Current technologies for Home and Building Automation (HBA) require an explicit interaction with the user and allow a static set of operational scenarios, defined during system implementation. More flexible HBA solutions are needed to enable the so-called Ambient Intelligence, permitting an automatic coordination and control of appliances and subsystems located in a given environment. This pape...

A subtype of glycohaemoglobin, haemoglobin (Hb) A(1c), in specimens of whole blood was assayed on a new automated analyser that makes use of high-pressure liquid chromatography. The analyser provided precise and reproducible values. The mean of the HbA(1c) values was lower than that with an older instrument. The mean tended to increase with the age of the subjects, who were undergoing routine h...

Pose Recovery (PR) and Human Behavior Analysis (HBA) have been a main focus of interest from the beginnings of Computer Vision and Machine Learning. PR and HBA were originally addressed by the analysis of still images and image sequences. More recent strategies consisted of Motion Capture technology (MOCAP), based on the synchronization of multiple cameras in controlled environments; and the an...

— Iron 57-enriched, deoxygenated human (adult) hemoglobin (HbA), its isolated asHand /?sn-chains, and the partially iron 57-enriched, fully functional hemoglobin a2(Fe) j82(Fe) were investigated by Mossbauer spectroscopy in the temperature range 4.2 K-200 K. According to our experimental accuracy ( ± 0.006 mm s) the temperature dependent quadrupole splittings &EQ(T) of deoxygenated HbA, <XSHand...

The functional divergence of duplicated genes is thought to play an important role in the evolution of new developmental and physiological pathways, but the role of positive selection in driving this process remains controversial. The objective of this study was to test whether amino acid differences among triplicated alpha-globin paralogs of the Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus) and the deer mous...

AIMS To assess the numeracy and literacy skills of individuals with Type 1 diabetes and determine if there is a relationship with achieved glycaemic control independent of their duration of diabetes, diabetes education, demographic and socio-economic factors. METHODS One hundred and twelve patients completed the study (mean current age 43.8 ± 12.5 years, 47% male, mean duration of diabetes 22...

Haemoglobins are iron-containing proteins that transport oxygen in the blood of most vertebrates. The mitochondrion is the cellular organelle which consumes oxygen in order to synthesise ATP. Mitochondrial dysfunction is implicated in neurodegeneration and ageing. We find that α and β haemoglobin (Hba and Hbb) proteins are altered in their distribution in mitochondrial fractions from degenerati...

BACKGROUND Improved glycemic control reduces complications in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM). However, it is discussed controversially whether patients with diabetes mellitus and end-stage renal disease benefit from strict glycemic control. METHODS We followed 78 patients with DM initiating dialysis treatment of the region of Vorarlberg in a prospective cohort study applying a time-depe...

Deep Eutectic Monomers were prepared by dissolution of selected tetrabutylammonium salts serving as hydrogen bond acceptors (HBA) in methacrylic acid (MAA) acting both donor (HBD) and vinyl monomer. In this study, we systematically investigate the influence chloride, nitrate, hydrogensulphate fluoroborate anions on properties DEMs course radical photopolymerization. By Combining FTIR, 1H 13C NM...