OBJECTIVE To compare American-Indian and Caucasian mortality rates from diabetes among tribal Contract Health Service Delivery Areas (CHSDAs) in the Great Plains Region (GPR) and describe the disparities observed. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Mortality data from the National Center for Vital Statistics and Seer*STAT were used to identify diabetes as the underlying cause of death for each deced...

Public satisfaction measurement is the best way to evaluate the implementation effects of government process reengineering (GPR). The research on public satisfaction of electronic government is almost adapted from research on customer satisfaction, and is mainly about e-gov websites or various types of public services, while rare attention has been paid to the implementation results of GPR. Thi...

In this paper, first, a new range-estimation technique using time reversal (TR) for ground-penetrating-radar (GPR) applications is presented. The estimator is referred to as the TR/GPR range estimator. The motivation for this paper comes from the need of accurately estimating the location of underground objects such as landmines or unexploded ordinance for safe clearance. Second, the Cramér–Rao...

BACKGROUND The Global Postural Re-education (GPR) method has been widely used in clinical practice, with reported benefits for prevention and rehabilitation of musculoskeletal dysfunctions. In parallel with almost two decades of clinical implementation, research studies have tested and verified the effectiveness of GPR in treating different clinical conditions and have also compared this method...

MIMO array can obtain much more equivalent elements by using a small number of transmitters and receivers. However, according to traditional sampling theorem, a certain number of transmitters and receivers are still needed to obtain a dense equivalent array. Since the interesting targets of ground penetrating radar (GPR) are usually sparse, this paper presents a spare MIMO array GPR imaging sch...

The versatility of the three-dimensional (3–D) finitedifference time-domain (FDTD) method to model arbitrarily inhomogeneous geometries is exploited to simulate realistic groundpenetrating radar (GPR) scenarios for the purpose of assisting the subsequent designs of high-performance GPR hardware and software. The buried targets are modeled by conducting and dielectric prisms and disks. The groun...

Keeping track of underground utilities through maps or real physical signs is essential for their maintenance and quick repairs, whenever required, without causing much obstruction to day to day life. It is not uncommon that maps are misplaced or real physical signs are destroyed. In such situations, digging and excavation becomes unavoidable during repair works. Ground penetrating radar (GPR) ...

Phasically active sensory systems commonly influence rhythmic motor activity via synaptic actions on the relevant circuit and/or motor neurons. Using the crab stomatogastric nervous system (STNS), we identified a distinct synaptic action by which an identified proprioceptor, the gastropyloric muscle stretch receptor (GPR) neuron, regulates the gastric mill (chewing) motor rhythm. Previous work ...

Soils are three-dimensional (3D) natural bodies conSlStmg of unconsolidated mineral and organic materials that form a continuous blanket over most of the earth's land sUlface. At all scales of measurements, soils are exceedingly complex and variable in bio logical, chemical, physical, mineralogical, and electromagnetic properties. These properties influence the propaga tion velocity, attenuatio...