aim: regular physical activity has several physical, psychological and social benefits. however, it is a global health problem, especially among icu nurses. therefore, in order to improve nurses’ physical activity, it is required to determine the effective correlated factors. the aim of this study was to delineate predictive factors on the physical activity of icu nurses based on a trans-theore...

abstract recharge of aquifers by using wastewater, is one of the important and applicable ways for reusing this valuable water resource, especially in arid and semi-arid regions. as the necessity of local practices for finding the proper management strategies and optimum use of recharge systems (conforming to climate, soil, etc.), a preliminary study was carried out. three physical models were ...

objective: educational models are used to study the behavior and plan for changing and determining the factors that affect the individuals’ decision making for conducting a behavior. this study aimed to compare the effects of the educational program based on basnef model and acupressure at gb21 point on the infants’ physical growth indicators.methods: this clinical trial was conducted on 150 (5...

PURPOSE To investigate monthly and seasonal variations in the progression of myopia in children enrolled in the Correction of Myopia Evaluation Trial (COMET). METHODS An ethnically diverse cohort of 469 myopic 6- to <12 year-old children was randomized to single vision or progressive addition lenses and followed for 3 years with 98.5% retention. Progression of myopia was measured semiannually...

⎯ Medical mechantronics (MM) is a newly designed multidisciplinary study program in response to the urgent needs for training engineering students with medical modality development skills in Taiwan. Chang Gung University(Taiwan) offers a master degree program in medical mechatronics. This program is designed to accept engineering and non-engineering degree students with interdisciplinary curric...

This paper considers adding autonomy to robot hands used in teleoperation systems. Currently, the finger positions of robot hands in teleoperation systems are controlled via a robot master using a Dataglove or exoskeleton. There are several difficulties with this approach: accurate calibration is hard to achieve; robot hands have different capabilities from human hands; and complex force reflec...