The adoption of computer vision pose estimation approaches, used to identify keypoint locations which are intended to reflect the necessary anatomical landmarks relied upon by biomechanists for musculoskeletal modelling, has gained increasing tractio...
Human fall detection is a significant healthcare concern, particularly among the elderly, due to its links to muscle weakness, cardiovascular issues, and locomotive syndrome. Accurate fall detection is crucial for timely intervention and injury preve...
The prevention of falls has become crucial in the modern healthcare domain and in society for improving ageing and supporting the daily activities of older people. Falling is mainly related to age and health problems such as muscle, cardiovascular, a...
Overlapping phenotypic features between Early Onset Ataxia (EOA) and Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) can complicate the clinical distinction of these disorders. Clinical rating scales are a common way to quantify movement disorders but in c...
Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder disease that worsens over time and involves the deterioration of nerve cells in the brain. Gait analysis has emerged as a promising tool for early detection and monitoring of Parkinson’s...
In response to the problem where many existing research models only consider acquiring the temporal information between sequences of continuous skeletons and in response to the lack of the ability to model spatial information, this study proposes a m...
Purpose: Post-stroke spasticity (PSS) substantially affects functional recovery and quality of life in stroke survivors. However, the current clinical assessment methods exhibit certain subjectivity and equipment limitations. Human pose estimation pr...
This study presents an artificial intelligence-based approach for the pose detection of passengers’ skeletons when boarding and alighting from an urban bus in Valparaíso, Chile. Using the AlphaPose pose estimator and an activity recognit...
The paper is written as a reflection on the author’s online teaching of a graduate elementary mathematics content and methods course through the asynchronous modality. The need for developing skills in posing problems that integrate non-technol...
The paper is a reflection on the author’s work with students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate elementary mathematics content and methods courses. Two specific pedagogical issues make up the focus of the paper. The first issue deals with demonst...
The timely detection of falls and alerting medical aid is critical for health monitoring in elderly individuals living alone. This paper mainly focuses on issues such as poor adaptability, privacy infringement, and low recognition accuracy associated...
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that is more common in elderly people and affects motor control, flexibility, and how easily patients adapt to their walking environments. PD is progressive in nature, and if undetected a...
Gait recognition is a behavioral biometric technique that identifies individuals based on their unique walking patterns, enabling long-distance identification. Traditional gait recognition methods rely on appearance-based approaches that utilize back...
According to the World Health Organisation, falling is a major health problem with potentially fatal implications. Each year, thousands of people die as a result of falls, with seniors making up 80% of these fatalities. The automatic detection of fal...
Background: With the rise of user-generated content (UGC) platforms, we are witnessing an unprecedented surge in data. Among various content types, dance videos have emerged as a potent medium for artistic and emotional expression in the Web 2.0 era....
Human Pose Estimation (HPE) models have varied applications and represent a cutting-edge branch of study, whose systems such as MediaPipe (MP), OpenPose (OP), and AlphaPose (ALP) show marked success. One of these areas, however, that is inadequately...
Video-based trajectory analysis might be rather well discussed in sports, such as soccer or basketball, but in cycling, this is far less common. In this paper, a video processing pipeline to extract riding lines in cyclocross races is presented. The...
In this paper, we introduce the concept of n-dimensional Diamond-Alpha integral on time scales. In particular, it transforms into multiple Delta, Nabla and mixed integrals by taking different values of alpha. Some of its properties are explored, and...
Elucidation of the tertiary structure of proteins is an important task for biological and medical studies. AlphaFold, a modern deep-learning algorithm, enables the prediction of protein structure to a high level of accuracy. It has been applied in nu...
Alpha-lipoic acid (a-LA) is used as a nutritive additive in dog food. Therefore, we performed a systematic review of studies published to date in PubMed, Google Scholar, Cochrane Library and MedlinePlus involving alpha-lipoic acid supplementation, wh...
Alpha emitters like plutonium pose severe health risks when ingested, damaging DNA and potentially causing cancer. Traditional detection methods require proximity within millimeters of the contamination source, presenting safety risks and operational...
Heavy nuclides like uranium and their decay products are commonly found in nuclear industries and can pose a significant health risk to humans due to their alpha-emitting properties. Traditional alpha detectors require close contact with the contamin...
Conventional biometrics have been employed in high-security user-authentication systems for over 20 years now. However, some of these modalities face low-security issues in common practice. Brainwave-based user authentication has emerged as a promisi...
Blurred image restoration poses a great challenge under the non-Gaussian noise environments in various communication systems. In order to restore images from blur and alpha-stable noise while also preserving their edges, this paper proposes a variati...
Influenza viruses of avian origin continue to pose pandemic threats to human health. Some of the H5N1 and H9N2 virus subtypes induce markedly elevated cytokine levels when compared with the seasonal H1N1 virus. We previously showed that H5N1/97 hyper...
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The objective of this work was to perform a series of measurements of radon and thoron exhalation in the underground workings of an experimental coal mine. In the years 2012–2015, experiments on underground coal gasification were carried out in...
The increasing frequency of extreme rainfall events poses significant challenges to sustainable water resource management, leading to severe natural disasters. To mitigate these challenges, understanding the hydrological characteristics of watersheds...
This study investigates the integration of ESG principles in the Greek banking sector through a comparative analysis of the four systemic banks—National Bank of Greece, Eurobank, Piraeus Bank, and Alpha Bank—during 2019–2023. Using...
Electroencephalography (EEG) remains pivotal in neuroscience for its non-invasive exploration of brain activity, yet traditional electrodes are plagued with artifacts and the application of conductive paste poses practical challenges. Tripolar concen...
Okadaic acid (OA), a marine biotoxin produced by microalgae, poses a significant threat to mariculture, seafood safety, and human health. The establishment of a novel, highly sensitive detection method for OA would have significant practical and scie...
Saxitoxin (STX), an exceptionally potent marine toxin for which no antidote is currently available, is produced by methanogens and cyanobacteria. This poses a significant threat to both shellfish aquaculture and human health. Consequently, the develo...
Microplastics (MPs) pose potential public health challenges because of their widespread occurrences in all environmental compartments. While most studies have focused on the occurrence fate of microplastics in wastewater treatment systems, the biodeg...
In wild primates, infanticide is a risk that is especially prevalent when a new male takes over the alpha position. Insight into risk factors related to infanticide may decrease the incidence of infanticide in captivity during male introductions. We...
Colonic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) encompasses ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s colitis (CC). Patients with IBD are at increased risk for colitis-associated colorectal cancer (CACRC) compared to the general population. CACRC is precede...
Scoring functions are key elements in docking protocols as they approximate the binding affinity of a ligand (usually a small bioactive molecule) by calculating its interaction energy with a biomacromolecule (usually a protein). In this study, we pre...
The methylotrophic yeast Komagataella kurtzmanii belongs to the group of homothallic fungi that are able to spontaneously change their mating type by inversion of chromosomal DNA in the MAT locus region. As a result, natural and genetically engineere...
The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants has posed a challenge to disease control efforts worldwide. This study explored the genomic diversity and phylogenetic relationship of SARS-CoV-2 variants reported in Pakistan. Our objective was to understand the...
Gender-based violence among young people is a pressing global problem, causing injury and disability to women and posing physical, mental, sexual, and reproductive health risks. This study aimed to psychometrically validate the Dating Violence Questi...
The lack of periodicity and long-range order poses significant challenges in explaining and modeling the properties of metallic glasses. Conventional modeling of nonexponential relaxation with stretched exponents leads to inconsistencies and rarely o...
Access to healthcare is multifaceted and poses significant challenges for individuals with chronic and rare diseases (RDs). This study aimed to conduct a psychometric evaluation of the German version of the Perception of Access to Healthcare Question...
Over the past two decades, pharmaceutical peptides have emerged as a powerful alternative to traditional small molecules, offering high potency, specificity, and low toxicity. However, most computational drug discovery tools remain optimized for smal...
Antibiotic usage and yogurt consumption are the major interventions for gut microbiota, yet their shared characteristics and disparities in healthy human gut microbiome remain unclear. This study aimed to decipher the composition changes among health...
Maternal vaginal and rectal colonization by Streptococcus agalactiae (group B streptococcus, GBS) is the main risk factor for the development of newborn early-onset GBS disease (GBS-EOD). Much effort is in place for its prevention, including the deve...
Background: We aimed to identify the risk factors for impaired cellular and humoral immunity after three doses of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine. Methods: Six months after the third vaccine dose, T-cell immunity was evaluated using interferon-gamma release a...
The complexity of terrain features poses a substantial challenge in the effective processing and application of airborne LiDAR data, particularly in regions characterized by steep slopes and diverse objects. In this paper, we propose a novel multisca...
Alport syndrome is a hereditary disease caused by mutations in the genes encoding the alpha 3, alpha 4, and alpha 5 chains of type IV collagen. It is characterized by hematuria, proteinuria, progressive renal dysfunction, hearing loss, and ocular abn...
Background: Mastocytosis (MS) is a rare disease that can involve various organs, including the bone. Given the incidence of the disease in the global population, MS poses a challenge for physicians, and early therapeutic intervention in the initial s...
Feline calicivirus (FCV), an important model for studying the biology of the Caliciviridae family, encodes the leader of the capsid (LC) protein, a viral factor known to induce apoptosis when expressed in a virus-free system. Our research has shown t...
Background: Diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM) poses a significant risk for heart failure in individuals with diabetes, yet its underlying mechanisms remain incompletely understood. Elevated blood sugar levels initiate harmful processes, including apoptos...
The emergence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) posed a major challenge to healthcare systems worldwide, especially as mutations in the culprit Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) complicated the development of vaccines...
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