Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is one of the most common liver diseases worldwide, with a global prevalence of approximately 30%. However, the prevalence of NAFLD has been variously reported depending on the comorbidities. The rising prevalence of obesity in both the adult and pediatric populations is projected to consequently continue increasing NAFLD prevalence. It is a major cause of chronic liver disease worldwide, including cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). NAFLD has a variety of clinical phenotypes and heterogeneity due to the complexity of pathogenesis and clinical conditions of its occurrence, resulting in various clinical prognoses. In this article, we briefly described the basic definition of NAFLD and classified the subtypes based on current knowledge in this field.

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to compare changes in balance ability of land exercise and underwater exercise on chronic stroke patients. [Subjects] A total of 60 patients received exercise for 40 minutes, three times a week, for 6 weeks. [Methods] Subjects from both groups performed general conventional treatment during the experimental period. In addition, all subjects engaged in extra treatment sessions. This extra treatment consisted of unstable surface exercise. The underwater exercise group used wonder boards in a pool (depth 1.1m, water temperature 33.5 °C, air temperature 27 °C) dedicated to underwater exercise, and the land exercise group used balance mats. [Result] The joint position sense, sway area, Berg Balance Scale showed significant improvements in both groups. However, the joint position sense test, sway area, and Berg Balance Scale showed there was more improvement in the underwater exercise group than in the land exercise group. [Conclusion] The results suggest that underwater exercise is more effective than land exercise at improving the joint position sense and balance of stroke patients.

This paper proposes a practical probabilistic approach to collision decision making which is necessary for advanced automotive collision warning system (CWS) using FMCW radar. Most decision making algorithms assess the probable collisions based on the predicted collision position which is usually expressed as a nonlinear function of threat vehicle's position and velocity provided by FMCW radar. Since the predicted collision position has highly nonlinear statistics in general, it is one of main obstacles to improving the reliability of the collision probability computation and to developing real-time decision making algorithms. This motivates us to devise a Gaussian mixture method for collision probability calculation with the help of linear recursive time-to-collision (TTC) estimation. The suggested TTC estimator provides an accurate TTC estimate with small estimation error variance hence it enables us to approximate the probability density function of the predicted collision position as the weighted sum of just a few Gaussian distributions. Therefore, our approach could drastically reduce the inherent nonlinearity of collision decision making problem and computational complexity in collision probability calculation. Through the simulations for the typical engagement scenarios between the host and threat vehicles, the performance and effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is compared to those of the existing ones which require heavy computational burden.

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