objectives: indicators of oral health-related quality of life (ohrqol) in children are widely adopted to evaluate the effects of oral problems. recently, the scale of oral health outcomes for 5-year-old children (soho-5) was developed based on the children’s self-reports. this study aimed to evaluate the validity and reliability of the persian version of the questionnaire in a sample of iranian...

BACKGROUND Integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) can reduce under-5 morbidity and mortality in low-income settings. A program to strengthen IMCI practices through Mentorship and Enhanced Supervision at Health centers (MESH) was implemented in two rural districts in eastern Rwanda in 2010. METHODS We estimated cost per improvement in quality of care as measured by the difference in...

This paper introduces a methodology to simulate the dynamics of deformable visco-elastic 3-dimensional bodies in real-time for haptic interaction. The method is based upon a nite element approach. The central idea in this scheme is to reduce the computation required in regions which are to the periphery of the region of interaction between the virtual haptic device and the virtual body. This is...

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IEEE 802.15.3 High-rate Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs) have been developed to communicate with devices within 10m at high speed. A mesh network made up of a parent piconet and several child piconets can support multi-hop communications. In this paper, we propose an efficient Channel Time Allocation (CTA) method and routing algorithm for multi-hop communications in IEEE 802.15.3 high-ra...

This paper introduces a methodology to simulate the dynamics of visco-elastic 3-dimensional bodies in realtime using a nite element approach. The method is currently being applied to a haptic simulation of a deformable body incorporating mass, damping, and sti ness. The central idea in this scheme is to reduce the computation required in regions which are to the periphery of area of interaction...

An automatic two-dimensional mesh generation scheme based on superelement decomposition technique is presented. The proposed approximate skeletal method (ASM) uses shape interrogation techniques on simplified geometric representation of the shape boundary to generate non-intersecting, topologically simple and mappable superelements. A recursive mesh generation scheme, meshing by successive deco...

In this paper, we describe the design, implementation, and evaluation of a mesh network based messaging application for the One Laptop Per Child XO laptop. We outline the creation of an easy-to-use OLPC Activity that exchanges Ushahidi-style messages with nearby OLPC users through the Internet or a mesh network. Our contributions are to implement an epidemic messaging scheme on mesh networks of...

aims: the installation of intravenous catheter is an unpleasant and painful experience for many patients. then, it is necessary to provide new methods to either reduce or remove pain in the patients’ injection point. the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of positioning (either sitting or lying) during the installation of intravenous catheter on pain level and the following anxiet...