BACKGROUND Patterned electrical neuromuscular stimulation (PENS) uses the electrical stimulation of sensory and motor nerves to achieve a skeletal muscle contraction using an electromyogram-derived functional pattern. PENS is used extensively for neuromuscular reeducation and treatment of muscle disuse atrophy. PURPOSE To explore the effectiveness of PENS as applied to the quadriceps muscles ...

By the end of 2007, the year that marked its tenth anniversary, the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) legislative reauthorization lay in a shambles, the about-to-be victim of a second successful presidential veto. [FN1] President Bush's action swiftly became the subject of a blizzard of speeches, articles, and editorials [FN2] decrying the depths to which the nation's political ...

Because effective communication appears paramount in psychotherapy sessions, it seems valuable for therapists to understand the role nonverbal behavior may play in communication in this setting. This study examines how a therapist’s spinal alignment, defined as the organization of the three primary body weights (the skull, thorax, and pelvis) around a vertical plumbline, affects clients’ percep...

PROBLEM ADDRESSED A recently implemented model of care in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) called Care by Design addresses concerns about a previously uncoordinated care system, a reduction in family physician services, and high rates of ambulance transports to emergency departments. OBJECTIVE OF PROGRAM Care by Design is designed to increase access to care and continuity and quality of care...

ARNASON, A., S. B. SIGURDSSON, A. GUDMUNDSSON, I. HOLME, L. ENGEBRETSEN, and R. BAHR. Physical Fitness, Injuries, and Team Performance in Soccer. Med. Sci. Sports Exerc., Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 278–285, 2004. Purpose: To investigate the relationship between physical fitness and team success in soccer, and to test for differences in physical fitness between different player positions. Methods: Part...

there are many long-standing conjectures related with some labellings of trees. it is important to connect labellings that are related with conjectures. we find some connections between known labellings of simple graphs.

One question before the high-performance computing community is "How will application developers write code for exascale machines?" At this point it looks like they might be riding a rough beast indeed. This talk is a brief assessment of where we stand now with respect to writing programs for our largest supercomputers and what we should do next. MPI is likely to remain a critical part of the p...