Global Positioning System (GPS) is probably the most widely used technique for localization these days. While the location information obtained from GPS is often reliable enough for applications like Tomtom and Garmin in giving driving directions on the road, there are many other applications out there (for example, augmented reality applications), which demand more accurate position informatio...

The goal of this study was to determine whether gypenosides (GPS) exert protective effects against dopaminergic neuronal cell death in a 6-hydroxydopamine (OHDA)-lesioned rat model of Parkinson’s disease (PD) with or without long-term 3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (L-DOPA) treatment. Rats were injected with 6OHDA in the substantia nigra to induce PD-like symptoms; 14 days after injection, groups o...

BACKGROUND Urinary incontinence (UI) is a very common problem, but existing guidelines on UI are not followed. To bring care in line with guidelines, we planned an intervention to involve nurse specialists on UI in primary care and assessed this in a randomised controlled trial. Alongside this intervention, we assessed consumer satisfaction among patients and general practitioners (GPs). METH...

This project is based on the ongoing data collection campaign by Nokia Research Center-Lausanne. We use location data sampled everyday by mobile phones in the campaign to estimate position of the participants. It is with emerging mobile systems that combines different sensors in a mobile phone so, we can merge different information sources to improve our estimations. Positioning is a problem en...

“I understand dark clouds, but I’m not a meteorologist . . . I understand addiction, but I’m not a rehab counsellor.” So run some of the quotes from a selection of well groomed GPs featured in a multimedia campaign by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. The campaign has been ongoing in the context of intense funding pressure and in election season, and the college is trying h...

In 2007, the Victorian influenza season exceeded normal seasonal activity thresholds. The average rate of influenza-like illness (ILI) reported by general practitioners (GPs) participating in sentinel surveillance was 9.0 cases per 1,000 consultations, peaking at 22 cases per 1,000 consultations in mid-August. The average ILI rate reported by the Melbourne Medical Locum Service (MMLS) was 11.5 ...

BACKGROUND In July, 2009, French health authorities, like those in many other countries, decided to embark on a mass vaccination campaign against the pandemic A(H1N1) influenza. Private general practitioners (GPs) were not involved in this campaign. We studied GPs' pandemic vaccine (pvaccine) uptake, quantified the relative contribution of its potential explanatory factors and studied whether t...

With the development of electric vehicles, indoor driving robots, wearable devices, etc., research on technology for recognizing one's current location continues to progress. Self-localization is an essential need autonomous and mainly requires global positioning system (GPS), thereby using technologies such as LiDAR, Wi-Fi, visible light communication (VLC). However, GPS greatly affected by it...

Abstract Large‐scale Gaussian process (GP) regression is infeasible for large training data due to cubic scaling of flops and quadratic storage involved in working with covariance matrices. Remedies recent literature focus on divide‐and‐conquer, example, partitioning into subproblems inducing functional (and thus computational) independence. Such approximations can be speedy, accurate, sometime...

BACKGROUND GPs have many patients with gastrointestinal discomfort. Among bowel-related complaints, the sign of rectal bleeding is of particular importance in patients aged 50 years and above, as it can be an early sign for serious bowel diseases such as colon carcinoma. Despite many guidelines offered to GPs for screening and early detection of colorectal carcinomas, there is very little infor...