Self-monitoring, by which individuals record and appraise ongoing information about the status of their body in order to improve their health, has been a key element in the personal management of conditions such as diabetes, but it is now also increasingly used in relation to health-associated behaviours. The introduction of self-monitoring as an intervention to change behaviour is intended to ...

introduction: active personal dosimeters (apds) are well accepted as useful and reliable instruments for individual dosimetry measurements. apds have many advantages compared with passive dosimeters for individual external radiation dose assessments. in routine monitoring, occupational exposure is carried out for verification and demonstration of compliance with the regulatory dose limits. so, ...

Monitoring of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is a fundamental task to track the network behavior and measure its performance in real-world deployments. Commercially-available products for monitoring and testing IEEE 802.15.4-compliant Low Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (LoWPANs) are mainly too expensive, and typically require special sniffing hardware. In this Demo paper, we present Z-M...

The personal web vision promises to give users a highly personalized experience on the web. This paper proposes and describes a Personal Web Workflow Methodology, designed to elicit, operationalize and execute a personal web user’s goals. Our approach relies heavily on our prior research in goal modeling and operationalization, model matching and merging, and web service monitoring and recovery...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this paper was to review the effectiveness of interventions to reduce pesticide overexposure and poisonings in worker populations. METHODS We used the Cochrane Collaboration search strategy to search the following databases for articles that tested the effectiveness of interventions in reducing human pesticide exposure or poisonings: MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Occupationa...

New technologies Philips is continuing to expand its solutions in population health management. By o ̧ering enterprise telehealth, home monitoring, personal emergency response systems, and personal health services that address multiple groups within a population, from intensive ambulatory care for high-risk patients, to prevention and personal health programs for the general population. Through ...

In this exploratory study, we examined undergraduates’ (N 1⁄4 298) knowledge of their university’s social media policies, understanding of free speech and privacy protections, opinions about university monitoring and discipline for personal social media posts, and perceptions of fairness regarding recent cases of student discipline for personal social media use. The results of our study indicat...

Advances in technology are turning our mobile phones or PDAs into powerful computing devices capable of executing data mining algorithms. This paper discusses how the Self Organizing Map (SOM) algorithm can be adapted to a cooperating network of these devices. This approach opens the door to several new applications of data mining, including active data-collecting devices and ondemand knowledge...

Quantitative analysis of EEG frequencies provides useful information about the arousal level of the awake human (Matousek and Petersén, 1983; Okawa et al., 1984). It has been reported that the arousal level can be evaluated by measuring characteristics of power spectral densities in the range of alpha waves (Hyoki et al., 1993; Michimori et al., 1994; Ogilvie et al., 1991; Torsvall and Åkersted...

This is a literature review on the efficacy and toxicity of low dose weekly methotrexate treatment in rheumatoid arthritis. Personal recommendations on dosing and monitoring (of) the drug are given.