BACKGROUND Atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis (ARAS) can lead to end-stage renal failure (ESRF). We determined the prevalence of ARAS in patients 45 years of age or older starting renal replacement therapy. METHODS Forty-nine of 80 consecutive patients (37 males, 12 females) starting renal replacement therapy in our centre gave informed consent and underwent spiral computed tomographic ang...

Due to the rapid advances in wireless communication and information technologies it is now possible to embed various levels of smartness in the home. These smart homes are ones that can interact intelligently with their inhibitors to provide comfort and safe living. This interaction may range from simple control of ambient temperature to context-aware and mobile agent based services. An example...

Smart Spaces refer to application scenarios where people are immersed in time and space in an augmented environment, exploiting ubiquitous computing technologies, space and time awareness, and pervasive intelligence. This paper focuses on Home Manager, an agent-based platform for the implementation of Smart Spaces in Smart Home contexts, rooted in the Butlers for Smart Spaces framework – the sp...

Consciousness is mainly controlled by activation of the ascending reticular activating system (ARAS). Diffusion tensor tractography (DTT), which is reconstructed from diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) data, allows reconstruction and evaluation of the ARAS in the live human brain (Yeo et al., 2013; Jang et al., 2014; Jang and Kwon, 2015). Injury of the ARAS in various stroke pathologies including s...

The need to have a secure lifestyle at home is in demand more than ever. Today’s home is more than just four walls and a roof. Technology at home is on the rise and the place for smart home solutions is growing. One of the major concerns for smart home systems is the capability of adapting to the user. Personalizing the behavior of the home may provide improved comfort, control, and safety. One...

The nowadays smart homes try to move from conventional remote-controlled houses to intelligent environments. The focus has been made in blending high-tech computing into the home environment and in substituting the interaction with a box on a table by different friendly & intelligent HMI devices. Nevertheless, the introduction of real robots in home environment isn’t treated yet. How will be th...

This paper describes the development of an embedded smart home management scheme over the Ethernet network. The platform of the smart home management system is built using bespoke embedded system design. An embedded control module developed by exploiting the Web Services mechanism, consist of 15 monitoring channels based on XML SOAP standards. Each channel is integrated to dedicated smart home ...

Over the last decades the Smart Home development is a continuously evolving field that faces exceptional challenges. However, the recent advances in information and communications technologies have led the Smart Home development in a good level of maturity. A Smart Home is a living environment that incorporates the appropriate technology, called Smart Home technology, to meet the resident goals...

for making life more comfortable, safer and more intelligent, a system for remote monitoring of smart home is proposed based on ARM and ZigBee. This system not only can centralize and monitor family affairs by gathering computer technology, embedded technology, sensor technology, and network communication technology, but also can meet the pursuit of high quality life in the information age by c...