The flexible goal adjustment (FLEX) and tenacious goal pursuit (TEN) scales are used regularly in aging research. The current study examined their validity in a sample of 517 women (30-75 years) in multiple ways. Overall, the findings show that the scales do not clearly distinguish between FLEX and TEN. The direction in which the items were formulated was just as important as what was being mea...

PURPOSE We describe a suture fixation technique for a single-piece foldable acrylic closed-loop intraocular lens (IOL) (C-flex, Rayner). METHODS In our experimental model analyzing the stability of acrylic haptics, we confirmed that the IOL could be in counterpoise without tilt using only a two-point fixation. This new surgical technique was performed in seven patients. RESULTS The unique h...

We develop a GMPLS control plane handling flex-grid enabled Elastic Optical Networks. The implementation is realized in OPNET Modeler event driven simulation tool with focus on developing and implementing extensions for the GMPLS protocol suite. RSVP-TE extensions address the reservation of generalized labels format and enable enhancements for the wavelength selection procedures. OSPF-TE enable...

RESEARCH DESIGN ANDMETHODSdThis 26-week, open-label, treat-to-target trial enrolled adults ($18 years) with type 2 diabetes who were either insulin-naïve and receiving oral antidiabetic drugs (OADs) (HbA1c = 7–11%) or previously on basal insulin6OAD(s) (HbA1c = 7–10%). Participants were randomized to 1) once-daily IDeg in a prespecified dosing schedule, creating 8–40-h intervals between injecti...

Perl is known for its versatile regular expressions. Nevertheless, using Perl regular expressions for creating fast lexical analyzer is not easy. As an alternative, the authors defend the automated generation of the lexical analyzer in a well known fast application (flex) based on a simple Perl definition in the syntactic analyzer. In this paper we extend the syntax used by Parse::Yapp, one of ...

Vector Graphics is a character of Flex technology, vector graphics-based 3D model has a simple data structure and a fast speed, it's a suitable modeling method for Web3D programming. In this paper we present a polygon automatically blocked and cropped algorithm, to disperse foundation pit. And on this basis we use Flex technology to design a vector graphics-based threedimensional simulation met...

We introduce a new notion of systematicity for satisfiability algorithms with restarts, saying that an algorithm is strongly systematic if it is systematic independent of restart policy but weakly systematic if it is systematic for some restart policies but not others. We show that existing satisfiability engines are generally only weakly systematic, and describe flex, a strongly systematic alg...

Pivot bearing friction and flex cable nonlinearity are the two major torque nonlinearities which lead to performance degradation in hard disk drive (HDD) tracking tasks. Based on a comprehensive model of typical voice-coil-motor (VCM) actuator, which explicitly captures the characteristics of pivot bearing friction and flex cable nonlinearity, this paper presents the design of a parameterized c...

This paper expands upon our previous research in the field of BrainComputer Music Interfacing and reports on tools for performance and composition controlled via brainwave activity in development at ICCMR, University of Plymouth. Our approach measures electroencephalogram (EEG) data elicited via generating Steady State Visual Evoked Potentials (SSVEP) to allow for real-time control of musical p...

Resistive flex sensors have been gaining more and more importance in the latest years. They are applied in many and different fields ranging from human body tracking, traffic safety, musical instruments and so on. These sensors have the mechanical advantage to be low-weight, unobtrusive and pliable. However from an electrical point of view different works have been devoted to investigate single...