this study aimed to identify and test expectancy motivational model as a theoretical framework to explain the reasons motivating expected information consumer’s behavior for the selection and use of document delivery services of shahid chamran university, ahvaz. in this study, explanatory survey method was used. in order to test the hypotheses and analysis of model’s data, covariance structural...

In this work, the effects of visible implant elastomer (VIE) tags on survival and body growth rate juvenile red octopus Octopus maya from Yucatan Peninsula were tested under controlled conditions. Juveniles with an average weight 1.14 g not affected by VIE within 30 days, so methodology is suggested as a useful tool to study life cycle aspects important fishery species.

I mprovements to voice-recognition algorithms and greater computing power have changed speech technology from an approach with limited uses to an increasingly important part of many applications. As this process has unfolded, developers have searched for an open standard , rather than proprietary development and runtime environments, that would let them easily and quickly add speech input/outpu...

The planning of an adequate nutritional support for meeting the metabolic requirements of sick neonates is a tedious time consuming calculation, needs practical expert knowledge and involves the risk of introducing possibly fatal errors. We therefore developed the interactive support system VIE–PNN for calculating the composition of parenteral nutrition solutions (PNS) for neonates at intensive...

Focusing on how television viewing fits into.a general model of_consumer_consumption patterns, a study examined (1) the extent to which the viewing of certain television content can be considered a "norm" of society, (2) similarities and differences between the norms for adults and those for children, and (3) some of the antecedents of beliefs about the appropriateness of TV viewing behavior re...

Ambulatory care supporting long-term treatment of type I diabetes mellitus (DM) is based on the analysis of daily notes of serum glucose measurements, carbohydrate intake, and insulin dosage. In order to improve glycaemic control, telemedicine support aims at improving communication between patients and diabetologists. Patient data are collected using mobile phone services. Weekly responses fro...

In obstructive lung diseases such as asthma and COPD dyspnea is a common respiratory symptom with different characteristics given the different pathogenic mechanisms: in COPD initially it can occur during exertion but then it increases progressively along with the airflow obstruction, whereas in asthma it occurs episodically and is caused by transient bronchoconstriction. The language of dyspne...

This report describes the findings of a study in symbol legibility which investigated the reading time and errors for common five-letter words when they are projected by a solid stroke and when they are shown by a broken stroke. The latter was produced on a 945-line TV monitor at 10, 7, and 5 active lines per symbol height. This study is similar to an earlier report on the readability of common...