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Frailty is a theoretical concept used to track individual age-related declines. Persons with intellectual disabilities (ID) often present with pre-existing deficits that would be considered frailty markers in the general population. The previously developed Vienna Frailty Questionnaire for Persons with ID (VFQ-ID) was aimed at assessing frailty in this specific population. However, findings of ...

Gait has been shown to be an effective feature for person recognition and could be well suited for the problem of multi-frame person re-identification (Re-ID). However, person Re-ID poses very unique set of challenges, with changes in view angles and environments across cameras. Thus, the feature needs to be highly discriminative as well as robust to drastic variations to be effective for Re-ID...

PURPOSE To develop a simple and reliable rat model of in situ reversible obstructive jaundice with low morbidity and mortality rates. METHODS Rats were divided into 4 groups with 8 rats each: the sham-operated (SH) group only underwent laparotomy, the control internal drainage (ID-C) group underwent choledochoduodenostomy, the new internal drainage (ID-N) group and the long-term internal drai...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed at ascertaining the standardized mortality ratios (SMR) for those with an intellectual disability (ID) in Finland. MATERIALS AND METHODS We used the statistical database of the national insurance institution of Finland and Statistics Finland's mean population figures. We determined the number of individuals who received benefits (disability allowance, disability pe...

OBJECTIVES This research investigated the relationship between a child's reported intellectual disability (ID) level and caregivers' reports of the child's health status to predict Medicaid Personal Care Services (PCS) hours authorized for that child. We also investigated how activity limitations in the home varied with the level of ID. DESIGN The sample included 1,108 community-residing chil...

We propose a novel personal identification method, named Thermal-ID, which utilizes human body temperature as a source of identifying information. Thermal-ID is expressed by the temperature difference generated by partially covering the surface of the body with thermal barrier material (e.g., cutout urethane foam-coated aluminum foil). The aim is to positively identify a subject with minimal di...

We propose a novel personal identification method, named Thermal-ID, which utilizes human body temperature as a source of identifying information. Thermal-ID is expressed by the temperature difference generated by partially covering the surface of the body with thermal barrier material (e.g., cutout urethane foam-coated aluminum foil). The aim is to positively identify a subject with minimal di...

BACKGROUND Social desirability has been construed as either inaccurately attributing positive characteristics to oneself (self-deception), or inaccurately denying that one possesses undesirable characteristics to others (other-deception or impression management). These conceptualisations of social desirability have not been considered in relation to people with intellectual disabilities (IDs), ...