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EyePhone: A mobile EOG based Human Computer Interface for assistive healthcare
Venue: 2013 6th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (NER)
Year: 2013

Human Computer Interfaces (HCI) allow effective interactions between human being and computers, which is of particular significance to people with disabilities or temporary mobility impairment. In this paper, we propose the EyePhone framework, a mobile HCI that allows users to control mobile phones through intentional eye or facial movements. A proof of concept prototype is developed based on a wearable electroencephalograph (EEG) headset and an Android smartphone. Specifically, a graphical window can receive and display continuous EEG data acquired from the headset; a mouse emulator can allow users to move a cursor around the smartphone screen by moving their heads and eyes; and an emergency dialer can allow users to make an emergency phone call through a certain pattern of eye/facial movements. The launching and switching of each functional module are also implemented through predefined head movement patterns, in order to achieve a true "hands free" environment. The efficacy and efficiency of the proposed EyePhone system is evaluated based on experiments in a variety of scenarios (e.g. sitting, standing, and walking)
O indiciamento por estupro de vulneravel realizado apenas com base na palavra da vitima
Year: 2019

O presente trabalho cujo titulo "O indiciamento por estrupo de vulneravel realizado apenas com base na palavra da vitima" tem o intuito de analisar acerca dos indiciamentos que sao realizados pela autoridade policial, tomando por base apenas a palavra da vitima, alem de questionar sobre o fato desse depoimento colhido pela vitima ou ate mesmo por testemunhas, ser suficiente para ensejar uma condenacao do agente que praticou ou nao o crime em questao. Analisando o assunto, surge a questao de que a prova citada seria suficiente para a autoridade policial no indiciamento ou o Magistrado na sentenca condenar o agente do crime. Diante da legislacao processual e das garantias fundamentais, a punicao no crime de estupro de vulneravel, nao deve se abster em garantir o principio da presuncao de inocencia e diante de algumas provas que poderiam ser produzidas, a palavra da vitima na maioria dos casos vem sendo a unica prova em inumeras condenacoes, as vezes e o unico meio de prova que se obtem naquele fato, por as vezes as autoridades nao se preocupa em buscar outros meios de provas para esclarecer o caso concreto. O presente trabalho teve seu inicio do Primeiro Capitulo ao tratar sobre o principio da presuncao da inocencia com seus aspectos formais, com a devida abordagem na Constituicao Federal de 1988, a qual preve o principio como sendo garantia fundamental de todo cidadao. No segundo capitulo tratou se da prova testemunhal e as respostas do ofendido, que essa prova testemunhal se torna o elo entre a autoridade policial e o acusado ali apontado. Ainda neste capitulo tratou se tambem da realizacao do exame de corpo de delito, o qual se torna indispensavel (quando possivel) nesse tipo de crime. No terceiro capitulo, tratou se a respeito da tipificacao do crime de estupro de vulneravel, que esta tipificado no artigo 217 A do Codigo Penal. Destacaram se tambem as formas de configuracao deste delito e o problema deste na maioria dos casos serem um crime que quase nao se deixa vestigios. No quarto capitulo, tratou se sobre o indiciamento por estupro de vulneravel realizado apenas com base na palavra da vitima. Tratou se tambem do valor que se tem a prova testemunhal que as vezes pode imputar o papel de acusado para um individuo inocente, porem e o metodo utilizado quase que sempre e se faz indiciamentos e julgamentos apenas com a palavra da vitima.
A new method to estimate phase speed and vertical velocity of internal solitary waves in the South China Sea
Venue: Journal of Oceanography
Year: 2012

A new method of estimating the phase speed and vertical velocity of internal solitary waves (ISW) based on dynamic governing equations using Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) data was developed. This method was applied to a representative ISW case, which was captured in the South China Sea in the 2007 summer experiment. The result shows that this ISW had a phase speed of approximately 2.6 m s 1. This method provides an excellent alternative in estimating the phase speed of ISWs, especially useful in the absence of vertical stratification needed in solving the Korteweg de Vries (KdV) type equation, e.g. long term mooring observation. Analyses show that the new method is fairly self consistent, and it can be applied when only a part of the ISW observations is available. The computed vertical velocity of the ISW using the new method has a good agreement with the ADCP observations both in magnitude and pattern.
Repetitive narrow QRS tachycardia in a 61 year old female patient with recent palpitations
Venue: Journal of geriatric cardiology JGC
Year: 2018

A 61 year old female patient suffering from recent onset palpitations and dyspnea on exertion with hypertension and mitral valve prolapse in her past history came to our outpatient department. Echocardiography revealed a mild mitral valve prolapse, slightly decreased left ventricular (LV) function (LV ejection fraction: 51% and a mild mitral regurgitation. Initial 12 lead ECG showed normal sinus rhythm (NSR) with left anterior hemiblock, upper normal limit (105110 ms) QRS duration and left atrial abnormality (not shown) 24 hour ambulatory ECG monitoring  revealed a great variety of narrow QRS complex arrhythmias at first glance looking like sinus beats alternating either with aberrantly conducted atrial premature beats with hidden low amplitude P waves (Figure 1 first three rhythm strips) or with ventricular premature beats  arranged in a bigeminal pattern. The third rhythm strip of Figure 1 may also be considered a narrow QRS complex tachycardia with alternating shorter and longer cycle lengths (CL) and the fourth rhythm strip of Figure 1 is a completely regular narrow QRS complex tachycardia with alternating narrow QRS complexes of slightly different morphology. These non sustained narrow QRS tachycardias occurred repetitively separated by 1 or 2 sinus beats. After the 24 hour ECG monitoring another 12 lead ECG was recorded  which showed short, repetitive narrow QRS complex supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) runs separated by two sinus beats. The QRS morphology was identical to that of the initial 12 lead ECG. After a closer look at the ECG demonstrated in Figure 2, the most striking feature of the repetitive narrow QRS complex arrhythmias is that there are distinct, regular sinus P waves throughout the whole ECG tracing with a normal sinus rate of 7886 beats/min and the number of P waves
Green growth and pro environmental behavior: Sustainable resource management using natural capital accounting in India
Venue: Resources, Conservation and Recycling
Year: 2019

The natural capital (NC) of India and its management system are essential conditions of the welfare path to the sustainable development of the country. We conduct an accounting process for India's NC to measure sustainability to ensure that future generations will have the equal total wealth per capita accessible to them as that available to the present generation. We then describe the combination of the renewable and non renewable NC that is relevant within the concepts of welfare and sustainability. First, we note that India has successful forestation, which has enhanced welfare for its residents. However, the other renewables (e.g. cropland, fishery) and non renewables (e.g. fossil fuels, minerals) are continuously degraded as a result of economic development and population growth. Second, we discuss the correlation between sustainable resource management and pro environmental behavior (PEB) and explain the importance of considering these factors to achieve green growth. Third, to provide practitioners with useful information on how to promote PEB and to discover the determinants of PEB, we analyze the survey data of 5,200 respondents from all Indian states. We identify that environmental knowledge is an important determinant of individuals' PEB in India. In the policy analysis, we evaluate the challenges to achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs) using NC accounting in India. We recommend several policy implications to maintain NC at a sustainable level and to achieve SDGs.
AN ECOFEMINIST READING OF JOSEPH CONRAD'S HEART OF DARKNESS AND CHINUA ACHEBE'S THINGS FALL APART
Year: 2020

Ecofeminism is a subgenre of ecocriticism that came into existence within the second wave of ecocriticism. Scholars such as Karen J. Warren and Greta Gaard have advocated that the women's cause cannot be held apart from the cause of the natural environment and have therefore emphasized the necessity of ecofeminism. To that end, ecofeminists maintain that the oppression of women and the environment are interconnected. This article aims to analyze Joseph Conrad's renowned novella, Heart of Darkness and the African author Chinua Achebe's novel, Things Fall Apart from an ecofeminist perspective. Both of these are works of fiction set in the 19th century in the African continent. However, despite a similar setting, both works reflect the British colonization of the African territories through different viewpoints. Heart of Darkness presents its story from the perspective of the Western colonisers, whereas Things Fall Apart reflects this period through the window of the colonized African people. Nevertheless, both narratives expose a serious oppression of women and the environment. The study will expose these oppressions with specific references to both texts. The article's final aim will be to point out that the freedom of women and the environment are intertwined and that one cannot achieve complete emancipation without establishing the liberation of the other.
Guessing Verb Adverb Collocations: Arab EFL Learners' Use of Electronic Dictionaries
Year: 2017

Collocational studies have recently attracted a great deal of interest. To date, hardly any study has tackled Arab EFL learners' competency in the use of verb adverb collocations. This study explores the way advanced Arab EFL learners handle verb adverb collocations using two learner's dictionaries. The subjects (N 82) were required to look up 22 verbs, 12 frequent and 10 infrequent, and guess three adverb collocates of each verb. The results showed that even advanced EFL learners had considerable difficulty in providing extra adverb collocates of both frequent and infrequent verbs. Dictionary use was effective; the subjects performed significantly better especially with infrequent verbs. Many reasons were posited for this finding, foremost of which included the subjects' deficiency in collocational skills and the lack of sufficient clues in the definitions to facilitate dictionary users' correct use of collocations. Whereas knowledge of the meaning of the stimuli was found to be a significant contributing factor to the subjects' overall collocational competence, basic prior training in dictionary usage did not show any positive impact on their overall performance.
Band gap engineering and applications in compound periodic structure containing hyperbolic metamaterials
Year: 2020

Behaviours of light in materials strongly depend on the topological structure of the iso frequency surface (IFS) The usual materials, of which the unit cell of photonic crystal is made up, are dielectrics, whose IFSs have the same closed topological structure. As a simplest photonic crystal, one dimensional photonic crystal (1DPC) has attracted intensive attention due to its simple fabrication technique as well as numerous applications. However, in a conventional all dielectric 1DPC, photonic band gaps (PBGs) for both transverse magnetic (TM) and transverse electric (TE) polarizations will shift toward short wavelengths (i.e. blueshift) as incident angle increases. The underlying physical reason is that the propagating phase in isotropic dielectric will decrease as incident angle increases. The blueshift property of band gap for TM and TE polarization will limit the band width of omnidirectional band gap and the range of operating incident angles in some PBG based applications, including near perfect absorption, polarization selection and sensitive refractive index sensing. However, for TM polarization, the propagating phase in a hyperbolic metamaterial (HMM) will increase with incident angle increasing. This special phase property of HMM provides us with a way to flexibly tune the angle dependent property of band gap in periodic compound structure composed of alternative HMM with open IFS and dielectric with close IFS. In this review, we realize zeroshift (i.e. angle independent) band gaps as well as redshift band gaps in 1DPCs containing HMMs, which can be utilized to realize near perfect absorption, sensitive refractive index sensing and polarization selection working in a wide range of incident angles.
Countering terrorism and radicalisation: Securitising social policy?
Year: 2017

While social and security policies have always overlapped in complex ways, recent developments in counter terrorism policy suggest that Western European states, and the United Kingdom more specifically, are accelerating what can be termed the 'securitisation of social policy'1 namely, the increased submission of social policy actors and their practices to the logics of security and social control. With the PREVENT programme remaining highly controversial, what are the effects of these state practices? Has David Cameron's project of 'muscular liberalism' aimed at integration and community cohesion, been enforced through counter radicalisation policies? This themed issue examines preventative counter terrorism policies in the UK and the politics of religion, ethnicity and race they enact. The relation between social policy and critical security studies is explored by an interdisciplinary group of scholars.
Improvement in clinical outcomes after dry needling versus myofascial release on pain pressure thresholds, quality of life, fatigue, pain intensity, quality of sleep, anxiety, and depression in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome
Venue: Disability and rehabilitation
Year: 2019

To compare the effectiveness of dry needling versus myofascial release on myofascial trigger points pain in cervical muscles, quality of life, impact of symptoms pain, quality of sleep, anxiety, depression, and fatigue in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome.  A single blind randomized controlled trial was conducted. Sixty four subjects with fibromyalgia were randomly assigned to a dry needling group or a myofascial release group. Pain pressure thresholds of myofascial trigger points were evaluated in the cervical muscles. In addition, quality of life, impact of fibromyalgia symptoms, quality of sleep, intensity of pain, anxiety and depression symptoms, impact of fatigue at baseline and post treatment after four weeks of intervention were evaluated.  Significant improvement was found in most pain pressure thresholds of the myofascial trigger points in cervical muscles in the dry needling group compared to myofascial release (p 0.05) Similarly, these differences between groups were found for the components of quality of life of physical function (F 12.74, p 0.001) physical role (F 11.24, p 0.001) body pain (F =30.26, p 0.001) general health (F 15.83, p 0.001) vitality (F 13.51, p 0.001) social function (F 4.73, p 0.034) emotional role (F 8.01, p 0.006) and mental health (F 4.95, p 0.030) Similar results were achieved for total impact of FMS symptoms (F 42.91, p 0.001) quality of sleep (F 11.96, p 0.001) state anxiety (F 7.40, p 0.009) and trait anxiety (F 14.63, p 0.001) hospital anxiety and depression (F 20.60, p 0.001) general pain intensity (F 29.59, p 0.001) and fatigue (F 25.73, p 0.001)  The dry needling therapy showed higher improvements in comparison with myofascial release therapy for pain pressure thresholds, the components of quality of life of physical role, body pain, vitality and social function, as well as the total impact of FMS symptoms, quality of sleep, state and trait anxiety, hospital anxiety depression, general pain intensity and fatigue. Implications for rehabilitation Dry needling therapy reduces myofascial trigger point pain in the short term in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome. This therapeutic approach improves anxiety, depression, fatigue symptoms, quality of life, and sleep after treatment. Dry needling and myofascial release therapies decrease intensity of pain, and the impact of fibromyalgia symptoms in this population. These intervention approaches should be considered in an independent manner as complementary therapies within a multidisciplinary setting.
Quantitative study on environment and energy information for land use planning scenarios in eco city planning stage
Year: 2018

In this study, we propose a series of urban planning strategies for evaluating possibilities in urban planning scenarios, with the objective of building a "low carbon green city." We describe the process of constructing an Environment and Energy Planning Information database (E GIS DB) and experimentally evaluate this for a case study area in a planned city. The construction of the E GIS DB comprises: (a) collection of urban planning data, (b) consolidation of the urban space data into a single layer and creation of an overlaying 200 m x 200 m mesh in the area of interest, (c) calculation of building contents (use, scale, and structure/material) land use/cover, and altitude, and (d) derivation of a representative value for each factor in the mesh unit, and distribution of attributes across the area of interest. Based on the E GIS DB, we considered one baseline and 22 alternative urban planning scenarios across the three stages of zoning plan, land use plan, and district unit plan, which exhibit variations in building scale and land cover. Statistical analysis shows that the environmental planning factors in the E GIS DB (especially urban density) differ significantly between the three planning stages. Considering the precision of environmental and energy predictions, the construction of an E GIS DB is recommended at district unit plan, land use plan, and zoning plan stages, in that order. The district unit planning stage is the most appropriate because it is closest to the realization of the urban development plan. The urban scenarios are assigned to three representative categories based on environmental and energy use characteristics: (a) scenarios with unacceptably high urban air temperature and energy use, (b) optimal scenarios, which exhibit the best cooling effect and low energy use, and (c) sub optimal scenarios that must either be improved to achieve optimum environmental and energy outcomes, or else be replaced with an alternative scenario from group (b) When more optimal scenarios (recommended group for improved environmental performance and lower energy use) were applied, lower bound of FAR for building complexes was formed and eco friendly land coverage such as soil and green cover was increased by 150% and 170% respectively, which induced and urban cooling effect and resulted in energy savings. Subsequently, urban air temperature and total daily energy demand on the hottest summer day was lowered by 1.5 degC and approximately 100 W/m2 compared to the most unacceptable scenario.
Toolbox for acoustic scene creation and rendering (TASCAR) Render methods and research applications
Year: 2015

TASCAR is a toolbox for creation and rendering of dynamic acoustic scenes that allows direct user interaction and was developed for application in hearing aid research. This paper describes the simulation methods and shows two research applications in combination with motion tracking as an example. The first study investigated to what extent individual head movement strategies can be found in different listening tasks. The second study investigated the effect of presentation of dynamic acoustic cues on the postural stability of the listeners.
Newer Volatile Anesthetic Agents in Cardiac Anesthesia: Review of Literature
Year: 2021

Myocardial protection with volatile anesthetic agents have been suggested by multiple studies. These studies, however, are scattered and are often limited to a particular aspect of cardiac anesthesia. Older inhalational agents like halothane is known to cause significant hepatic damage in patients undergoing long duration surgeries while isoflurane is known to have marked vasodilating properties that also affects the coronary arteries leading to coronary "steal" phenomenon. Additionally, newer agents, like sevoflurane and desflurane, have shown more prominent cardioprotective effects than older agents. We searched ScholarOne, Medline, Embase, and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) in the Cochrane Library. The medical subject headings (MeSH) terms "anaesthesia, inhalational," "anaesthesia, intravenous, or TIVA," and "Cardiac anaesthesia or Cardiac Surgery" were used. Additional studies were identified by review of the reference sections of all eligible studies. The aim of this review article is to bring together the evidences with newer inhalational agents and provide a holistic view of their benefits and shortcomings in cardiac anesthesia.
Emotional intelligence and teacher leaders
Year: 2017

iii List of Tables vii List of Figures viii Chapter 1:  Emotional Intelligence and Educators. 2  Importance of Study 3 Thesis Outline 3 Chapter 2: Review of Relevant Research 5 Existence and Importance of the Problem. 5 Teacher Leader Development 9 Emotional Intelligence and Leadership 11 School Leaders and Emotional Intelligence in the Classroom 14 The Benefits of Emotional Intelligence 17 Developing Emotional Intelligence 18 Summary of Themes and Implications for Developing EI in Teacher Leaders 23 Chapter 3: Research Design 25 Research Methodology 25 Research Design 25 Sampling Methodology 26
An improved implicit re initialization method for the level set function applied to shape and topology optimization of fluid
Venue: J. Comput. Appl. Math.
Year: 2015

This paper presents an accurate implicit re initialization approach in the framework of a level set method. The improved method includes two schemes for keeping the zero level set unperturbed. The first scheme is to derive and use a new formula for the smoothing parameter in the conventional re initialization equation based on the principle of the interface not moving. The second scheme is to reduce the local time step to avoid the interface moving across grid points when the sign of the level set function near the interface is changed. The example presented suggests that the new algorithm has a better approximation to the signed distance function and obtains a more accurate interface than the algorithm presented by Sussman et?al. (1994) For shape and topology optimization of fluid, the effectiveness of the developed method in this paper was demonstrated by the internal and external flow examples.
Efecto de la interaccion entre el sexo y el peso sobre el comer emocional en adolescentes
Year: 2016

Con el objetivo de conocer si el sexo y el peso influyen en el comer emocional de los adolescentes, se evaluo a 455 jovenes (269 hombres y 186 mujeres) con edades de entre 13 y 19 anos, mediante el Cuestionario de Emociones y Creencias acerca de la Alimentacion y el Peso. Los resultados mostraron que las mujeres con sobrepeso y obesidad puntuan mas alto en el comer emocional, probablemente como estrategia de afrontamiento. Adicionalmente, se corroboro que el comer emocional es un predictor confiable del sobrepeso, pero unicamente en las mujeres.