Background: Age-related cognitive decline (ARCD) is of major societal concern in an ageing population, with the development of dietary supplements providing a promising avenue for amelioration of associated deficits. Despite initial interest in the use of phospholipids (PLs) for ARCD, in recent years there has been a hiatus in such research. Because of safety concerns regarding PLs derived from...

Electrocardiogram (ECG) is a common and powerful tool for studying heart function diagnosing several abnormal arrhythmias. In this paper, we present novel classification model that combines the discriminative convolutional sparse coding (DCSC) framework with linear support vector machine (LSVM) strategy. training phase, most existing frameworks are unsupervised in sense label information ignore...

The validity and clinical performance of the ES-H531, a newly developed ambulatory blood pressure (BP) monitoring device, were evaluated. The validity was assessed by simultaneous comparisons (total of 223 measurements) with the measurements made by two experienced observers using standard mercury column sphygmomanometers in 121 subjects. The clinical performance was evaluated through the numbe...

In this paper, algorithm estimating the blood pressure was proposed using the pulse transit time (PTT) as a more convenient method of measuring the blood pressure. After measuring ECG and pressure pulse, and photoplethysmography, the PTT was calculated from the acquired signals. Thereafter, the system to indirectly measure the systolic pressure and the diastolic pressure was composed using the ...

This paper is concerned with the construction of dialogues for speech output with large text, in a Web browser for elderly visually impaired people. Studies made in our research group, show that elderly visually impaired users experience great difficulty in getting going on the Internet when they have no previous experience in computing [6]. Age Associated Memory Impairment (AAMI) is a major pr...

This editorial will address two issues that are still a source of global controversy and confusion in present day perfusion practice. Membrane oxygenators are designed and tested to a set of stringent flow standards prior to their release from every manufacturer. But how well do we know the iatrogenic consequences of pushing these devices beyond their maximum rated limits? In addition, how well...