منابع مشابه
Reducing discomfort while measuring crown-heel length in neonates.
AIM To assess the degree of discomfort caused by length measurement in neonates, performed with one or both lower limbs extended, on the first and second day after birth, with either one or both lower limbs extended. METHODS Healthy full-term neonates were systematically sampled during the months of February and March 2004. Crown-heel length was measured, using a 1-mm precision neonatometer, ...
متن کاملAutomatic Mechanisms for Measuring Subjective Unit of Discomfort
Current practice in Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy (VRET) is that therapists ask patients about their anxiety level by means of the Subjective Unit of Discomfort (SUD) scale. With an aim of developing a home-based VRET system, this measurement ideally should be done using speech technology. In a VRET system for social phobia with scripted avatar-patient dialogues, the timing of asking patient...
متن کاملMeasuring public discomfort at meeting people with disabilities.
The discomfort reported by the general public at the prospect of personal contact with marginalised groups is an expression of the stigma they experience. This has been widely studied in relation to ethnic minorities and immigrants but less so for persons with disabilities. A national survey with a representative sample of over 1100 Irish adults provided an opportunity to examine reported disco...
متن کاملSouthern discomfort
The ice breaker and research vessel Polarstern, run by the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) on a busy schedule making the most of the summer season at each pole, is often involved in good causes, such as collecting data concerning the impact of climate change (see Curr. Biol. (2008) 18, R181). In January, however, she sailed straight into a row in which several NGOs and the German ministry of the...
متن کاملIn-chair movement: validity, reliability and implications for measuring sitting discomfort.
Sitting discomfort is traditionally evaluated with subjective rating scales which are referenced to an objective correlate (e.g. sitting posture) measured on a static (i.e. non-continuous) basis. Since sitting discomfort is dynamic in nature, it requires continuous, objective measurement. We therefore adapted an interface pressure mat to continuously record in-chair movement (ICM) as an indirec...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Epidemiology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1044-3983
DOI: 10.1097/ede.0b013e318187ac9e