Publications by authors named "M D Smolen"

Multimodal sensing and data processing have become a common approach in modern assisted living systems. This is widely justified by the complementary properties of sensors based on different sensing paradigms. However, all previous proposals assume data fusion to be made based on fixed criteria.

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The aim of this paper is to choose the optimal motion sensor for the selected human activity recognition. In the described studies, different human motion measurement methods are used simultaneously such as optoelectronics, video, electromyographic, accelerometric, and pressure sensors. Several analyses of activity recognition were performed: recognition correctness for all activities together, matrices of the recognition errors of the individual activities for all volunteers for the individual sensors, and recognition correctness of all activities for each volunteer and each sensor.

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  • - Drug-ethanol interactions can lead to liver damage, particularly when acetaminophen and ethanol are taken together, as this can overload the liver's ability to process these substances.
  • - The combination of ethanol and acetaminophen can increase the activity of enzymes that generate harmful compounds in the liver while depleting protective substances, leading to potential toxicity.
  • - A study utilized various bioinformatics tools to analyze the metabolic pathways involved in the ethanol-acetaminophen interaction, but it highlighted the need for more data to confirm direct effects and emphasized the importance of multiple software applications for assessing such interactions.
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Three mono-N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ruthenium 2-isopropoxybenzylidene (10 a-c) and one bis(NHC) indenylidene complex (8) bearing an unsymmetrical N-heterocyclic carbene ligand were synthesized and structurally characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The catalytic activity of the newly obtained complexes were evaluated in ring-closing metathesis (RCM) and ene-yne (RCEYM) reactions in toluene and environmentally friendly 2-MeTHF under air. The results confirmed that although all tested reactions can be successfully mediated by catalysts 10 a-c, their general reactivity is lower than the benchmark all-purpose Ru catalysts with symmetrical NHC ligands.

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