PURPOSE This study aims to assess the extent to which accelerometers can be used to determine the effect of robot-supported task-oriented arm-hand training, relative to task-oriented arm-hand training alone, on the actual amount of arm-hand use of chronic stroke patients in their home situation. METHODS This single-blind randomized controlled trial included 16 chronic stroke patients, randoml...

Source code analysis does not provide enough information for the program understanding activities. Understanding object oriented software systems during software maintenance are difficult and take a considerable amount of time and cost. In software maintenance perspective reverse engineering process extracts information to provide visibility of the object oriented components and relations in th...

This paper focus on concern interactions and tradeoffs in the context of an approach to build an aspect-oriented software architecture from an aspectoriented requirements specification. This approach, the Requirements Engineering to Software Architecture Framework, is composed of several activities, where the first two address the problem domain and constitute the main body for this paper. Thes...

The problem of rollback recovery is traditionally approached using a model oriented to packet delivery. Instead, we introduce a model centered around complex sessions, and we explain why this model is more appropriate. Using this model, we extract a basic coordination scheme that is common to the three distributed activities that compose rollback recovery: checkpointing, rollback and disposal. ...

This paper presents an approach for recognizing activities using video from the egocentric setup. In this approach instead of using intermediate setup like object detection, pose estimation, modeling spatial distribution of visual words is implemented. The interactions are encoded by using Histogram oriented Pairwise Relation named (HOPR) between the visual words, orientations and alignments. A...

This paper is concerned with two projects in the field of process-oriented knowledge management, InfoAtlas and PROMOTE. In the InfoAtlas project the feasibility of our approach for process-oriented knowledge management was shown, in PROMOTE this approach is currently being extended for building a methodology and a product integrated in the framework of business process management. For both proj...

Despite widespread belief that public support is critical to the success of public health programs and agencies, systematic efforts to measure public opinion about public health have been limited. This report summarizes surveys conducted by two organizations-one a public policy center in California, the other a national opinion polling firm-to measure support for public health activities. The f...

We compare the catalytic activities of enzymes immobilized on silicon surfaces with and without orientation. While oriented sulfotransferases selectively immobilized on an otherwise zero-background surface via 6xHis tags faithfully reflect activities of solution phase enzymes, those with random orientation on the surface do not. This finding demonstrates that controlling the orientation of immo...

We present a teaching strategy for the introduction of object-oriented concepts in secondary schools, whereby we focus on active learning of the basic concepts. The concept uses a learning sequence that fosters activities of the learners. Students start to explore a given object-oriented model on analysis and design level. Guidance is continuously reduced towards a project phase in which the st...

OBJECTIVE To develop a conceptual model of a management information system for process-oriented health care organizations. METHODS Qualitative data was collected from two case studies in process-oriented health care settings. The first study addressed the information requirements of health care managers and the second study focused on organizational activities and clinical practice. From thes...