Background/Objectives: Fatigue is a common symptom in adults with cerebral palsy (CP), characterized by fluctuations across the day. This pilot study aimed to evaluate the feasibility, reliability, and validity of ecological momentary assessment (EMA...
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...
Identification of unknown individuals is challenging, and radiological imaging databases provide rich anatomical information for automated recognition. This study evaluated whether a single routine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) slice contains suff...
27 September 2022
Personality disorders (PDs) are a class of mental disorders which are associated with subjective distress, decreased quality of life and broad functional impairment. The presence of one or several PDs may also complicate the course and treatment of s...
Memory-augmented language agents are increasingly used for long-horizon personalized interaction, but they still struggle to adapt to user-specific evidence without gradually drifting away from a stable and reliable persona. In this paper, we study h...
This paper gives a summary of findings from studies using the five-item Reliance on God’s Help (RGH) scale, which was developed a decade ago as an integral part of a comprehensive measure to differentiate between external and internal adaptive coping...
Individual personalities affect animal experiences of zoo environments, impact on an animal’s coping ability and have potential implications for welfare. Keeper assessments have been identified as a quick and reliable way of capturing data on p...
Personal exposure assessment is essential in environmental and epidemiological studies. However, conventional methods often do not adequately reflect individuals’ spatiotemporal activity characteristics. This study evaluates the suitability of...
Extreme heat is one of the main climate-induced public health risks to communities around the world. Understanding an individual’s vulnerability to heat is challenging, as heat exposures vary significantly depending on occupation, travel behavi...
2 March 2021
The coexistence of diverse cultures in our society indicates the need to examine the factors related to the success of multicultural interactions. The study aims were to examine the psychometric characteristics of the Spanish version of the Multicult...
With the development of human society, there is an increasing importance for reliable person identification and authentication to protect a person’s material and intellectual property. Person identification based on brain signals has captured s...
Biological vision integrates cues according to their reliability and context and uses coarse contextual information to form initial hypotheses before directing attention to local evidence. Inspired by these principles, we propose ADCCR (Adaptive Desc...
T cell engineering with antigen-specific T cell receptors (TCRs) has allowed the generation of increasingly specific, reliable, and versatile T cell products with near-physiological features. However, a broad applicability of TCR-based therapies in c...
Electroencephalography is a widely used non-invasive method for monitoring brain electrical activity, critical for diagnosing and managing neurological disorders such as epilepsy. While clinical standards use 21 electrodes to capture comprehensive ne...
(1) Background: Orthopedic surgery has been transformed by 3D-printed personalized instruments (3DP-PSIs), which enhance precision and reduce complications. Hospitals are adopting in-house 3D printing facilities, using cost-effective methods like Fus...
Person identification is a critical task in applications such as security and surveillance, requiring reliable systems that perform robustly under diverse conditions. This study evaluates the Vision Transformer (ViT) and ResNet34 models across three...
We address the problem of observing personal diploid methylomes, CpG methylome pairs of homologous chromosomes that are distinguishable with respect to phased heterozygous variants (PHVs), which is challenging due to scarcity of PHVs in personal geno...
Biomarkers are cornerstones of clinical medicine, and personalized medicine, in particular, is highly dependent on reliable and highly accurate biomarkers for individualized diagnosis and treatment choice. Modern omics technologies, such as genome se...
A sense of community plays an important role in promoting sustainable behaviors and values. Therefore, when measuring sense of community, it is important to ensure that such measurement instruments have excellent psychometric properties. In this stud...
In contrast to traditional researches that involve a manual, non-quantitative, and subjective way of performing handwriting analysis, in the current research, a special computer-aided method of revised handwriting analysis is used. It includes the de...
The Interactive Nutrition Specific Physical Exam Competency Tool (INSPECT) is a tool designed specifically to observe and measure registered dietitian nutritionists’ (RDNs) nutrition-focused physical exam (NFPE) competence in authentic acute ca...
Until recently, no disease-specific health-related quality of life (HRQoL) questionnaire existed for pediatric traumatic brain injuries (TBIs). In this revalidation study, the psychometric properties and the validity of the 35-item QOLIBRI-KID/ADO qu...
This paper explores the potential of public webcams as a source of data for transport research. Eight different open-source object detection models were tested on three publicly accessible webcams located in the city of Brunswick, Germany. Fifteen im...
A massive amount of sensitive personal data is being collected and used by scientists, businesses, and governments. This has led to unprecedented threats to privacy rights and the security of personal data. There are few solutions that empower indivi...
10 June 2021
Background: Despite increasing research confirming the existence of childhood personalities, which are recognizable from a developmental perspective, controversies over the possibility to assess personality in childhood have continued. The purpose of...
In recent years, Artificial Intelligence Technologies (AIT) have been developed to improve the quality of life of the elderly and their safety in the home. This work focuses on developing a system capable of recognising the most usual activities in t...
The IoT is a specific type of network with its own communication challenges. There are a multitude of low-power devices monitoring the environment. Thus, the need for authentication may be addressed by many available sensors but should be performed o...
4 June 2022
Since the start of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, levels of loneliness have increased among the general population and especially among sexual minorities, such as gay men and other men who have sex with men, who already experienced more problems with socia...
Freezing of gait (FOG), a debilitating symptom of Parkinson’s disease (PD), can be safely studied using the stepping in place (SIP) task. However, clinical, visual identification of FOG during SIP is subjective and time consuming, and automatic FOG d...
Brain biometrics has received increasing attention from the scientific community due to its unique properties in comparison to traditional biometric methods. Many studies have shown that EEG features are distinct among individuals. SSVEP signals, gen...
Background: The sense of smell has been recently recognized as one of the most important sensory features in the human being, representing a reliable biomarker for a number of clinical conditions. The relationship between olfactory function and the p...
Background/Objectives: Instability is a major reason for revision after total hip arthroplasty (THA), and acetabular cup placement in the “traditional” safe zone does not protect against dislocations. Spinopelvic mobility may play a role...
This work relates to the quality of the electrocardiogram (ECG) signal of an elderly person, transmitted using optical wireless links. The studied system uses infrared signals between an optical transmitter located on the person’s wrist and opt...
Background: Digital health has accelerated telehealth uptake, yet evidence comparing video-based musculoskeletal assessment with traditional in-person examination is limited. This study evaluated the concurrent validity and interrater reliability of...
25 April 2023
The characteristics of health professionals and their understanding of person-centeredness may have important implications for the development of person-centered practice in specific care settings. In this study, we characterized the perceptions of t...
Background: Personalized and accurate assessment of functional performance in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) requires patient-centered tools that capture individualized activity limitations. The Patient-Specific Functional Scale (PSFS)...
1 December 2010
It is widely recognised that successful online systems are not those that simply fulfil some functional specifications, but rather systems that are developed to also meet a number of non-functional requirements such as security, reliability and trust...
The growing demand for personalized treatments and the constant observation of vital signs for extended periods could positively solve the problematic concerns associated with the necessity for patient control and hospitalization. The impressive deve...
Background: The impact of dual pathology on treatment outcomes is unclear, with the literature reporting both favorable and unfavorable evidence. The main aim of this study was to determine how dual pathology affects treatment outcomes using real wor...
This study aimed to explore how dark personality traits influence the interplay between embitterment and jealousy. We first assessed the appropriateness of the scales used to assess jealousy, personality, and embitterment for our study population, ex...
Epileptic seizure prediction using an Electroencephalogram (EEG) can improve patient safety by enabling early intervention, yet most existing approaches focus on short prediction horizons with limited personalization or computational efficiency. This...
There is an exciting synergy between deep learning and robotics, combining the perception skills a deep learning system can achieve with the wide variety of physical responses a robot can perform. This article describes an embedded system integrated...
Glioblastoma and the surgery to remove it pose high risks to the cognitive function of patients. Little reliable data exist about these risks, especially postoperatively before radiotherapy. We hypothesized that cognitive deficit risks detected befor...
14 January 2019
Although the Caregiver Burden Inventory (CBI) is the most widely used multidimensional burden instrument for assessing perceived burden of caregivers, there is no data on its psychometric properties in Spanish, nor on caregivers of dependent persons...
Background: Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction is a complex condition that necessitates adaptive, patient-specific management strategies. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a time-adaptive machine learning model, the Passive-...
The study investigates the reliability and validity of the Greek version of the knowledge about childhood autism among health workers (KCAHQ) questionnaire. A total of 541 allied healthcare participants (n1 = 471 students; n2 = 70 professionals) prov...
In an era where security concerns are ever-increasing, the need for advanced technology to detect visible and concealed weapons has become critical. This paper introduces a novel two-stage method for concealed handgun detection, leveraging thermal im...
Bronchial hyperreactivity, reversible airflow limitation and chronic airway inflammation characterize asthma pathophysiology. Personalized medicine, i.e., a tailored management approach, is appropriate for asthma management and is based on the identi...
The growing trend for personalized medicine calls for more reliable implantable biosensors that are capable of continuously monitoring target analytes for extended periods (i.e., >30 d). While promising biosensors for various applications are cons...
Guaranteeing high-quality, equitable, and inclusive basic education requires upholding the right of all students to reach their full potential and ensuring their well-being. Students with High Intellectual Ability (HIA) represent a vulnerable group t...
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