Introduction: Early-life antibiotic exposure is common and impacts the development of the child’s microbiome and immune system. Information on the impacts of early-life antibiotics exposure on childhood asthma is lacking. Methods: This study examined associations between early-life (0–24 months) antibiotics exposure with childhood (6–15 years) asth...
In this paper, a measure is proposed that, based on the trajectories of moving objects, computes the speed limit rate in each of the cells in which a region is segmented (the space where the objects move). The time is also segmented into intervals. In this way, the behavior of moving objects can be analyzed with regard to their speed in a cell for ...
Traditionally, the biomechanical analysis of Olympic weightlifting movements required laboratory equipment such as force platforms and transducers, but such methods are difficult to implement in practice. This study developed a field-based method using wearable technology and videos for the biomechanical assessment of weightlifters. To demonstrate ...
In recent years, many methods have been developed to calculate the trajectory of a robotic arm in the joint-space. These methods have many advantages, such as a soft motion and infinite jerk avoidance. Nevertheless, these methods present other problems that must be avoided, such as an unnatural motion while generating the trajectory and producing u...
The Optimized Multiple Inputs and Multiple Outputs Sliding Mode controller (MIMO-SMC) is intended to control the reconfigurable UAV, which can take on a variety of configurations while maintaining the efficiency of a conventional quadrotor in terms of hovering and precision handling. The Ant Colony optimization algorithm is used to calculate contro...
Published in Journal of clinical nursing
The aim of this study is to estimate differences in health-promoting behaviour levels throughout the pregnancy trimesters, to identify distinct patterns of health-promoting behaviour trajectories during pregnancy and to evaluate predictors of these trajectory group memberships. Promoting healthy lifestyle behaviours during pregnancy could decrease ...
Published in Aging & mental health
The objective was to compare mental health trajectories between family caregivers of people with dementia (PwD) who institutionalize the care recipient (nursing home caregivers [NHC]) and caregivers who continue to provide care at home (at-home caregivers [AHC]) as well as investigate effects of a telephone-based cognitive-behavioral therapy (TEL-C...
Published in Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
Background As a validated assessment tool for functional disability (activities of daily living), the Barthel index (BI) assessed initially at admission has the potential to stratify patients with high-risk acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Dynamic trajectory evaluation of functional capacity in hospitals may provide more prognostic information. We ai...
Ultra-low-mass axions are a viable dark matter candidate and may form a coherently oscillating classical field. Nuclear spins in experiments on Earth might couple to this oscillating axion dark-matter field, when propagating on Earth's trajectory through our Galaxy. This spin coupling resembles an oscillating pseudo-magnetic field which modulates t...
UHECR propagation in a turbulent intergalactic magnetic field in the small-angle scattering regime is well understood for propagation distances much larger than the field coherence scale. The diffusion theory doesn't work and unexpected effects may appear for propagation over smaller distances, from a few and up to 10-20 coherence scales. We study ...
