Associations between pain-related fear and lumbar movement variability during activities of daily living in patients with chronic low back pain and healthy controls.

Low back pain (LBP) is a global issue involving biological, psychological, and social factors. Pain-related fear has been shown to influence movement behavior, however, its association with some measures of movement behavior, such as spinal movement variability, remains inconclusive. To further investigate this, spinal kinematics during various activities of daily living (i.

Biomechanics of transduction by mechanosensory cilia for prey detection in aquatic organisms.

Surface-feeding aquatic animals navigate towards the source of water disturbances and must differentiate prey from other environmental stimuli. Medicinal leeches locate prey, in part, using a distribution of mechanosensory hairs along their body that deflect under fluid flow. Leech's behavioral responses to surface wave temporal frequency are well documented.

Metal Artifact Reduction in Spectral X-ray CT Using Spectral Deep Learning.

Spectral X-ray computed tomography (SCT) is an emerging method for non-destructive imaging of the inner structure of materials. Compared with the conventional X-ray CT, this technique provides spectral photon energy resolution in a finite number of energy channels, adding a new dimension to the reconstructed volumes and images. While this mitigates energy-dependent distortions such as beam hardening, metal artifacts due to photon starvation effects are still present, especially for low-energy channels where the attenuation coefficients are higher.

[Diabetes simulation learning method for nutrition and dietetics students].

For many years, the Nutrition and Dietetics department of the Geneva School of Health Sciences has been applying a pedagogical method of simulating in the daily life of a diabetic person. For 4 days, students experience the daily life of a diabetic patient by adopting his treatment and applying the recommendations for a healthy lifestyle. According to a survey of 29 students, the most striking elements for them were: thinking about the disease all the time, eating without hunger and being confronted with the difficulties of the disease.