introduction: laryngeal dysfunction may be divided into three categories; organic, neurologic and functional disorders. dysphonia and hoarseness are the most common symptoms and, in some cases, the only signs of laryngeal dysfunction. in differential diagnosis of any type of chronic hoarseness, a neoplastic process must be considered and, thus continuous light video laryngoscopy can provide imp...

OBJECTIVES There is a lack of information describing levels of patient satisfaction among patients seeking sexually transmitted diseases (STD) care in a public clinic setting. We sought to identify patient, provider, and clinic characteristics associated with patient satisfaction within public STD clinics. METHODS A cross sectional survey with random sampling was conducted among patients atte...

AIM The aim of this study was to describe the development and validation of the UK Alcohol Treatment Trial Process Rating Scale (UKATT PRS), a manual based method for monitoring and rating the delivery of psychosocial treatments of alcohol dependence and misuse. METHODS Following adaptation and further development of a validated rating scale, the ability of the UKATT PRS to rate the delivery ...

Background: Pain is one of the side effects of episiotomy. The virtual reality (VR) is a non-pharmacological method for pain relief. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of using video glasses on pain reduction in primiparity women during episiotomy repair.Methods: This clinical trial was conducted on 30 primiparous parturient women having labor at Omolbanin Hospital (Mashhad, ...

Remote monitoring of Parkinson's Disease (PD) patients with inertia sensors is a relevant method for a better assessment of symptoms. We present a new approach for symptom quantification based on motion data: the automatic Unified Parkinson Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) classification in combination with an animated 3D avatar giving the neurologist the impression of having the patient live in fr...

With the continuous increase of network capacities, video transmissions in medicine are becoming an effective tool for second opinion diagnosis, archiving and teaching environments. This study investigates video compression delay times and transmission impairments for different compression formats and describes the resulting picture qualities. For the evaluation endoscopic video sequences were ...

Traditional assessments of public speaking skills rely on human scoring. We report a n initial study on the development of an automated scoring model for public speaking performances using multimodal technologies. Task design, rubric development, and human rating were conducted according to standards in educational assessment. An initial corpus of 17 speakers with four speaking tasks was collec...

This study investigated the effect of display type (plasma TV and CRT TV) and game type (boxing game and tennis game) on visual fatigue and mental workload for both genders during one hour Wii game playing. The use of plasma display to play video games improved significantly CFF threshold (p<0.001). But it also caused greater subjective eye fatigue rating (p<0.01). The change in CFF threshold f...

Tujuan penelitian ini yaitu sebagai solusi dalam penggunaan media video pada masa pandemi agar peserta didik dapat melakukan aktifitas fisik khususnya sepakbola. Metode yang digunakan adalah deskriptif kuantitatif. Validitas isi butir instrument diperoleh dengan memberikan angket kepada guru Pendidikan Jasmani dan Keolahragaan (PJOK) mengajar level SD hingga SMA. Jumlah PJOK mengisi sebanyak 58...