Health decision aids are a potentially valuable adjunct to patient-physician communication and decision making. Although the overarching goal of decision aids--to help patients make informed, preference-sensitive choices--is widely accepted, experts do not agree on the means to achieve this end. In this article, the authors critically examine the theoretical basis and appropriateness of 2 widel...

Interpersonal relationship require sophisticated competences of cohabitation. However, the availability of training tools to develop conflict management skills is limited and problematic. The prisoner's dilemma game (PDG), the most widely known example of game theory, a nonzero-sum game, has been used, in higher education, to provide students with an opportunity of active learning and for under...

A kind of virtual plant laboratory system for process systems engineering education and research is developed, which is deemed an effective and applicable tool. The proposed system consists of pilot tanks, package simulation software of unit operation and a real enterprise information system including DCS, management database and MES (manufacturing execution system). Particularly, positive effe...

BACKGROUND Childbirth fear is associated with increased obstetric interventions and poor emotional and psychological health for women. The purpose of this study is to test an antenatal psycho-education intervention by midwives in reducing women's childbirth fear. METHODS Women (n = 1,410) attending three hospitals in South East Queensland, Australia, were recruited into the BELIEF trial. Part...

Power plants require continuous monitoring and inspection at frequent intervals. In the recent times, thermal power generation has under gone long process of modification right from its conventional working principles to automation using technology in the form of DCS, PLC, SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) etc. An automated system improves the system efficiency, plant monitoring,...

A form of chiropractic procedure known as Cox flexion-distraction is used by chiropractors to treat low back pain. Patient lies face down on a specially designed table having a stationery thoracic support and a moveable caudal support for the legs. The Doctor of Chiropractic (DC) holds a manual contact applying forces over the posterior lumbar spine and press down on the moving leg support to c...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to update evidence-based recommendations on the best practices for chiropractic care of older adults. METHODS The project consisted of a systematic literature review and a consensus process. The following were searched from October 2009 through January 2016: MEDLINE, Index to Chiropractic Literature, CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health...

Digital Cross-Connect System (DCS), used for distributing and crossconnecting the synchronous optical and asynchronous electrical signals, plays very important role as transmission equipment in the transport networks, is The performance evaluation of the switch matrix of the DCS by simulation methods will require a realistic traffic model generating practical connection and disconnection demand...

3 Timothy P. Moran1, 2, Keiko Nakano1, Gregory S. Whitehead1, Seddon Y. Thomas1, Donald 4 N. Cook1,3 and Hideki Nakano1,3 5 6 Immunity, Inflammation and Disease Laboratory, Division of Intramural Research, National 7 Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, 8 USA, Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Cha...

Distributed computing system [DCS] offer the potential for improved performance and resource sharing. To make the best use of the computational power available it is essential to assign the tasks to that processor whose characteristics are most appropriate for the execution. In this paper we have investigated a tasks allocation problem with fuzzy execution times e i ,j and fuzzy inter tasks com...