There is significant interest in using mobile sensors to protect geographical regions against hazards, in which the sensing resources are distributed according to the varying importance of the sub-regions, such as their numbers of residents exposed to the hazards. The quality of monitoring (QoM) resulting from such proportional-share allocation of the coverage time, in terms of the amount of in...

Improved diagnosis of coeliac disease has increased incidence and therefore burden on the health care system. There are no quality outcome measures (QOM) in use nationally to assess hospital management of this condition. This study applied QOM devised by the East of England paediatric gastroenterology network to 99 patients reviewed at two tertiary hospitals in the Network, to assess the qualit...

Wireless sensor networks are evolving from dedicated application-specific platforms to integrated infrastructure shared by multiple applications. Shared sensor networks offer inherent advantages in terms of flexibility and cost since they allow dynamic resource sharing and allocation among multiple applications. Such shared systems face the critical need for allocation of nodes to contending ap...

1 Department of Statistics, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran Naghshejahan Institute of Higher Education, Baharestan, Isfahan, Iran. Email: [email protected] 2 Department of Statistics, St. Anthony’s College, Shillong, Meghalaya, India. Email: [email protected] 3 Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Email: [email protected] 4 D...

Librarian in Charge of Library, Faculty of Dentistry, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran Master Student, Department of Library and Information Sciences, Faculty of Human Sciences, Islamic Azad University of Hamedan, Hamedan, Iran Assistant Professor, Department of Library Science and Information, Qom Payame Noor University, Qom, Iran *Corresponding Author; E-mail: simaesmaeilza...

Department of Chemistry, Vidya Bharati College, Camp, Amravati, Maharashtra, India Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Qom, Qom, Iran Laboratoire Chimie des Matériaux, Université Mohammed Premier, Oujda-60000, Morocco Creighton University, Omaha, NE, USA Division of Organic Chemistry, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune 411008, India Department of Pharmaceutical Chemi...

BACKGROUND Data from monkeys with deafferented forelimbs and humans after stroke indicate that tests of the motor capacity of impaired extremities can overestimate their spontaneous use. Before the Motor Activity Log (MAL) was developed, no instruments assessed spontaneous use of a hemiparetic arm outside the treatment setting. OBJECTIVE To study the MAL's reliability and validity for assessi...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The Motor Activity Log (MAL) is a semistructured interview for hemiparetic stroke patients to assess the use of their paretic arm and hand (amount of use [AOU]) and quality of movement [QOM]) during activities of daily living. Scores range from 0 to 5. The following clinimetric properties of the MAL were quantified: internal consistency (Cronbach alpha), test-retest agree...

Department of Chemistry, Islamic Azad University, Qom Branch, Qom, Iran 2 Department of Chemistry, Teacher Training University, 15614, Tehran, Iran 3 Department of Chemistry, Yasouj University, Yasouj, Iran 4 Institute of Materials Chemistry, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria 5 Department of Chemistry, Imam Hossein University, Tehran, Iran 6 Department of Chemistry, Razi Universi...

(Semi-)automatic mapping — also called (semi-)automatic alignment — of ontologies is a core task to achieve interoperability when two agents or services use different ontologies. In the existing literature, the focus has so far been on improving the quality of mapping results. We here consider QOM, Quick Ontology Mapping, as a way to trade off between effectiveness (i.e. quality) and efficiency...