The Assessment of Capacity for Myoelectric Control (ACMC) is an observation-based tool that evaluates ability to control a myoelectric prosthetic hand. Validity evidence led to ACMC version 2.0, but the test-retest reliability and minimal detectable change (MDC) of the ACMC have never been evaluated. Investigation of rater agreements in this version was also needed because it has new definition...

Caregivers of persons with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) often describe the quality of the daily movements of these persons in terms of flexibility or stiffness. Objective outcome measures for flexibility and stiffness are muscle tone or level of spasticity. Two instruments used to grade muscle tone and spasticity are the Modified Ashworth Scale (MAS) and the Modified T...

OBJECTIVE We developed a Korean version of Mini-Mental Status Examination (MMSE) optimized for screening dementia (MMSE-DS) and its' short form (SMMSE-DS). METHODS We constructed the MMSE-DS using the items of the two current Korean versions of MMSE and then construct the SMMSE-DS consisted of 13 items from the MMSE-DS based on the diagnostic accuracy of individual items for dementia. We inve...

This paper finds and analyzes a formula for the total variation distance between iterations of riffle shuffles and iterations of “cut and then riffle shuffle”. This allows one to obtain information about the convergence rate of permutation statistics (such as the length of the longest increasing subsequence or position of a given card) under these processes. Similar results are given for affine...

Abstract. We compute the limit distribution for (centered and scaled) length of the longest increasing subsequence of random colored permutations. The limit distribution function is a power of that for usual random permutations computed recently by Baik, Deift, and Johansson (math.CO/9810105). In two–colored case our method provides a different proof of a similar result by Tracy and Widom about...

INTRODUCTION Health-related quality of life is an important aspect of health outcome. The assessment of it must be done by validated instruments. There is no published data on the validity, reliability and sensitiveness to change of the official Chinese translation of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General (version 4; FACT-G). MATERIALS AND METHODS A Chinese questionnaire package...

Main results The RBANS was sensitive to cognitive impairment in schizophrenia. People with schizophrenia had scores about 30 points lower than the comparison group. Testretest reliability correlations were 0.84 for people with schizophrenia and 0.77 for controls. Mean differences in retest scores were small across the two study groups (none greater than 4 points). (Note from authors: The articl...

Grid computing is believed to be ultimate solution for meeting the increasing computation needs of organizations. At present the major focus is on load balancing in Grid computing in order to improve the performance of grid. However, the user running an application on a remote machine in the grid-computing network requires assurance about privacy and integrity of his data. Similarly the local h...