PURPOSE General practitioners (GPs), occupational health physicians (OPs), and rehabilitation physicians (RPs) fulfill different functions in the rehabilitation process, which need to be interlinked effectively to achieve a successful medical and occupational rehabilitation. In Germany, this cooperation at the interfaces is often suboptimal. The aim of this study was to identify and discuss per...

We come back on a technique to build modular switch nodes. This approach allows for a more cost effective expansion of OPS nodes. We give two example designs, showing that the method is useful only for Broadcast & Select OPS nodes when taking price decrease in function of time into account.

We explain the orthogonal planes split (OPS) of quaternions based on the arbitrary choice of one or two linearly independent pure unit quaternions f ,g. Next we systematically generalize the quaternionic Fourier transform (QFT) applied to quaternion fields to conform with the OPS determined by f ,g, or by only one pure unit quaternion f , comment on their geometric meaning, and establish invers...

ABSTRACT The misalignment of goals among researchers, external organizational partners (OPs), and study participants is thought to pose a challenge the successful implementation collaborative research projects. However, different team members almost never are elicited, making identification its potential consequences difficult task. In this evaluation United Nations Nonviolent Communication Pro...

Despite the recent economic fallback, following the explosion of the technology bubble, we still observe a steadily continuing growth of telecommunication traffic. It's no secret that the originally dominant voice traffic nowadays is dominated in volume by data traffic, especially originating from the Internet. That Internet, being characterized by packet based transport of heterogeneous inform...

Computing the Fast Fourier Transform on a distributed memory architecture by a direct pipelined radix-2 algorithm, a bi-section or multi-section algorithm, all yield the same communications requirement, if communication for all FFT stages can be performed concurrently, the input data is in normal order, and the data allocation consecutive. With a cyclic data allocation, or bit-reversed input da...

Background: Acute pharyngitis is one of the most common illnesses for which patients visit primary care physicians. Its etiology is primarily viral in adults. Only about 10% of cases have a bacterial cause. Nonetheless, a total of 78-98% of adults with acute pharyngitis was treated with antibiotics. Thus, virological investigation prior to treating would support the appropriate use of antiviral...

Natural fiber-reinforced polymer composites are gaining in popularity due to recyclability and availability. This research investigates how oil palm shell (OPS) filler materials impact the interlaminar shear dynamic properties of flax hybrid under cryogenic circumstances. Filler two different proportions (0, 2, 4, 6 wt.% OPS) 40 fibers were used make composites. The OPS filler-filled polymeric ...

BACKGROUND Owing to a scarcity of data or other causes, patient research on the orphan population is lacking in most societies. Consequently, the primary goal of this study was to explore quality of life (QOL) and quality of care (QOC) among orphan patients (OPs) receiving tertiary healthcare services in Saudi Arabia (SA). METHOD This study used a cross-sectional, quantitative survey design. ...

We examined the expression and activity of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) in both gamma interferon (IFN-gamma)-treated and untreated murine macrophages infected with the gram-negative bacterium Brucella suis. The bacteria were opsonized with a mouse serum containing specific antibrucella antibodies (ops-Brucella) or with a control nonimmune serum (c-Brucella). The involvement of the pro...