The objective of this study was to develop a physical activity assessment questionnaire for use in poorly educated and low socio-economic rural communities in developing countries and assess the repeatability of the measurements over a one-year duration. Physical Activity Level, as a composite measure of daily physical activity (PAL = estimated 24 hour energy expenditure / estimated basal metab...

Treatment resistance to clozapine often leads to antipsychotic combinations. Well-designed trials evaluated the add-on of several atypical antipsychotics, but the augmentation with paliperidone, the active metabolite of risperidone, has never been evaluated. Treatment of four cases resulted in a decrease of the PANSS-positive subscale, the mean initial clozapine dose could be lowered, mean prol...

Endoglin is a glycoprotein with TGF-beta binding capacity and is predominantly expressed on endothelial cells. In psoriasis, TGF-beta has appeared to play a role in the extravasation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells via the endothelium. In order to find out more about the role of endoglin in psoriasis, immunohistochemical staining with PN-E2, a novel anti-endoglin, and of PAL-E, recognizin...

Welfare programs are often implemented in-kind to promote outcomes that might not be realized under cash transfers. I use a randomized controlled trial of the Mexican government’s Food Assistance Program (‘PAL’) to test whether this form of paternalism is necessary, comparing precisely measured consumption and health outcomes under both inkind food and cash transfers. Importantly, I …nd that ho...

The use of movement registration for daily physical activity assessment was evaluated during a 7-day period in 30 free-living subjects. Body movement was registered with a Tracmor motion sensor consisting of a triaxial accelerometer and a data unit for on-line processing of accelerometer output over 1-min intervals. Average Tracmor output was correlated against four different energy estimates: ...

Analogic CNN algorithms are combined with the special properties of a panoramic imaging device called PAL optics. The resulting system is capable to identify and track moving objects in 360 degrees field of view real-time. Image processing engine was the ALADDIN system with a 64x64 array size CNNUM chip. As the image sensor, we tested the optical input of the CNNUM chip in one experiment, and i...

In machine learning, active class selection (ACS) algorithms aim to actively select a class and ask the oracle to provide an instance for that class to optimize a classifier’s performance while minimizing the number of requests. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm (PAL-ACS) that transforms the ACS problem into an active learning task by introducing pseudo instances. These are used to esti...