In this paper a compliance control law for kinematically redundant manipulators is proposed. The controller contains a Cartesian compliance part and a nullspace compliance part which are complemented by a power-conserving decoupling term. The approach deliberately avoids inertia shaping in order to obtain a control law which does not require the measurement of external forces and gets less sens...

BACKGROUND Reductions in the compliance of central arteries exert a number of adverse effects on cardiovascular function and disease risk. Endurance training is efficacious in increasing arterial compliance in healthy adults. We determined the effects of resistance training on carotid arterial compliance using the intervention study design. METHODS AND RESULTS Twenty-eight healthy men 20 to 3...

conclusions there was a moderate level of knowledge, practices, perceives and beliefs in nurses and students for the importance of hand hygiene. compliance with the importance of hand hygiene in infection control is complex, and perceptual factors concerning hand hygiene, in addition to an individual’s knowledge could affect the behaviors related to hand hygiene compliance. background the curre...

In the light of an increasing demand on business process compliance, the veri cation of process models against compliance rules has become essential in enterprise computing. To be broadly applicable compliance checking has to support data-aware compliance rules as well as to consider data conditions within a process model. Independently of the actual technique applied to accomplish compliance c...

PURPOSE We aimed to test the effect of prescan training and orientation in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and to investigate whether fMRI compliance was modified by state anxiety. METHODS Subjects included 77 males aged 6-12 years; there were 53 patients in the ADHD group and 24 participants in the healthy control ...

background: coronary artery diseases are one of the most important issues in health and social problems. one of the amendable risk factors in development of these diseases is high cholesterol which can be modified through correction of lifestyle (diet change, playing sports, and usage of lipid‑lowering drugs). patients’ compliance to therapeutic programs is the most important element to achieve...

In the presence of non-compliance, conventional analysis by intention-to-treat provides an unbiased comparison of treatment policies but typically under-estimates treatment efficacy. With all-or-nothing compliance, efficacy may be specified as the complier-average causal effect (CACE), where compliers are those who receive intervention if and only if randomised to it. We extend the CACE approac...

Brachial artery diameter and compliance were measured in 23 normotensive control subjects and 49 hypertensive patients. The results were compared in isobaric conditions by a modeling analysis extrapolating from the measured data a short segment of the pressure-diameter and pressure-compliance curves in the artery. A logarithmic diameter-pressure function was used as well as measurements of brac...

The Bellevue and the Hagley Park mental health outpatient clinics in Jamaica serve the majority of psychiatric patients in the country, but there is a dearth of research on medication compliance, which is a very important mental health issue. Medication compliance affects intervention outcomes. Therefore, this study seeks to examine medication compliance among psychiatric patients in Jamaica. A...