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Driving simulation sickness and the sense of presence: Correlation and contributing factors Universiteit Hasselt
Driving simulators are useful and effective tools for conducting studies in the field of traffic safety. Simulation sickness (SS) and the sense of presence (SP) are two well-known factors that could affect the results of the driving simulator experiments. This study investigated the relationship between SP and SS in a medium-fidelity driving simulator. Additionally, the impact of the road environment (urban arterials or rural expressways) on ...
Acute mountain sickness in travelers who consulted a pre-travel clinic Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Circadian-time sickness Universiteit Antwerpen KU Leuven
A daily rhythm that is not in synchrony with the environmental light–dark cycle (as in jetlag and shift work) is known to affect mood and health through an as yet unresolved neural mechanism. Here, we combine Bayesian probabilistic ‘cue-conflict’ theory with known physiology of the biological clock of the brain, entailing the insight that, for a functional pacemaker, it is sufficient to have two interacting units (reflecting environmental and ...
Diagnostic accuracy of PCR in gambiense sleeping sickness diagnosis, staging and post-treatment follow-up: a 2-year longitudinal study Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
BACKGROUND: The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has been proposed for diagnosis, staging and post-treatment follow-up of sleeping sickness but no large-scale clinical evaluations of its diagnostic accuracy have taken place yet. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: An 18S ribosomal RNA gene targeting PCR was performed on blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of 360 T. brucei gambiense sleeping sickness patients and on blood of 129 endemic controls from ...
Subjective evaluation of visual quality and simulator sickness of short 360 degrees videos : ITU-T Rec. P.919 Universiteit Gent
Recently an impressive development in immersive technologies, such as Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR) and 360 degrees video, has been witnessed. However, methods for quality assessment have not been keeping up. This paper studies quality assessment of 360 degrees video from the cross-lab tests (involving ten laboratories and more than 300 participants) carried out by the Immersive Media Group (IMG) of the Video Quality Experts Group ...
Physiological characteristics associated with increased resistance to decompression sickness in male and female rats Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Decompression sickness (DCS) is a complex and poorly understood systemic disease with wide interindividual resistance variability. We selectively bred rats with a threefold greater resistance to DCS than standard ones. To investigate possible physiological mechanisms underlying the resistance to DCS, including sex-related differences in these mechanisms, 15 males and 15 females resistant to DCS were compared with aged-matched standard Wistar ...
Neopterin is a cerebrospinal fluid marker for treatment outcome evaluation in patients affected by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense sleeping sickness Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
BACKGROUND: Post-therapeutic follow-up is essential to confirm cure and to detect early treatment failures in patients affected by sleeping sickness (HAT). Current methods, based on finding of parasites in blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and counting of white blood cells (WBC) in CSF, are imperfect. New markers for treatment outcome evaluation are needed. We hypothesized that alternative CSF markers, able to diagnose the meningo-encephalitic ...
Predicting Sickness Impact Profile at six months after stroke: results from the Collaborative Evaluation of Rehabilitation in Stroke across Europe (CERISE) study Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Abstract Purpose: To develop prognostic models and equations for predicting participation at six months after stroke. Methods: This European prospective cohort study recruited 532 consecutive patients from four rehabilitation centers. Participation was assessed at six months after stroke with the Sickness Impact Profile (SIP), which consists of a physical, psychosocial and independent dimension. Twenty-six independent variables on admission to ...