aziridinium ylides as intermediates for the synthesis of highly substituted dehydromorpholines. The development of this chemistry has enabled the extension of aziridinium ylide chemistry to the concomitant formation of both a C–N and a C–O bond in a manner that preserves the stereochemical information embedded in the substrate. The chemistry is tolerant of a wide range of functionalities that can be employed for DNA-encoded library (DEL) synthesis to prepare diverse libraries of heterocycles with potential bioactivity. In addition, we have uncovered several key insights that describe the importance of steric effects, rotational barriers around the C–N bond of the aziridinium ylide, and non-covalent interactions (NCIs) on the ultimate reaction outcome. These critical insights will assist in the further development of this chemistry to generate novel and complex N-heterocycles that will further expand complex amine chemical space.

scholarly journals JTrack: A Digital Biomarker Platform for Remote Monitoring of Daily-Life Behaviour in Health and Disease

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehran Sahandi Far ◽  
Michael Stolz ◽  
Jona M. Fischer ◽  
Simon B. Eickhoff ◽  
Juergen Dukart
Keyword(s):  
Data Management ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Remote Monitoring ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Smartphone Application ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Motion Sensors ◽  
General Data Protection Regulation ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Health And Disease

Health-related data being collected by smartphones offer a promising complementary approach to in-clinic assessments. Despite recent contributions, the trade-off between privacy, optimization, stability and research-grade data quality is not well met by existing platforms. Here we introduce the JTrack platform as a secure, reliable and extendable open-source solution for remote monitoring in daily-life and digital-phenotyping. JTrack is an open-source (released under open-source Apache 2.0 licenses) platform for remote assessment of digital biomarkers (DB) in neurological, psychiatric and other indications. JTrack is developed and maintained to comply with security, privacy and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requirements. A wide range of anonymized measurements from motion-sensors, social and physical activities and geolocation information can be collected in either active or passive modes by using JTrack Android-based smartphone application. JTrack also provides an online study management dashboard to monitor data collection across studies. To facilitate scaling, reproducibility, data management and sharing we integrated DataLad as a data management infrastructure. Smartphone-based Digital Biomarker data may provide valuable insight into daily-life behaviour in health and disease. As illustrated using sample data, JTrack provides as an easy and reliable open-source solution for collection of such information.

scholarly journals FORMATION OF APPROACHES TO INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN THE FIELD OF HIGHER EDUCATION

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 727-731
Author(s):  
Margarita Anatolyevna Ganyushina ◽  
Svetlana Nikolaevna Kurbakova ◽  
Elena Grigorievna Galizina ◽  
Victoria Valerievna Lopatinskaya ◽  
Natalya Yevgenievna Ryazanova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Future ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Important Basis

Purpose of the study: The paper is devoted to the formation of approaches to international cooperation in the field of higher education. Main Findings: It has been established that in the future, there is a need for broad initiatives from all countries for the qualitative improvement of higher education. It has been determined that the most important basis for the future prosperity of the world economy and society is a strong and diverse training of young people. Applications of this study: From the point of view of further development of new educational information means, the importance of non-formal education integrated into the educational process will grow. The originality of this study: It has been proved that self-education will play an increasing role. In the field of higher education, the cooperation between different partners and a wide range of different educational opportunities will be developed in order to give everyone the opportunity to improve their knowledge, both in the personal and professional sphere.

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