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A Study Of Cognition And Willingness Of Hospital Managers On Setting Up Fitness Centers, Tsan-Hon Liou, Po-Wei Lin, Jing-Hwa Wey, Chun-Chieh Chiu, Chung-Pao Lin, Yu-Sheng Liao

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

In the United States, the hospital-based fitness centers were rapidly developed in recent years and, in fact, they have already had over twenty years history. However, the concept is just at beginning stage in Taiwan. This investigation was directed against the managers of the hospital in Taiwan. To collect the interest of cognition and willingness of hospital managers on the issue of setting up a fitness center. One hundred and ninety-eight questionnaires were sent out and 138 reclaimed. The rate of reclaims was 69.7%. They included 78 managers of doctor and 60 managers of non-doctor. The results of the study …

Slit Ventricle Syndrome In A Hemorrhagic Stroke Patient After A Shunt Surgery: A Casereport, Tung-Yang Yu, Sai-Cheung Lee, Jin-Rong Lin, Chih-Chin Hsu

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

A 55-year-old male patient suffered from left intracranial hemorrhage received craniotomy and removal of intracerebral hematoma. Ventriculoperitoneal shunt was implanted for the complication of hydrocephalus. The skull was put back later because of stable status. He developed scalp necrosis and, therefore several times of debridement was done. The skull was taken away under the suspicion of osteomyelitis. However, he had vomiting, somnolence, urinary incontinence and unable to walk two months after this procedure. Computed tomography showed slit ventricles in right hemisphere. The shunt was then removed and his clinical conditions improved. Slit ventricle syndrome is commonly seen in children, rather …

Moyamoya Disease In Children: A Casereport, Chung-Li Tseng, Chia-Ying Chung, Chia-Ling Chen, Pao-Tsai Cheng, Simon F. T. Tang, Alice M. K.Wong

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

This work describes motor, cognition and emotional problems in a child with Moyamoya disease before and after rehabilitation. Following comprehensive rehabilitation, the girl achieved improved gross motor, fine motor, cognition and emotional control. Moyamoya disease is an important cause of childhood ischemic stroke. Moyamoya disease has a bimodal age distribution, with one group of pediatric age (around first decade of life), and a second group of adults in the 30 to 40-year-old age range. Moyamoya disease involves progressive idiopathic stenosis and eventual occlusion of the large cerebral arteries at the circle of Willis. The pathogenesis of Moyamoya disease remains unclear. …

Paper For An Educational Digital Library, Dion Hoe-Lian Goh, Yin-Leng Theng, Ming Yin, Ee Peng Lim

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

GeogDL is a digital library of geography examination resources designed to assist students in revising for a national geography examination in Singapore. As part of an iterative design process, we carried out participatory design and brainstorming with student and teacher design partners. The first study involved prospective student design partners. In response to the first study, we describe in this paper an implementation of PAPER – Personalised Adaptive Pathways for Exam Resources – a new bundle of personalized, interactive services containing a mock exam and a personal coach. The mock exam provides a simulation of the actual geography examination while …

Xstamps: A Multiversion Timestamps Concurrency Control Protocol For Xml Data, Khin-Myo Win, Wee-Keong Ng, Ee Peng Lim

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

With the tremendous growth of XML data over the Web, efficient management of such data becomes a new challenge for database community. Several data management solutions, proposed in recent years, extend the capability of traditional database systems to meet the needs of XML data while alternative approaches introduce new generation databases, named as native XML database management systems. Although traditional databases have mature transaction management and concurrency control techniques, there is still a need to tailor techniques for native XML databases in order to deal with distinct characteristics of XML. In this paper, we propose XStamps, a multiversion timestamps concurrency …

Structuring Lecture Videos For Distance Learning Applications, Chong-Wah Ngo, Feng Wang, Ting-Chuen Pong

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This paper presents an automatic and novel approach in structuring and indexing lecture videos for distance learning applications. By structuring video content, we can support both topic indexing and semantic querying of multimedia documents. In this paper, our aim is to link the discussion topics extracted from the electronic slides with their associated video and audio segments. Two major techniques in our proposed approach include video text analysis and speech recognition. Initially, a video is partitioned into shots based on slide transitions. For each shot, the embedded video texts are detected, reconstructed and segmented as high-resolution foreground texts for commercial …

How Are Social Identities Linked To Self-Conception And Intergroup Orientation? The Moderating Effect Of Implicit Theories, Ying-Yi Hong, Gloria Chan, Chi-Yue Chiu, Rosanna Y. M. Wong, Ian G. Hansen, Sau-Lai Lee, Jennifer Yuk-Yue Tong, Ho-Ying Fu

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Social identity approaches assume that social identification affects both self-conception and intergroup orientation. The authors contend that such social identification effects are accentuated when people hold a fixed view of human character and attribute immutable dispositions to social groups. To these individuals, social identities are immutable, concrete entities capable of guiding self-conception and intergroup orientation. Social identification effects are attenuated when people hold a malleable view of human character and thus do not view social identities as fixed, concrete entities. The authors tested and found support for this contention in three studies that were conducted in the context of the …

Predicting Nonlinear Network Traffic Using Fuzzy Neural Network, Zhaoxia Wang, Tingzhu Hao, Zengqiang Chen, Zhuzhi Yuan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Network traffic is a complex and nonlinear process, which is significantly affected by immeasurable parameters and variables. This paper addresses the use of the five-layer fuzzy neural network (FNN) for predicting the nonlinear network traffic. The structure of this system is introduced in detail. Through training the FNN using back-propagation algorithm with inertia] terms the traffic series can be well predicted by this FNN system. We analyze the performance of the FNN in terms of prediction ability as compared with solely neural network. The simulation demonstrates that the proposed FNN is superior to the solely neural network systems. In addition, …

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, November 30, 2003, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2003

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, November 30, 2003, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2003

No abstract provided.

11/30/2003 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries

Obituaries

List of Obituaries for individuals who passed away on 11/30/2003. Scroll down to see the names and obituary description.

St. Mark’S Catholic Community Of The Deaf, November 30, 2003

Saint Mark's Catholic Community of the Deaf

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Edmonton, Canada

Saint Mark's Catholic Community of the Deaf Finding Aid

Evaluation Of Event Data Recorders In Real World Crashes And Full-Scale Crash Tests, Lewis Thomas Clayton Jr.

Theses and Dissertations

With the advent of advanced safety systems in U.S. passenger vehicles, there has been increased interest shown by automakers in recording crash related parameters that ultimately lead to the deployment of these safety systems in what are known as Event Data Recorders (EDRs). Since the only other record of these parameters, specifically crash pulse, comes from staged crash tests in a controlled environment, the advent of the EDR has become increasingly important to crash researchers. The purpose of this study is to quantify the performance of EDRs in full-scale crash tests and real world crashes.

Comparison of EDRs with staged …

Campus Weekly Crime Report For The Week Ending November 30, 2003, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. University Police Services.

Crime Reports, Alerts, and Information

The weekly crime report for the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's campus for the week ending November 30, 2003.

The Distribution Of Internal Interfaces In Polycrystals, Brent L. Adams, Bassem S. El-Dasher, Gregory S. Rohrer, Anthony D. Rollett, David M. Saylor, Paul Wynblatt

Faculty Publications

This work was supported by the MRSEC program of the National Science Foundation under Award Number DMR-0079996. Recent advances both in experimental instrumentation and computing power have made it possible to interrogate the distribution of internal interfaces in polycrystals and the three dimensional structure of the grain boundary network with an unprecedented level of detail. The purpose of this paper is to review techniques that can be used to study the mesoscopic crystallographic structure of grain boundary networks and to summarize current findings. Recent studies have shown that grain surfaces within dense polycrystals favor the same low energy planes that …

Al.Com, "Eutaw Joins War On Death Penalty", Carla Crowder

Municipal Moratorium Resolutions

Al.com article on the Eutaw City Council passing a resolution calling for a moratorium on executions in Alabama.

Design And Evaluation Of Processes For Fuel Fabrication: Quarterly Progress Report #9, Georg F. Mauer

Fuels Campaign (TRP)

The ninth quarter of the project covered the following:

• Mr. Richard Silva continued the development of a simulation model with a Waelischmiller hot cell robot. Rich will continue to develop detailed 3-D process simulation models as his M.Sc. thesis project.

• A paper on hot cell robotics was presented at the ANS Winter Annual Meeting and published in the ANS 2003 conference proceedings.

• Further advances on Concepts and Methods for Vision-Based Hot Cell Supervision and control, focusing on rule-based object recognition (Ph.D. Student Jae-Kyu Lee)

• Graduate student Jamil Renno created simulations of more complex fuel manufacturing and …

Was Japan’S Real Interest Rate Really Too High During The 1990s? The Role Of The Zero Interest Rate Bound And Other Factors, Hiro Ito

Economics Faculty Publications and Presentations

Japan’s more than a decade long “Great Recession” has presented a disconcerting case of what could happen if interest rates are bounded by zero and deflation sets in. Since Krugman (1998), the commonplace observation is that the deflationary situation combined with the zero nominal interest rate has caused elevated real interest rates, thereby nullifying monetary policy. This paper investigates this oft -cited claim and examines whether it is associated with anomalies in the way real interest rates are determined by employing an error correction model (ECM) based on the time-varying parameter model with Markov-switching variances. Using this model it is …

Modeling Corrosion In Oxygen Controlled Lbe Systems With Coupling Of Chemical Kinetics And Hydrodynamics-Task V: Fourth Quarterly Report 09/01/2003-11/30/2003, Samir Moujaes, Yitung Chen

Transmutation Sciences Materials (TRP)

The Lead-Bismuth eutectic (LBE) has been determined from previous experimental studies by the Russians and the European scientific community to be a potential material that can be used as a spallation target and coolant for the TRP proposed application. Properly controlling the oxygen content in LBE can drastically reduce the LBE corrosion to structural steels. However, existing knowledge of material corrosion performance was obtained from point-wise testing with only very sparse experimental data. Scientists have noticed that the concentration of oxygen dissolved in the liquid alloy could control the corrosion rate of steels exposed to Pb or Pb-Bi. At high …

New Mexico Labor Market Review 11-30-2003, New Mexico Department Of Labor

Historic Publications

This issue of the New Mexico Labor Market Review presents October 2003 employment, unemployment, wage, and economic activity data for New Mexico, its counties, and metropolitan areas.

Sr-03-04-13 Fs, Marshall University

Recommendations

No abstract provided.

Nsu News Release - 2003-11-29 - Nsu Men's Basketball Edges Past Puerto Rico-Bayamon Cowboys 59-57, Nova Southeastern University

NSU Athletics Press Releases

No abstract provided.

11/29/2003 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries

Obituaries

List of Obituaries for individuals who passed away on 11/29/2003. Scroll down to see the names and obituary description.

November 29, 2003 (Pages 5803-5902), Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau

Volume 33 (2003)

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest: Deaf Sports News November 29, 2003, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Sports 2003

No abstract provided.

Murray Ledger And Times, November 29, 2003, Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

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Poisonous Snakes And Snakebite In Nebraska, Ron J. Johnson

Other Publications in Wildlife Management

Recognizing Poisonous Snakes Prairie rattlesnake Timber rattlesnake Western massasauga Copperhead THE "2-3-4" OF SNAKEBITE Avoiding Poisonous Snakes - The "2" What SHOULD be done in case of Poisonous Snakebite - The "3" What SHOULD NOT Be Done - The "4" Should You Kill Poisonous Snakes on Sight? IN CASE OF POISONOUS SNAKEBITE

Laser-Energy Transfer And Enhancement Of Plasma Waves And Electron Beams By Interfering High-Intensity Laser Pulses, P. Zhang, N. Saleh, Shouyuan Chen, Z.M. Sheng, Donald P. Umstadter

Donald Umstadter Publications

The effects of interference due to crossed laser beams were studied experimentally in the high-intensity regime. Two ultrashort (400 fs), high-intensity (4×10¹⁷ and 1.6×10¹⁸ W/cm²) and1µm wavelength laser pulses were crossed in a plasma of density 4×10¹⁹ cm³. Energy was observed to be transferred from the higher-power to the lower-power pulse, increasing the amplitude of the plasma wave propagating in the direction of the latter. This results in increased electron self-trapping and plasma-wave acceleration gradient, which led to an increased number of hot electrons (by 300%) and hot-electron temperature (by 70%) and a …

Criss-Crossing Laser Beams Zoom Electrons Along, P. Zhang, N. Saleh, Shouyuan Chen, Z.M. Sheng, Donald P. Umstadter

Donald Umstadter Publications

Crossing two high-intensity laser beams in a plasma (a collection of charged particles) can have some interesting effects. In a recent experiment performed by researchers at the University of Michigan and the Institute of Physics in China, energy from a higher-power laser pulse was transferred to a lower-power laser pulse. The lower-power pulse had been accelerating electrons with its "wakefield" (like a wave accelerating a surfer). The extra energy to this lower-power pulse enhanced the electron acceleration and decreased the divergence of the electron beam. These features are desirable for proposed "laser particle accelerators" that would be powered by relatively …

Volume 41, Number 14: November 28, 2003, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.