Results. Principal component and factor analyses identiŽed a stable Žve-factor structure accounting for 63.5% of the variance, with a primary factor of self-consciousness of appearance. Internal consistency was high (a 5 .98) and test–retest reliabilities (three months) were good (.75 (general population); .86 (patients)).Correlations with existing tests showed appropriate criterion validity (....

In this paper we present three classifiers used in automatic forms class identification. A first category of classifier includes the k-Nearest Neighbours (kNN) and the Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) classifiers. A second category corresponds to a new structural classifier based on tree comparison. On one hand, a low level information based on a pyramidal decomposition of the document image is use...

BACKGROUND Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has been frequently used to explore changes in the human motor cortex in different conditions, while the extent of motor cortex reorganization in patients in vegetative state (VS) (now known as unresponsive wakefulness syndrome, UWS) and minimally conscious (MCS) states due to severe brain damage remains largely unknown. OBJECTIVE/HYPOTHESIS ...

The assessment of the level and content of consciousness in brain-damaged patients relies to a large extent on behavioral assessment techniques. The limited behavioral repertoire displayed by vegetative and minimally conscious states requires the use of highly sensitive and reliable behavioral assessment methods, allowing the detection of subtle changes in behavior and associated level of consc...

Introduction Ray reported that the highly amused states of a child as well as a state of deep aesthetic appreciation are characterized by large number of pulses, and increased low frequency waves (theta and specially delta waves) (Ray, 1994). Jovanov introduced hypothetical framework of analysis for the wave patterns in theta, delta and sub-delta bands: mental consciousness for theta band, high...

The fast grow of expectations from robots and the technical obstacles the robot developers face when trying to meet the requests, force an orientation towards designing and controlling robots by following biological paragons. This tendency increases interest in human-robot analogy, and the present work is a part of this stream. The paper questions the voluntariness of human motion by relating i...

Efforts to study consciousness using computational models over the last two decades have received a decidedly mixed reception. Investigators in mainstream AI have largely ignored this work, and some members of the philosophy community have argued that the whole endeavor is futile. Here we suggest that very substantial progress has been made, to the point where the use of computational simulatio...

INTRODUCTION Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is an emerging infectious disease that was first reported in China in 2011. However, it is now endemic in Japan, and the SFTS viruses in Japan and China have evolved independently. Its fatality rate is 26.5 % in Japan, and the viral load is related to morbidity. CASE DESCRIPTION We encountered two patients with SFTS. Case 1 is a ...