INTRODUCTION This article is part of the Focus Theme of Methods of Information in Medicine on "Methodologies, Models and Algorithms for Patients Rehabilitation". BACKGROUND ICT is an emerging alternative to paper-and-pencil tests for the assessment of cognitive functions, allowing for the monitoring of participants' behavior while they perform simulations of instrumental activities of daily l...

Aerial survey, also referred to as aerial sketchmapping, is the technique of observing symptoms of forest damage from an aircraft and transferring the information manually onto a base map. Recent high levels of bark beetle mortality across the western United States have generated greater demands for, and more disparate uses of, aerial survey data. While aerial survey data are typically consider...

The treatment of chronic pain could benefit from additional non-opioid interventions. Virtual reality (VR) has been shown to be effective in decreasing pain for procedural or acute pain but to date there have been few studies on its use in chronic pain. The present study was an investigation of the impact of a virtual reality application for chronic pain. Thirty (30) participants with various c...

We present the X-ray pipeline developed for the purpose of the cluster search in the XMM-LSS survey. It is based on a two-stage procedure via a dedicated handling of the Poisson nature of the signal: (1) source detection on multi-resolution wavelet filtered images; (2) source analysis by means of a maximum likelihood fit to the photon images. The source detection efficiency and characterisation...

We present preliminary results from the Southern Galactic Plane Survey (SGPS) Test Region and Parkes data. As part of the pilot project for the Southern Galactic Plane Survey, observations of a Test Region (325. 5 ≤ l ≤ 333. 5; −0. 5 ≤ b ≤ 3. 5) were completed in December 1998. Single dish observations of the full survey region (253 ≤ l ≤ 358; |b| ≤ 1) with the Parkes Radio Telescope were compl...

This study assesses the measurement properties of Ryff's scale of Psychological Well-Being (PWB) -a widely-used scale designed to measure six dimensions of PWB. Analyses of self-administered PWB data from three major surveys – Midlife in the United States (MIDUS), National Survey of Families and Households II (NSFH II), and the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) yielded very high overlap among ...

OBJECTIVES This report presents both age-adjusted and unadjusted health statistics from the 2012 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) for the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States. Estimates are disaggregated by sex, age, race, Hispanic origin, education, family income, poverty status, health insurance coverage (where appropriate), place of residence, and region of re...

We present the power spectrum P (k), over scales = 2 =k = 5 400 h 1 Mpc, for a magnitude-limited sample of 19276 Las Campanas Redshift Survey (LCRS) galaxies, with average redshift z 0:1. The LCRS P (k) may be approximated as / k 1:8 for small scales = 5 30 h 1 Mpc, changing to / k 1 1 for large scales 200 400 h 1 Mpc. The overall amplitude corresponds to 8 = 1 in redshift space. We also compar...

BACKGROUND Virtual reality (VR) therapy has been successfully used as an adjunct therapy for the management of acute pain in adults and children, and evidence of potential efficacy in other health applications is growing. However, minimal research exists on the value of VR as an intervention for chronic pain. OBJECTIVE This case series examined the value of VR to be used as an adjunctive ther...