BACKGROUND The aging process involves a decline in immune functioning that renders elderly people more vulnerable to disease. In residential programs for the aged, it is vital to diminish their risk of disease, promote their independence, and augment their psychological well-being and quality of life. METHODS We performed a randomized controlled study, evaluating the ability of a relaxation t...

BACKGROUND Only a few types of cancer are recognised as being directly related to immune deficiency in people with HIV/AIDS. Large population-based studies in transplant recipients have shown that a wider range of cancers could be associated with immune deficiency. Our aim was to compare cancer incidence in population-based cohort studies of people with HIV/AIDS and people immunosuppressed afte...

BACKGROUND Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a common complication during and after a hospital admission. Although it is mainly considered a complication of surgery, it often occurs in people who have not undergone surgery, with recent evidence suggesting that immune-mediated diseases may play a role in VTE risk. We, therefore, decided to study the risk of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary...

tions of alcohol abuse is its effect on the immune system. Excess alcohol consumption may lead to immune deficiency, causing increased susceptibility to certain diseases. Life-threatening complications of alcoholism such as liver disease and liver failure may have a component of autoimmunity, in which the immune system turns on the body’s own tissues. This section describes current research tha...

Up to the moment, Coronavirus still kills many people, especially those over fifty years old. Also, this virus continues devastate entire world economy. More than that, it affected everything even children’s psyche was not immune from it. Here in study that we did, provide tips for people on how deal with their children avoid psychological impact of illness them.

An effective low-cost solution to determine characteristic features of objects from a simple infrared diode array, working on the reflection light scanner principle and using the fusion of amplitude information to detect and characterize objects, has been designed. Essentially, two arrays of several emitter-receiver pairs are mounted on opposite sides of the area of observation (e.g. a conveyer...

A simple yet remarkably powerful tool of selfish and malicious participants in a distributed system is “equivocation”: making conflicting statements to others. We present TrInc, a small, trusted component that combats equivocation in large, distributed systems. Consisting fundamentally of only a non-decreasing counter and a key, TrInc provides a new primitive: unique, once-in-alifetime attestat...

Individual conversion and personal salvation are stressed in some church circles, however, in the history of the Church there has always been a strong interest in the well-being and “conversion” of the community. Consider, for example, Paul’s approach to the Corinthians, and the analogy of the community as one “body” in chapter 12 of his letter to the Corinthians. We see this viewpoint emerging...

In this paper, we aim to monitor the flow of people in large public infrastructures. We propose an unsupervised methodology to cluster people flow patterns into the most typical and meaningful configurations. By processing 3D images from a network of depth cameras, we built a descriptor for the flow pattern. We define a data-irregularity measure that assesses how well each descriptor fits a dat...

This paper deals with the detection of arbitrary static objects in traffic scenes from monocular video using structure from motion. A camera in a moving vehicle observes the road course ahead. The camera translation in depth is known. Many structure from motion algorithms were proposed for detecting moving or nearby objects. However, detecting stationary distant obstacles in the focus of expans...