BACKGROUND Mobile device-based ecological momentary assessment (mobile-EMA) is increasingly used to collect participants' data in real-time and in context. Although EMA offers methodological advantages, these advantages can be diminished by participant noncompliance. However, evidence on how well participants comply with mobile-EMA protocols and how study design factors associated with particip...

A commercial electromechanical actuator (EMA) is to be dynamically tested with predetermined stroke and load profiles for transient thermal and electric power behavior to validate a numerical model used for aerospace applications. The EMA will follow the stroke profile representative of a real aircraft mission duty cycle. A hydraulic press will exert a corresponding load profile onto the EMA. S...

Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) is the name applied to any of a range of research methodologies that aim to assess participants in near real time as they go about their regular day-to-day activities. Such methods have particular utility for studying drug use and drug dependence. Using the area of nicotine dependence as a case study, this review highlights how EMA can be used to build upon...

In this paper, we present our efforts towards deriving vocal tract shapes from ElectroMagnetic Articulograph data (EMA) via geometric adaptation and matching. We describe a novel approach for adapting Maeda’s geometric model of the vocal tract to one speaker in the MOCHA database. We show how we can rely solely on the EMA data for adaptation. We present our search technique for the vocal tract ...

Background and methodology This survey was undertaken to obtain the opinions of women in the UK about their home management of early medical abortion (EMA) with mifepristone and misoprostol. All eligible women undergoing EMA at any BPAS clinic during a 2-week period were invited to participate. Women were contacted by telephone 1 week after the EMA and a fiveitem structured questionnaire was ad...

Presently, it is difficult to undertake germ line modification of the chicken with primordial germ cells (PGC) because it has been difficult to efficiently fractionate the PGC from the total somatic cell population. The objective of this study was to develop a method that allows isolation of an enriched population of viable PGC from embryonic blood and embryonic gonadal tissue. Blood was harves...

Introduction In order to meet the FAIR requirements for the acceleration of heavy ions (15 emA U, 5 emA U) a further improvement of the UNILAC performance is necessary. Therefore the correlation between space charge forces and focusing during acceleration of high intensity ion beams have to be understood in detail. The brilliance, i. e. ratio of beam current and beam emittance, is a suited quan...

Dokuz Eylul University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Izmir, TURKEY Celiac disease (CD) is a common immune-mediated enteropathy triggered by gluten in genetically susceptible individuals with an overall prevalence almost 1% in different countries [1]. The diagnosis of the disease is classically based on a combinat...

BACKGROUND In the last few years the prevalence of celiac disease (CD) seems to have increased. It is clear that subclinical and silent CD exist in a large subgroup of the celiac population. METHODS The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of CD in an apparently healthy population. Blood samples were obtained from 1000 apparently healthy blood donors at Arnhem and Nijmegen Blood D...

YIG:Co,Ca,Ge films grown on (001) plane substrate were investigated down to liquid helium temperatures using torque anisometry technique. Successively lowering temperature spin-reorientational transitions were observed between following easy magnetization axes (EMA) orientations: (i) at room temperature four EMA inclined to the film plane from [I 111 directions; (ii) two EMA near the [I101 and ...