Among the existing measures of heart rate variability (HRV), pNN50 statistics is one most commonly reported. However, it only a single member much larger family HRV – pNNx statistics. In this research was further extended, combining with Lempel-Ziv complexity (LZ76) in controlled neonatal stress framework. Two different types stimuli on forty healthy newborns routine heel stick blood sampling, ...

Objective: To compare the efficacy of different non-pharmacological interventions (kangaroo care, cuddling, playing white noise, ambient sound) applied to newborns during heel stick procedure on newborns’ pain level, duration crying, and voice decibel. Methods: This is a prospective, randomized controlled trial including pre- post-tests four groups. The setting neonatal intensive care unit in T...

Vision-based hand pointing interactive systems always assume implicitly that users’ physical pointing accuracy is perfect. However, this may not be the case. We investigated the accuracy provided by users in three pointing strategies. Result showed that pointing inaccuracy can be as high as 239mm at 3 metres away and suggest that the line-up method provides the best accuracy

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to compare the outcome of patients presenting with heel ulcers or gangrene (HEEL group) with those having lesions in other parts of the foot (non-HEEL group). METHODS Treatment and outcomes of all HEEL and non-HEEL patients between June 2001 and October 2006 were compared. RESULTS Three hundred eight patients were treated (71 HEEL and 237 non-HEEL)...

The goal on this investigation was to develop a detachable high heel shoe construction that could enter the current high heel market. The impact of high heel shoes on women's fashion is enormous but there are associated issues of comfort and health with these shoes. This work aims to maintain the appealing aspects of a high heel shoe while adding a concealed mechanism to enable the heel to be e...