Introduct ion A study of readmissions is important because it is a means of assessing the degree to which current hospital practises are achieving the goals that have been set i. e., to enable a patient to maintain himself in the community in a normal manner by decreasing effects of institutionalization; to return the patient to community after hospitalization as early as possible; and thereaft...

We aimed to explore the properties of the F-V relationship of leg muscles exerting the maximum pulling F within a wide range of V set on a standard motorized treadmill. Subjects exerted maximum horizontally pulling F while walking on a treadmill set to 8 different V (1.4 3.3 m/s). The obtained F-V relationships proved to be linear and strong (all R > 0.84), while their parameters depicting the ...

TRB 2004 Annual Meeting CD-ROM Paper revised from original submittal. 2 ABSTRACT Simulation modeling is an increasingly popular and effective tool for analyzing transportation problems that are not amendable to study by other means. For any simulation study, model calibration is a crucial step to obtaining any results from analysis. This paper presents a systematic, multi-stage procedure for th...

The Starshine 3 satellite will carry several power technology demonstrations. Since Starshine 3 is primarily a passive experiment and does not need electrical power to successfully complete its mission, the requirement for a highly reliable power system is greatly reduced. This creates an excellent opportunity to test new power technologies. Several government and commercial interests have team...

Adaptation of a low-pressure flat flame burner with a flame-sampling interface to the imaging photoelectron photoion coincidence spectrometer (iPEPICO) of the VUV beamline at the Swiss Light Source is presented. The combination of molecular-beam mass spectrometry and iPEPICO provides a new powerful analytical tool for the detailed investigation of reaction networks in flames. First results demo...

Understanding the nature and influence of social relationships is of increasing interest to behavioral economists, and behavioral scientists more generally. In turn, this creates a need for tractable, and reliable, tools for measuring fundamental aspects of social relationships. We provide a comprehensive evaluation of the 'Inclusion of the Other in the Self' (IOS) Scale, a handy pictorial tool...

Traceability through physical labels is well established, but it is not highly reliable as physical labels can be easily changed or lost. Application of DNA markers to the traceability of food plays an increasingly important role for consumer protection and confidence building. In this study, we tested the efficiency of 16 polymorphic microsatellites and their combinations for tracing 368 fish ...

Fluorescence-activated droplet sorting (FADS) has become a widely used technique for high-throughput screening applications. However, existing methods are very sensitive to fluctuating flow rates at the sorting junction, which can be caused by the pulsing effects of mechanical pumps, droplet aggregates or the accumulation of precipitates during lengthy biological screening applications. Further...