This paper presents a solution to automatically measure the T-shirt dimensions in the garment industry. To address this goal, the paper focuses on utilizing image processing to determine the T-shirt's dimensions. ...
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Fidget spinners have been marketed as repetitive motion devices that improve attention and motor performance, and as such, they have become quite appealing to individuals with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (A...
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Fidget spinners have been marketed as repetitive motion devices that improve attention and motor performance, and as such, they have become quite appealing to individuals with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD). To date, no studies have explored changes in brain activity that may occur due to fidgeting in ADHD. Our aim was to use functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) to examine the prefrontal cortex (PFC) during the performance of a standardized fine motor skills test after using a fidget spinner. Eight right-handed adults with ADHD and eight age and gender matched adults without ADHD (4F/4M, 4 control/4 fidget) performed the Purdue Pegboard Test (PPT) while their brain oxygenation was monitored using fNIRS. Relative neural efficiency (RNE) and involvement (RNI) were calculated and analyzed for all subtasks of PPT including the less cognitively demanding fine motor subtasks and more complex assembly tasks. The fidget spinner improved both task performance and RNE in the ADHD group but not the non-ADHD group for the less cognitively demanding subtasks. Our results indicate Fidget spinners may improve both relative neural efficiency and fine motor performance in adults with ADHD for less cognitively demanding tasks.
This study investigates the novel design and evaluation of a low-frequency, broadband, noise-absorbing acoustic metamaterial. The technology combines the sound-absorbing characteristics of micro-perforated panels with...
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Patients with full thickness circumferential burns may require an urgent and relatively high-risk procedure known as an "escharotomy" to preserve limb perfusion and sometimes airway ventilation. The burned s...
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In today's modern world, technology takes part an important role in the medical field. It is must necessary to monitor the patient's health continuously after the operation of the patient. In the healthcare fi...
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In today's modern world, technology takes part an important role in the medical field. It is must necessary to monitor the patient's health continuously after the operation of the patient. In the healthcare field Internet of Things (IoT) plays the main roleinmonitoring health with lots of applications. To monitor the health parameters of the patient, the smart wearable wristband monitoring system is implemented by using the IoT domain. In this article, the NodeMCU microcontroller act as a gateway between the hardware devices and the software. The parameters to be measured from the patient's body are temperature, heart rate, glucose level, oxygen level, and Blood Pressure (BP). These parameters are measured by using the sensors. The sensors are interfaced with the microcontroller. Then the microcontroller sends the data from the sensors to the cloud. The cloud will analyse the data from the normal values given in the microcontroller. If any of the parameter's data from the sensor are measured as abnormal values, the cloud will send the alert message and the location of the patient to the patient's relatives, to the doctor who is attending that patient, and to the patients' mobile via Global System for Mobile communication (GSM), and Global Positioning System (GPS) for location.
Electrically conductive adhesive layers were deposited on top of aerospace grade carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) panels using a small-scale 3D printer. Polylactic acid (PLA) filaments with copper filler (CU-PLA...
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Developing electrochemical energy storage that enables simultaneously delivering high areal, volumetric, and gravimetric performance is a grand fundamental and technological challenge. It is straightforward but proble...
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Grain boundary structural transitions can lead to significant changes in the properties and performance of materials. In multi-principal element alloys, understanding these transitions becomes complex due to phenomena...
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Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is a genetic disease that causes benign tumors and dysfunctions in many organs, including the brain. Aside from the brain malformations, many individuals with TSC exhibit neuropsychiat...
Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is a genetic disease that causes benign tumors and dysfunctions in many organs, including the brain. Aside from the brain malformations, many individuals with TSC exhibit neuropsychiatric symptoms. Among these symptoms, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is one of the most common co-morbidities, affecting up to 60% of the population. Past neuroimaging studies strongly suggested that the impairments in brain connectivity contribute to ASD, whether or not TSC-related. Specifically, the tract-based diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) analysis provides information on the fiber integrity and has been used to study the neuropathological changes in the white matter of TSC patients with ASD symptoms. In our previous study, curcumin, a diet-derived mTOR inhibitor has been shown to effectively mitigate learning and memory deficits and anxiety-like behavior in Tsc2 +/− mice via inhibiting astroglial proliferation. Recently, gut microbiota, which is greatly influenced by the diet, has been considered to play an important role in regulating several components of the central nervous system, including glial functions. In this study, we showed that the abnormal social behavior in the Tsc2 +/− mice can be ameliorated by the dietary curcumin treatment. Second, using tract-based DTI analysis, we found that the Tsc2 +/− mice exhibited altered fractional anisotropy, axial and radial diffusivities of axonal bundles connecting the prefrontal cortex, nucleus accumbens, hypothalamus, and amygdala, indicating a decreased brain network. Third, the dietary curcumin treatment improved the DTI metrics, in accordance with changes in the gut microbiota composition. At the bacterial phylum level, we showed that the abundances of Actinobacteria, Verrucomicrobia, and Tenericutes were significantly correlated with the DTI metrics FA, AD, and RD, respectively. Finally, we revealed that the expression of myelin-associated proteins, myelin bassic p
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