Recognizing Diabetes

Diabetes medications and heart failure: recognizing the risk.

T he diabetes pandemic is currently among the most challenging noncommunicable disease threats to public health. It is estimated that 382 million people worldwide have diabetes mellitus, and the majority will likely die of cardio-vascular disease. Diabetes mellitus is an independent risk factor for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and heart failure, with a 5-fold increased risk of heart f...

Recognizing and Appropriately Treating Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults

Recognizing the Psychosocial Aspects of Type 1 Diabetes in Adolescents

OBJECTIVE Considering the ever increasing population of diabetic adolescents and the association of the disease with psychosocial problems throughout its course, depression and/or anxiety and social support from parents are issues of special concern in these patients. The study aimed to identify the depression and anxiety state of diabetic adolescents and its impact on the management of diabete...

Recognizing Humor Without Recognizing Meaning

We present a machine learning approach for classifying sentences as one-liner jokes or normal sentences. We use no deep analysis of the meaning to try to see if it is humorous, instead we rely on a combination of simple features to see if these are enough to detect humor. Features such as word overlap with other jokes, presence of words common in jokes, ambiguity and word overlap with common id...

Recognizing Activities

The recognition of repetitive movements character istic of walking people galloping horses or ying birds is a routine function of the human visual system It has been demonstrated that humans can recognize such activity solely on the basis of motion information We demonstrate a general computational method for recog nizing such movements in real image sequences using what is essentially template...