Development of a myoelectric controller based on knee angle estimation
Development of a myoelectric controller based on knee angle estimation ~ Keywords: Electromyographic signal, Prosthesis control, Microcontrolled bioinstrumentation, Feature extraction, Dimensionality reduction, Neural network The use of microprocessors in myoelectric control has grown notably, benefitting from the functionality and low cost of these devices. Microprocessors provide the ability to employ advanced signal processing and artificial [...]
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Human tissue information processing
Human tissue information processing ~ The nucleotides participate in a wide variety of biochemical processes. Perhaps the best known role of purine and pyrmidine nucleotides is to serve as the monomeric precursors of RNA and DNA[1-4]. However, the purine ribonucleotides serve also as the ubiquitous high energy source, ATP, as regulatory signals (cycle AMP [cAMP] [...]
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Complex telemonitoring of patients and elderly people for telemedical and homecare services
Complex telemonitoring of patients and elderly people for telemedical and homecare services ~ Telemedicine is part of the expanding use of communications technology in health care being used in prevention, disease management, home health care, long-term care, emergency medicine, and other applications. In Romania, the diversification of telecommunication networks and advances in communications technologies, including [...]
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Behaviour Response among Educated Young Adults Towards the H1N1 Pandemic
Behaviour Response among Educated Young Adults Towards the H1N1 Pandemic ~ The misconception may be caused by ineffective campaign/ information supply by the authority. Public misconception is one of the motivating research areas that is studied by Lau et. al. (2009) and yet limited exercise is available in Malaysia. Lau et. al. (2009) clearly studied [...]
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A Prospective Comparison of the Epidemiological and Clinical Characteristics of Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Influenza A Virus and Seasonal Influenza A Viruses in Guangzhou, South China in 2009
A Prospective Comparison of the Epidemiological and Clinical Characteristics of Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Influenza A Virus and Seasonal Influenza A Viruses in Guangzhou, South China in 2009 ~ Comparisons of the clinical characteristics of contemporaneous pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza A virus (A(H1N1)pdm09)- and seasonal influenza viruses-infected patients are important for both clinical management and epidemiological [...]
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Study of Avian Flu Preventive Practices among Home Poultry Breeders in Rural Egypt
Study of Avian Flu Preventive Practices among Home Poultry Breeders in Rural Egypt ~ Abstract: Recently, avian influenza require a worldwide attention. The documented cases in human with avian influenza infection, associated with severe diseases and several fatalities, raised serious concerns about a pandemic potential of avian influenza H5N1 strain. Avian flu is viral infection [...]
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Pause on Avian Flu Transmission Research
Pause on Avian Flu Transmission Research ~ THE CONTINUOUS THREAT OF AN INFLUENZA PANDEMIC REPRESENTS ONE OF THE BIGGEST CHALlenges in public health. Influenza pandemics are known to be caused by viruses that evolve from animal reservoirs, such as in birds and pigs, and can acquire genetic changes that increase their ability to transmit in [...]
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Facing down pandemic flu, the world’s defenses are weak
Facing down pandemic flu, the world’s defenses are weak ~ At a hotel meeting room outside Quebec last March, 35 health officials and others from the world’s seven leading industrialized countries and Mexico passed around a vial of bitter- tasting white power. If Asia’s potent H5N1 bird flu assumes a form transmitted between humans, this [...]
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Avian Flu and Possible Human Pandemic
Avian Flu and Possible Human Pandemic ~ Avian influenza is an infectious disease of birds, usually infecting poultry animals and pigs, and is caused by Influenza A (H5N1) virus(1-3). It was first reported in 1997 in Hong Kong(3,4). Year 2003 saw change in the strains of virus, resulting in emergence of ‘novel’ Z strain and, [...]
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Incubating the Next Generation of Offshore Outsourcing Entrepreneurs
Incubating the Next Generation of Offshore Outsourcing Entrepreneurs ~ 1. Motivation Imagine what the impact of intense media and political spotlight on IT Offshore Outsourcing (ComputerWorld, 2005) has been on Computer Science students in this country (Ferguson, Huen, Henderson & Kussmaul, 2004; Ferguson, Kussmaul, McCracken & Robbert, 2005). Not so long ago, Computer Science students [...]
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Multicore CPUs for the masses
Multicore CPUs for the masses ~ Multicore is the new hot topic in the latest round of CPUs from Intel, AMD, Sun, etc. With clock speed increases becoming more and more difficult to achieve, vendors have turned to multicore CPUs as the best way to gain additional performance. Customers are excited about the promise of [...]
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ARCHITECTING ENTERPRISE GRIDS: POSSIBLE INFLECTION POINTS
ARCHITECTING ENTERPRISE GRIDS: POSSIBLE INFLECTION POINTS ~ Enterprise IT architecture may experience the following turning point: instead of a group of enterprise data centers (DCs) being cost-heavy assets, grids could turn them into potential revenue making engines. How? In analogy with the exploitation of other property assets, grids resources should be commercialized or traded in [...]
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