conclusions this study showed that audio-visual training can have a significant effect on the self-efficacy of people with type 1 diabetes. providing audio-visual equipment to referral centers of type 1 diabetics, such as hospitals, health centers, and clinics, as well as informing related officials, can be of benefit to managers. results the mean of the self-efficacy score improved significant...

SELF-LOCALIZING SMART CAMERAS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS Babak Shirmohammadi Camillo J. Taylor Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science As the prices of cameras and computing elements continue to fall, it has become increasingly attractive to consider the deployment of smart camera networks. These networks would be composed of small, networked computers equipped with inexpensive imag...

conclusions the present study showed that life skills training program did not affect self-efficacy of nursing students. perhaps, the methods used in education were influencing and then, more effective techniques such as role-play and group discussion should be substituted in life skills training. results in the untrained and trained groups, 23% and 8% of the students had very high self-efficac...

We investigate how unsupervised training of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and their deep hierarchies can benefit a supervised task like temporal pattern detection. The RNNs are fully and fast trained by unsupervised algorithms and only supervised feed-forward readouts are used. The unsupervised RNNs are shown to perform better in a rigorous comparison against state-of-art random reservoir ne...

The self-supporting monolayer material which is graphene has excited enormous interest over the ten years since its discovery due to its remarkable electrical, mechanical thermal and chemical properties. In this paper we describe our work to develop chemical vapour deposition methods to grow monolayer graphene on copper foil substrates and the subsequent transfer process. Raman microscopy, scan...

Future e-Health systems will consist of low-power, on-body wireless sensors attached to mobile users that interact with a ubiquitous computing environment. This kind of system needs to be able to configure itself with little or no user input; more importantly, it is required to adapt autonomously to changes such as user movement, device failure, the addition or loss of services, and proximity t...

Unlike mirror self-recognition, recognizing one's own image in delayed video footage may indicate the presence of a concept of self that extends across time and space. While humans typically show this ability around 4 years of age, it is unknown whether this capacity is found in non-human animals. In this study, chimpanzees performed a modified version of the mark test to investigate whether ch...

Abstracl This paper deals with the probabilistic analysis of some quantitative measures associated with periodicities in words, notably, the various values attained by the lengths of the longest common prefix of pairs of suffixes of a given word. Such values, that are called here self-alignments, playa crucial role in sever3J. algorithmic constructions, such as building the suffix tree or inver...

A tile is a bounded subset of the plane, copies of which may be used to cover the whole plane without gaps or overlap. There are many sources (such as [1]) of beautiful images involving tiling, from medieval Islamic art, through Escher, to more modern work. Perhaps the simplest example of a tile, though, is a solid square, which may tile the plane in a familiar checkerboard pattern. The square ...

In this paper we consider the bouncing braneworld scenario, in which the bulk is given by a five-dimensional AdS black hole spacetime with matter field confined in a D3 brane. Exploiting the CFT/FRW-cosmology relation, we consider the selfgravitational corrections to the first Friedmann-like equation which is the equation of the brane motion. The self-gravitational corrections act as a source o...