EU project deliverable reports by Olga Stepankova
Deliverable D2.1 , 2020
This report outlines the result of exhaustive literature review of the best practices in citizen ... more This report outlines the result of exhaustive literature review of the best practices in citizen science engagement, motivation and impact. Additionally, for part of this exploration, the authors followed the seven specific questions from the CSI-COP project and spun off another three.
This way, the project team took into consideration a broader number of perspectives in their quest of finding the most suitable engagement methods, specific to their project.
An important occurrence of this project, a turn that happened in the middle of the task that was set to create this deliverable was the COVID-19 outbreak.
Papers by Olga Stepankova
Springer eBooks, 1996
The paper briefly describes DISCIMan environment for experiments in multi-agent systems character... more The paper briefly describes DISCIMan environment for experiments in multi-agent systems characterized by peer-to-peer communication among all agents and including a super-agent watching the communication traffic within the system. There are identified some features of the agents and their community which seem to be decisive from the point of the system's efficiency as well as the methods how to learn them from experimental data taken from the system's history.
Visualization of Trends Using RadViz
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2009
Page 1. Visualization of Trends Using RadViz Lenka Nováková and Olga tepánková Department of Cyb... more Page 1. Visualization of Trends Using RadViz Lenka Nováková and Olga tepánková Department of Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering Czech Technical University in Prague Technická 2, 166 27 Prague 6, Czech Republic {novakova,step}@labe.felk.cvut.cz Abstract. ...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Mar 29, 2023
CO Confidential, only for members of the Consortium (including the Commission Services) CI Classi... more CO Confidential, only for members of the Consortium (including the Commission Services) CI Classified, information as referred to in Commission Decision 2001/844/EC. This communication is part of a project that has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement Nº873169 Page2 Version control Version Date Authors Institution Change and where applicable reason for change 1 02.11.
On Iteration in Robot Planning
Fundamenta Informaticae, Oct 1, 1984
<jats:p>The paper discusses the role of iteration in robot plans constructed in the framewo... more <jats:p>The paper discusses the role of iteration in robot plans constructed in the framework of predicate logic. It is shown that, unless some special axioms are added, the class of solvable tasks is not enlarged by admitting iteration in plans.</jats:p>
Normal forms and the complexity of computations of logic programs
Springer eBooks, Nov 19, 2005
It is shown that every pure logic program can be transformed to a normal form without changing th... more It is shown that every pure logic program can be transformed to a normal form without changing the lengths of computations and the data flow during computation. The lengths of computations of logic programs in normal form are studied. Some sufficient conditions on the syntactic structure of programs are formulated that imply that the length of computation is linear with
Efektivní převod multirelační database na jednorelační reprezentaci
Proceedings of the CEPES-UNESCO International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education
International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Oct 23, 1989
Optimized Management of BIG Data Produced in Brain Disorder Rehabilitation
Studies in big data, 2016
Brain disorders resulting from injury, disease, or health conditions can influence function of mo... more Brain disorders resulting from injury, disease, or health conditions can influence function of most parts of human body. Necessary medical care and rehabilitation is often impossible without close cooperation of several diverse medical specialists who must work jointly to choose methods that improve and support healing processes as well as to discover underlying principles. The key to their decisions are data resulting from careful observation or examination of the patient. We introduce the concept of scientific dataspace that involves and stores numerous and often complex types of data, e.g., the primary data captured from the application, data derived by curation and analytic processes, background data including ontology and workflow specifications, semantic relationships between dataspace items based on ontologies, and available published data. Our contribution applies big data and cloud technologies to ensure efficient exploitation of this dataspace, namely, novel software architectures, algorithms and methodology for its optimized management and utilization. We present its service-oriented architecture using a running case study and results of its data processing that involves mining and visualization of selected patterns optimized towards big and complex data we are dealing with.
ILP for Automated Telephony
Towards precision brain disorder rehabilitation
Brain disorders include any conditions or disabilities that affect the brain. Some frequently occ... more Brain disorders include any conditions or disabilities that affect the brain. Some frequently occurring brain disorders (caused by e.g., injury or stroke) are associated with balance disorders that can be to some extent compensated by highly personalized and long term rehabilitation. This paper presents basic principles and reports the first results of our project focused on design and development of new generation data-centric approach to treatment of balance disorders through exergames offering many levels of difficulties that can be adjusted through choice of their parameters. The suggested approach paves the way to future precision rehabilitation models, in which the significant part of the training can be ensured through game like exercise supervised by an intelligent adaptive system called Intelligend Therapy Assistant (ITA) providing the patient with biofeedback. Further, the supervising ITA iteratively modifies parameters of the next run of the game (adapts them) according to the current needs of the individual patient in order to keep the patient motivated — this is ensured by introduction of a feedback loop between the ITA system and thorough evaluation of results achieved by the patient during the therapy process.
Bioimpedance, Total Body Water and Phase Angle of Preschool Czech Children: Preliminary Study
IFMBE proceedings, Sep 25, 2019
This study is a presentation of our ongoing process of obtaining body composition and electrical ... more This study is a presentation of our ongoing process of obtaining body composition and electrical parameters from sufficient cohort of normal healthy children in Czech Republic that are currently not known. At the moment, 37 children have been fully measured and their parameters evaluated. The measured group consisted of 17 boys and 20 girls and their age was 5 to 6 years. Results are showing that hydration status and electrical parameters of children are approximately the same in the time of leave and in the time of arrival kindergarten. However, changes that are reported through all measurements indicate some specific behavior of bioelectrical values during children day cycle. Bioimpedance seems to act as a possible marker, that can describe in future body composition in another perspective than classical body composition parameters. Further work is needed to obtain sufficient cohort of normal healthy children and to be able to estimate new electrical parameters that may be used as reliable predictors of a health status of the child without using empirical equations or BMI.
Usability of Electronic Patient Records for Assessment and Care Planning in Nursing Homes
IFMBE proceedings, May 30, 2018
Nursing homes are more frequently turning to the electronic patient record (EPR) to manage docume... more Nursing homes are more frequently turning to the electronic patient record (EPR) to manage documentation. Potential benefits associated with EPR include the storage of longitudinal information, interoperability, and improved documentation quality. However, the uptake of EPR in nursing homes has varied considerably across countries, which has been associated with the incompatibility of some EPR systems with this environment. Furthermore, the suitability of EPR for planning dementia care is largely unknown. This study aims to produce recommendations for the future development of EPR systems for use in the assessment and care planning for people with dementia in nursing homes. Case studies of four nursing homes using EPR in Belgium, Czech Republic, Spain and the UK will be conducted. There are two elements to the study: (i) the contextual inquiry method will be employed to explore usability issues with different types of end users. Data will be analysed using qualitative content analysis; (ii) the electronic care plan used in each of the homes will be compared with best practice guidelines for dementia care planning in order to explore the extent to which they include aspects of care that are relevant for people with dementia. Primary data collection will be ongoing throughout 2018, and results will form the basis of recommendations for future EPR development. It is expected that results will lead to improved design of EPR for use in nursing homes, specifically in the assessment and care planning for people with dementia.
Treatment of Differential Pulse Voltammograms of Tissuehomogenates from Rats
In this study, a mathematical approach how to evaluate and classify datasets obtained by electroc... more In this study, a mathematical approach how to evaluate and classify datasets obtained by electrochemical analysis of metallothionein in rat 9 tissues (brain, heart, kidney, eye, spleen, gonad, blood and muscle) was suggested. Classification models have been designed using separately two groups of attributes, namely the attributes describing local extremes and the derived attributes resulting from level = 5 wavelet transformation. Based on the results obtained, we were able to construct a decision tree that makes it possible to distinguish among electrochemical analysis data resulting from measurements of all the considered tissues.
Model Based User Interface Constructor for CIM
Behavioral and Neuroendocrine Changes during Mental Stress and Repeated Treatment with Antidepressants in Healthy Men
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Jun 1, 2004
: Excessive stress loadings in daily life are believed to play a role in the development of affec... more : Excessive stress loadings in daily life are believed to play a role in the development of affective disorders. Our recent finding of enhanced neuroendocrine activation during stress of hypoglycemia after repeated antidepressant treatment in healthy men supports the hypothesis that the clinical effects of antidepressant treatment may be partly due to the adjustment of the stress response, which was reported to be blunted in depressive patients. The present double‐blind placebo‐controlled study investigated the effects of 6 days of treatment with the antidepressants citalopram or tianeptine on neuroendocrine activation during mental stress. Blood pressure, heart rate, and salivary cortisol values were measured. The stress procedure, lasting 17 min, consisted of a short intelligence test followed by the Stroop word‐color interference test. Citalopram treatment was associated with a significant enhancement of stress‐related increase in systolic and diastolic blood pressure. No differences were observed in the heart rates and salivary cortisol. Comparisons based on cluster analysis revealed that subjects with poor performance in the Stroop test displayed a significantly lower rise of systolic and diastolic blood pressure values after the stress procedure and lower prestress cortisol levels in saliva when compared to the good performing subjects. Our findings show that antidepressant treatment can enhance the neuroendocrine response also during mental stress, and suggest that mental performance during stress is related to the pattern of cardiovascular and adrenocortical activation.
The role of Electronic Patient Records (EPR) for planning and delivering dementia care in nursing homes
Routledge eBooks, Nov 11, 2022
Brain
Previous studies have shown that the cholinergic nucleus basalis of Meynert and its white matter ... more Previous studies have shown that the cholinergic nucleus basalis of Meynert and its white matter projections are affected in Alzheimer’s disease dementia and mild cognitive impairment. However, it is still unknown whether these alterations can be found in individuals with subjective cognitive decline, and whether they are more pronounced than changes found in conventional brain volumetric measurements. To address these questions, we investigated microstructural alterations of two major cholinergic pathways in individuals along the Alzheimer’s disease continuum using an in vivo model of the human cholinergic system based on neuroimaging. We included 402 participants (52 Alzheimer’s disease, 66 mild cognitive impairment, 172 subjective cognitive decline and 112 healthy controls) from the Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen Longitudinal Cognitive Impairment and Dementia Study. We modelled the cholinergic white matter pathways with an enhanced diffusion neuroimaging pip...
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EU project deliverable reports by Olga Stepankova
This way, the project team took into consideration a broader number of perspectives in their quest of finding the most suitable engagement methods, specific to their project.
An important occurrence of this project, a turn that happened in the middle of the task that was set to create this deliverable was the COVID-19 outbreak.
Papers by Olga Stepankova