BACKGROUND Complaints of the arm, neck, or shoulder (CANS) have a multifactorial origin and cause considerable work problems, including decreased work productivity, sickness absence, and, ultimately, job loss. There is a need for intervention programs for people with CANS. Self-management is an approach used in chronic disease care to improve self-efficacy and wellness behaviors to facilitate p...

Neurodevelopmental delay has been proposed as the underlying cause of the majority of cases of auditory processing disorder (APD). The current study employs the cortical auditory evoked potential (CAEP) to assess if maturational differences of the central auditory nervous system (CANS) can be identified between children who do and do not meet the diagnostic criterion for APD. The P1-N1 complex ...

This article presents and evaluates a model to automatically derive word association networks from text corpora. Two aspects were evaluated: To what degree can corpus-based word association networks (CANs) approximate human word association networks with respect to (1) their ability to quantitatively predict word associations and (2) their structural network characteristics. Word association ne...

At a wetland study site in Tuskegee National Forest, AL, resting female mosquitoes were collected from natural and artificial resting sites to identify species-specific resting sites and to evaluate various artificial resting sites for their utility in collecting resting mosquitoes. Natural resting sites included small tree cavities, large tree cavities, and understory vegetation. Artificial re...

Although advances in wireless networks and the increasing availability of mobile end devices raise the prospect of ubiquitous access to network-based services, such access must cope with an inherent mismatch between the high bandwidth, relatively static connection requirements of many services and the low bandwidth, limited resource, and dynamic nature of mobile clients. In this paper, we descr...

The present work aims to increase the amount of water generated by hemispherical solar still (HSS) using paraffin wax as phase change material (PCM) encapsulated in waste aluminium-cans two different shape square pattern (4 PCM cans) and triangular (3 cans). Furthermore, a comparative analysis for conventional HSS over modified with arrangements was carried out optimize most suitable mass PCM. ...

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) using Android has been received a great attention. In all these efforts a flat document is selected for OCRing and non-flat documents are ignored. Labels mounted on cylindrical surfaces such as wine bottle, pill box, cans, etc, are examples of non-flat documents. The goal of this research effort is to perform optical character recognition on a non-flat docume...

Abstract Low cost and high durability have made Portland cement the most widely‐used building material, but benefits are offset by environmental harm of production contributing 8–10% total anthropogenic CO 2 gas emissions. High sulfur‐content materials (HSMs) an alternative that can perform binding roles as cements with a smaller carbon footprint, possibly superior chemical, physical, mechanica...