Influence of Age and Gender on the Reaction Performance in Human-Vehicle InteractionEinfluss von Alter und Geschlecht auf die Reaktionszeit bei Fahrer-Autor Interaktion

i-com ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-39
Author(s):  
Andreas Riener
Keyword(s):  
Haptic Feedback ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Reaction Times ◽  
Vehicle Control ◽  
Haptic Display ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Car Seat ◽  
Reaction Performance ◽  
The Common ◽  
And Gender

AbstractExcess workload in vehicle control and inappropriateness of the common two interaction modalities seeing and hearing requires to consider ways and means for new interaction capabilities in vehicles. We have investigated haptic force displays for transmitting feedback from vehicular services to the driving person by using vibro-tactile elements integrated into the car seat and backrest. A haptic display would be implicit perceivable and passive in its attentiveness, and would furthermore display only private messages. Empirical studies regarding reaction times for the different modalities vision, sound, and touch, as well as age- and genderdependent evaluations have been conducted, with the aim to identify general conditions for an all-purpose vehicle interaction system and to justify the usage of haptic feedback. Experimental data have been acquired in a simulated driving environment in order to guarantee safety for test persons, repeatability of the experiment itself, and similar conditions for each test run.

Dynamic behaviour of the common femoral artery: age and gender of minor importance

2001 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Åsa Rydń Ahlgren ◽  
Håkan Åstrand ◽  
Thomas Sandgren ◽  
Einar Vernersson ◽  
Bjr̈n Sonesson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Femoral Artery ◽  
Dynamic Behaviour ◽  
Common Femoral Artery ◽  
Minor Importance ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
The Common ◽  
And Gender

scholarly journals Mining Cancer-Specific Disease Comorbidities from a Large Observational Health Database

2014 ◽  
Vol 13s1 ◽  
pp. CIN.S13893 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Chen ◽  
Rong Xu
Keyword(s):  
Metabolic Syndrome ◽  
Adverse Event Reporting System ◽  
Adverse Event Reporting ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Genetic Mechanisms ◽  
Patient Groups ◽  
The Common ◽  
Health Database ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Metabolic Syndrome Components

Cancer comorbidities often reflect the complex pathogenesis of cancers and provide valuable clues to discover the underlying genetic mechanisms of cancers. In this study, we systematically mine and analyze cancer-specific comorbidity from the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System. We stratified 3,354,043 patients based on age and gender, and developed a network-based approach to extract comorbidity patterns from each patient group. We compared the comorbidity patterns among different patient groups and investigated the effect of age and gender on cancer comorbidity patterns. The results demonstrated that the comorbidity relationships between cancers and non-cancer diseases largely depend on age and gender. A few exceptions are depression, anxiety, and metabolic syndrome, whose comorbidity relationships with cancers are relatively stable among all patients. Literature evidences demonstrate that these stable cancer comorbidities reflect the pathogenesis of cancers. We applied our comorbidity mining approach on colorectal cancer and detected its comorbid associations with metabolic syndrome components, diabetes, and osteoporosis. Our results not only confirmed known cancer comorbidities but also generated novel hypotheses, which can illuminate the common pathophysiology between cancers and their co-occurring diseases.

Psychopathic Disordered, Mentally Ill, and Mentally Handicapped Sex Offenders: A Comparative Study

1992 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 331-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
G J Murrey ◽  
D Briggs ◽  
C Davis
Keyword(s):  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Sex Offender ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Mentally Handicapped ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Sex Offences ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Violence ◽  
And Gender

Although there currently exists a large amount of research on the characteristics and treatment of psychopathic disordered (PD) sex offenders, little if any empirical studies have addressed the mentally ill (MI) and mentally handicapped (MH) offender populations. A total of 106 PD, MI, and MH sex offender records from Rampton (Special) Hospital were reviewed for the study. Offender categories were compared by age of first documented sex offence, IQ at the time of admission, sex offence type, frequency of each offence type, history of violence during sex offences, age and gender of sex offence victims and number of victims for age and gender. Results revealed that 88 per cent of PD, 98 per cent of MI, and only 56 per cent of MH offenders' victims were female. Further analysis revealed that PD and MI offenders' victims were primarily female, with the largest proportion being pubescent and adult females. MH offender victims were primarily males and females under the age of 16. IQ correlated positively with history of violence during sexual assault and mean IQs were higher for ‘violent’ than ‘non-violent’ offenders in each offender category. A discussion of these and other significant findings, as well as implications for clinical treatment, is presented.

scholarly journals Age and Gender Recognition Using a Convolutional Neural Network with a Specially Designed Multi-Attention Module through Speech Spectrograms

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (17) ◽  
pp. 5892
Author(s):  
Anvarjon Tursunov ◽  
Mustaqeem ◽  
Joon Yeon Choeh ◽  
Soonil Kwon
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Speech Recognition ◽  
Speech Signals ◽  
Gender Classification ◽  
Gender Recognition ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
The Common ◽  
And Gender

Speech signals are being used as a primary input source in human–computer interaction (HCI) to develop several applications, such as automatic speech recognition (ASR), speech emotion recognition (SER), gender, and age recognition. Classifying speakers according to their age and gender is a challenging task in speech processing owing to the disability of the current methods of extracting salient high-level speech features and classification models. To address these problems, we introduce a novel end-to-end age and gender recognition convolutional neural network (CNN) with a specially designed multi-attention module (MAM) from speech signals. Our proposed model uses MAM to extract spatial and temporal salient features from the input data effectively. The MAM mechanism uses a rectangular shape filter as a kernel in convolution layers and comprises two separate time and frequency attention mechanisms. The time attention branch learns to detect temporal cues, whereas the frequency attention module extracts the most relevant features to the target by focusing on the spatial frequency features. The combination of the two extracted spatial and temporal features complements one another and provide high performance in terms of age and gender classification. The proposed age and gender classification system was tested using the Common Voice and locally developed Korean speech recognition datasets. Our suggested model achieved 96%, 73%, and 76% accuracy scores for gender, age, and age-gender classification, respectively, using the Common Voice dataset. The Korean speech recognition dataset results were 97%, 97%, and 90% for gender, age, and age-gender recognition, respectively. The prediction performance of our proposed model, which was obtained in the experiments, demonstrated the superiority and robustness of the tasks regarding age, gender, and age-gender recognition from speech signals.

The Common Fears and Their Origins Among Turkish Children and Adolescents

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 199-209
Author(s):  
Begüm Serim-Yıldız ◽  
Özgür Erdur-Baker ◽  
Aslı Bugay
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Information Transmission ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽  
Negative Information ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Turkish Children ◽  
The Common ◽  
And Gender

The present study aimed to investigate the common fears and their origins among children and adolescents from different age, gender, and socioeconomic levels (SES). The sample was comprised of 642 females (48.8%) and 673 males (51.2%) with a total of 1,315 participants aged between 8 and 18 (M = 13.15; SD = 3.18). The Fear interview was utilised to examine the common fears and the role of conditioning, modelling and negative information in the development of children's fears. The result showed that the most common fear in Turkey was ‘God’, followed by ‘losing my friends’ and ‘going to Hell’. In addition, the findings revealed that Turkish students are more likely to learn fears by modelling rather than negative information transmission and conditioning. The results also indicated that negative information transmission had a more intensifying effect on the children and adolescents’ existing fear rather than modelling and conditioning. Furthermore, multinomial logistic regression was conducted to examine the effects of age, gender and SES on the origins of fear. Results showed that age and gender were significant predictors of origins of fear.

scholarly journals Haptic Foot Pedal: Influence of Shoe Type, Age, and Gender on Subjective Pulse Perception

2018 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 496-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Geitner ◽  
Stewart Birrell ◽  
Claudia Krehl ◽  
Paul Jennings
Keyword(s):  
Haptic Feedback ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
User Studies ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Subjective Perception ◽  
Accelerator Pedal ◽  
Force Amplitude ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Individual

Objective: This study investigates the influence of shoe type (sneakers and safety boots), age, and gender on the perception of haptic pulse feedback provided by a prototype accelerator pedal in a running stationary vehicle. Background: Haptic feedback can be a less distracting alternative to traditionally visual and auditory in-vehicle feedback. However, to be effective, the device delivering the haptic feedback needs to be in contact with the person. Factors such as shoe type vary naturally over the season and could render feedback that is perceived well in one situation, unnoticeable in another. In this study, we evaluate factors that can influence the subjective perception of haptic feedback in a stationary but running car: shoe type, age, and gender. Method: Thirty-six drivers within three age groups (≤39, 40–59, and ≥60) took part. For each haptic feedback, participants rated intensity, urgency, and comfort via a questionnaire. Results: The perception of the haptic feedback is significantly influenced by the interaction between the pulse’s duration and force amplitude and the participant’s age and gender but not shoe type. Conclusion: The results indicate that it is important to consider different age groups and gender in the evaluation of haptic feedback. Future research might also look into approaches to adapt haptic feedback to the individual driver’s preferences. Application: Findings from this study can be applied to the design of an accelerator pedal in a car, for example, for a nonvisual in-vehicle warning, but also to plan user studies with a haptic pedal in general.

Work-themed play among young children in foraging and farming communities in Central Africa

Behaviour ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 153 (6-7) ◽  
pp. 663-691 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hillary N. Fouts ◽  
Carin L. Neitzel ◽  
Lauren R. Bader
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Social Learning ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Subsistence Economy ◽  
Farming Communities ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Adult Roles

In small-scale societies children have great access to observing adult roles and this is often reflected in their play, however very few empirical studies of work-themed play have been conducted despite substantial implications that this type of play has for social learning. The current study describes the work-themed play patterns of 1 1/2- to 4-year-old Aka and Bofi foragers and Bofi farmers in Central Africa and examines the extent to which subsistence economy, age, and gender predicted how often children were observed engaging in work-themed play and characteristics of work-themed play. Overall, farmer children engaged in more work-themed play than forager children. Very few gender differences were observed in work-themed play. Age and subsistence economy predicted tendencies for children to be near adults while engaged in work-themed play and to use objects in their work-themed play.

scholarly journals Vessel stiffness, calcification and osteoporosis. Common pathogenetic components

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 95-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. A. Skripnikova ◽  
E. S. Abirova ◽  
N. A. Alikhanova ◽  
O. V. Kosmatova
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society ◽  
Premature Death ◽  
Behavioral Risk Factors ◽  
Behavioral Risk ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Younger Age ◽  
The Common ◽  
And Gender

Atherosclerosis and osteoporosis until recently were regarded as the diseases of modern society, and their simultaneous development was explained just by the increased chances with longevity. Currently, there are studies showing evidence on these diseases in ancient populations, regardless the age and gender. The diseases found in younger age, with the early Egyptian civilization, witness on the common genetic and behavioral risk factors and pathogenetic components, than simple age-related chance. Scientific publications show more and more data on common properties of these diseases and pathogenetic mechanisms. High risk of premature death from atherosclerosis and osteoporosis complications facilitates the search for individual and general predictors of the disorders with the aim of on-time prevention. Treatment of atherosclerosis and osteoporosis presentation events in one patient demands for a range of medications that leads to polypragmasia. The review is focused on common mechanisms of vascular stiffness development, calcification and bone density decrease. Profound understanding might make it to open novel targets for one drug to both diseases, with decreased rate of complications.

Normal values for intima-media thickness of the common carotid artery - an update following a novel risk factor profiling

VASA ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 444-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elko Randrianarisoa ◽  
Roderich Rietig ◽  
Stephan Jacob ◽  
Gunnar Blumenstock ◽  
Hans-Ulrich Haering ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Cardiovascular Risk ◽  
Carotid Artery ◽  
Common Carotid Artery ◽  
Normal Values ◽  
Intima Media Thickness ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
The Common ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Specific

Abstract. Background: There is a widely approved influence of novel risk factors like the body fat distribution and the associated metabolic syndrome, subclinical inflammation, insulin resistance and prediabetic disturbances in glucose metabolism on the progression of atherosclerosis. Former studies examining normal values for intima-media thickness (IMT) did not consider all of these new study results in detail. We therefore aimed to assess an update on age- and gender-specific normal values for IMT accounting for these novel risk factors. Patients and methods: We evaluated IMT by high-resolution ultrasound (13 MHz) on the far wall of the common carotid artery in 801 subjects without cardiovascular disease (428 women aged 46.2±12.9 years; 373 men aged 47.3±13.3 years). After precise evaluation and exclusion of 14 cardiovascular risk factors, 90% limits of IMT were determined by parametric statistics. Results: The reference limits of IMT according to the age classes 18-29, 30-39, 40-49 and 50-59 years were estimated as 0.47, 0.59, 0.67 and 0.70 mm in women and 0.47, 0.62, 0.72 and 0.80 mm in men. Conclusions: Age and gender-specific normal values for IMT are lower than reported in former studies after additionally accounting for novel cardiovascular risk factors. The still widely regarded upper IMT limit of 1 mm must be strictly regarded as obsolete.

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