This study examined the relationship between the fragile X premutation and restless legs syndrome (RLS). Demographic, medical history and survey responses related to sleep were collected from 213 participants (127 carriers and 86 age matched controls). Subjects were asked about the presence of the four formal diagnostic criteria for RLS. Individuals with the premutation were 1.9 times as likely...

—The design of digital filters is a fundamental process in the context of digital signal processing. The purpose of this paper is to study the use of lp norms (for 2 < p < ∞) as design criteria for digital filters, and to introduce a set of algorithms for the design of Finite (FIR) and Infinite (IIR) Impulse Response digital filters based on the Iterative Reweighted Least Squares (IRLS) algorit...

This work aims at reviewing, analyzing and comparing a range of state-of-the-art approaches to inertial parameter identification in the context robotics. We introduce “BIRDy (Benchmark for Identification Robot Dynamics)”, an open-source Matlab toolbox, allowing systematic formal performance assessment considered algorithms on either simulated or real serial robot manipulators. Seventeen most wi...

Abstract Background Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) is an annoying problem, has a noticeable impact on all perspective of the life. RLS attract spots to its discussion as it became challenge in societies. Also, antipsychotic (AP) and antidepressant drugs (AD) well known cause RLS, But occurrence prevalence among psychiatric patients who receive un Egypt. Aim Study To estimate rate legs Antidepress...

We present a learning approach for localization and segmentation of objects in an image in a manner that is robust to partial occlusion. Our algorithm, Segmentation and Detection using Higher-Order Potentials (SDHOP) produces a bounding box around the full extent of the object and labels pixels in its interior that belong to the object. This is different from semantic segmentation, which does n...

Abstract Introduction Discontinuation of opioid medications may be associated with emergence restless legs syndrome (RLS), which complicate withdrawal. However, this has not been systematically studied. We aimed to prospectively determine the frequency occurrence and severity RLS symptoms in patients undergoing physician supervised tapering during a 3-week interdisciplinary pain rehabilitation ...

AIM To investigate the association between restless legs syndrome (RLS) and well-defined chronic liver disease, and the possible therapeutic options. METHODS Two hundred and eleven patients with chronic liver disease, complaining of sleep disturbances, painful leg sensation and daily sleepiness, were included. Patients with persistent alcohol intake, recent worsening of clinical conditions, o...

M/EEG inverse modeling with distributed dipolar source models and penalizations with sparsity inducing norms (e.g. `1 with MCE [1], `0 with FOCUSS [2], `2-`1 [3]) offer a way to select a set of active dipoles. Indeed, sparsity inducing norms lead to solutions where most of the sources are set to zero and the remaining non zero sources form the set of estimated active dipoles. When running cogni...

BACKGROUND Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a chronic disorder with substantial impact on quality of life similar to that seen in diabetes mellitus or osteoarthritis. Little is known about the psychological characteristics of RLS patients although psychological factors may contribute to unfavourable treatment outcome. METHODS In an observational cross-sectional design, we evaluated the psychol...

This paper presents a method to recover the full-motion (3 rotations and 3 translations) of the head from an input video using a cylindrical head model. Given an initial reference template of the head image and the corresponding head pose, the head model is created and full head motion is recovered automatically. The robustness of the approach is achieved by a combination of three techniques. F...