OBJECTIVE To investigate how the effects of a group-based intervention program (MoVo-LISA) on exercise behaviour were mediated by cognitive variables. Different causal models mapping the short-term (adoption) and long-term (maintenance) intervention effects were tested using path analyses. DESIGN N = 220 in-patients of a rehabilitation clinic were assigned to an usual care or intervention gro...

BACKGROUND Measurement of nebulizer medication adherence that relies on self-report of medication use is subject to recall bias and increased patient burden. Electronic monitoring of nebulizer medication use is relatively new technology and provides an objective measure of nebulizer use. OBJECTIVE To examine levels of agreement for nebulizer use between self-report on diary cards and electron...

In patients with diabetes who intend to fast during Ramadan, self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) is an important tool. During this month, a long established treatment regimen, including medications, physical activity and diet plan, is changed to achieve concordance with the rules of fasting. Without proper glucose monitoring, it is not possible to achieve good glycaemic control.

We examine the local convergence of a sequential semidefinite programming approach for solving nonlinear programs with nonlinear semidefiniteness constraints. Known convergence results are extended to slightly weaker second order sufficient conditions and the resulting subproblems are shown to have local convexity properties that imply a weak form of self-concordance of the barrier subproblems.

This paper shows that the self-concordance parameter of universal barrier on any n-dimensional proper convex domain is upper bounded by n. bound tight and improves previous O(n) Nesterov Nemirovski. The key to our main result a pair new, sharp moment inequalities for s-concave distributions, which could be independent interest.