Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease globally. Current drugs only alleviate symptoms without halting disease progression, making rodent models essential for researching new therapies and understanding the...
Microsoft’s HoloLens, a mixed-reality headset, provides, besides holograms, rich position data of the head, which can be used to quantify what the wearer is doing (e.g., walking) and to parameterize such acts (e.g., speed). The aim of the curre...
The 10-m walk test (10MWT) is a stopwatch-based clinical mobility assessment. To better understand mobility limitations, 10MWT test completion times may be complemented with gait parameters like step length. State-of-the-art augmented reality (AR) gl...
16 May 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the face validity of the self-reported single item work ability with objectively measured heart rate reserve (%HRR) among blue-collar workers. Methods: We utilized data from 127 blue-collar work...
Using a face validity approach, this paper provides a validation of the Database Forensic Investigation Metamodel (DBFIM). The DBFIM was developed to solve interoperability, heterogeneity, complexity, and ambiguity in the database forensic investigat...
Concerns about weight gain may influence hormonal contraception selection, satisfaction, and discontinuation, yet no validated patient-centered instrument assesses perceived weight-related effects across methods. We developed the Perceived Changes wi...
The nutrition-focused physical examination (NFPE) is an integral component of nutrition assessment performed by registered dietitian nutritionists (RDNs) to determine signs of malnutrition and other nutrition-related complications. Increased use of t...
The Faces Pain Scale-Revised (FPS-R) is widely used to assess pain intensity in young people. The aims of this research were to study the convergent and discriminant validity and reliability properties of a culturally adapted version of the FPS-R for...
An international group of experts have developed a pictorial tool to measure perceived water competence for children aged from 5 to 8 years old: the Pictorial Scale of Perceived Water Competence (PSPWC). The aim of the present study was to verify the...
Introduction: Quantifying Home Cooking EnviRonments has applications in nutrition epidemiology, health promotion, and nutrition interventions. This study aimed to develop a tool to quantify household cooking environments and establish its content val...
The Cyber Evaluation and Management Toolkit (CEMT) is an open-source university research-based plugin for commercial digital model-based systems engineering tools that streamlines conducting cybersecurity risk evaluations for complex cyber-physical s...
Capturing complexity is both a conceptual and a practical challenge in palliative care. The HexCom model has proved to be an instrument with strong reliability and to be valid for describing the needs and strengths of patients in home care. In order...
In this study, a finite-volume computational fluid dynamics (CFD) technique for application on skewed meshes using staggered pressure nodes is proposed. The method is based on the derivation of a momentum equation for the cell face velocities from ap...
Measures of sexual orientation and family functioning are widely used among sexual minority populations. However, data on whether these measures are culturally syntonic and responsive to the needs of a particular population, such as Hispanic sexual m...
15 May 2024
Spina bifida includes a spectrum of different neural tube defects. Myelomeningocele is the most serious type and is associated with a risk of paralysis and sensory dysfunction below the affected level, bladder/bowel dysfunction, brain dysmorphology,...
Background: Assessment of physical and respiratory function in the intensive care unit (ICU) is useful for developing an individualized treatment plan and evaluating patient progress. There is a need for measurement tools that are culturally adapted,...
Background: Health information concerns both individuals’ engagement and the way services and professionals provide information to facilitate consumers’ health decision making. Citizens’ and patients’ participation in the mana...
7 June 2022
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a significant public health issue worldwide. However, the effectiveness of TB screening programmes among smokers is still questionable. There is a need for a simple, reliable, and validated screening system for this risk pop...
24 February 2023
There has been an increased focus on the mental health of adolescents living with HIV (ALHIV), because evidence shows that poor mental health outcomes are associated with lower rates of adherence and retention in HIV care. However, the research to da...
2 June 2023
Background: The use of a decision aid for choosing whether to have or not have anesthesia during childbirth has been shown to increase both knowledge about birth and the proportion of women who made their own decisions compared with women who did not...
The extent to which grades in the first few weeks of a course can predict overall performance can be quite valuable in identifying at-risk students, informing interventions for such students, and offering valuable feedback to educators on the impact...
Objectives. To evaluate the accuracy and reproducibility of measurements obtained using the Bellus3D Face Application on a mobile smartphone by comparing them to direct measurements on pre-marked and blank face scans. Materials and Methods. Twenty-fi...
Food hawkers’ knowledge about single-use plastic food containers must be assessed using a valid and reliable tool to improve assessment and evidence collection credibility and to promote environmental sustainability practice. This study aims to...
Existing component-based models have difficulty interpreting the field response of earth pressure balance (EPB) shield tunneling parameters when the excavation face gradually changes from hard rock to sandy strata. To address this problem, this study...
Assessing children’s perceptions of their movement abilities (i.e., perceived competence) is traditionally done using picture scales—Pictorial Scale of Perceived Competence and Acceptance for Young Children or Pictorial Scale of Perceived Movement Sk...
Background: Hypertensive retinopathy (HR) is an early marker of hypertension-related end-organ damage, and multi-grade classification is limited by overlap between the early stages. No prior study has reported edge-deployable HR grading from optical...
Background/Objectives: Household food insecurity (FI) impacts child health and development. Children have distinct and unique experiences of FI, and child self-report measures are increasingly used. However, there is limited reporting of children’s c...
Validating animal pain models is crucial to enhancing translational research and response to pharmacological treatment. This study investigated the effects of a calibrated slight exercise protocol alone or combined with multimodal analgesia on sensor...
12 May 2025
Burnout is a widespread occupational phenomenon with adverse effects on the well-being and performance of healthcare professionals. In Latvia, the lack of a psychometrically validated instrument for measuring burnout has hindered effective assessment...
Aim: The study developed and validated AppER, an mHealth tool for informal caregivers of children with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, and examined differences between app users and non-users. Methods: Four phases were followed: (1) focus groups with ex...
The current study proposes an improved DenseNet-based Sequential Multimodal Biometric Authentication System, involving face and ear modality for better human identification. The architecture is composed of three convolutional layers and two dense lay...
This study evaluates fixed and learned logit fusion for clip-level pre-drowsiness classification on an adaptively curated cohort from the University of Texas at Arlington Real-Life Drowsiness Dataset (UTA-RLDD). The target is an operationally defined...
This study aims to determine the relative weights (point value) of items of the juvenile idiopathic arthritis magnetic resonance imaging-sacroiliac joint scoring system (JAMRIS-SIJ). An adaptive multicriteria decision analysis was performed using the...
In a cross-sectional analysis of a population-based cohort (United Kingdom, N = 21,318, 1993–1998), we studied how associations between meal patterns and non-fasting triglyceride and glucose concentrations were influenced by the hour of day at...
Background/Objectives: Developmental prosopagnosia (DP) is a neurodevelopmental disorder marked by lifelong face recognition difficulties. The 20-item Prosopagnosia Index (PI-20) has become an important tool for screening individuals with DP and has...
14 November 2017
Being able to identify socially frail older adults is essential for designing interventions and policy and for the prediction of health outcomes, both on the level of individual older adults and of the population. The aim of the present study was to...
Developmental prosopagnosia (DP) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by face recognition problems. Psychometrically sound self-report measures of face recognition problems are important tools in classification of DP. A widely used measure...
Background/Objectives: The burden of nursing care is defined as the relation between the care needs of hospitalized individuals and the time available for nursing staff to perform direct, indirect, and educational care activities. This study aimed to...
Emotional and cognitive information processing represent higher-order brain functions. They require coordinated interaction of specialized brain areas via a complex spatial and temporal equilibrium among neuronal cell-autonomous, circuitry, and netwo...
20 January 2022
The Palliative Care Self-Efficacy Scale (PCSE) is a valid instrument in English for assessing healthcare professionals’ self-efficacy in providing palliative care; it has not been translated into Swedish. The aim of this study was to describe t...
Sandwich panels with textile-reinforced cement (TRC) faces merge both structural and insulating performance into one lightweight construction element. To design with sandwich panels, predictive numerical models need to be thoroughly validated, in ord...
Extended reality (XR) has increasingly been applied to nursing practicum education; however, most systems rely on controller-based interfaces that limit precise capture of continuous fine motor performance and objective assessment. This study develop...
This article approaches quality assurance in higher education from the perspective of quality culture. We present a concept model of quality culture that incorporates both the structural/managerial elements of the educational context as well as indiv...
Background: Evaluating end-of-life care quality remains a central challenge in health systems facing population ageing and complex chronic disease trajectories. Given the clinical challenges of direct data collection at the end-of-life, bereaved fami...
Expressive human mesh recovery reconstructs the body, hands, and face from a single image. Whole-body models such as SMPL-X offer only coarse control over the face, whereas face models such as FLAME are head-only. Combining them requires maintaining...
Background: In recent years, cosmetic acupuncture has gained popularity among individuals interested in improving their facial appearance. We have created an original facial check sheet (FCS) to obtain cosmetic acupuncture patients’ perspectives on t...
A high-performance Driver State Monitoring (DSM) application for the detection of driver drowsiness is presented in this paper. The popular Ensemble of Regression Trees (ERTs) machine learning method has been employed for the alignment of 68 facial l...
The present study examined how lay participants define the following concepts used widely in psychology: being intelligent, knowing, and remembering. In the scientific community, knowledge overlaps with the contents of semantic memory, crystallized i...
In this paper, a methodology for the estimation of fuel consumption using backward-facing analysis is presented. The method for the determination of fuel consumption was based on the evaluation of the total work required to drive the vehicle along a...
Passive flow control techniques are needed to reduce flow separation and enhance aerodynamic performance. In this work, the effect of a knitted wire mesh on the flow separation of a backward-facing ramp was numerically investigated for a Reynolds num...
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