BACKGROUND 15% of patients with severe endometriosis suffer from pain symptoms in spite of pharmacological and surgical treatments. In this retrospective study we aimed to assess the effectiveness of a combined therapy of Traditional Chinese medicine and hypnotherapy (systemic autoregulation therapy, SART) as a novel treatment for endometriosis-associated symptoms. PATIENTS AND METHODS 47 pat...

Mind-wandering refers to the occurrence of thoughts whose content is both decoupled from stimuli present in the current environment and unrelated to the task being carried out at the moment of their occurrence. The core of this phenomenon is therefore stimulus-independent and task-unrelated thoughts (SITUTs). In the present study, we designed a novel experience sampling method which permitted t...

The Sustained Attention to Response task is a classical neuropsychological test that has been used by many centres to characterize the attentional deficits in traumatic brain injury, ADHD, autism and other disorders. During the SART a random series of digits 1-9 is presented repeatedly and subjects have to respond to each digit (go trial) except the digit '3' (no-go trial). Using voxel-based le...

Nanoimprinting lithography (NIL) is investigated as a promising method to define nanostructure; however, finding a practical method to achieve large area patterning of conjugated polymer remains a challenge. We demonstrate here that a simple and cost-effective technique is proposed to fabricate the nanoimprinted P3HT nanograting by solvent-assisted room temperature NIL (SART-NIL) method with pa...

For multi-modular nuclear power plants under the scheme of multiple steam supply system (NSSS) modules driving a single turbine, NSSS are coupled tightly with each other by common giving more complex normal operation respect to single-modular plants. To limit cost plants, one operator is assigned monitor and control two or modules, whose feasibility should be verified. Combined characteristics ...

Low-dose CT imaging requires reconstruction from noisy indirect measurements which can be defined as an ill-posed linear inverse problem. In addition to conventional FBP method in imaging, recent compressed sensing based methods exploit handcrafted priors are mostly simplistic and hard determine. More recently, deep learning (DL) have become popular medical field. DL try learn a function that m...

The problem of the automatic classification of superresolution ISAR images is addressed in the paper. We describe an anechoic chamber experiment involving ten-scale-reduced aircraft models. The radar images of these targets are reconstructed using MUSIC-2D (multiple signal classification) method coupled with two additional processing steps: phase unwrapping and symmetry enhancement. A feature v...

Regularization methods are commonly used in X-ray CT image reconstruction. Different regularization methods reflect the characterization of different prior knowledge of images. In a recent work, a new regularization method called a low-dimensional manifold model (LDMM) is investigated to characterize the low-dimensional patch manifold structure of natural images, where the manifold dimensionali...

Ph. Vanderbemden,1 Z. Hong,2 T. A. Coombs,2 S. Denis,3 M. Ausloos,4 J. Schwartz,5 I. B. Rutel,5 N. Hari Babu,6 D. A. Cardwell,6 and A. M. Campbell6 1SUPRATECS and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science B28, Sart-Tilman, B-4000 Liège, Belgium 2Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA,...

In this article we present the research of SArt project at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. In SArt we have the vision that software engineering can benefit from multidisciplinary research at the intersection with art for the purpose of increasing innovation and creativity. The group participates in the development of several interactive art installations and studies the issu...