This study aims to preliminary explore the work related and individual factors that contributed to the occurrence of low back pain (LBP) that affected work activities of Personal Care Workers (PCWs). A cross-sectional study was conducted to 36 PCWs in an old age home of Hong Kong. The study is divided into three parts: 1) a questionnaire to document the workload exposure factors and the musculo...

background: low back pain caused by work, ranked the second after cardiovascular diseases, are among the most common reasons of patients’ referral to the physicians in iran. this study aimed to determine the changes in back compressive force when measuring maximum acceptable weight of lift in iranian male students. methods: this experimental study was conducted in 2015 on 15 young male students...

Three-phase back-to-back converters are widely applied in various industrial, commercial, and domestic applications, such as AC motor drives. Due to the non-sinusoidal voltages they generate, a common mode voltage (CMV) appears, leading problems electrical drive systems high-frequency applications. The CMV rapid changes can cause serious problems, including leakage currents flowing through para...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of the core muscle release technique on correction of lumbar deformation and alleviation of low back pain. [Subjects] Ninety patients diagnosed with lumbar deformation and low back pain participated in this study. [Methods] The participants were divided into three groups according to method of treatment. The first group was treated ...

in this paper, i develop three forecasting models: namely structural, times series, and artificial neural networks; to forecast iranian inflation rates. the structural model uses aggregate demand and aggregate supply approach, the time series model is based on the standard arlma technique, and the artificial neural network applies multi-layer back propagation model the latter, which is rooted i...

in this work the synthesization process of nanocrstallite nd:ktp powders by modified pechini methodwas studied. the results of xrd studies indicate that ktp nanocrystallites doped by nd has orthorhombicphase. the structural and lattice modes of the synthesized nanocrystallite products were investigated byusing micro raman back scattering and ft-ir transmission spectroscopies. sem imaging techni...

As traditional neural network consumes a significant amount of computing resources during back propagation, Sun et al. (2017) propose a simple yet effective technique to alleviate this problem. In this technique, only a small subset of the full gradients are computed to update the model parameters. In this paper we extend this technique into the Convolutional Neural Network(CNN) to reduce calcu...