Robust inter-session modeling of gestures is still an open learning challenge. A sleeve equipped with capacitive strap sensors was used to capture two gesture data sets from a convenience sample of eight subjects. Two pipelines were explored. In FILT...
4 April 2021
Performing static stretching (SS) during resistance training (RT) rest periods is posited to potentiate muscular adaptations, but the literature is scarce on the topic. Thus, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of adding inter-se...
This study aimed to compare the effect on bar execution velocity and number of repetitions between two velocity-based resistance training protocols only differing in the set configuration of the full-squat (SQ) and bench-press (BP) exercises. Moderat...
12 September 2021
Inter-set peripheral cooling can improve high-intensity resistance exercise performance. However, whether foot cooling (FC) would increase 1 repetition maximum (RM) lower-limb strength is unclear. This study investigated the effect of intermittent FC...
(1) Background: French contrast training (FCT) enhances sports performance, but its long-term efficacy in elite basketball players remains unclear. This study compared FCT and traditional strength training (TST) on jump performance and lower-limb str...
31 July 2022
Background: High-intensity interval training (HIIT) features short, repeated bursts of relatively vigorous exercise with intermittent periods of rest or low-intensity exercise. High-intensity power training (HIPT), in combination with HIIT and tradit...
Electroencephalography (EEG)-based brain–computer interface (BCI) systems are often affected by substantial inter-subject variability. These differences cause distribution shifts between the source domain and the target domain. As a result, the...
The permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) has been used in electric propulsion and other fields. However, it is prone to the stator winding inter-turn short-circuit, and if no effective measures are taken, the ship’s power system will be pa...
Germplasm improvement is essential for maize breeding. Currently, intra-heterotic-group crossing is the major method for germplasm improvement, while inter-heterotic-group crossing is also used in breeding but not in a systematic way. In this study,...
Stretch-reducing mills are complex multi-stand systems in which the final tube thickness depends on the interaction between inter-stand tensions, angular speeds, material deformation, and process conditions. In this study, a multi-task neural network...
Muscle synergy extraction has been utilized to investigate muscle coordination in human movement, namely in sports. The reliability of the method has been proposed, although it has not been assessed previously during a complex sportive task. Therefor...
The purpose of this study was to evaluate intra- and inter-session reliability of the new, portable, and externally fixated dynamometer called MuscleBoard® for assessing the strength of hip and lower limb muscles. Hip abduction, adduction, flexion, e...
15 October 2025
(1) Background: Caregivers and families of children involved with mental health services face unique challenges. In Ontario, there is a dearth of information on outcomes for families following a child’s involvement with mental health services....
For sustainable management of water resources, adaptive decisions should be determined considering future climate change. Since decision makers have difficulty in formulating a decision when they should consider a large number of climate change scena...
Sickle cell anemia (SCA) is a genetic blood disorder that is particularly lethal in early childhood. Universal newborn screening programs and subsequent early treatment are known to drastically reduce under-five SCA mortality. However, in resource-li...
The reliability of isokinetic peak torque (PT) has been reported mostly using a short-term (<~10 day) inter-trial testing time frame. However, many studies and programs utilize a long-term (several weeks to months) inter-trial testing period. Addi...
The aim of this study was to assess the inter-rater and intra-rater reliability of a return-to-work (RTW) screening test to be used on UK firefighters following injury. The inter rater and intra-rater reliability of eight tasks involved in a screenin...
(1) Aim: To compare transverse dimensions measured on AI-generated intra-oral models and conventional digital intra-oral models. (2) Methods: A group of 38 patients treated with clear aligners was selected retrospectively from those whose records fea...
Guanxi, a Chinese term that defines social networks of power and benefits, can be divided into inter-personal and inter-organizational relationships. Guanxi significantly influences construction innovation in China. Many studies have examined the rel...
Inter-shaft bearing as a key component of turbomachinery is a major source of catastrophic accidents. Due to the requirement of high sampling frequency and high sensitivity to impact signals, AE (Acoustic Emission) signals are widely applied to monit...
22 June 2021
The Cognitive Performance Scale (CPS) in the widely used interRAI suite of instruments is of interest to clinicians and policy makers as a potential screening mechanism for detecting dementia. However, there has been little evaluation of the CPS in h...
Colorectal cancer is one of the most frequent malignancies. Colonoscopy is the de facto standard for precancerous lesion detection in the colon, i.e., polyps, during screening studies or after facultative recommendation. In recent years, artificial i...
It is generally accepted that neuromuscular overload and fatigue of one lower limb can affect the functional ability of the ipsilateral limb, and possibly the contralateral limb, increasing the likelihood of injury. The purpose of the current study w...
Automatic milking robots require accurate teat positions and consistent teat identities to guide cup attachment. However, weak texture, low contrast, rotated teat poses, and large inter-frame displacement in low-frame-rate Time-of-Flight (ToF) images...
Physiological hand tremors appear to be one of the most common types of tremors that occur during the lifespan. Activities most prominently affected by hand tremors are those involving the movement of small muscles, such as fine motor skills, which i...
Recent years has seen a tremendous increase in processing requirements of present-day embedded system applications. Embedded systems consist of multiple processing elements (PEs) connected to each other using different types of interfaces. Many compl...
Although there has been some research on how to use short fibers from mechanically recycled textiles, little is known about how to preserve the length of recycled fibers, and thus maintain their properties. The aim of this study is to investigate whe...
The purpose of this study was to determine the accuracy and inter-device reliability of the OTBeat BurnTM heart rate monitor during an incremental test to exhaustion on a cycle ergometer. Twenty males (mean ± SD age = 21.1 ± 1.9 years)...
Pulmonary nodule malignancy classification requires effective integration of heterogeneous imaging features and contextual information among nodules. Existing models mainly analyze nodules independently and may overlook inter-nodule relationships. We...
Background: Repeated short maximal sprints induce high blood lactate concentrations and may influence neuromuscular coordination, but the relationship between lactate accumulation and inter-limb asymmetry in elite athletes remains unclear. Objectives...
(1) Background: Ankle joint range of motion is recognized as abnormal in individuals with ankle sprains and Chronic ankle instability (CAI), especially in the dorsiflexion movement. This research investigated the test–retest and inter-rater rel...
Breast density is an important risk factor for breast cancer development; however, imager inconsistency in density reporting can lead to patient and clinician confusion. A deep learning (DL) model for mammographic density grading was examined in a re...
Computer-aided diagnosis (CADx) approaches could help to objectify reporting on prostate mpMRI, but their use in many cases is hampered due to common-built algorithms that are not publicly available. The aim of this study was to develop an open-acces...
Stress is subjective and is manifested differently from one person to another. Thus, the performance of generic classification models that classify stress status is crude. Building a person-specific model leads to a reliable classification, but it re...
Despite advances in computational RNA 3D structure prediction, accurately modeling multi-branch RNA motifs remains challenging, even with known secondary structures, because their global topology is highly sensitive to the relative orientations of th...
Recent advances in massively parallel shotgun sequencing opened up new options for affordable non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) for fetus aneuploidy from DNA material extracted from maternal plasma. Tests typically compare chromosomal distribution...
Hamstring-strain injuries (HSIs) are the most prevalent time-loss injuries in professional football. While player monitoring of muscular strength is ubiquitous in professional football, the utility of in-season testing for predicting HSI in non-leagu...
Sand is a particulate material but is treated as a continuum solid in some engineering analyses. This approach is proven to be acceptable when dealing with geotechnical structures, provided an adequate factor of safety is applied so that there is no...
Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate whether a simplified pre-operative nuclear classification score (SPONCS) was valid, both for clinical trials and real-world settings. Methods: Cataract classification was based on posterior nuclear co...
Adaptive radiotherapy (ART) workflows are increasingly adopted to achieve dose escalation and tissue sparing under dynamic anatomical conditions. However, recontouring and time constraints hinder the implementation of real-time ART workflows. Various...
The phenomenon of missing data can be seen everywhere in reality. Most typical attribute reduction models are only suitable for complete systems. But for incomplete systems, we cannot obtain the effective reduction rules. Even if there are a few redu...
Anomaly detection has been known as an effective technique to detect faults or cyber-attacks in industrial control systems (ICS). Therefore, many anomaly detection models have been proposed for ICS. However, most models have been implemented and eval...
Combined experimental and quantitative structure inter-activity relationship (QSIAR) computation methods were advanced in order to establish the structural and mechanistic influences that steroids and triterpenes, either as newly synthesized or natur...
Hyperspectral image (HSI) classification regarding vegetation is hampered by strong intra-class spectral variability and inter-class similarity, and commonly used random pixel splits can introduce spatial-context leakage that inflates test accuracy i...
Demonstration of similar microstructure is essential for demonstrating the equivalence of generic topical products since the microstructure of semisolids may affect the drug release. The objective of this study was to compare the microstructure-defin...
Prototyping using multi-FPGA platforms is unique because of its use in real-world testing and cycle-accurate information on the design. However, this is a complex and time-consuming process with multiple sub-steps. Among its sub-steps, inter-FPGA rou...
Objective: The diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis is based on two-tier testing using an ELISA and Western blot. About 5–10% of patients report persistent symptoms of unknown etiology after treatment, resulting in substantial difficulties in further...
Objective: Our objective was to develop a radiomics model based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CE-CT) to predict pathological complete response (pCR) to neoadjuvant treatment in locally advanced rectal...
Semi-supervised fine-grained classification suffers from accumulating pseudo-label errors among potentially confusable classes when labeled data are scarce, yet negative-rule information that excludes classes at the attribute level remains unused. We...
The feasibility of prediction of same-limb kinematics using a single inertial measurement unit attached to the same limb has been demonstrated using machine learning. This study was performed to see if a single inertial measurement unit attached to t...
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