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Emotion and Meaning in the Pre-Modern Performance Style of Chinese Music: ‘Equanimity’ in Abing
No full textA Contrast of Emphasis-Abing's Performance of Er Quan Ying Yue and that of Present-day Erhu Players
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Spider III: A multi-agent-based distributed computing system
No full textThe project, Spider III, presents architecture and protocol of a multi-agent-based internet distributed computing system, which provides a convenient development and execution environment for transparent task distribution, load balancing, and fault tolerance. Spider is an on going distribution computing project in the Department of Computer Science, California State University San Bernardino. It was first proposed as an object-oriented distributed system by Han-Sheng Yuh in his master\u27s thesis in 1997. It has been further developed by Koping Wang in his master\u27s project, of where he made large contribution and implemented the Spider II System
Factors Associated With Quality of Life Among People With Spinal Cord Injury: Application of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health Model
No full textChang F-H, Wang Y-H, Jang Y, Wang C-W. Factors associated with quality of life among people with spinal cord injury: application of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health Model. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2012;93:2264-70. ;Objective: To identify the factors that influence an individual's quality of life (QOL) after spinal cord injury (SCI) based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) framework. ;Design: Cross-sectional exploratory study. ;Setting: Taiwan community. ;Participants: Community-dwelling adults (N=341) who had suffered an SCI at least 1 year previously and were between the ages of 18 and 60 years. ;Interventions: Not applicable. ;Main Outcome Measure(s): A combination of self-report questionnaire and interview. The dependent variable, QOL, was measured by the abbreviated version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life, while the independent vanables-participation, activity, impairment, and contextual factors-were measured using the Frenchay Activity Index, Barthel Index, and a demographic form. ;Results: Multivariate analysis results indicated that participation, activity, and marital status are significant factors in the QOL outcome. Results also indicated that among the various factors that affect each domain of QOL (physical health, psychological health, social relationships, and environment), participation was the strongest determinant. ;Conclusions: The ICF provided an excellent framework with which to explore the factors influencing QOL after SCI. The results demonstrated that marital status, participation, and activity exert the strongest influence on QOL, while impairment and other variables do not directly influence QOL
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