BACKGROUND Family caregivers play a central role in ensuring the execution of the discharge care plan. OBJECTIVE To enhance an evidence-based model-the Care Transitions Intervention (CTI)-and to make it more responsive to the needs of family caregivers and determine its impact on a measure of activation. METHODS Prospective cohort of 83 patient-family caregiver partnerships discharged from ...

The Rasch measurement model for developing and revising career assessment tools has many advantages over traditional test development methods. To better understand this method, the current study met its two purposes (a) to illustrate how the Rasch measurement model can aid vocational psychology researchers in increased precision and accuracy in assessment; and (b) to examine the psychometric an...

By transforming heat flux from particle to wave phonon transport, we introduce a new class of engineered material to control thermal conduction. We show that rationally designed nanostructured alloys can lead to a fundamental new approach for thermal management, guiding heat as photonic and phononic crystals guide light and sound, respectively. Novel applications for these materials include hea...

Human land use and climate change are regarded as the main driving forces of present-day and future species extinction. They may potentially lead to a profound reorganisation of the composition and structure of natural communities throughout the world. However, studies that explicitly investigate both forms of impact--land use and climate change--are uncommon. Here, we quantify community change...

An investigation is performed to study the effect of suction/injection on unsteady hydromagnetic natural convection flow of viscous reactive fluid between two vertical porous plates in the presence of thermal diffusion. The partial differential equations governing the flow have been solved numerically using semi-implicit finite-difference scheme. For steady case, analytical solutions have been ...

Introduction A supraventricular reentrant tachycardia (SVT) appearing after cardiac surgery is known to have a complicated reentrant circuit, such as a figure-8 pattern based on a double-loop reentry using both an incisional line and the cavotricuspid isthmus (CTI). In order to determine the reentrant circuit of the SVT, detailed mapping using a 3-dimensional (3-D) electroanatomical mapping sys...

Digital Infrared Thermal Imaging, Thermal Imaging or Thermography, could be the next chapter in safer, more effective screening for cancer, sport injuries including orthopedic issues and more. Unfortunately, thermal image camera resolution is considerably lower than of optical cameras, mostly only 160x120 or 320x240 pixels. The readout durability was still poor and needed improvement. In this p...

OBJECTIVE Smartphone-based thermal imaging was evaluated for its utility in the detection of peritonsillar abscesses. METHODS We describe six cases of peritonsillar abscess in which computed tomography and thermography scans of the neck were performed prior to surgery. RESULTS Open-mouth thermal photographic images were obtained preoperatively from patients, and asymmetric hot spots with si...

We demonstrate the imaging of buried features in a microstructure—a tiny hole in an aluminum thin film covered by a chromium layer—with nanometer lateral resolution using a transient temperature distribution restricted to within ;0.5 mm of the sample surface. This is achieved by mapping photothermally induced megahertz surface vibrations in an atomic force microscope. Local thermal probing with...