Alcoholism is associated with impairment of information processing attention, memory and concept formation, which hamper the patients response to psychotherapy aimed at treating alcoholism. We improved cognitive functioning in abstinent alcoholics through cognitive retraining. Eight detoxified male alcoholics, comparable on age, education, marital status, medication and years of alcohol consump...

A novel approach is presented in this paper for improving the performance of neural network classifiers in image recognition, segmentation or coding applications, based on a retraining procedure at the user level. The procedure includes a maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation technique for optimally selecting a retraining data set from the image applied to the network during real life operation...

The sequential sound therapy is a treatment for tinnitus with white noise that has some own characteristics. We describe the methodology, as well as their differences and similarities with the Tinnitus Retraining Therapy. The sequential sound therapy has been carried out to seventeen patients assisted during the year 2002. 26 generators of sound were adapted, of them, 22 had incorporated an ear...

SEQUENCES USING ADAPTABLE NEURAL NETWORKS Nikolaos Doulamis and Anastasios Doulamis National Technical University of Athens, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, 15773, Athens, Greece E-mail: [email protected] Abstract In this paper, an adaptive neural network architecture is proposed for efficient video object segmentation and tracking of stereoscopic sequences. The scheme includes...

AUTHOR Kearsley, Greg TITLE Introducing New Technology into the Workplace: Retraining Issues and Strategies. Background Paper No. 8b. SPONS AGENCY Department of Labor, Washington, DC. Commission on Workforce Quality and Labor Market Efficiency. PUB DATE Sep 89 CONTRACT 99-9-4760-75-012-04 NOTE 35p.; In "Investing in People: A Strategy to Address America's Workforce Crisis" (CE 054 080). PUB TYP...

Adjectives constitute a challenging issue for NLP applications. ¿From a syntactic viewpoint, they can be predicative or attributive. From a semantic viewpoint, their sense can vary depending on the context in which they appear. In this paper we present an overview on the lexical semantics of adjectives in Natural Language Processing, followed by the presentation of the papers included in this p...

A major component of stroke rehabilitation focuses on gait restoration. The purpose of this review is to examine the efficacy of a variety of gait retraining techniques currently in clinical use, including strength training, functional electrical stimulation, treadmill training, partial body-weight support, EMG biofeedback, and splinting of the lower extremity. Forty-eight studies evaluating si...