Search results for " Features"

A Single-Center (Sibiu, Romania), Retrospective Study (March–November 2020) of COVID-19 Clinical and Epidemiological Features in Children

2021

The aim of this study was to describe and analyze epidemiological and clinical features of children screened for COVID-19 at Sibiu Pediatric Clinical Hospital during the first 9 months (March–November) of coronavirus disease pandemic in Romania. A total of 203 pediatric patients with a confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19 were included in the study. The median age of the patients was 121 (IQR 18–181) months and 52.22% had mild clinical type with pneumonia, 35.47% were moderate cases, 3.94% severe cases, 0.99% critically ill cases and 7.39% were asymptomatic. The most common symptoms were fever (n = 130, 64.03%), nasal congestion (n = 138, 67.98%), cough (n = 128, 63.05%) followed by sore throat …

Extracting multi-mode ERP features using fifth-order nonnegative tensor decomposition

2018

Background Preprocessed Event-related potential (ERP) data are usually organized in multi-way tensor, in which tensor decomposition serves as a powerful tool for data processing. Due to the limitation of computation burden for multi-way data and the low algorithm performance of stability and efficiency, multi-way ERP data are conventionally reorganized into low-order tensor or matrix before further analysis. However, the reorganization may hamper mode specification and spoil the interaction information among different modes. New method In this study, we applied a fifth-order tensor decomposition to a set of fifth-order ERP data collected by exerting proprioceptive stimulus on left and right…

Feature selection for classification of music according to expressed emotion

2009

Retoriskie teksta posmi interneta ziņu rakstos

2016

Ziņas ir viena no svarīgākajām vajadzībām ikdienas dzīvē, lai sekotu līdzi pasaules notikumu attīstībai. Ir veikti vairāki avīžu rakstu pētījumi no dažādiem aspektiem, taču maz uzmanības tiek pievērsts retoriskajiem teksta posmiem avīžu rakstos, kas pieejami internetā, tādēļ šī darba mērķis ir izpētīt retoriskos teksta posmus un to attiecīgo soļus struktūru interneta ziņu rakstos un noteikt to lingvistiskās iezīmes. Darba analīzei, galvenokārt tika izmantotas tādu autoru kā Swales (1990)un Bhatia (1993) teorijas. Iegūtie dati tika analizēti, izmantojot kvalitatīvā pētījuma metodi ar kvantitatīviem elementiem. Analīzei tika izvēlēti divdesmit BBC biznesa interneta ziņu raksti. Pētījuma rezul…

Physiological Measures Regress onto Acoustic and Perceptual Features of Soundscapes

2013

There is no exact model for the relationship between the autonomic nervous system (ANS) and evoked or perceived emotion. Music has long been a privileged field for exploration, while the contribution of soundscape research is more recent. It is known that health is influenced by the sonic environment, and the study here presented aimed to investigate the nature and strength of relationships between soundscape features and physiological responses linked to relaxation or stress. In a controlled experiment, seventeen healthy volun-teers moved freely inside a physical installation listening to soundscape recordings of nature, urban parks, eateries, and shops, reproduced using 3D ambisonic techn…

Deeds not words’: Emmeline Pankhurst and the vote for women

2013

Women born in the nineteenth century had little chance of escaping the role that was considered their destiny - to marry young, stay home and raise a family. Campaigners like Millicent Fawcett and Elizabeth Garret Anderson carried out a personal and largely peaceful struggle to improve chances of an education and open professions like medicine to women. In the early part of the century ‘the suffragists’ were unsuccessful in their immediate objective, although they still exist in the form of one of the British main research and lobbying groups working on behalf of women, the Fawcett Society. In 1889, an English woman Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women's Franchise League, which fought to al…

Acoustic, neural, and perceptual correlates of polyphonic timbre

2012

Clinical characteristics and predictors of death among hospitalized patients infected with SARS‑CoV‑2 in Sicily, Italy: A retrospective observational…

2022

Since late December 2019, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 has spread across the world, which resulted in the World Health Organization declaring a global pandemic. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) presents a highly variable spectrum with regard to the severity of illness. Most infected individuals exhibit a mild to moderate illness (81%); however, 14% have a serious disease and 5% develop severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), requiring intensive care support. The mortality rate of COVID-19 continues to rise across the world. Data regarding predictors of mortality in patients with COVID 19 are still scarce but are being actively investigated. The present multi…

Automatic Influences of Priming on Prosocial Behavior

2013

Literature on the automaticity of social behavior indicates that in some circumstances, priming a concept automatically activates related behavioral schemas. Previous research studies have used priming techniques to increase willingness to help, but most of these have simply measured intention to engage in prosocial behavior rather than real helping behavior. Two different studies investigated the effect of priming the concept of prosocial behavior on real helping behavior. After priming prosociality through a scrambled sentences test, participants were shown to increase their donation rate after a direct request coming from an experimenter's confederate (study 1) and to spontaneously help …

A characterization of the real estate market

2017

Aim: The aim of the study is to identify and discuss important features of the real estate market with particular emphasis on their economic dimension, as well as to demonstrate cause and effect relationships between these features and the functioning of the market (mainly Polish conditions were taken into account). Design / Research methods: In the main, research and literature studies were carried out, which concerned two basic directions, i.e. identification of essential features of the real estate market from the point of view of their economic dimension, and showing the relationship between these features and the efficient operation of the market. Conclusions / findings: Research and a…