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Introducing Time-Delays to Analyze Driver Reaction Times When Using a Powered Wheelchair
This paper investigates the introduction of time-delays into wheelchair driving. Two dissimilar ways in which wheelchair drivers interact are compared. Users were observed as they drove their wheelchairs with ...
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Intelligent System to Analyze Data About Powered Wheelchair Drivers
The research presented in this paper creates an intelligent system that collects powered wheelchair users’ driving session data. The intelligent system is based on a Python programming platform. A program is c...
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Detection of Patterns in Pressure Signal of Compressed Air System Using Wavelet Transform
This paper investigates detecting patterns in the pressure signal of a compressed air system (CAS) with a load/unload control using a wavelet transform. The pressure signal of a CAS carries useful information ...
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Intelligent Risk Prediction of Storage Tank Leakage Using an Ishikawa Diagram with Probability and Impact Analysis
Intelligent probability and impact analysis are used with an Ishikawa diagram. Causes of tank leakage events are identified. Causes were ranked and weights assigned to show their relative importance in the dia...
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Open AccessWhy do some countries do better or worse in life expectancy relative to income? An analysis of Brazil, Ethiopia, and the United States of America
While in general a country’s life expectancy increases with national income, some countries “punch above their weight”, while some “punch below their weight” – achieving higher or lower life expectancy than wo...
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Open AccessGlobal health activists’ lessons on building social movements for Health for All
The People’s Health Movement (PHM) was formed in 2000 and drew inspiration from the Alma Ata Declaration on Primary Health Care’s ‘Health for All’ (1978). Since then PHM has been an active part of a global cou...
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Open AccessThe politics and practice of initiating a public health postgraduate programme in three universities in sub-Saharan Africa: the challenges of alignment and coherence
In-country postgraduate training programme in low and middle income countries are widely considered to strengthen institutional and national capacity. There exists dearth of research about how new training ini...
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Combining Multiple Criteria Decision Making with Vector Manipulation to Decide on the Direction for a Powered Wheelchair
The application of the Weighed Aggregated Sum Product ASsessment (WASPAS) method to suggest a direction for a powered wheelchair is described. The method considers five directions as alternatives. The ultraso...
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Initial Results from Using Preference Ranking Organization Methods for Enrichment of Evaluations to Help Steer a Powered Wheelchair
Research is presented that uses PROMETHEE II to determine a direction for a powered wheelchair. This is the only time that PROMETHEE II has been employed for this sort of use. A wheelchair driver proposes a p...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Task Programming Methodology for Powered Wheelchairs
The work described in this paper is directed towards applying task oriented methodologies to the creation of new types of powered wheelchairs. The new work has required the creation of a new type of task mach...
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Conclusion
In this chapter, the volume editors pull together the various themes explored in the individual chapters and summarise their implications for the health of contemporary liberal democracies. Potential support f...
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Using a Simple Expert System to Assist a Powered Wheelchair User
A simple expert system is described that helps wheelchair users to drive their wheelchairs. The expert system takes data in from sensors and a joystick, identifies obstacles and then recommends a safe route. W...
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Authoritarian Populist Opinion in Europe
Recent research in the UK has shown that an authoritarian populist (AP) cluster of attitudes centring on opposition to immigration, cynicism about human rights, disapproval of the EU, support for a robust defe...
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Improving Human-Machine Interaction for a Powered Wheelchair Driver by Using Variable-Switches and Sensors that Reduce Wheelchair-Veer
The integration of proportional switches for human-computer interaction and sensors with veer correction systems are presented. The transducers and sensors improve control, assist wheelchair drivers and reduce...
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Introduction
This chapter describes the book’s general approach to authoritarian populism, which is regarded as a two-pronged phenomenon. On the one hand, it consists of leaders who are elected on simplistic, nationalistic...
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Intelligent Approach to Minimizing Power Consumption in a Cloud-Based System Collecting Sensor Data and Monitoring the Status of Powered Wheelchairs
This paper proposes an intelligent approach to minimizing power consumption in a cloud-based system collecting sensor data and monitoring the status of powered wheelchairs. The powered wheelchairs will be equ...
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Indoor Location and Collision Feedback for a Powered Wheelchair System Using Machine Learning
In 2015 a powered wheelchair system to detect and avoid objects was...
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Open AccessDeterminants of effective organisational capacity training: lessons from a training programme on health workforce development with participants from three African countries
Health systems in sub-Saharan Africa face multifaceted capacity challenges to fulfil their mandates of service provision and governance of their resources. Four academic institutions in Africa implemented a Wo...
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Open AccessTreatment of irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhoea using titrated ondansetron (TRITON): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
Irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhoea (IBS-D) affects up to 4% of the general population. Symptoms include frequent, loose, or watery stools with associated urgency, resulting in marked reduction of quality ...
