AIM To examine the effects of a Leadership Development Initiative (LDI) on the emotional health and well-being among five levels of healthcare managers. BACKGROUND Increasingly dynamic, demanding healthcare environments result in highly stressful work atmospheres. METHODS Using quasi-experimental and mixed methods, we used regression on pre- and post-LDI survey data with 86 managers, and in...

Laser Doppler imaging (LDI), a new technique which allows measurement of skin blood perfusion at a distance from the skin surface, was assessed methodologically in healthy volunteers. Each skin LDI value was based on virtually real-time measurements obtained from a number of discrete measuring sites. In scans made along the circumference of the lower arm, valid figures for LDI (as distinct from...

experiments wee performed to evaluate the contralateral effect of adjuvant induced mono arthritis. in these experiments laser doppler imaging (ldi) was used to investigate changes in blood flow. adjuvant was applied to induce chronic inflammation. temperature and knee diameter increased in the first week after administration in the administrated knee joint.substance p (sp) (a neruokinin with a ...

The structural influence of graphene oxide (GO) on laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry (LDI-MS) analysis of small molecules was systematically investigated by using size-fractionated GO. For fractionation of GO, pH-assisted centrifugation, sequential vacuum filtration, and sonochemical cutting processes were employed and the size-fractionated GO was thoroughly characterized to underst...

In this paper, we present a new data structure for image-based rendering: the multi LDI. The multi LDI consists of a number of Layered Depth Images (LDI) covering a hemisphere of possible viewing angles. It allows compact image-based storage and fast rendering of large and complex scenes, while supporting rendering from large range of viewing directions. Since the internal occlusion in each LDI...

The multi-view video is a collection of multiple videos capturing the same scene at different viewpoints. Since the data size of the multi-view video linearly increases as the number of cameras, it is necessary to compress multi-view video data for efficient storage and transmission. The multi-view video can be coded using the concept of the layered depth image (LDI). In this paper, we describe...

We studied 31 subjects with severe leg ischemia and 29 age-matched nonischemic control subjects to compare preamputation assessments of leg ischemia using laser Doppler imaging (LDI), transcutaneous partial pressure of oxygen (TcPO(2)), and transcutaneous partial pressure of carbon dioxide (TcPCO(2)). TcPO(2) and TcPCO(2) were evaluated with Novametrix Medical Systems, Inc, monitors (Wallingfor...

OBJECTIVE Axon reflex-mediated neurogenic vasodilatation in response to cutaneous heating may reflect early, pre-clinical small fibre dysfunction. We aimed to evaluate the distribution of the vascular flare area measured by laser doppler imaging ("LDI(FLARE) area") in type 1 diabetes and in healthy volunteers. RESEARCH AND METHODS Concurrent with clinical and electrophysiological examination ...

In this paper we present an e cient image based rendering system that renders multiple frames per second on a PC. Our method performs warping from an intermediate representation called a layered depth image (LDI). An LDI is a view of the scene from a single input camera view, but with multiple pixels along each line of sight. When n input images are preprocessed to create a single LDI, the size...

The judgment of which wounds are expected to heal within 21 days is one of the most difficult and important tasks of the burn surgeon. The quoted accuracy of 64 to 76% by senior burn surgeons underscores the importance of an adjunct technology to help make this determination. A plethora of techniques have been developed in the last 70 years. Laser Doppler imaging (LDI) is one of the most recent...