This paper describes the implementation of a PIC microcontroller in a conventional laboratory-type electronic trainer. The work comprises software for the PIC and hardware for the software. The PIC controller uses an EasyPIC-6 board and includes a PC-interfaced programmer for the PIC chip. It has many external modules: 128 × 64 graphic LCD display, 2 × 16 LCD display, 4 × 4 keypad, and port exp...

[Purpose] This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of Inspiratory Muscle Trainer (IMT) on respiratory muscle strength and pulmonary functions. [Subjects and Methods] Fifteen sedentary unemployed patients were recruited from both genders who received regular hemodialysis sessions from at least three months. Those patients received Threshold IMT program for 12 weeks. Pulmonary functions an...

Tw o important issues in machine learning are explored: the role that memory plays in acquiring new concepts; and the extent to which the learner can take an active part in acquiring these concepts. This chapter describes a program, called Marvin, which uses concepts it has learned previously to learn new concepts. The program forms hypotheses about the concept being learned and tests the hypot...

Some applications require a person in a remote location (the trainer), to instruct another person (the trainee) on how to put together a number of objects according to a precise set of spatial relationships. In this paper we report the results of using a collaborative Mixed Reality application that allows the trainer to manipulate the virtual objects in a virtual environment. At the same time, ...

This study identifies stigma as a potential precursor to self-fulfilling prophecies in training interactions. Expectations held by leaders often result in actions that elicit expectancy-confirming behaviors from their subordinates. The results of the present study suggest that trainee weight (manipulated with a photograph depicting the trainee as either obese or average weight for height) influ...

The article presents 5 cases of IUD translocation in women aged 27-34; 3 of the devices were Copper-7; the others were a Copper-T and Lippes Loop. In all cases the devices' strings were missing and the devices had been localized through X-rays and sometimes through a hystero-salpingogram. The devices were removed by laparoscopy in 3 cases, and by laparotomy in 2 cases. IUD translocation is u...

AIMS First proposed in the 2004 White Paper Choosing Health, health trainers are a new addition to the public health workforce. Health trainers are recruited from local communities and provide support to enable individuals to adopt healthy lifestyles. The aim of this paper is to examine the emerging role of the health trainer in the context of one of the twelve early adopter programmes. The pap...

The book is about designing and building learning autonomous robots. An autonomous robot is a remarkable example of a device that is difficult to design and program, because it must carry out its task in a partially unknown and unpredictable environment, with which it interacts through noisy sensors and actuators. There is a fairly widespread opinion that a good way of coping with this situatio...

Die präzise Erfassung der Belastung und Beanspruchung eines Trainings kann zu einer verbesserten Trainingssteuerung und zur Vermeidung von Übertraining führen. In der Literatur wurde bisher keine einheitliche Gold-Standard-Methode zur Messung der Trainingsbelastung oder -intensität von Ausdauerathleten präsentiert. Das Ziel dieser Publikation ist i) die Identifikation von validen, praktisch anw...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of the training-of-trainer courses given to medical school faculty members, and to ensure the standardisation of training.. METHODS The study comprised faculty members attending seven training-of-trainer courses held at the Ataturk University, Turkey, from November 2010 to May 2011. Tests were administered to the participants evaluating their level of k...