background: the basic requirements for monitoring anesthetized patients during surgery are assessing cardiac and respiratory function. esophageal stethoscopes have been developed for this purpose, but these devices may not provide clear heart and lung sound due to existence of various noises in operating rooms. in addition, the stethoscope is not applicable for continues monitoring, and it is u...

Mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) as an analytical tool for bio-molecular and bio-medical research targets, accurate compound localization and identification. In terms of dedicated instrumentation, this translates into the demand for more detail in the image dimension (spatial resolution) and in the spectral dimension (mass resolution and accuracy), preferably combined in one instrument. At the s...

The activities developed by the Centre Spatial de Liège in the field of microgravity between 1994 and 2000 have been dedicated to three main domains: the flight of the Space Bio Separation – RAMSES instrument and the subsequent data exploitation and scientific return, the implementation study of a diagnosis tool for Life Science on board ISS and finally the start of the preparation phase for Cd...

OBJECTIVE Personality disorders (PDs) often remain unrecognized in older adults by doctors in general practice. Therefore, this study evaluated the diagnostic accuracy of a screening instrument, the Gerontological Personality Disorder Scale (GPS), in a Dutch general-practice population of older adults. METHOD The psychometric properties of the GPS patient (GPS-pv) and informant (GPS-iv) versi...

Fingering is a cognitive process that maps each note on a music score to a fingered position on some instrument. This paper presents a computational model for the fingering process with string instruments, based on a constraint satisfaction approach. The model is implemented in a computer program, which has been tested in an experiment in comparison with three human experts. The results have co...

Annually, more than a million persons experience traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the US and a substantial proportion of this population develop debilitating neurological disorders, such as, paralysis, cognitive deficits, and epilepsy. Despite the long-standing knowledge of the risks associated with TBI, no effective biomarkers or interventions exist. Recent evidence suggests a role for inflamma...