A lthough the rising prevalence of type 2 diabetes and economic factors have resulted in more group diabetes education (1–4), little research has examined the effective use of group education or composition of groups. Regardless of group or individual education format, attention to individual learning needs through assessment of attitudes, health beliefs, motivation, and levels of self-care rem...

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Interlamellar plastic discs inserted into cat corneas provide a means by which segments of the cornea can be studied with regard to swelling and water movement in vivo. The corneas are physiologically normal as demonstrated by their transparency, swelling properties, and histologic structure. The observation that one disc causes no change in the hydration of the stroma anterior or posterior to ...

Given a geometric graph G = (S,E) in R with constant dilation t, and a positive constant ε, we show how to construct a (1 + ε)-spanner of G with O(|S|) edges using O(sort(|E|)) memory transfers in the cacheoblivious model of computation. The main building block of our algorithm, and of independent interest in itself, is a new cache-oblivious algorithm for constructing a well-separated pair deco...

The fast multipole method (FMM) performs fast approximate kernel summation to a specified tolerance ǫ by using a hierarchical division of the domain, which groups source and receiver points into regions that satisfy local separation and the well-separated pair decomposition properties. While square tilings and quadtrees are commonly used in 2D, we investigate alternative tilings and associated ...

We present an external-memory algorithm to compute a well-separated pair decomposition (WSPD) of a given point set S in Rd in O(sort(N)) I/Os, where N is the number of points in S and sort(N) denotes the I/O-complexity of sorting N items. (Throughout this paper, we assume that the dimension d is fixed). As applications of the WSPD, we show how to compute a linear-size t-spanner for S within the...

Using the structural priming paradigm, the present study explores predictions made by the implicit prosody hypothesis (IPH) by testing whether an implicit prosodic boundary generated from a silently read sentence influences attachment preference for a novel, subsequently read sentence. Results indicate that such priming does occur, as evidenced by an effect on relative clause attachment. In par...

We show that locally connected, simply connected homogeneous continua are not separated by arcs. We ask several questions about homogeneous continua which are inspired by analogous questions in geometric group theory.

We describe a reliable, straightforward procedure for measuring the cholesterol content of serum lipoproteins separated by electrophoresis on cellulose acetate. The lipoprotein fractions are made visible by use of an enzymic reagent and then quantitated by densitometry. Standard electrophoresis equipment is used and the procedure requires just over 1 h for completion. All major fractions except...

Systems-thinking requires participants to view problems, and their solutions, within the context of the overall system. When this involves participants from diverse professional communities, several barriers to effective communication can arise. As in all human communities, shorthand representations, such as specialized jargon, that aid in efficient and precise communications have developed. Th...