The CXXR project aims gradually to refactor the fundamental parts of the R interpreter from C into C++ whilst retaining the full functionality of the standard distribution of R. It is hoped that this will enable researchers more easily to enhance the functionality of R by allowing them to extend the interpreter’s internal C++ class hierarchy. The paper summarises progress to date and describes ...

The Readiness Estimate and Deployability Index Revised for Air Force Nurses (READI-R-AFN) was derived from modifications of Reineck's Readiness Instrument. Reliability and validity of the READI-R-AFN was estimated on completed questionnaires of 181 active duty Air Force nurses. The READI-R-AFN was evaluated based on item analysis, internal consistency (alpha coefficient, >0.70), confirmatory fa...

OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to develop and begin to evaluate a new measure of the centrality of pain in patients' lives. DESIGN The study was designed as a cross-sectional survey and cognitive interviews. SETTING The study was set in an academic general internal medicine clinic. PATIENTS Sixty-five adult internal medicine patients with chronic nonmalignant pain (CNMP) partici...

From the 86 species allocated in the genus Rhinella, 25 have their tadpoles described and only R. arenarum, R. chrysophora, R. icterica, R. ornata, R. schneideri and R. spinulosa have aspects of the internal oral morphology evidenced. Herein, the internal oral morphology from 12 species of Rhinella distributed between the morphological groups of R. crucifer, R. granulosa, R. marina and R margar...

ba ck g r ou n d  & aim: nurses professional values are standards for action and provide a frame- work for evaluating behaviors. this paper is the report of a study designed to assess the psycho- metric  properties  of  the  turkish  version  of  the  nurses  professional  values  scale-revised (npvs-r). methods & materials: this methodological study was carried out a university hospital in izm...

There are limited studies on the relationship between internal marketing and service quality in Uganda though in the west interest in internal marketing seems to have intensified from 2006 onwards Customers no longer simply pay for services: they co –produce with the contact employees at the time of transaction and therefore the customer buying experience has to be understood from both the empl...

this report ana l ys e s 170 percutaneous puncture of the internal jugular veinley alte r native t echnique from march 1970 t o february 1977 i n insurance hos pital no2 and amir al am hospi t al . the re have be en no s e r i ous complications or difficul ties . the me t hod allows fre e movement of the limbs post operat ively and avoi ds the pai nfu l t hrombatic sequelae ass ociate d with th...

Governments keep subsidizing R&D of IT entrepreneurial firms greatly. However, the effect of these grants remains unclear. Acknowledging this gap, this study provides a nuanced perspective to understand the influence of government R&D grants on IT entrepreneurial firm performance. Based on the literature on organizational learning, we categorize government R&D grants into two types: explorative...

background: the national institutes of health stroke scale (nihss) can objectively quantify the severity of stroke. however no information is available about psychometric properties and it’s applicability in the iranian population. objectives: the present study purposed by utilization of this instrument for neurological deficits measurement due to stroke, to determine the internal consistency r...

Some anatomical characteristics of 507 Belgian Blue (BB) cattle, withers height (WH), heart girth (HG), the distance between the two tubera coxae (TcTc) and the distance between the two tubera ischiadica (TiTi), were compared with the internal pelvic measurements of width, height and area. Mean values were 58.9 ± 6.2 cm for TcTc, 14.6 ± 2.3 cm for TiTi, 15.2 ± 2.1 cm for pelvic width (PW), 18.8...