Within- and cross-modal distance information disambiguate visual size-change perception. by Peter W Battaglia, Massimiliano Di Luca, Marc O Ernst, Paul R Schrater, Tonja Machulla, Daniel Kersten

“…Previous studies have reported humans integrate multiple unambiguous sensations to perceive single, continuous object properties, like size or position. Here we test whether humans use visual and haptic information, individually and jointly, to disambiguate size from distance. …”
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Detecting motor symptom fluctuations in Parkinson’s disease with generative adversarial networks by Vishwajith Ramesh, Erhan Bilal

“…Lately, there has been an effort in the field to develop continuous, objective measures of motor symptoms based on wearable sensors and other remote monitoring devices. …”
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Application of Supervised Principal Motion Analysis to Evaluate Subjectively Easy Sit-to-Stand Motion of Healthy People by Chongyang Qiu, Shogo Okamoto, Yasuhiro Akiyama, Yoji Yamada

“…In contrast to the existing PMA methods, which are unsupervised, we applied partial least-squares regression to perform PMA such that the scores for the principal motions were correlated with a continuous objective variable. To validate the practicality of this approach, we investigated the subjectively easy sit-to-stand movement of healthy people. …”
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Possibilities of using essential oils in the combination therapy of acute respiratory diseases in children by E. P. Karpova, E. E. Vagina

“…In spite of a huge range of medications available to treat and prevent acute respiratory diseases, investigations, the objective of which is to enhance therapeutic efficiency in children with acute respiratory diseases, are being continued. Objective: to enhance the clinical efficiency of treatment using the warming gel “Dyshi” in children with acute rhinosinusitis. …”
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The effect of a knee brace in dynamic motion-An instrumented gait analysis. by Hannah Lena Siebers, Jörg Eschweiler, Jan Pinz, Markus Tingart, Björn Rath

“…<h4>Methods</h4>17 healthy participants took part and were analyzed with an inertial sensor system (MyoMotion) giving continuous, objective information on the anatomical angles. …”
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The Limiting Case of Amodal Completion: The Phenomenal Salience and the Role of Contrast Polarity by Baingio Pinna, Livio Conti

“…In this work, we demonstrated unique and relevant visual properties imparted by contrast polarity in perceptual organization and in eliciting amodal completion, which is the vivid completion of a single continuous object of the visible parts of an occluded shape despite portions of its boundary contours not actually being seen. …”
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Extending the Depth of Field beyond Geometrical Imaging Limitations Using Phase Noise as a Focus Measure in Multiwavelength Digital Holography by Tobias Seyler, Markus Fratz, Tobias Beckmann, Annelie Schiller, Alexander Bertz, Daniel Carl

“…Besides that, unwrapping algorithms can be used to overcome phase ambiguities&mdash;but these require continuous objects. With the unique feature of numerical refocusing, digital holography allows the numerical generation of an all-in-focus unambiguous image. …”
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Impact of imatinib interruption and duration of prior hydroxyurea on the treatment outcome in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia: Single institution experience by Wael Abdelgawad Edesa, Raafat Ragaey Abdel-malek

“…Background: Optimal response requires that patients should be maintained on the drug continuously. Objectives: To evaluate the influence of imatinib interruption and prior hydroxyurea use on the outcome of patients with chronic myeloid leukemia. …”
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Re-reading the artworks of Saqakhaneh painters from Shklovsky’s defamiliarization perspective (selected artworks of Oveysi, Qandriz and Tabrizi) by Atefeh Garoossi, Asghar Kafshchian Moghadam

“…According to the mentioned points, the question is to what extent is Shklovsky’s theory of familiarization capable of being illustrated and expressed in the works of Saqakhaneh painters, and how did the influence of the artists of this movement on Iranian painting continue? Objective: The present study aims to examine the thinking and ideas of Shklovsky and its adaptation to the approach of Saqakhaneh artists. …”
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The Principles and Methods for Assessing the Competitiveness of Enterprises by Shumilo Olha S., Rudas Dmytro S., Sukulsky Vsevolod M.

“…The mandatory principles of competitiveness assessment include: purposefulness, complexity, systemacity, continuity, objectivity. Special principles of competitiveness assessment are the following: dynamism, comparability, adaptability, operation efficiency, information support. …”
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PENGARUH EKSTRAK ETANOL KULIT BUAH MANGGIS (Garcinia mangostana L.) TERHADAP KADAR ENZIM ALT DAN AST MENCIT (Mus musculus) SETELAH PEMBERIAN KARBON TETRAKLORIDA by , PUTRA NUR HIDAYAT, , dr. Umi S. Intansari, M.Kes., Sp.PK (K)

“…Studies about hepatoprotective properties of mangosteen pericarp still continued. Objective: To know the effects of ethanol extract of mangosteen pericarp (EEMP) dose variation intake towards level of alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) enzyme after CCl4 administration. …”

Continuous adaptive gaits manipulation for three-fingered robotic hands via bioinspired fingertip contact events by Xiaolong Ma, Jianhua Zhang, Binrui Wang, Jincheng Huang, Guanjun Bao

“…We identify four basic motion primitives of finger gaits and create a heuristic finger gait that enables the continuous object rotation of a round cup. Our experimental results verify the effectiveness of the proposed method. …”
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SA‐FlowNet: Event‐based self‐attention optical flow estimation with spiking‐analogue neural networks by Fan Yang, Li Su, Jinxiu Zhao, Xuena Chen, Xiangyu Wang, Na Jiang, Quan Hu

“…Abstract Inspired by biological vision mechanism, event‐based cameras have been developed to capture continuous object motion and detect brightness changes independently and asynchronously, which overcome the limitations of traditional frame‐based cameras. …”
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Movement recognition technology as a method of assessing spontaneous general movements in high risk infants by Claire eMarcroft, Claire eMarcroft, Aftab eKhan, Nicholas eEmbleton, Michael eTrenell, Thomas ePloetz

“…Clinically, the assessment of spontaneous general movements is an important tool which can be used for the prediction of movement impairments in high risk infants.Movement recognition aims to capture and analyze relevant limb movements through computerized approaches focusing on continuous, objective, and quantitative assessment. Different methods of recording and analyzing infant movements have recently been explored in high risk infants. …”
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Patient Attitudes Toward Telepsychiatry During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Nationwide, Multisite Survey by Guinart, Daniel, Marcy, Patricia, Hauser, Marta, Dwyer, Michael, Kane, John M

“…BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic and its associated movement restrictions forced a rapid and massive transition to telepsychiatry to successfully maintain care continuity. ObjectiveThe aim of this study is to examine a large number of patients’ experiences of, use of, and attitudes toward telepsychiatry. …”
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The Twitter Social Mobility Index: Measuring Social Distancing Practices With Geolocated Tweets by Xu, Paiheng, Dredze, Mark, Broniatowski, David A

“…However, it remains unclear how the public will respond to these policies as the pandemic continues. ObjectiveThe aim of this study is to present the Twitter Social Mobility Index, a measure of social distancing and travel derived from Twitter data. …”
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Bed-Exit Behavior Recognition for Real-Time Images within Limited Range by Cheng-Jian Lin, Ta-Sen Wei, Peng-Ta Liu, Bing-Hong Chen, Chi-Huang Shih

“…To achieve effectiveness and low complexity, a queueing-based behavior classification is proposed to keep memories of object tracking information and a specific behavior can be identified from continuous object movement. The experimental results show that the developed system can recognize three bed behaviors, namely off bed, on bed and return, for NFV images with accuracy rates of 95~100%.…”
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Ship Intention Prediction at Intersections Based on Vision and Bayesian Framework by Qianqian Chen, Changshi Xiao, Yuanqiao Wen, Mengwei Tao, Wenqiang Zhan

“…The visual measurement model based on continuous object tracking is established to extract the ship motion parameters. …”
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Perceptions of health professionals about the quality of communication and deliberation with the patient and its impact on the health decision making process by Eduardo Osuna, Antonio Pérez-Carrión, María D. Pérez-Cárceles, Francisco Machado

“…Communication should be a continuous object of study for all health professionals, both in primary and specialised attention.…”
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A new solution for solving a multi-objective integer programming problem with probabilistic multi-objective optimization by Maosheng Zheng, Jie Yu

“…Discretization by means of the good lattice point is employed to conduct discrete sampling for a continuous objective function and sequential optimization is used to perform deep optimization. …”
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