Abstract Background Late-life depression (LLD) is a prevalent neuropsychiatric disorder in the older population.While LLD exhibits high mortality rates, depressive symptoms in older adults are often masked by physical health conditions.In younger adults, depression is associated with deficits in pupil light reflex and eye blink rate, suggesting the
Introduction: It is widely believed that blinding is a cornerstone of randomized clinical trials and that significant bias may result from unsuccessful blinding.However, it is not enough to claim that a clinical trial is single- or double-blinded and that assessment of the success of blinding is ideal.The aim of this study was to evaluate the preva
Bio-inspired optimization techniques (BOT) are part of intelligent computing techniques.There are several BOTs available and many new BOTs are evolving in this era of industrial revolution 4.0.Genetic algorithm, particle swarm optimization, artificial bee colony, and grey wolf optimization are the techniques explored by researchers in the field of
In blind source separation (BSS) for multisubject functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data, dimensionality reduction is generally performed for multiple times.This leads to the challenge of determining the number of the retained dimensionality, i.e.the order of BSS models, which dramatically influences the validity and performance of BSS m