Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: SMDM, school midday meal; HAZ, height for age z scores; WAZ, weight for age z scores; BMI, body mass index; BAZ, body mass index for age z scores; WHO, world health organization; RBC, red blood cells; MCV, mean corpuscular volume; WBC, white blood cell; MHC, mean haemoglobin concentration; MCHC, mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentrati...

This paper presents an innovative system for tablets aiming at facilitating and supporting speech therapists and teachers towards the diagnosis and treatment of vocalization problems with particular interest in consonantal phonemes. As such, cloud technologies provide the appropriate place to host a platform supporting the system with the associated features due to the wider development and dis...

In this paper, a new approach to identification of handwritten symbols in arbitrary complex environments is presented. 20 different pictograms drawn in different backgrounds can be identified with a recognition accuracy of 90%. In order to perform this challenging task, we use pattern spotting techniques based on pseudo 2-D Hidden Markov Models (P2DHMMs). Practical applications of our approach ...

Objectives: A descriptive study of exploratory character with the objective to determine the representation of a healthy tooth and an unhealthy tooth, associated with the concept of dental decay. Methods: Children of both genders (880), distributed in six age groups of low socio-economic level, some already having prior contact with the dentist and others not. Three instruments were used: a soc...

A cognitive brain-machine interface (BMI), "neurocommunicator" has been developed by the author's research group in AIST in order to support communication of patients with severer motor deficits. The system can identify candidate messages (pictograms) in real time from electroencephalography (EEG) data, combining three core technologies; 1) a portable/wireless EEG recorder; 2) a high-speed and ...

Considering the importance of Internet-based communications in our society, the lack of Instant Messaging (IM) services adapted to individuals with cognitive disabilities who have difficulties using written language creates a situation of exclusion that has a negative impact on their daily lives. To alleviate this situation we present Messenger Visual, an IM service that uses pictograms as the ...

During employment of icons in order to represent system functions, specific user requirements from elderly people have not been scientifically gathered and thus will merely be considered during the process of system design. The survey, with explicit consideration of technology acceptance and experience of 120 elderly probands, looked into the comprehension of four different classes of non-anima...

OBJECTIVES To establish whether the provision of numerical data using pictograms and framed as event rates affects subjects' attitudes to colorectal cancer (CRC) screening. DESIGN Randomized questionnaire and telephone study comparing a control group given standard NHS CRC information leaflets with an intervention group given the same leaflet but enhanced with additional numerical and pictori...