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Tele-rehabilitation at home is one of the promising approaches in increasing rehabilitative success and simultaneously decreasing the
financial burden on the healthcare system. Objectives: Novel and mostly mobile devices are already in use, but shall be used in the future to a higher extent for allowing at home rehabilitation processes at a high quality level. The combination of exercises, assessments and available equipment is the basic objective of the
presented database. Methods: The database has been structured in order to allow easy-to-use and fast access for the three main user groups. Therapists – looking for exercise and equipment combinations – patients – rechecking their tasks for home exercises – and manufacturers – entering their equipment for specific use cases.
Results: The database has been evaluated by a proof of concept study and shows a high degree of applicability for the field of rehabilitative medicine. Currently it contains 110 exercises/assessments and 111 equipment/systems. Conclusion: Foundations of presented database are already established in the rehabilitative field of application, but can and will be enhanced in its functionality to be usable for a higher variety of medical fields and specificatios.
It has recently been shown that matter-wave interferometry can be used to imprint a periodic nanostructure onto a molecular beam, which provides a highly sensitive tool for beam displacement measurements. Herein, we used this feature to measure electronic properties of provitamin A, vitamin E, and vitamin K1 in the gas phase for the first time. The shift of the matter-wave fringes in a static electric field encodes the molecular susceptibility and the time-averaged dynamic electric dipole moment. The dependence of the fringe pattern on the intensity of the central light-wave diffraction grating was used to determine the molecular optical polarizability. Comparison of our experimental findings with molecular dynamics simulations and density functional theory provides a rich picture of the electronic structures and dynamics of these biomolecules in the gas phase with β-carotene as a particularly interesting example.
Due to fast development of new technologies in the field of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) a number of new research topics arise, especially in view of vulnerable road users (VRUs). As most developments in the ITS sector are primarily targeting motorised transport with focus on safety and ecological aspects of transport, there is still a lack of both research and development considering VRUs not only as passive element. The VRUITS project, funded by the EC, aims at actively integrating the “human” element into the ITS approach.
The overall impression of a glossy surface is an important parameter for consumer’s choice of wooden products. A new gloss parameter, called gloss impression, which calculates a reflexion structure image, was developed in order to complement the measurements made by industrial glossmeters, which are highly limited in describing the visual human perception, for example the commonly used gloss value. The objective of this study is to investigate to what extent the new measurement method of surface gloss is applicable to describe human gloss perception, in other words, to validate the new method. In order to analyse the concordance of the new methodology with human perception, 113 naïve observers had to rank the glossiness of eight series of black and white samples. The results were compared to both gloss impression and gloss value. The statistical evaluation by means of Pearson’s chi-squared tests revealed that the new method has an overall better correspondence to human perception than the gloss value. For black samples, it describes human perception significantly better than the gloss value and gives better results than those which would be achieved by guessing.
Die vorliegende epidemiologische Analyse schließt über 1,6 Millionen Versicherte der Oberösterreichischen
Gebietskrankenkasse im Zeitraum 2005–2011 ein. Personen, die im Beobachtungszeitraum wegen eines Ereignisses aus der ICD-10-Diagnosegruppe »Verletzungen des Kopfes« (S00–S09) im Krankenhaus waren, wiesen eine Inzidenz von 579/100.000 pro Jahr auf. Anhand der Aufenthaltszeiten im Krankenhaus oder der stationären Rehabilitation (> 42, 8–42, und < 8 Tage) wurden drei Schweregrade definiert. Von der schweren über die mittelschwere bis zur leichten Gruppe (G1, G2, G3) war die prozentuelle Aufteilung 2 %, 11 % und 87 %. Zusammen mit einer Gruppe (G4), bei der der Aufnahmegrund im Krankenhaus in einer Operation am Bewegungsapparat bestand, wurden die vier Gruppen untereinander anhand der Variablen Alter, Geschlecht, Arbeitslosigkeit, Pensionierung, Krankenhausaufenthalte, Arbeitsunfähigkeit und Sterberisiko verglichen.
Es konnte bestätigt werden, dass ein Schädel-Hirn-Trauma häufiger bei Männern auftritt, je schwerer
es ist (bis zu 2/3), und dass es zwei Altersgipfel gibt, bei den Jüngeren eher mit einer leichteren,
bei den Älteren eher mit einer schwereren Betroffenheit.
Unerwartet war, dass in Gruppe 1 (G1) schon vor dem Ereignis häufigere Krankenhaus- oder Rehabilitationsaufenthalte vorlagen, also eine Prädisposition bei schwerem Schädel-Hirn-Trauma
vorzuliegen scheint. Da die Betroffenen mit großem Leid konfrontiert sind und die Behandlung
dieser Patienten sehr viele Ressourcen benötigt, wird dieser Frage im Rahmen einer Masterarbeit
nachgegangen. Bei Gruppe 3 (G3) , die jüngere Patienten beinhaltete und den Großteil der Schädel-
Hirn-Trauma-Patienten ausmachte, fiel auf, dass doppelt so viele Versicherungsunterbrechungen
und gleich hohe Arbeitslosigkeitsereignisse wie in der schwerer betrofferen Gruppe 2 (G2) auftraten.
Auch hier wären weitere Studien angebracht, weil die absolute Zahl der Betroffenen in Gruppe
3 (G3) sehr hoch ist.
Vulnerability Analysis of Storage Elements in HLS-Generated Designs using High-Level Profiling
(2017)
Pseudo-Genüsse
(2017)
Discounter
(2017)
Ökonomie macht Schule
(2017)
Gabenökonomie auf dem Wissensmarkt. Eine historisch-anthropologische Anzahl der Netzwerktheorien
(2017)
BACKGROUND:
Cell-based therapies with autologous adipose tissue-derived cells have shown great potential in several clinical studies in the last decades. The majority of these studies have been using the stromal vascular fraction (SVF), a heterogeneous mixture of fibroblasts, lymphocytes, monocytes/macrophages, endothelial cells, endothelial progenitor cells, pericytes and adipose-derived stromal/stem cells (ASC) among others. Although possible clinical applications of autologous adipose tissue-derived cells are manifold, they are limited by insufficient uniformity in cell identity and regenerative potency.
METHODS:
In our experimental set-up, low-energy extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) was performed on freshly obtained human adipose tissue and isolated adipose tissue SVF cells aiming to equalize and enhance stem cell properties and functionality.
RESULTS:
After ESWT on adipose tissue we could achieve higher cellular adenosine triphosphate (ATP) levels compared with ESWT on the isolated SVF as well as the control. ESWT on adipose tissue resulted in a significantly higher expression of single mesenchymal and vascular marker compared with untreated control. Analysis of SVF protein secretome revealed a significant enhancement in insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-1 and placental growth factor (PLGF) after ESWT on adipose tissue.
DISCUSSION:
Summarizing we could show that ESWT on adipose tissue enhanced the cellular ATP content and modified the expression of single mesenchymal and vascular marker, and thus potentially provides a more regenerative cell population. Because the effectiveness of autologous cell therapy is dependent on the therapeutic potency of the patient's cells, this technology might raise the number of patients eligible for autologous cell transplantation.
Digital Manufacturing
(2017)
The Global Math Project
(2017)