Background: Foot ulcer is the most common complication that leads to amputation in diabetic patients. Purpose: To study the effect of intermittent pneumatic compression therapy (IPCT) in enhancing healing of chronic diabetic foot ulcer. Methods: Thirty-eight patients (13 men & 25 women) with type II diabetes and foot ulcer grade ІІ according to Wagner classification were recruited to participat...

Passive radio-frequency identification (RFID) was recently used to monitor landslide displacement at a high spatio-temporal resolution but only measured 1D displacement. This study demonstrates the tracking of 2D displacements, using an array antennas connected RFID interrogator. Ten tags were deployed on for 12 months and relative localization performed phase-of-arrival approach. A period acti...

For a growing number of utilities partial discharge (PD) based on-line condition monitoring systems are being used for Medium Voltage cables. Signal processing, including data denoising and feature extraction, is fundamental to obtaining useful data from the noisy raw signals. Because raw data in an on-line monitoring system emerges on a continuous basis, the ability to turn raw data into usefu...

home uterine activity monitoring (huam) has demonstrated to be of great value for preventing preterm labor in recent years. in this research, a low cost monitoring device for non-invasive monitoring of the uterine activity in pregnant women is presented. the new device has been designed based on an inductive colpitz oscillator and vertical displacement of a ferrite core in a coil. the resulting...

Interim monitoring is routinely conducted in phase II clinical trials to terminate the trial early if the experimental treatment is futile. Interim monitoring requires that patients' responses be ascertained shortly after the initiation of treatment so that the outcomes are known by the time the interim decision must be made. However, in some cases, response outcomes require a long time to be a...

Epidemiological monitoring is implemented to foresee the consequences of events considered as risk factor of disease spreading and to suggest action plans for controlling its evolution. Thus, epidemiological monitoring system modeling mainly focuses on representing two encapsulated processes: the monitoring process having the epidemiological phenomenon spreading as subject of study. In this pap...