In 2 experiments, a 12-min computerized vigilance task was demonstrated to reproduce the vigilance decrement, high workload (NASA-TLX), and stressful character (Dundee Stress State Questionnaire) of vigilance tasks lasting 30 min or more. In Experiment 1, the abbreviated task was also shown to duplicate the signal salience effect, a major finding associated with long-duration vigilance tasks. M...

The study aimed at testing the reliability and validity of the Chinese version of Abbreviated PAD Emotion Scales using a Chinese sample. 297 Chinese undergraduate students were tested with the Chinese version of Abbreviated PAD Emotion Scales; 98 of them were retested with the same scales after seven days in order to assess the test-retest reliability; and 102 of them were tested with SCL-90 at...

The forward surgical team (FST), designed for mobility, provides level II forward life saving and resuscitative surgery. Resuscitative surgery includes controlling hemorrhage from traumatic amputation, as well as damage control surgery, usually an “abbreviated” laparotomy or thoracotomy. The goals of the abbreviated operation are to stop hemorrhage and gastrointestinal soilage. The overall goal...

BACKGROUND In the second Lebanon war in 2006, the Israeli Defense Forces fought against well-prepared and well-equipped paramilitary forces. The conflict took place near the Israeli border and major Israeli medical centers. Good data records were maintained throughout the campaign, allowing accurate analysis of injury characteristics. This study is an in-depth analysis of injury mechanisms, sev...

BACKGROUND Bicycle use has increased in some of France's major cities, mainly as a means of transport. Bicycle crashes need to be studied, preferably by type of cycling. Here we conduct a descriptive analysis. METHOD A road trauma registry has been in use in France since 1996, in a large county around Lyon (the Rhône, population 1.6 million). It covers outpatients, inpatients and fatalities. ...

Quite recently, Savaş 1 obtained sufficient conditions for ∑ anλn to be summable |A, δ|k, k ≥ 1, 0 ≤ δ < 1/k. The purpose of this paper is to obtain the corresponding result for quasif-increasing sequence. Our result includes and moderates the conditions of his theorem with the special case μ 0. A sequence {λn} is said to be of bounded variation bv if ∑ n |Δλn| < ∞. Let bv0 bv ∩ c0, where c0 de...

The Finger Tapping Test (FTT) has a strong empirical base but its procedures are inconsistent and the test can be time-consuming. To simplify and abbreviate administration procedures, several potential abbreviated procedures were evaluated using a sample of 71 individuals presenting to a VA Hospital for neuropsychological evaluation. A short version using the mean score of Trials 3-5 for each h...

—Open Reconfigurable Network (abbreviated as ORN) is a new type of distributed network architecture, which is composed by integrated network management nodes (abbreviated as MN) and more open reconfigurable routing or switching nodes (abbreviated as NN), which are managed by MN. During the path deployment among NN, there probably exists failures and even repeated failures due to the resources o...

OBJECTIVES This study aims to compare injury and trauma severity as measured by the 1998 and 2005 revisions of the Abbreviated Injury Sca le and to determine the mortality in the Injury Severity Score and the New Injury Severity Score in both versions. METHOD This cross-sectional retrospective study analyzed injuries of trauma patients from three university hospitals in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Eac...

Abbreviated title: Diierent formalisms to model membrane currents"