The perceived efficacy of patients' attempts to influence discharge dates through psychiatric self-presentation as a function of the perceivers own self-presentation inclinations and hospital age was studied. Eighty actual patients heard one of four taped interviews on which an ostensible patient revealed plans to engage in either healthy or sick self-presentation and that the psychiatrist of t...

One hundred hospitalized male psychiatric patients listened to one of four audio tapes on which an interviewed patient revealed his intentions to engage either in healthy or sick self-presentation. The taped patient also reported his psychiatrist to be either in favor of or opposed to early discharge. Subjects predicted longer lengths of hospitalization for the taped patient, and found him to b...

BACKGROUND Dislocation of epidural catheters (EC) is associated with early termination of regional analgesia and rare complications like epidural bleeding. We tested the hypothesis that maximum effort in fixation by tunneling and suture decreases the incidence of catheter dislocation. METHODS Patients scheduled for major surgery (n = 121) were prospectively randomized in 2 groups. Thoracic EC...

proprioception has been found to have a relation to subjective knee function and patients with patellofemoral pain syndrome (pfps) seem to have larger deficits than asymptomatic individuals little is known about whether taping can restore defects in proprioception or by which mechanisms it can improve anterior knee pain. to determine the effect of patellar taping on knee joint proprioception a ...

The search for methods to demonstrate and accurately measure contact area and pressure within human joints has been and remains an active one. Presenssor is a measuring system developed by Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. and used in medical applications. The color intensity fades with time and exposure to light. These changes have not been well documented despite the increasing use of Fuji film in bi...

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS FOR VIDEO TECHNOLOGY, VOL. XX, NO. Y, SEPTEMBER 1998 Summarization of Video-taped Presentations: Automatic Analysis of Motion and Gesture Shanon X. Ju, Michael J. Black, Scott Minneman, Don Kimber Abstract| This paper presents an automatic system for analyzing and annotating video sequences of technical talks. Our method uses a robust motion estimation ...

The efficacy of taped imaginal exposure as a treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Reactions (PTSR) was assessed in eighteen consecutive outpatients, including Gulf War veterans. Detailed present-tense scripts of their personal traumatic experiences were prepared and in all but two cases audio-taped and listened to regularly. The severity of PTSR and standard questionnaire scores (including the I...

This study aims to examine (1) the impact of digital trade rules on services exports, (2) heterogeneity this in different categories, (3) growth exports through reducing costs, and (4) whether is national income levels. In order test hypotheses, uses panel data from TAPED database encompassing 143 economies between 2005 2019, employing a differences-in-differences model as analytical framework....