Renal-specific oxido-reductase/myoinositol oxygenase (RSOR/MIOX) is expressed in renal tubules. It catabolizes myo-inositol and its expression is increased in diabetic mice and in LLC-PK(1) cells under high-glucose ambience. Aldose reductase (AR) is another aldo-keto reductase that is expressed in renal tubules. It regulates the polyol pathway and plays an important role in glucose metabolism, ...

In smart spaces such as smart homes, computation is embedded everywhere: in toys, appliances, or the home’s infrastructure. Most of these devices provide a pool of available resources which the user can take advantage, interacting and creating a friendly environment. The inherent composability of these systems and other unique characteristics such as low-cost energy, simplicity in module progra...

This article has been originated in a research that aimed to identify and validate the relevance of the indicators present in an instrument of evaluation of Primary Health Care. Sixty experts evaluated 23 indicators of the dimensions ‘user as the center of the process’, ‘organization of processes focused on users’, ‘link, competencies, skills and professional attitudes’ and ‘organizational ambi...

Deconstructing the emotional relationship between patient and therapist is certainly a formidable task. Using research results from experimental social psychology, psychophysiology, and developmental psychology, this essay focuses on the automatic processes of mimicry, emotional synchrony, and physiological synchrony— all preludes to empathy. For the therapist to achieve an empathic posture, ho...

Delightful urban ambience is an important indicator of liveability; in turn liveability is a significant aspect of sustainability. But can this quality be quantified? To the extent that ambience reflects the (measurable) configuration of urban form; it is proposed that the comparative expression of certain ambient qualities can be evaluated between areas of differing morphology. Ambience may be...

The ACE project aims at developing an adaptive ambience creation platform which can improve the well-being of elderly people in care centers. The system will contain a sensing platform, which measures and analyses the context in a room and an ambience creation platform, which creates ambiences with proven effectiveness for improving the mood of the elderly. It has been shown in literature that ...

The performance of standard Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems using the Normal Microphone (NM) degrades even if the ambience is slightly noisy. In contrast to the NM speech, the Throat Microphone (TM) speech is unaffected by such an ambience. This paper explores the feasibility of using the TM speech for developing robust ASR systems in these conditions. This ASR system may also be use...