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- Törnhage, Carl-Johan, et al.
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Short- and long-term effects of tactile massage on salivary cortisol concentrations in Parkinsons disease : a randomised controlled pilot study
- 2013
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Ingår i: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine. - : BioMed Central (BMC). - 1472-6882. ; 13:357
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- BACKGROUND:Parkinson's disease (PD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disorder with limited knowledge about the normal function and effects of non-pharmacological therapies on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. The aim of the study was to analyse the basal diurnal and total secretion of salivary cortisol in short- and long-term aspects of tactile massage (TM).METHODS:Design: Prospective, Controlled and Randomised Multicentre Trial.Setting and interventions: Forty-five women and men, aged 50-79 years, were recruited. Twenty-nine of them were blindly randomised to tactile massage (TM) and 16 of them to the control group, rest to music (RTM). Ten interventions were given during 8 weeks followed by a 26 weeks of follow up. Salivary cortisol was collected at 8 am, 1 pm, 8 pm, and 8 am the next day, on five occasions. With the first and eighth interventions, it was collected immediately before and after intervention.Main outcome measures: The primary aim was to assess and compare cortisol concentrations before and immediately after intervention and also during the follow-up period. The secondary aim was to assess the impact of age, gender, body mass index (BMI), duration and severity of PD, effects of interventional time-point of the day, and levodopa doses on cortisol concentration.RESULTS:The median cortisol concentrations for all participants were 16.0, 5.8, 2.8, and 14.0 nmol/L at baseline, later reproduced four times without significant differences. Cortisol concentrations decreased significantly after TM intervention but no change in diurnal salivary cortisol pattern was found. The findings of reduced salivary cortisol concentrations immediately after the interventions are in agreement with previous studies. However, there was no significant difference between the TM and control groups. There were no significant correlations between cortisol concentrations and age, gender, BMI, time-point for intervention, time interval between anti-parkinson pharmacy intake and sampling, levodopa doses, duration, or severity of PD.CONCLUSIONS:Diurnal salivary cortisol rhythm was normal. Salivary cortisol concentrations were significantly reduced after the TM intervention and after RTM, but there were no significant differences between the groups and no sustained long-term effect. No associations were seen between salivary cortisol concentration and clinical and/or pharmacological characteristics.
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- Amani, Payam, et al.
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Application of Control Theory to a Commercial Mobile Service Support System
- 2012
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Ingår i: International Journal on Advances in Telecommunications. - 1942-2601. ; 5:3&4
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Mobile Service Support system (MSS), which Ericsson AB develops, handles the setup of new subscribers and services into a mobile network. Experience from deployed systems show that traffic monitoring and control of the system will be crucial for handling overload situations that may occur at sudden traffic surges. In this paper we identify and explore some important control challenges for this type of systems. Further, we present analysis and experiments showing some advantages of proposed solutions. First, we develop a load-dependent server model for the system, which is validated in testbed experiments. Further, we propose a control design based on the model, and a method for estimation of response times and arrival rates. The main contribution of this paper is that we show how control theory methods and analysis can be used for commercial telecom systems. Parts of our results have been implemented in commercial products, validating the strength of our work.
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- Amundsen, Lasse, et al.
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Multisource encoding and decoding using the signal apparition technique
- 2018
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Ingår i: Geophysics. - 0016-8033. ; 83:1, s. 49-59
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Signal apparition is a method for encoding sources in simultaneous multisource seismic acquisition and decoding the multisource response of the earth into its single-source responses. For M sources, encoding is performed by applying periodic sequences of period M to each of the sources along source lines. Decoding is achieved in the wavenumber domain for each frequency by solving an M × M linear system of equations. The system's matrix is the product of a Fourier matrix and an encoding matrix, the latter containing the information of the codes. The solution of the system is unique when the encoding matrix is invertible. When the encoding sequences consist of time delays applied to sources' firing times, the determinant of the encoding matrix becomes a polynomial. A unique solution to decoding then exists if the roots of the polynomial avoid the unit circle. Periodic time-shift sequences for two, three, four, and six sources are discussed. A model example of simultaneous four-source data acquisition illustrates the performance of the encoding/decoding technique for the spatially nonaliased case.
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- Andersson, Fredrik, et al.
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Analytic dealiasing in seismic apparition
- 2017
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Signal apparition offers a fundamentally new perspective on simultaneous source separation. Whereas the method exactly separates the signal from interfering sources in diamond-shaped regions of the f-k space, signal from simultaneous source still overlap outside these regions. We present a method based on using local phase functions and the analytic part of the blended data to reconstruct the separated data throughout the full data bandwidth.
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- Andersson, Fredrik, et al.
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Flawless diamond separation in simultaneous source acquisition byseismic apparition
- 2017
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Ingår i: Geophysical Journal International. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0956-540X .- 1365-246X. ; 209:3, s. 1793-1739
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper we prove that the recently introduced method of signal apparition optimally separates signals from interfering sources recorded during simultaneous source seismic data acquisition. By utilizing a periodic sequence of source signatures along one source line, that wavefield becomes separately partially visible in the spectral domain where it can be isolated from interfering signals, processed, and subtracted from the original recordings, thereby separating the wavefields from each other. Whereas other methods for simultaneous source separation can recover data in a triangle-shaped region in the spectral domain, signal apparition allows for the exact separation of data in a diamond-shaped region that is twice as large thereby enabling superior reconstruction of separated wavefields throughout the entire data bandwidth.
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- Andersson, Fredrik, et al.
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Quaternion dealising for simultaneous source separation
- 2017
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Ingår i: SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2017. - : Society of Exploration Geophysicists.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Signal apparition offers a fundamentally new perspective on simultaneous source separation. Whereas the method exactly separates the signal from interfering sources in diamond-shaped regions of the frequency-wavenumber domain, signals from simultaneous sources still overlap outside these regions. We present a method based on using quaternion representations of the blended data that reconstruct the separated data throughout the full data bandwidth by iteratively using reconstructions for lower frequencies to recover the higher frequency content. Presentation Date: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 Start Time: 9:20 AM Location: Exhibit Hall C, E-P Station 2 Presentation Type: EPOSTER
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- Bengtsson, Johan, et al.
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A Robot Playing Scrabble Using Visual Feedback
- 2000
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Ingår i: IFAC Proceedings Volumes. ; 33:27, s. 551-556
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Today most industrial robot systems use dedicated and rather limited sensors, and available control systems provide limited support for feedback control. Aiming towards more autonomous robot systems, we want to improve flexibility. The game Scrabble is used as a test problem capturing these aspects. Our approach is to incorporate visual servoing and a conventional powerful off-line prograrnrning (OLP) system into the real-time control system, providing task specification and visual debugging. We use the OLP tool Envision from Deneb and an ABB robot with reconfigured control system, where the control system has an Open Robot Control architecture (ORC). The vision system is connected to a host computer and the camera is attached to the robot gripper. By extending the control system, we have designed and implemented both the vision system and the application for the Scrabble game. Our system implementation shows that ORC constitutes a necessary support for incorporation of real-time visual feedback and that OLP may effectively be used with real-time feedback of sensor data.
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- Cho, Jang Ho, et al.
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Design of an Intermediate Layer to Enhance Operator Awareness and Safety in Telesurgical Systems
- 2012
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Ingår i: Proc. 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2012), October 7-12, 2012. Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal. - 2153-0858 .- 2153-0866. ; , s. 1292-1297
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents a novel control architecture for enhanced operator awareness and improved safety in telesurgical systems. We introduce an intermediate layer between the master and slave sides which allows us to modify the slave motion for safety and the force feedback for operator awareness. The intermediate layer is then designed with a performance objective for the specific task at hand. The control scheme is validated via experiments using a suture and an industrial manipulator. More specifically we show that operator awareness should be implemented as an integrated part of the safety level to maintain safety during surgery.
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- Dellkrantz, Manfred, et al.
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Event-Based Response Time Estimation
- 2012
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Ingår i: [Host publication title missing].
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Response time is a measure of quality of service in com- puter systems. Estimation techniques, suitable for support systems for mobile phone systems, are explored. These sys- tems are complex queueing systems with large databases. The trac generated by users and system adminstrators changes rapidly, some loads can be measured other cannot. Attempts to capture all details give models that are not suit- able for on-line control. Estimators based on continuous flow models with event based measurements are designed using extended Kalman ltering. The estimators are compared with simple-data based estimators.
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- Espinosa, P., et al.
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Sequence of 305,996 total hip and knee arthroplasties in patients undergoing operations on more than 1 joint
- 2019
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Ingår i: Acta Orthopaedica. - : Medical Journals Sweden AB. - 1745-3674 .- 1745-3682.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background and purpose - Patient-specific data on multiple total arthroplasties (TA) of the lower limbs due to osteoarthritis (OA) are limited. We investigated the sequence of surgical procedures and risk factors for additional surgery in such patients. Patients and methods - 305,996 patients operated with a TA of the hip and/or knee due to OA were extracted from the Swedish National Hip (SHAR) and the Swedish Knee Arthroplasty Register (SKAR). 177,834 total hip arthroplasty (THA, 56% women, mean age 69 years) and 128,162 total knee arthroplasty (TKA, 60% women, mean age 69 years) procedures constituted the index operations. The mean, median, and maximum follow-up was 8, 6, and 23 years. Multivariable Cox regression analysis was used and Kaplan-Meier survival curves were constructed. Results - Right-sided primary TA (34%) was most frequent. Subsequent surgery was most frequent after primary left-sided TKA (33%). The time interval to a second TA procedure was 3.1 (SD 3.2) years after TKA and 4.0 (SD 3.9) years after THA. After the index TA the probability of no subsequent surgery amounted to 64% (SD 0.3) for THA and 58% (SD 0.4) for TKA over 20 years. Lower age, female sex, left side, and TKA at index operation were associated with a higher probability for subsequent TA. Interpretation - Delineation of factors that influence risk and the size of the risk for subsequent TA in 1 of the 3 major remaining joints is of value for clinicians and healthcare providers in the decision-making process for future resource allocation.
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