OBJECTIVE To gain insight into the use of quality systems to improve urinary incontinence (UI) care in older adults receiving home care and to assess the associations between these quality systems and UI-related process and patient outcomes. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SETTING 19 home care agencies in the Netherlands comprising 155 home care teams. SAMPLE 3480 adults aged 65 years and ...

Separated modeling of User Interface (UI) widgets is a very natural way to tackle the complexity of UI models. Due to interactions between widgets, however, this is not always an easy task. We propose an aspect-oriented approach to widget-oriented UI modeling: each widget’s behavior is modeled separately in a UML state machine; synchronization of the state machines is modeled in aspects and is ...

BACKGROUND Iodine intake is essential for normal growth, development and metabolism throughout life, especially for women during gestation and lactation. The present study applies a novel statistical approach, providing smoothed urinary iodine (UI) percentile curves for the total US population as well as the categories of sex, race/ethnicity, women of childbearing age and pregnant women who wer...

1 Definitions An orbifold is a Hausdorff space X0 along with an open cover {Ui} that is closed under finite intersection with the following properties. For each Ui there is an open set Ũi ⊆ R and a finite group Γi which acts on Ũi. In addition there is a homeomorphism φi : Ui ≈ Ũi/Γi and whenever Ui ⊂ Uj there is an injective homomorphism fij : Γi ↪→ Γj and Ũi can be embedded in Ũj such that th...

This paper constructs a tractable general equilibrium model of search with risk-aversion. An increase in risk-aversion reduces wages, unemployment and investment. Unemployment insurance (UI) has the opposite e ect: insured workers seek high wage jobs with high unemployment risk. An economy with risk-neutral workers achieves maximal output without any UI, but an economy with risk-averse workers ...

Continence and micturition involve urethral closure. Especially, insufficient strength of the pelvic floor muscles including the urethral sphincter muscles causes urinary incontinence (UI). Thus, it is most important to understand the main mechanism causing UI and the relationship of UI with the urethral sphincter. Functionally and anatomically, the urethral sphincter is made up of the internal...

Urinary Iodine has been widely regarded as a biochemical marker for control of iodine deficiency disorders. Based on the Sandell-Kolthoff reaction, most colorimetric assay methods for urinary iodine (UI) determination that have been developed require pretreatment of urine sample. The non-Sandell-Kolthoff methods for UI assay provide alternative approaches for UI assay requiring only simple pret...

PURPOSE To clarify the vasodilatory mechanism of unoprostone isopropyl (UI), we examined its effects on the retinal microvascular diameter to determine the dependence on the endothelium and/or smooth muscle to reveal the signaling mechanisms involved in this vasomotor activity. METHODS Porcine retinal arterioles were isolated, cannulated, and pressurized without flow in vitro. Video microscop...

Proof. We use induction on n. For n = 1, the result is immediate, First, observe there exist linear transformations Ui (i = 1, 2): X + X such that (U,x, y) = &(x, y). For define&: X -R by Liz(y) = #Q(x, y). Then L,, is a linear functional and since X is an inner product space, there exists Z< E X with L,,(y) = (zi, y) by the canonical isomorphism between X and its dual. Define the transformatio...

User Interfaces (UI) play a significant role in contemporary web applications. Responsiveness and performance are influenced by the UI design, complexity of its features, the amount of transmitted information, as well as by network conditions. While traditional web delivery approaches separate out presentation of UI in the form of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), a large number of presentation con...