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A hierarchical latent class model for predicting disability small area counts from survey data [PDF]
, 2012 This article considers the estimation of the number of severely disabled people using data from the Italian survey on Health Conditions and Appeal to Medicare. Disability is indirectly measured using a set of categorical items, which survey a set of functions concerning the ability of a person to accomplish everyday tasks.
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Journal of NeuroEngineering and RehabilitationBackground Previous research has used the brain-computer interface (BCI) to promote upper-limb motor rehabilitation. However, the results of these studies were variable, leaving efficacy unclear. Objectives This review aims to evaluate the effects of BCI-
Dan Li +8 more
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Identification of Bias Against People with Disabilities in Sentiment Analysis and Toxicity Detection Models [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Sociodemographic biases are a common problem for natural language processing, affecting the fairness and integrity of its applications. Within sentiment analysis, these biases may undermine sentiment predictions for texts that mention personal attributes that unbiased human readers would consider neutral. Such discrimination can have great consequences
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Agent-Based Model of Crowd Dynamics in Emergency Situations: A Focus on People With Disabilities [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Collective behavior of people in large groups and emergent crowd dynamics can have dangerous and disastrous results when panic is introduced. These events can be caused by emergency situations such as fires in a large building or a stampeding effect when people are rushing in a densely packed area.
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Сибирский научный медицинский журналAim of the study was to assess the frequency of the symptoms of professional burnout, depression, anxiety and stress in nurses working in departments providing medical and rehabilitation services to patients with impaired functions of support and ...
O. I. Khokhlova +3 more
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A Feasibility Study of Microfinance for Chinese Disabled Farmers
Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 2007 The Chinese government supports development aid to persons with disabilities (PWDs) in the form of microfinance. The nation’s Poverty Alleviation and Development Plan for PWDs (2001-2010) and the Eleventh Five-Year Plan for Rural Disabled Persons ...
Laura Pan Luo, Liu Lin
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Therapeutic robots for post-stroke rehabilitation
Medical ReviewStroke is a prevalent, severe, and disabling health-care issue on a global scale, inevitably leading to motor and cognitive deficits. It has become one of the most significant challenges in China, resulting in substantial social and economic burdens.
Hong Ronghua +4 more
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African Journal of Disability, 2014 This African Journal of Disability supplement focuses on papers presented at the third AfriNEAD Symposium in 2011. In this closing editorial, we want to give an overview of the rationale and major modes of operation of the African Network for Evidence ...
Rachel Kachaje +3 more
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Nurses' Attitudes Toward Nursing Research
Southeastern European Medical Journal, 2017 Aim: The aim of the study was to examine the attitudes of nurses towards research in nursing. Methods: The study involved 202 respondents. The respondents were nurses employed at Osijek Clinical Hospital.
Ana Kovačević +2 more
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Artificial Tongue-Placed Tactile Biofeedback for perceptual supplementation: application to human disability and biomedical engineering [PDF]
Human Machine iNteraction Conference Human'07 (2007) 105-112, 2007 The present paper aims at introducing the innovative technologies, based on the concept of "sensory substitution" or "perceptual supplementation", we are developing in the fields of human disability and biomedical engineering. Precisely, our goal is to design, develop and validate practical assistive biomedical and/technical devices and/or ...
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