1. Auriculotherapy was effective in relieving the symptoms of constipation and improving quality of life for elderly people. 2. Auriculotherapy had a significant time effect in relieving symptoms of constipation, a greater reduction in scores for symptoms of constipation and quality of life, and an increased number of bowel movements per week, compared with controls. 3. The methodology of this ...

The Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice provides a framework for building the baccalaureate education for the twenty-first century. One of the exemplars included in the essentials toolkit includes student participation in an actual root cause analysis (RCA) or failure mode effects analysis. To align with this exemplar, faculty at the University of Michigan Sc...

We present an environment for executing engineering simulations and visualizing results in a Virtual Environment. The work is motivated by the necessity of finding effective solutions for collaboration of team workers during the execution of complex Petroleum Engineering projects. By means of a Scientific Workflow Management System users are able to orchestrate the execution of different simula...

In recent years bio-based polymer composites have been the subject of many scientific and research projects, as well as many commercial programs. Growing global environmental and social concern, the high rate of depletion of petroleum resources and new environmental regulations have forced the search for new composites and green materials, compatible with the environment. The aim of this articl...

— In this paper we share our approach into the design of undergraduate research course at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM). The course design process, description and instruction delivery are discussed. The lessons learnt will be highlighted along with experiences and challenges from a first offering of the course during winter term of 2011. As a first assessment, major be...

Limited research has focused on recruitment strategies for health promotion researchers conducting small-scale pilot studies. Such research is important because small studies often have limited funding streams and personnel resources. Accordingly, many techniques implemented by large-scale studies are of limited use to smaller research projects. This article provides an overview effective parti...

Many of the production facilities and technologies operated on the Norwegian Continental Shelf are getting older and need to be modified to maintain the production performance at the desirable level. Each modification project is unique, and therefore needs to be evaluated and verified with consideration to all specifications. However, the oil and gas industry experience shows that the execution...

Engineering Systems, such as offshore petroleum exploration and production systems, generally require a significant amount of capital investment under various technical and market uncertainties. Choosing appropriate designs and field development strategies is a very challenging task for decision makers because they need to integrate information from multiple disciplines to make decisions while ...