196,215 research outputs found
Effect of blood flow on ultrasound-induced heating in fetal and neonatal brain
No full textJournal of Ultrasound in Medicine, 2000; 19(4): S34.S. B. Barnett, M. M. Horder and P. M. Dugga
Utility and usability of a wearable system and progressive-challenge cued exercise program for encouraging use of the more involved arm at-home after stroke—a feasibility study with case reports
No full textBackground Understanding the role of adherence to home exercise programs for survivors of stroke is critical to ensure patients perform prescribed exercises and maximize effectiveness of recovery.Methods Survivors of hemiparetic stroke with impaired motor function were recruited into a 7-day study designed to test the utility and usability of a low-cost wearable system and progressive-challenge cued exercise program for encouraging graded-challenge exercise at-home. The wearable system comprised two wrist-worn MetaMotionR+ activity monitors and a custom smartphone app. The progressive-challenge cued exercise program included high-intensity activities (one repetition every 30 s) dosed at 1.5 h per day, embedded within 8 h of passive activity monitoring per day. Utility was assessed using measures of system uptime and cue response rate. Usability and user experience were assessed using well-validated quantitative surveys of system usability and user experience. Self-efficacy was assessed at the end of each day on a visual analog scale that ranged from 0 to 100.Results The system and exercise program had objective utility: system uptime was 92 +/- 6.9% of intended hours and the rate of successful cue delivery was 99 +/- 2.7%. The system and program also were effective in motivating cued exercise: activity was detected within 5-s of the cue 98 +/- 3.1% of the time. As shown via two case studies, accelerometry data can accurately reflect graded-challenge exercise instructions and reveal differentiable activity levels across exercise stages. User experience surveys indicated positive overall usability in the home settings, strong levels of personal motivation to use the system, and high degrees of satisfaction with the devices and provided training. Self-efficacy assessments indicated a strong perception of proficiency across participants (95 +/- 5.0).Conclusions This study demonstrates that a low-cost wearable system providing frequent haptic cues to encourage graded-challenge exercise after stroke can have utility and can provide an overall positive user experience in home settings. The study also demonstrates how combining a graded exercise program with all-day activity monitoring can provide insight into the potential for wearable systems to assess adherence to-and effectiveness of-home-based exercise programs on an individualized basis
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.
No full text"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement.
To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Dr. Glendon Swarthout
No full textHosted by Roger M. Busfield, MSU Assistant Professor of Speech and Theater, Meet the Author is designed to introduce a general audience to a contemporary author and their work through in-depth interviews. This episode features a conversation between Dr. Glendon Swarthout, prolific author and English professor at MSU, and assistant professors Sam S. Baskett and Theodore B. Strandness
Partnerships: a common sense approach to inclusion?
No full textThere is an increasing emphasis on inter-agency, inter-professional, multi-agency and multi-professional partnerships as a means of nurturing social inclusion. Both compulsory and post-compulsory education are central pillars in the UK’s ‘battle’ against exclusion. Existing professional and service divisions are seen as creating barriers: a source of further exclusion for the disenfranchised. ‘Joined-up solutions’ mean educators from higher, further and community education are called upon to work with welfare agencies, regeneration projects and voluntary organisations. The proliferating inter-agency, inter-professional collaborative approaches have gained the status of being regarded as the common sense approach; the joined-up solution to the joined-up problem. Such discourse has popular appeal and has achieved hegemonic status, going largely unchallenged, widely welcomed and subjected to scant unbiased analysis. Specialised, compartmentalised professions were once ‘common sense’ but now staff are required to work together to ensure co-ordination, avoid duplication, share knowledge and information and to create new approaches through drawing creatively on a widened range of techniques. The merit of this approach tends to be assumed: Richards and Horder note that ‘few voices are heard arguing against collaboration’ (Richards and Horder 1999: 45) although Thompson warns that ‘partnership’ has become a ‘buzz-word’ and thus ‘runs the risk of being dismissed as a fad or fashion, and its significance as a practice principle lost in the process’ (Thompson 1998: 212). Little research has been conducted into the aspects of inter-agency work which are conducive to success or otherwise. However, people currently involved in partnerships are interested in identifying the elements which contribute to success in achieving the identified aims in order to transfer the learning. Whether, in the longer term, partnerships will be established as the new orthodoxy or eclipsed by some new trend, its current ascendancy calls out for further academic interrogation
Simulation of thermal plant optimization and hydraulic aspects of thermal distribution loops for large campuses
No full textFollowing an introduction, the author describes Texas A&M University and its utilities system. After that, the author presents how to construct simulation models for chilled water and heating hot water distribution systems. The simulation model was used in a $2.3 million Ross Street chilled water pipe replacement project at Texas A&M University. A second project conducted at the University of Texas at San Antonio was used as an example to demonstrate how to identify and design an optimal distribution system by using a simulation model. The author found that the minor losses of these closed loop thermal distribution systems are significantly higher than potable water distribution systems. In the second part of the report, the author presents the latest development of software called the Plant Optimization Program, which can simulate cogeneration plant operation, estimate its operation cost and provide optimized operation suggestions. The author also developed detailed simulation models for a gas turbine and heat recovery steam generator and identified significant potential savings. Finally, the author also used a steam turbine as an example to present a multi-regression method on constructing simulation models by using basic statistics and optimization algorithms. This report presents a survey of the author??s working experience at the Energy Systems Laboratory (ESL) at Texas A&M University during the period of January 2002 through March 2004. The purpose of the above work was to allow the author to become familiar with the practice of engineering. The result is that the author knows how to complete a project from start to finish and understands how both technical and nontechnical aspects of a project need to be considered in order to ensure a quality deliverable and bring a project to successful completion. This report concludes that the objectives of the internship were successfully accomplished and that the requirements for the degree of Degree of Engineering have been satisfied
La formación de un sistema transnacional europeo de transportes y comunicaciones en los siglos XIX y XX
No full textEditada en la Universidad Carlos IIIPublicad
Intern experience at CH���M Hill, Inc.: an internship report
No full textIncludes author's vita"Submitted to the College of Engineering of Texas A&M University in partial
fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Doctor of Engineering."Includes bibliographical referencesA review of the author's internship experience with CH���M HILL, Inc.
during the period September 1975 through May 1976 is presented. During this nine month
internship the author worked as an Engineer II in the Industrial Processes discipline of this
large consulting engineering firm... The author's prime responsibility was as one of three
lead design engineers on the design of a large wastewater treatment facility for a pulp mill
in Hoquiam, Washington owned by ITT Rayonier Inc. The work generally consisted of the design
of individual treatment units and associated piping and pumping. The purpose of the project
was to provide wastewater treatment capabilities that would satisfy the effluent limitations
(standards) imposed upon the mill by the State of Washington Department of Ecology and the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The author's assignment also entailed necessary
interaction with the project manager and other CH���M HILL design engineers and support staff
members, the client's representatives, and representatives of two other consulting engineering
firms working on the project. Thus, the internship position at CH���M HILL provided considerable
experience coordinating the author's work with the work of other engineers, guiding the design
and administrative efforts of a support staff, and interacting regularly with the client and
other consulting firms. This broad exposure to a variety of engineering and organizational
problems provided a valuable educational experience
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