Objectives: The physical component of tasks can be a problem because of muscle weakness; therefore, this research was performed to investigate the relationships between some physical fitness factors and muscle damage enzyme levels in people with mild Intellectual Disabilities (ID). Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 314 students with ID (Body Mass Index [BMI]: 23.42±4.84 kg/m2), after mea...

A great deal of research has investigated the potential parameters of tactile feedback for virtual buttons. However, these studies do not take the possible effects of feedback latencies into account. Therefore, this research investigates the impact of tactile feedback delays on touchscreen keyboard usage. The first experiment investigated four tactile feedback delay conditions during a number e...

This paper explores the potentially powerful role e-assessment practices can have on culture change in learning and teaching. This paper demonstrates how new e-assessment practices can ‘push back’ through educational institutions. This is done by applying the work of Gibbs and Simpson (2004/5) to e-assessment practices. To illustrate the practical effects of this evidence-based framework, the a...

To quantify ground water denitrification in discrete locations of riparian aquifers, we modified and evaluated an in situ method based on conservative tracers and 15N-enriched nitrate. Ground water was "pushed" (i.e., injected) into a mini-piezometer and then "pulled" (i.e., extracted) from the same mini-piezometer after an incubation period. This push-pull method was applied in replicate mini-...

A surprisingly high number of mobile carriers worldwide do not block unsolicited traffic from reaching their mobile devices from the open Internet or from within the cellular network. This exposes mobile users to a class of lowresource attacks that could compromise their privacy and security. In this work we describe a methodology that allows an adversary to identify a victim device in the cell...

ITH THE CONTINUED INTEREST in a u d i o c i r cu i t r y a n d d e s i g n , i t h a s b e c o m e w o r t h w h i l e f o r t h e a u d i o engineer to re-examine some of the procedures that formerly were taken largely for granted. Among these procedures is the use of the by-pass capacitor in a Class A push-pull output stage. The purpose of this capacitor seems evident enough, yet the engineer...

A valid compiler optimisation transforms a block in a program without introducing new observable behaviours to the program as a whole. Deciding which optimisations are valid can be difficult, and depends closely on the semantic model of the programming language. Axiomatic relaxed models, such as C++11, present particular challenges for determining validity, because such models allow subtle effe...

Purchase shares of major national-brands in consumer packaged-goods industries vary substantially across stores, both between markets and within markets. This paper measures the extent to which this variation in national-brand purchase shares depends on store-specific supply decisions, which are traditionally within the purview of trade marketing. We first demonstrate the extent to which purcha...

A family of multispecies drop-push system on a one-dimensional lattice is investigated. It is shown that this family is solvable in the sense of the Bethe ansatz, provided a nonspectral matrix equation is satisfied. The large-time behavior of the conditional probabilities, and the dynamics of the particle-type change are also investigated. PACS numbers: 05.40.-a, 02.50.Ga