based on research from the Sales Executive Council (SEC), discussing how to " shift the performance curve " in sales organizations. The article described the topic as " a decidedly new lens " for focusing our time and investment to improve sales results. The purpose of this article is to outline a structured approach to implementing this new lens and to illustrate sample business results that h...

This study focused on attentional functions in fluency disorders. Nine persons who stuttered, eight persons who cluttered, and nine fluent controls, executed a set of attention tasks while psychophysiological indices of activation (heart rate variability and skin conductance) were recorded. The results indicated that the stutter group had a significantly longer response time on the Posner Test ...

BACKGROUND Rehabilitation is important for persons with disabilities as it contributes to their sense of autonomy, self-worth and social participation, and improves their quality of life. Improving the quality of rehabilitation services requires the dialogue of patients' perceptions with those of service providers, in order to recommend informed reform. OBJECTIVE The objective was to explore ...

A novel mobile health platform, Interactive Mobile Health and Rehabilitation (iMHere), is being developed to support wellness and self-management among people with chronic disabilities. The iMHere system currently includes a smartphone app with six modules for use by persons with disabilities and a web portal for use by medical and rehabilitation professionals or other support personnel. Our in...

BACKGROUND Studies on hospital violence have emphasized the importance of staff- service recipient interaction in leading to violent incidents. These incidents are the extreme result of service recipients' frustration and anger in their interaction with staff. The aim of this study was to analyze factors related to negative experiences of emergency department (ED) patients and accompanying pers...

The automobile market is growing at about 25% for the last three years. The number of persons per car is 200, which is very large compared to other emerging markets like Korea and Brazil which have about 12 persons per car. There is therefore a very huge untapped market. Uncertainty exists about the extent of growth, but a minimum growth rate of 20% is expected until the year 2000. Sales are ex...

STUDY OBJECTIVE We describe the life cycle of crime guns recovered from young people-the movement of those guns from manufacture to criminal use-and identify associations between the characteristics of those guns and their possessors, purchasers, sellers, and places of origin. METHODS This is a cross-sectional study of data from gun ownership tracing records compiled by the Bureau of Alcohol,...

Introduction Diabetes mellitus affects an estimated 11 million persons in the United States. These persons are at risk for serious chronic complications which include visual impairment, foot ulcers and lower extremity amputations, kidney disease, adverse outcomes of pregnancy, cardiovascular disease, as well as the acute complications of hyperglycemia, hypoglycemia, and ketoacidosis. Studies ha...

This paper describes design and development of a self-management program, delivered by telerehabilitation (TR), to address the problem of chronic lower limb swelling in persons with limited mobility. The 18.6 million persons with limited mobility in the USA are at increased risk for chronic lower limb swelling and related secondary complications, including cellulitis and skin ulcers. Over time,...