Accurate situation awareness (SA) of medical staff is integral for providing optimal performance during the treatment of patients. An understanding of SA and how it affects treatment of patients is therefore crucial for patient safety and an essential element for research on human factors in anesthesia. This review describes the concept of SA in the anesthesia environment, including the interac...

Maximal effort on a 30 km Time Trial (TT30) was examined to assess whether it would elicit changes in objective and subjective tests of the participants' perception of the environment and their ability to anticipate future occurrences (situation awareness; SA) and to determine the effect of post-exercise recovery on SA. Nine experienced (5.22 ± 2.77 years) road cyclists had their objective and ...

We studied the themal quenching of the self-activated (SA) band of molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) grown ZnSe:Cl thin films by means of temperature dependen1 photo~uminescence (PL) experiments. We analyzed the spectra of the self-activated (SA) band as a function of temperature and C1 concentration. Al1 studied samples presented the emission of this band, however, the excitonic emission was observ...

Salicylic acid (SA) has long been implicated in plant responses to oxidative stress. SA overproduction in Arabidopsis thaliana leads to dwarfism, making in planta assessment of SA effects difficult in this model system. We report that transgenic Populus tremula × alba expressing a bacterial SA synthase hyperaccumulated SA and SA conjugates without negative growth consequences. In the absence of...

Representing shapes is a signiicant problem for vision systems that must recognize or classify objects. We derive a representation for a given shape by investigating its self-similarities, and constructing its shape axis(SA) and shape axis tree (SA-tree). We start with a shape, its boundary contour, and two diierent parameterizations for the contour. To measure its self-similarity we consider m...

UNLABELLED Suicide attempt (SA) and non-suicidal self-injurious behaviors (NSSI) have been described in patients with eating disorders (ED), and they have been associated with increased morbidity and poor prognosis. OBJECTIVES To explore the presence of SA and NSSI in patients attending an outpatient ED program, as well as to evaluate the associated variables and the correlation between both ...

OBJECTIVES The Quality of Well-Being questionnaire is a measure of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) that has several desirable properties. Its widespread use has been hindered because it is difficult to administer. To overcome this limitation, a new self-administered form has recently been developed. This study examined the feasibility of using the Quality of Well-Being-Self-Administered ...

Self assembly (SA) processes are fundamental to a number of computational and fabrication technologies in nanoscience. Indeed, their efficiency and robustness are critical to the success of the underlying concepts. SA typically involves random phenomena at some level, yet the development of reference theories for the study of random SA processes is scarcely begun. This paper studies a model of ...

OBJECTIVE We investigate differences between White and South Asian (SA) populations in levels of objectively measured and self-reported physical activity. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Leicestershire, UK, 2010-2011. PARTICIPANTS Baseline data were pooled from two diabetes prevention trials that recruited a total of 4282 participants from primary care with a high risk score for typ...

The aim of this work is to examine the possibility of CuNi protection in chloride media by self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of stearic acid (SA). In order to obtain a compact, well ordered monolayer, that will provide long term protection, different SAM preparation procedures are studied. The influence of CuNi pretreatment, SA solution temperature and temperature of the drying period followed a...