It is common sense that immediate response and action are among the most important terms when it comes to public safety, and emergency response systems (ERS) are technology components strictly tied to this purpose. While the use of ERSs is increasing...
Crowd panic emergencies can pose serious risks to public safety, and effective detection and mapping of such events are crucial for rapid response and mitigation. In this paper, we propose a real-time system for detecting and mapping crowd panic emer...
Pedestrian panic behavior is a primary cause of overcrowding and stampede accidents in public micro-road network areas with high pedestrian density. However, reliably detecting such behaviors remains challenging due to their inherent complexity, vari...
Panic buying has been globally observed, leading to substantial stock-outs and supply chain disruptions, thus inducing additional panic buying. Regarding panic buying behavior as an intuitive over-protective measure during the strict lockdown and sea...
Background: PTSD diagnosis is challenging. Symptoms overlap with depression and panic attacks. This causes misdiagnosis and delayed treatment. Current methods lack objective biomarkers. This study presents a hybrid AI framework. It combines CNNs and...
To reduce the morbidity and mortality of candidemia patients through rapid treatment, the development of a simple, rapid molecular diagnostic method that is based on nucleic acid extraction and is superior to conventional methods for detecting Candid...
In this work, we present a wearable sensor patch for the early detection of extravasation by using a simple, direct printing process. Interdigitated electrodes are printed on a flexible film, which can be attached to skin. The electrodes are integrat...
Background: Although digital cognitive behavioral therapy (dCBT) is considered effective for anxiety disorders, there is considerable heterogeneity in its efficacy across studies, and its varied treatment content and clinical components may explain s...
10 July 2020
By 29 May 2020, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by SARS-CoV-2 had spread to 188 countries, infecting more than 5.9 million people, and causing 361,249 deaths. Governments issued travel restrictions, gatherings of institutions were cancelled...
Affective computing through physiological signals monitoring is currently a hot topic in the scientific literature, but also in the industry. Many wearable devices are being developed for health or wellness tracking during daily life or sports activi...
Even though the field of medicine has made great strides in recent years, infectious diseases caused by novel viruses that damage the respiratory system continue to plague people all over the world. This type of virus is very dangerous, especially fo...
The frequency with which fake news or misinformation is published on social networks is constantly increasing. Users of social networks are confronted with many different posts every day, often with sensationalist titles and content of dubious veraci...
Traditional fire alarm systems use smoke sensors to monitor the concentration of smoke particles in the air. If the concentration exceeds a certain threshold, an alarm signal is triggered. However, this detection process could lead to false fire alar...
Wearable devices (WD) are starting to increasingly be used for interventions to promote well-being by reducing anxiety disorders (AD). Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal is one of the most commonly used biosignals for assessing the cardiovascular system...
This paper proposes a mobile biological sensor system that can assist in earlydetection of forest fires one of the most dreaded natural disasters on the earth. The main ideapresented in this paper is to utilize animals with sensors as Mobile Biologic...
The development of information technology and mobile Internet has spawned the prosperity of online social networks. As the world’s largest microblogging platform, Twitter is popular among people all over the world. However, as the number of use...
With the growth of the internet and popularity of mobile devices, propagating rumors on social media has become increasingly easy. Widespread rumors may cause public panic and have adverse effects on individuals. Recently, researchers have found that...
Visually challenged people (VCPs) face many difficulties in their routine life. Usually, in many cases, they need to depend upon others, which makes them unconfident in an unfamiliar environment. Thus, in this paper, we present an aid that helps in d...
The behavior of cage-reared ducks is an important index to judge the health status of laying ducks. For the automatic recognition task of cage-reared duck behavior based on machine vision, by comparing the detection performance of YoloV4 (you only lo...
People share their views and daily life experiences on social networks and form a network structure. The information shared on social networks can be unreliable, and detecting such kinds of information may reduce mass panic. Propaganda is a kind of b...
With the advent of the information age, food safety issues often trigger public panic and even disrupt social order. Traditional public opinion analysis methods struggle to handle massive amounts of data and effectively predict public sentiment trend...
Analysing human physiological data allows access to the health state and the state of mind of the subject individual. Whenever a person is sick, having a panic attack, happy or scared, physiological signals will be different. In terms of physiologica...
Background: Despite the high number of vaccines administered against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) worldwide, the information on the psychological/psychiatric adverse events following immunization (AEFI) with these newl...
Road safety has emerged as a global issue, driven by the rapid rise in vehicle ownership and traffic congestion. Human error, like distraction, drowsiness, and panic, is the leading cause of road accidents. Conventional driver monitoring systems (DMS...
This paper presents the design, development, and testing of an IoT-enabled smart stick for visually impaired people to navigate the outside environment with the ability to detect and warn about obstacles. The proposed design employs ultrasonic sensor...
The recent outbreak of COVID-19 around the world has caused a global health catastrophe along with economic consequences. As per the World Health Organization (WHO), this devastating crisis can be minimized and controlled if humans wear facemasks in...
4 April 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic led to panic-buying of alcohol-based hand rubs (ABHRs). In response, governmental agencies (e.g., Health Canada) permitted the sale of ABHRs formulated with “technical-grade” ethanol to alleviate the growing demand. Technical-gr...
The COVID-19 epidemic has created highly unprocessed emotions that trigger stress, anxiety, or panic attacks. These attacks exhibit physical symptoms that may easily lead to misdiagnosis. Deep-learning (DL)-based classification approaches for emotion...
Interoception is the sense of the physiological condition of the entire body. Impaired interoception has been associated with aberrant activity of the insula in major depressive disorder (MDD) during heartbeat perception tasks. Despite clinical relev...
The detection of crowd density levels and anomalies is a hot topic in video surveillance. Especially in human-centric action and activity-based movements. In some respects, the density level variation is considered an anomaly in the event. Crowd beha...
Monkeypox disease is caused by a virus that causes lesions on the skin and has been observed on the African continent in the past years. The fatal consequences caused by virus infections after the COVID pandemic have caused fear and panic among the p...
Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) is detected in both normal and oncological developmental tissues. Among ALK-related tumors, superficial ALK-rearranged myxoid spindle cell neoplasm (SAMS) is a rare, soft tissue tumor characterized by the immunophenot...
17 January 2021
Consultation–liaison psychiatry (CLP) manages psychiatric care for patients admitted to a general hospital (GH) for somatic reasons. We evaluated patterns in psychiatric morbidity, reasons for referral and diagnostic concordance between referri...
Back in 2004, Google Inc. (Menlo Park, CA, USA) began digitizing full texts of magazines, journals, and books dating back centuries. At present, over 25 million books have been scanned and anyone can use the service (currently called Google Books) to...
Based on Web 2.0 technology, more and more people tend to express their attitude or opinions on the Internet. Radical ideas, rumors, terrorism, or violent contents are also propagated on the Internet, causing several incidents of social panic every y...
Seconds count differently for people in danger. We present a real-time streaming pipeline for audio-based detection of hazardous life events affecting life and property. The system operates online rather than as a retrospective analysis tool. Its obj...
We live in a digitized era where our daily life depends on using online resources. Businesses consider the opinions of their customers, while people rely on the reviews/comments of other users before buying specific products or services. These review...
Ensuring rapid and efficient evacuation in high-density environments, such as stadiums, is critical for public safety during fire emergencies. Traditional fire alarm systems rely on reactive detection mechanisms, often resulting in delayed response t...
Human injuries and casualties at entertaining, religious, or political crowd events often occur due to the lack of proper crowd safety management. For instance, for a large scale moving crowd, a minor accident can create a panic for the people to sta...
The virus that causes monkeypox has been observed in Africa for several years, and it has been linked to the development of skin lesions. Public panic and anxiety have resulted from the deadly repercussions of virus infections following the COVID-19...
In recent decades, various assistive technologies have emerged to support visually impaired individuals. However, there remains a gap in terms of solutions that provide efficient, universal, and real-time capabilities by combining robust object detec...
16 March 2019
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) has stated that over 1.1 billion people suffered from mental disorders globally in 2016, and the burden of mental disorders has continued to grow with impacts on social development. Despite the i...
15 October 2014
This study was designed to identify: (1) predictors of 12-month healthcare service utilization for mental health reasons, framed by the Andersen model, among a population cohort in an epidemiological catchment area; and (2) correlates associated with...
The use of cell phones has increased worldwide in the past few decades, particularly in children and adolescents. Using these electronic devices provides personal benefits. Communicating through cell phones was a very important factor in the socioeco...
The regulation of nervous and cardiovascular systems and some brain-related behaviors, such as stress, panic, anxiety, and depression, are strictly dependent on the levels of the main catecholamines of clinical interest, dopamine (DA), epinephrine (E...
Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory condition, which is distinguished by the presence of the endometrial-like glands and stroma outside the uterine cavity. Pain and infertility are the most commonly expressed symptoms, occurring in 60% and 40% of...
In individuals with impaired hearing, determining the direction of sound is a significant problem. The direction of sound was determined in this study, which allowed hearing impaired individuals to perceive where sounds originated. This study also de...
Background and Objectives: The role of affective temperament in the genesis and outcome of major mood disorders is well studied, but there are only a few reports on the relationship between panic disorder (PD) and affective temperaments. Accordingly,...
(1) Background: Preclinical as well as population studies have connected general anesthesia and surgery with a higher risk of abnormal cognitive development, including emotional development. Gut microbiota dysbiosis in neonatal rodents during the per...