A small, high resolution paramagnetic susceptibility thermometer was developed using a GdCl3 paramagnetic salt. The device uses a SQUID (Superconducting Quantum Interference Device) magnetometer to determine the temperature dependent magnetization of the salt in a magnetic jield. The magnetic jield is provided by a pair of small samarium cobalt permanent magnet disks situated inside the thermom...

Adversarial attacks have been shown to construct examples that drastically reduce the performance of classification models. One recently proposed defense against adversarial attacks is to discretize the input in a method called thermometer encoding. We apply thermometer encoding to capsule networks, a recently proposed computer vision architecture that has also demonstrated state-ofthe-art resi...

Fatigue has a profound impact on health-related quality of life (HRQOL). The aim this study was to describe the clinical characteristics and HRQOL head neck cancer patients who raised issue fatigue Patient Concerns Inventory (PCI) at their review consultation. Eight consultants were randomized use PCI as part cluster-controlled trial. Patients also completed University Washington Quality Life v...

BACKGROUND Existential distress is an important factor affecting psychological well-being in cancer patients. We studied occurrence and predictors of demoralization, a syndrome of existential distress, in particular the interaction of age, gender, and curative vs. palliative treatment phase. METHODS A cross-sectional sample of N = 750 patients with different tumor sites was recruited from in-...

OBJECTIVE Beginning in 2007, all newly diagnosed cancer patients at the Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center (KF-SYSCC) were screened for psychosocial distress. Our social workers, as part of the psychosocial care team (PCT), have engaged in proactive outreach with patients identified as distressed. The goal of the present study was to assess the prevalence of psychosocial distress and the ...

BACKGROUND Family caregivers (FC) often experience higher distress levels than their relative with cancer. Many cancer centers have implemented distress screening programs, but most of them concentrate their efforts on patients, with little attention to their FC. To fill this gap, a pragmatic intervention has been designed to improve supportive care for FC of patients with lung cancer. This art...

Breast cancer that is one of the most common cancers experienced by women (adult or elderly) has a great effect on patient's psychology. The psychological problems found in breast patients are depression and anxiety. Many factors affect incidence anxiety, such as lack family support, social prolonged therapy, changes body shape, divorce, income age. There several ways to diagnose anxiety patien...

AIM Dairy cattle health monitoring program becomes vital for detecting the febrile conditions to prevent the outbreak of the animal diseases as well as ensuring the fitness of the animals that are directly affecting the health of the consumers. The aim of this study was to validate real-time rectal temperature (RT) data of radio frequency based digital (RFD) thermometer with RT data of mercury ...