OBJECTIVE To examine whether low managerial quality predicts risk of depressive disorders. METHODS Using multilevel mixed-effects logistic regression analyses we examined the prospective association of individual-level and workplace-mean managerial quality with onset of depressive disorders among 5244 eldercare workers from 274 workplaces during 20 months follow-up. RESULTS Low managerial q...

AIM To determine if there are correlations between joint and fascial chronic graft-vs-host disease (cGVHD) with clinical findings, laboratory parameters, and measures of functional capacity. METHODS 29 patients were diagnosed with cGVHD based on National Institutes of Health (NIH) Consensus Criteria at the University Hospital Centre Zagreb from October 2013 to October 2015. Physical examinati...

BACKGROUND The purpose was to explore possible risk factors of facet joint violation induced by adjacent superior vertebral pedicle screw during the minimally invasive surgery transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (MIS-TLIF). METHODS A total of 69 patients with lumbar degenerative disease, who underwent MIS-TLIF were retrospectively reviewed. Postoperative computed tomography images were use...

In human face-based biometrics, gender classification and age estimation are two important research topics. Although a variety of approaches have been proposed to handle them, just a few of them are solved jointly, even so, these joint methods do not specifically concern the semantic difference between human gender and age, which is intuitively helpful for joint learning, consequently leaving u...

Background: The primary aim of this study was to use a joint analysis approach in order to examine the association between longitudinal depressive symptoms and survival in Mexican Americans. Methods: The separate Cox regression and joint modeling were applied to data from the Hispanic Established Population for Epidemiological Study of the Elderly (HEPESE). Depressive symptoms were measured by ...

Temperature monitoring over heat source components in engineering systems, such as the energy system, electronic equipments, becomes essential to guarantee working performance of these components. However, prior methods, which mainly use interpolate estimation reconstruct overall temperature field from limited points, require large amounts tensors for an accurate estimation. This may affect ava...

Powered Assistive Devices (PADs) have been proposed to enable repetitive, user-oriented gait rehabilitation. They may include torque controllers that typically require reference joint trajectories determine the most suitable level of assistance. However, a robust approach able automatically estimate trajectories, namely ankle torque, while considering effects varying walking speed, body mass, a...