OBJECTIVE Psychological morbidity, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), is common in survivors of intensive care. Intrusive memories of trauma are important symptoms of PTSD. Research has not established which aspects of intensive care are most traumatizing; invasive medical procedures, fear of dying from life-threatening illness or injury, or effects of psychoactive drugs, includin...

This paper presents a novel architecture for digital identity management. The proposed architecture is highly secure and scales seamlessly across organizational boundaries, while at the same time protecting the privacy interests of individuals and organizations. To achieve these properties, the architecture heavily relies on Digital Credentials, a cryptographic authentication technology specifi...

Available security solutions often are not widely used because the associated secure applications are awkward to use or they lack functionality when compared to standard insecure tools. To avoid this dicothomy, we developed a non-intrusive (or external) clientserver authentication framework which requires no modi cation to both the clients and the servers. In this way, full featured clients can...

Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) is a technique that determines the load composition of a household through a single point of measurement at the main power feed. Here we presented an unsupervised approach to determine the number of appliances in the household, their power consumption and the state of each one at any given moment.

Emotional mental imagery occurs across anxiety disorders, yet is neglected in bipolar disorder despite high anxiety comorbidity. Furthermore, a heightened susceptibility to developing intrusive mental images of stressful events in bipolar disorder and people vulnerable to it (with hypomanic experience) has been suggested. The current study assessed, prospectively, whether significant hypomanic ...

Information processing theories of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) state that intrusive images emerge due to a lack of integration of perceptual trauma representations in autobiographical memory. To test this hypothesis experimentally, participants were shown an aversive film to elicit intrusive images. After viewing, they received a recognition test for just one part of the film. The tes...

Matched samples of depressed and nondepressed cancer patients were interviewed about past life events, particularly experiences of death and illness. They identified and described any spontaneous intrusive visual memories they had experienced in the past week corresponding to these events. About one quarter reported such memories and, as predicted, the majority of intrusive memories concerned i...

In response to the governmental policy of saving energy sources and reducing CO2, and carry out the resident quality of local; this paper proposes a new method for a non-intrusive load-monitoring (NILM) system in smart home to implement the load identification of electric equipments and establish the electric demand management. Non-intrusive load-monitoring techniques were often based on power ...

Speech captured from an in-ear microphone (IEM) under an intra-aural device is beneficial in extremely noisy environments as it maintains a relatively high signal to noise ratio. Due to its limited bandwidth, speech enhancement is required in order to obtain a more natural speech. Consequently, quick and practical measurement of speech quality is important. In this paper, we compare the perform...

In this paper we review some of the state of the art techniques for parasitic interconnect extraction in the presence of random geometrical variations due to uncertainties in the manufacturing processes. We summarize some of the most recent development in both sampling based (non-intrusive) and expansion based (intrusive) algorithms for the extraction of both general impedance and capacitance i...