With sustained growth of diabetes numbers, patient engagement is essential. Using nationally available data, we have shown that the higher mortality associated with a diagnosis T1DM/T2DM could produces loss 6.4 million future life years in current UK population. In model, 'average' person T1DM (age 42.8 years) has expectancy from now 32.6 years, compared to 40.2 equivalent age non mellitus population, corresponding lost (LLYs) 7.6 years/average person. The T2DM 65.4 18.6 20.3 for LLY 1.7 We...

Article Free Access Share on Superior augmented reality registration by integrating landmark tracking and magnetic Authors: Andrei State Department of Computer Science, University North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB #3175 Sitterson Hall, NC NCView Profile , Gentaro Hirota David T. Chen William F. Garrett Mark A. Livingston Authors Info & Claims SIGGRAPH '96: Proceedings the 23rd annual conference graphics interactive techniquesAugust 1996Pages...

Article Free Access Share on Technologies for augmented reality systems: realizing ultrasound-guided needle biopsies Authors: Andrei State Departments of Computer Science and University North Carolina at Chapel Hill CB #3175 Sitterson Hall, Hill, NC NCView Profile , Mark A. Livingston William F. Garrett Gentaro Hirota Mary C. Whitton Etta D. Pisano Department Radiology, 503 Old Infirmary 226, #7510, Henry Fuchs Authors Info & Claims SIGGRAPH '96: Proceedings the 23rd annual conference...

Continued advances in display hardware, computing power, networking, and rendering algorithms have all converged to dramatically improve large high-resolution capabilities. We present a survey on prior research with displays. In the hardware configurations section we examine systems including multi-monitor workstations, reconfigurable projector arrays, others. Rendering data pipeline are addressed an overview of current technologies. discuss many applications for displays such as automotive...

A fundamental problem in optical, see-through augmented reality (AR) is characterizing how it affects the perception of spatial layout and depth. This important because AR system developers need to both place graphics arbitrary relationships with real-world objects, know that users will perceive them same relationships. Furthermore, makes possible enhanced perceptual techniques have no equivalent, such as x-ray vision, where are supposed being located behind opaque surfaces. paper reviews...

The Microsoft Kinect for Xbox 360 ("Kinect") provides a convenient and inexpensive depth sensor and, with the software development kit, skeleton tracker (Figure 2). These have great potential to be useful as virtual environment (VE) control interfaces avatars or viewpoint control. In order determine its suitability our applications, we devised conducted tests measure standard performance specifications tracking systems. We evaluated noise, accuracy, resolution, latency of software. also...

Cardiometabolic disease is more common in patients with schizophrenia than the general population.The purpose of study was to assess lifestyle factors, including diet and exercise, estimate prevalence metabolic syndrome.This a cross-sectional representative group outpatients Salford, UK. An interview supplemented by questionnaires used diet, physical activity, cigarette alcohol use. Likert scales assessed subjects' views activity. A examination relevant blood tests were...

A useful function of augmented reality (AR) systems is their ability to visualize occluded infrastructure directly in a user's view the environment. This especially important for our application context, which utilizes mobile AR navigation and other operations an urban key problem field how best depict objects such way that viewer can correctly infer depth relationships between different physical virtual objects. Showing single object with no context presents ambiguous picture user. But...

Clozapine is widely prescribed and, although effective, can cause weight gain and dysglycemia. The dysmetabolic effects of clozapine are thought to be more prevalent in women with this gender on average attaining 17 % higher plasma concentrations than men. We investigated the relationship between dose, body mass index (BMI), glucose concentration, N-desmethylclozapine (norclozapine) 100 individuals a severe enduring mental illness. Mean (10th/90th percentile) were for [0.49 (0.27–0.79) mg/L]...

The aim of this study was to determine whether social deprivation in the presence diabetes is an independent predictor developing a foot ulcer and separately mortality. This primary-care-based retrospective analysis 13,955 adults with type 1 (n = 1370) or 2 12,585) after median follow-up 10.5 years. Demographic characteristics, indices clinical variables were assessed at baseline. primary outcomes new ulceration (in those without previous history ulcers) all-cause Cox proportional hazard...

Other than age, diabetes is the largest contributor to overall healthcare costs and reduced life expectancy in Europe. This paper aims more exactly quantify net impact of on different aspects provision hospitals England, building previous work that looked at determinants outcome type 1 (T1DM) 2 (T2DM).NHS Digital Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) England was combined with National Diabetes Audit (NDA) provide total number practice people T1DM/T2DM.We compared differences between T1DM/T2DM...

Abstract Aims To describe changes in homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance index (HOMA‐IR) following testosterone therapy men with hypogonadism and metabolic syndrome (MetS). Materials Methods A randomized, placebo‐controlled, double‐blind randomized controlled trial (RCT) comprising 184 MetS (testosterone undecanoate [TU]: 113 men, placebo: 71 men) was conducted. This followed by an open‐label phase which all were given TU. We focused on who not receiving antiglycaemic agents...

We apply a look-up table technique to calibrate both position and orientation readings from magnetic tracker for use in virtual environments within defined working volume. In test volume of 2.4 cubic meters, the method reduced tracker's average error by 79% its 40%. correction against performance outdoors (a metal-poor environment) show that taken our lab corrected exhibit less than uncorrected outdoors. demonstrate such reduction visibly improves registration an augmented reality system,...

A fundamental problem in optical, see-through augmented reality (AR) is characterizing how it affects the perception of spatial layout and depth. This important because AR system developers need to both place graphics arbitrary relationships with real-world objects, know that users will perceive them same relationships. Furthermore, makes possible enhanced perceptual techniques have no equivalent, such as x-ray vision, where are supposed being located behind opaque surfaces. paper reviews...

A useful function of augmented reality (AR) systems is their ability to visualize occluded infrastructure directly in a user's view the environment. This especially important for our application context, which utilizes mobile AR navigation and other operations an urban key problem field how best depict objects such way that viewer can correctly infer depth relationships between different physical virtual objects. Showing single object with no context presents ambiguous picture user. But...

How do users of virtual environments perceive space? Many experiments have explored this question, but most these used head-mounted immersive displays. This paper reports an experiment that studied large-screen displays at medium-field distances 2 to 15 meters. The measured ego-centric depth judgments in a CAVE, tiled display wall, and real-world outdoor field as control condition. We carefully modeled the make three similar possible. Measuring egocentric requires adapting new measurement...

We tested users' depth perception of virtual objects in our mobile augmented reality (AR) system both indoor and outdoor environments using a matching task. The environment is characterized by strong linear perspective cues; we attempted to re-create these cues the environment. In environment, found an overall pattern underestimation that typical for AR systems. However, subjects overestimated depth. addition, synthetic met with measure success, leading users reduce their estimate distant...