Preventing Toxic Childhood Stress in the COVID Era: A Role for Telemedicine
TELEMEDICINE AND E-HEALTH
Authors: Bottino, Clement J.
Abstract
The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in unprecedented stress for families and children. Curve-flattening measures have disrupted the relational networks of millions. Stress in the absence of protective relationships can quickly become toxic, harming mental and physical health. If toxic stress is characterized by an absence of protective relationships, telemedicine may have a role in collective prevention efforts by enabling and preserving patient-provider continuity. Through virtual visits and check-ins, trusted health care providers can serve as a source of emotional support and psychosocial buffering for families under stress. By leveraging technology to deliver care remotely, telemedicine lets patients and providers connect, relate, and engage. Connection enables the conveyance of compassion and empathy. Telemedicine may thus serve as an important conduit for fostering protective relationships, buffering toxic stressors, and promoting safety and healing. Telemedicine will not resolve the needs created by the pandemic, but it may be one component for addressing them.
Kullback-Leibler differential entropy equation based CIMM-PDA for reliable positioning
ALEXANDRIA ENGINEERING JOURNAL
Authors: Hu, Enwen; Deng, Zhongliang; Jiang, Kun; Wu, Chengfeng
Abstract
An interactive multi-model probability data association based on Kullback-Leibler dif-ferential entropy for reliable positioning is proposed to stably track noise. When the changes in measurement noise and process noise occurs, the interactive multi-models can fuse the estimated results and by combination of probabilities in models, noise can be dynamically tracked, to improve the reliability and accuracy of positioning procedures. The simulation results show that with the increase of measurement noise, the KL-CIMM-PDA method is more stable and more adaptive to track noise than the CIMM-PDA method and compared with the IMM-UKF, the accuracy of the KL-CIMM-PDA is improved by 26.7%. (C) 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).