BACKGROUND Parent ratings on questionnaires may provide valid and cost-effective tools for screening cognitive development of children at risk of developmental delay. AIMS In this study, we examined the convergent validity of combining parent-based reports of non-verbal cognitive abilities (PARCA3) and verbal abilities (CDI-III) in relation to the Bayley-III cognitive scale in 3-year-olds bor...

We consider delay differential algebraic equations (DDAEs) to model interconnected systems with time-delays. The DDAE framework does not require any elimination techniques and can directly deal with any interconnection of systems and controllers with timedelays. In this framework, we analyze the properties of the H-infinity norm of interconnected systems with time-delays. We show that the stand...

We demonstrated a method for the measurement of signed frequency offset between optical source and delay interferometer (DI) for 10 Gb/s DPSK signals based on asynchronous delay-tap sampling technique with a chromatic dispersion (CD) offset. The demodulated DPSK signals show asymmetrical property and amplitude shoulder appears on the waveforms with frequency offset and a fixed CD offset togethe...

The future of human societies depends on children being able to achieve their optimal physical and psychological development. Developmental delay is failure to acquire age-appropriate functionality. It may involve one or more streams of development. Responsive parenting has potential to promote better development. Primary health physicians are in the best arrangement to provide this assistance ...

PURPOSE To evaluate the longitudinal effects of a 6-month course of responsivity education (RE)/prelinguistic milieu teaching (PMT) for young children with developmental delay. METHOD Fifty-one children, age 24-33 months, with fewer than 10 expressive words were randomly assigned to early-treatment/no-treatment groups. All treatment was added as a supplement to services that the children rece...

This narrative review describes a rationale for robotic anesthesia. It offers a first classification of robotic anesthesia by separating it into pharmacological robots and robots for aiding or replacing manual gestures. Developments in closed loop anesthesia are outlined. First attempts to perform manual tasks using robots are described. A critical analysis of the delayed development and introd...