In China, more firms in the textile and apparel industry adopt environmental management systems compared to firms that manufacture other products. It is important to know how the firms’ financial and real performances are affected. We study the changes of firms’ performance in profitability, sales, and operational efficiency after environmental management system (EMS) adoption using an event st...

Background and Purpose: Nowadays, total body resistance exercise has been added to instability training and has become popular for improving health and sports performance. Resistance training is a beneficial way to improve body composition and increase muscle strength. This study aims to evaluate the effect of suspension training (total resistance exercises [TRX]) with and without electrical mu...

BACKGROUND Child maltreatment is underreported in the United States and in North Carolina. In North Carolina and other states, mandatory reporting laws require various professionals to make reports, thereby helping to reduce underreporting of child maltreatment. This study aims to understand why emergency medical services (EMS) professionals may fail to report suspicions of maltreatment despite...

In Internet of Things (IoT) sensory environment Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are connected to the Internet through gateways and this gives birth to many real time sensor based applications. Applications from Internet querying for Spatio-temporal information within WSN may require query decomposition. Decomposition of queries may result in tasks having similar functional and Quality of Servic...

Most of the complex (e-Business) information systems need to accomplish with the use of open standards. Environmental Management Systems (EMS), for instance, states with the international regulations of the ISO 14000 family, which establish the requirements to be fulfilled by an EMS in order to be accepted as such. One of these requirements concerns the User Interfaces Development. Because of t...

Current ambulance designs are ergonomically inefficient and often times unsafe for practical treatment response to medical emergencies. Thus, the patient compartment of a moving ambulance is a hazardous working environment. As a consequence, emergency medical services (EMS) workers suffer fatalities and injuries that far exceed those of the average work place in the United States. To reduce inj...

Introduction: To the best of our knowledge, there is no study to examine the effect of a combination of resistance training and electrical muscle stimulation (EMS) on muscle hypertrophy factors in injured athletes. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of EMS on serum levels of some molecular markers of muscle hypertrophy in male athletes after anterior cruciate ligament surgery. Materials a...

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