People with disability face many constraints that affect their participation in leisure and sports, which can be seen in the gaps in the scientific literature. This study aims to document the specific issues in the leisure and sports participation of people with disability in rural areas. Qualitative research has documented the rurality-related items. Overall, stakeholders (n = 35) working with...

Previous works have shown that wavelength conversion can considerably improve the performance in all–optical networks. However, it is an unrealistic assumption under the current technology and wavelength conversion with a limited range, not a full range, is more promising. In this paper, we propose a new analytic approach for such networks by virtue of the layered–graph where each wavelength is...

BACKGROUND Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are increasingly used in health care. To capture the patient's perspective, patient involvement in PROM development is needed. As earlier research showed varying degrees of patient involvement in PROM development, this study aimed to investigate why PROM developers do or do not involve patients, how patients can be successfully involved and w...

We consider a multi-target detection problem over a sensor network (SNET) with limited range sensors and communication constraints. This problem complements the widely considered decentralized detection problem where all sensors observe the same target. While the necessity for global collaboration is clear in the decentralized detection problem, the benefits of collaboration with limited range ...

This paper examines the problem of detecting intruders in large multiplyconnected environments with multiple robots and limited range sensors. We divide the problem into two sub-problems: 1) partitioning of the environment and 2) a new problem called weighted graph clearing. We reduce the second to a weighted tree clearing and present a solution for finding paths for the robot team that ensure ...

This paper tackles the problem of allowing a team of UAVs with limited communication range to autonomously coordinate to service requests. We present two MRF-based solutions: one assumes independence between requests; and the other considers also the UAVs’ workloads. Empirical evaluation shows that the latter performs almost as well as state-of-the-art centralized techniques in realistic scenar...

We propose and analyze the Persistent Patrol Problem (PPP). An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) moving with constant speed and unbounded acceleration patrols a bounded region of the plane where localized incidents occur according to a renewal process with known time intensity and spatial distribution. The UAV can detect incidents using onboard sensors with a limited visibility radius. We want to m...

BACKGROUND Little is known about patterns of participation in social activities among adolescents with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The objectives were to report nationally representative (U.S.) estimates of participation in social activities among adolescents with an ASD, to compare these estimates to other groups of adolescents with disabilities, and examine correlates of limited social...