Drawing on Foucault’s (1977) analysis of ‘political anatomy’, Armstrong (1983; 1995) argues that the 20th Century marked a shift in the clinical gaze, from a focus on the interior of the body, to a focus that both explored the body in relation to its exterior and to the collective body. Armstrong (1995) describes this new mechanism of power as ‘surveillance medicine’. In what others have descri...

Video surveillance is widely deployed for many kinds of monitoring applications in healthcare and assisted living systems. Security and privacy are two promising factors that align the quality and validity of video surveillance systems with the caliber of patient monitoring applications. In this paper, we propose a symmetric key-based security framework for the reactive video surveillance of pa...

Self-objectification is related to maladaptive mental health variables, but little is known about what could ameliorate these associations. Self-compassion, a construct associated with mindfulness, involves taking a non-judgmental attitude toward the self. In this study, 306 college-aged women were recruited; those who were highest (n=106) and lowest (n=104) in self-compassion were retained for...

conclusions addressing and removing explainable patterns of syndromic data on meningitis is necessary to timely and accurately detection of meningitis epidemics. it was concluded that decomposition methods had better performance compared to the model based ones. background meningitis is one of the most disturbing infectious diseases due to mortality, morbidity and its ability to cause epidemic....

lobesia botrana (denis & schiffermüller) (lepidoptera: tortricidae), is an important vineyard-pest in the european and mediterranean areas and it was recently described in argentina and chile. since knowledge on the l. botrana phenology on argentina is still limited, the objective of this study was to develop a phenological model to predict voltinism of l. botrana in argentina through a reg...

In Western society, the feminine body has been positioned as an object to be looked at and sexually gazed upon; thus, females often learn to view themselves as objects to be observed (i.e., objectified body consciousness (OBC)). This study examined the relation between OBC and eating disorder recovery by comparing its components across non-eating disorder controls, fully recovered, partially re...

PURPOSE During active surveillance for localized prostate cancer, the timing of the first surveillance biopsy varies. We analyzed the Canary PASS (Prostate Cancer Active Surveillance Study) to determine biopsy timing influence on rates of prostate cancer adverse reclassification at the first active surveillance biopsy. MATERIALS AND METHODS Of 1,085 participants in PASS, 421 had fewer than 34...

the results showed success of the health system to detect suspected cases of the measles and appropriate sampling from suspected cases that were more than expected. in addition, per every one million population of iran in 2014, 1.27 of cases of measles were reported; that a numbers of confirmed cases observed in afghan refugees. low levels of immunization coverage in eastern neighboring countri...

cancer has emerged as a major public health concern owing to its magnitude, worldwide distribution, impact on the quality of life, financial burden on the patient / family / society / health care delivery system, and associated mortality. findings of a study have shown that approximately 19% of all types of cancers have been attributed to the environmental factor. almost 900 potential carcinoge...