A modern handheld solution for the retail industry has been designed to replace older proprietary hardware with a PDA-based (Personal Digital Assistant) system. As part of the design, alternative handheld hardware was identified; retail handheld software was written; wireless communication protocols were implemented; and server software and utilities to access product databases were written. Th...

background & aim: nurse job-related burnout is a global issue; however, it remains unclear how coping strategies over a maintained period of time may influence nursing burnout. the aim of this study was to evaluation the factors associated with burnout of nurses working at a state hospital. methods & materials : this cross-sectional study was carried out with 446 nurses working at state hospita...

Wind power generation is grasping more attention nowadays because it offers the benefits of reduced cost, increased efficiency, less pollution and so on. But the known disadvantage is that the integration of wind farm with grid leads to many power quality problems such as voltage sag, swell, unbalance, harmonics, flickers etc. This paper concentrates mainly on diminution of source voltage sag a...

Victor Vaughan is well known for his numerous accomplishments and services to science, medicine, and public health. This paper discusses one of Dr Vaughan's earliest and most significant accomplishments: founding the Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Michigan in 1887, the first in the United States. The vision, initiative and planning demonstrated by this episode illustrate the character...

As I start my presidential address today, I want the AOTA [American Occupational Therapy Association]—which is you, the member—to hold your leadership to a high level of accountability. Last year I stated some goals. Today I want to highlight some of the accomplishments. I would like to attribute most of these accomplishments to our very, very talented staff. To begin, would all the National Of...

We examine the introduction of the voluntary filing program (VFP) by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for the introduction of XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language), or Interactive Data as called in the US. XBRL is a machine-readable standardized format for financial reports. The VFP allowed firms to file annual and quarterly reports using XBRL. This program represents a quas...