BACKGROUND Safety attitude surveys have been widely conducted in various disciplines, but not among respiratory therapists (RTs), to assess clinician's awareness of patient safety. We conducted a nationwide survey in Taiwan to assess RTs' safety attitudes in several hospital settings. METHODS We adapted the Safety Attitude Questionnaire for RTs, and, via the RTs' union, invited all Taiwan RTs...

This research identifies returns to scale (RTS) of efficient decision making units (DMUs) with desirable (good) and undesirable (bad) inputs and outputs by presenting a new DEA (data envelopment analysis) approach. In this study, we first introduce a new input-output oriented model to determine efficient DMUs in the presence of undesirable factors and then, returns to scale of these DMUs are es...

the aim of this research was to study the in vitro effect of lavandula officinalis (leo) and origanum vulgare (oeo) essential oils on rumen fermentation using a concentrate type substrate (cts) and roughage type substrate (rts). six mehraban ewes were divided into 2 groups and fed a concentrate type or roughage type diet, and used as rumen fluid donors. each essential oil (eo) was evaluated sep...

Return to sport (RTS) outcomes after severe injury are consistently poor. 2 Psychological factors are important influences on returning to sport yet what it means to be psychologically ready to RTS is unclear. Rarely will an athlete be held back from RTS because he/she is not psychologically ready to return. Psychological factors correlate with injury occurrence, therefore these factors should ...

Guilherme V. Polanczyk, Erasmo Barbante Casella, Euripedes Constantino Miguel, Umbertina Conti Reed I Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, Departamento de Psiquiatria, Disciplina de Psiquiatria da Infância e Adolescência, São Paulo/SP, Brazil. II Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (FMUSP) Instituto de Psiquiatria, Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia de Psiq...

Objectives To investigate the effects of listening demands and motivation on effort (LE) in a novel speech recognition task.Design We manipulated using vocoded financial reward, respectively, measured task performance (correct response rate) indices LE (response times (RTs), subjective ratings likelihood giving up). Effects inter-individual differences cognitive skills personality were also ass...

This paper studies the performance improvement of IEEE 802.15.4 non-beacon-enabled mode originated by inclusion Request-To-Send/Clear-To-Send (RTS/CTS) handshake mechanism resulting in frame concatenation. Under employing RTS/CTS, backoff procedure is not repeated for each data sent but only RTS/CTS set. The maximum throughput and minimum delay are mathematically derived both Chirp Spread Spect...