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The vision is considered the most important sense in humans, the visual field may be affected by various diseases or conditions that can even be congenital, resulting in a high percentage of people with visual problems, low vision to blindness. In the majority of cases can be corrected with conventional methods, however, if a suitable control could be prevented and up to early detection of various...
Nowadays the World Health Organization (WHO) claims that one billion persons live in the world with some form of disability. From this group, an important number of children with disabilities and communication disorders do not have access to adequate services for special education or health care. In this point, it is important to mention that language and communication are mainstays in the development...
The developed project aims to introduce an electronic device, in a blind people community, an electronic device, capable of generating an autonomous learning of Braille reading system. In addition, it was decided to develop this project, taking as reference the current rate of 0.3% of visually impaired people in Ecuador, the government's willingness to support projects that involve social inclusion;...
Currently, the robotic assistants, as well as the intelligent ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) tools, play an important role in different stages of evaluation, therapy, or education of People With Communication Disorders (PWCD). However, not all of these tools can easily incorporate new functionalities, exercises, or activities for therapy sessions. Likewise, in developing countries,...
According to World Cancer Research Fund International the esophageal cancer is the eighth most common malignancy and the sixth most common cause of cancer-related death in the world. This disease can be originated by various causes, being the Barrett's esophagus his previous stage. The Barrett's esophagus is present in several cases of patients suffering from gastric reflux. Therefore, it is fundamental...
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), as of 2012 esophageal cancer is the eighth-most common cancer globally with 456,000 new cases during the year. One of the triggers of the esophageal cancer is the hiatus hernia, and currently, the frequency disease increases with age, from 10% in patients younger than 40 years to 70% in patients older than 70 years old. Given the above, the aim of...
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