BACKGROUND For the pending National Claims Database in Japan, researchers will not have access to death information in the enrollment files. We developed and evaluated a claims-based definition of death. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We used healthcare claims and enrollment data between January 2005 and August 2009 for 195,193 beneficiaries aged 20 to 74 in 3 private health insurance unions....

conclusions oral health behavior-related factors can influence patients’ periodontal status and oral hygiene levels. results in total, 50.8% of participants had cpi 2, and the average of sohi was 1.97 ± 0.7 (fair to poor). among lifestyle variables, smoking and physical activity each had a significant relationship with periodontal health (p = 0.0001 and p = 0.001, respectively). there were also...

The purpose of this paper is to present a detailed investigation of the Ultraviolet and visible sensitivity of the highresolution imager (HRI) onboard the ROSAT X-ray satellite. We provide observational evidence that a recently published model (Zombeck et al. 1997) of the out-of-band quantum efficiency of the HRI overpredicts the detector response longward of approximately 4000Å. The contaminat...

OBJECTIVE The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) serves as a unifying model for rehabilitation medicine. Variables of the health status measurements, the Crohn's Disease Activity Index and the Harvey-Bradshaw Index, have not been linked with the ICF categories and compared with other predictors of rehabilitation outcomes. METHODS Crohn's Disease Activity ...

waist/hip ratio accounted for only 1·8%. Waist/hip ratio correlated poorly with attractiveness, whereas even small changes in body-mass index radically altered the attractiveness rating (see figure). Further analyses included other bodyshape dimensions, including waist/bust ratio (upper-body shape), bust/hip ratio (degree to which the body has “hourglass” shape), and the leg length/torso length...

Sensor data taken during a human-robot interaction (HRI) have high potential for usage as new, objective measures of an interaction, either replacing or supplementing survey techniques that are currently most common in HRI research. Sensor data can be taken in large quantities quickly, naturally, and discreetly. They also have the potential to reflect a user’s biosignals—information about the u...

Visual interpretation of gestures can be useful in accomplishing natural human–robot interaction (HRI). Previous HRI research focused on issues such as hand gestures, sign language, and command gesture recognition. Automatic recognition of whole-body gestures is required in order for HRI to operate naturally. This presents a challenging problem, because describing and modeling meaningful gestur...