The patient was a 47-year-old man who worked as a sales representative. He presented with a history of falling down stairs two years previously, at which time he sustained trauma to the right shoulder. Since then, he had experienced pain and functional impairment, which he described as being unable to perform intimate hygiene or grab a wallet from his back trouser pocket and difficulty in using...

It hits you, but you feel no pain, instead, pleasure. This is the visceral experience of audition, to be immersed in an auditory volume, swimming in a sea of sound, between cliffs of speakers towering almost to the sky, sound stacked up upon sound tweeters on top of horns, on top of mid, on top of bass, on top of walk-in sub bass bins (Frontispiece). There is no escape, not even thinking about ...

A50-year-old man suddenly collapsed while standing in the waiting area of a local hospital. A physician walking by promptly determined, by the absence of carotid pulses, that cardiac activity had ceased. He then quickly removed a Swiss Army knife that he kept in his trouser pocket, made several chest wall precordial incisions to expose the heart, which he found to be in standstill, and initiate...

The position of on-body motion sensors plays an important role in human activity recognition. Most often, mobile phone sensors at the trouser pocket or an equivalent position are used for this purpose. However, this position is not suitable for recognizing activities that involve hand gestures, such as smoking, eating, drinking coffee and giving a talk. To recognize such activities, wrist-worn ...

Abstract A blend of poly(butylene adipate terephthalate) (PBAT) and polylactide (PLA) is a combination biodegradable materials. This study aims to prepare compatibilized PBAT/PLA in cost-effective timesaving way process the material into blown films by fine-tuning processing parameters. First, catalyst masterbatch prepared transesterification PBAT PLA presence tetrabutyl titanate (TBT) as catal...

Passive monitoring in daily life may provide valuable insights into a person's health throughout the day. Wearable sensor devices play key role enabling such non-obtrusive fashion. However, data collected reflect multiple and behavior-related factors together. This creates need for structured principled analysis to produce reliable interpretable predictions that can be used support clinical dia...

BACKGROUND During severe sepsis, the existence of a pathologic oxygen supply dependency remains controversial. STUDY OBJECTIVE To evaluate the relationship between oxygen delivery (DO2) and oxygen consumption (VO2) during severe sepsis and to compare, in this respect, survivors and nonsurvivors and patients with normal or increased concentration of plasma lactate. STUDY DESIGN Cohort analyt...

Proton exchange membrane fuel cells typically consist of stacks of membrane electrode assemblies sandwiched between bipolar plates, effectively combining the individual cells in series to achieve the desired voltage levels. Elastomeric gaskets are commonly used between each cell to insure that the reactant gases are isolated; any failure of a fuel cell gasket can cause the reactants to mix, whi...

A user of a smartphone may feel convenient, happy, safe, etc., if his/her smartphone works smartly based on his/her context or the context of the device. In this article, we deal with the position of a smartphone on the body and carrying items like bags as the context of a device. The storing position of a smartphone impacts the performance of the notification to a user, as well as the measurem...