Difficulty in appropriately responding to threats is a key feature of psychiatric disorders, especially fear-related conditions such as panic disorder (PD) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Most prior work on threat and fear regulation involves exposure to external threatful cues. However, fear can also be triggered by aversive, within-the-body, sensations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPedestrian Dead Reckoning (PDR) uses inertial measurement units (IMUs) and combines velocity and orientation estimates to determine a position. The estimation of the velocity is still challenging, as the integration of noisy acceleration and angular speed signals over a long period of time causes large drifts. Classic approaches to estimate the velocity optimize for specific applications, sensor positions, and types of movement and require extensive parameter tuning.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: A papillary thyroid cancer staged as p T2N3M0 was treated in a 28-year-old woman by surgery, percutaneous radiation and radioiodine therapy (10 single applications ranging from 3300 to 3840 MBq with an average radioactivity of 3350 MBq). In the course of radioiodine therapy an attended gynaecologist found the woman pregnant in the 24th week of gravidity. Because the pregnancy remained unknown until this time radioiodine was administered during the 2nd and the 22nd week of pregnancy, each time 3700 MBq.
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