Multisite clinical trials aimed at cognitive enhancement across various neuropsychiatric conditions have employed standard neuropsychological tests as outcome measures. While these tests have enjoyed wide clinical use and have proven reliable and predictive of functional disability, a number of implementation challenges have arisen when these tests are used in clinical trials. These issues are ...

Take Home Messages • Labor availability and parlor capacity are key factors when considering a change in milking frequency. • Increases in early lactation milking frequency may provide a better return when labor supply is limited than 3X milking. • Cow movement and time budgets must be optimized for any increase in milking frequency to succeed. A number of management factors need to be evaluate...

Student learning contracts (SLC) are documented with success in education to attain the goals of knowledge, value, and skills. The achievement of these goals is facilitated by the application of the SLC literature in education and in healthcare professional training within pharmacy practice experiential experiences (PPEE). This paper describes evidence regarding the potential use of SLC and pro...

Radio frequency identification (RFID) enabled devices are becoming increasingly common, facilitating many things from supply chain efficiencies to equipment tracking. Although there is a growing body of research on RFID systems, few studies address implementations that involve both public and private sectors. This paper outlines the results of a qualitative study that identified ten key cross-s...

There are great expectations regarding the potential contribution of integrated care interventions to improved outcomes, but so far the evidence is mixed. In this dissertation, we focussed on why, when and how some integrated care interventions contribute to improved outcomes, while others do not. To this purpose, we developed the COMIC Model for studying the Context, Outcomes and Mechanisms of...

This paper discusses computational and experimental details necessary for successfully implementing and evaluating a wide variety of force control strategies. First, a review of both explicit force and impedance control strategies is provided. Second, the basic computational requirements of these schemes are discussed, and the hardware and timing information for our implementation is provided. ...