According to a Robert Wood Johnson study, nurses spend only 31% of their time in direct patient care. The American Academy of Nursing promotes making better use of nurses’ time by using technology, which could reduce activities that are not related to direct patient care. Because nurses spend greater than 30% of their time documenting, voice recognition technology (VRT), an underused strategy i...

4. All of the following are inclusion criteria for VRT except a. The defective area of the visual field should affect the central 30-degree visual field b. A central residual visual field of at least 5 degrees horizontally and vertically should be spared c. The patient has had a stroke, subarachnoid hemorrhage, or cerebral injury d. The visual field defect must be related to an optic neuropathy...

A study of the effect of noise stress on some of the physiological parameters was carried out on healthy male workers of thermal power station (exposed to sound level 90-113 dBA) and compared with age and sex matched healthy controls (exposed to sound level 48-66 dBA). The parameters recorded were heart rate (HR), systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), galvanic skin resi...

The popularity of spinner spreaders for application of granular fertilizers and agricultural lime, along with increased interests in variable–rate technology (VRT), has raised concern about application accuracy and distribution of these spreaders. This investigation was undertaken to assess the application distribution of a VRT spinner fertilizer spreader. Application distribution was assessed ...

AIMS This study investigated ventricular electrophysiological characteristics and the correlation between these parameters and heart rate variability (HRV) and baroreflex sensitivity (BRS) in a canine congestive heart failure (CHF) model. METHODS AND RESULTS Haemodynamics, HRV, BRS, and ventricular electrophysiological variables were measured 4-5 weeks after sham operation (control dogs) and ...

Purpose We conducted a systematic review with meta-analysis to examine the short- and long-term effects of virtual reality training (VRT) on pain, range motion (RoM), kinesiophobia perceived function in patients chronic neck pain (CNP).Methods searched PubMed, Scopus, PEDro databases for studies assessing effect VRT against conventional therapy CNP patients. Separate analyzes were performed sho...

Purpose: The aim of the study was to investigate effect electromyography biofeedback (EMG-BF), which in addition conventional electrophysical therapy (EPT) commonly used symptomatic treatment carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), on motor parameters such as strength and reaction time functional pain function upper extremity.
 Materials Methods: Patients diagnosed with CTS were divided into two gro...

Background Verbal response times (VRTs) are among the suggested markers for cognitive load during word recognition tasks. Measurements of VRT hearing aid fitting can be a useful tool to obtain information about listening effort with different amplification parameters. Material and methods A software program was developed easily measure VRTs in speech tests. The system plays 50 randomly chosen r...

Soil fertility evaluation and management can be greatly improved with the use of precision agriculture technologies. Differential global positioning systems @GPS), yield monitors, various forms of remote sensing, geographical information system (GIs) computer software, and variable rate technologies are available for use to producers. Intensive soil sampling, crop scouting, and other practices ...

Today's DRAM process is expected to continue scaling, enabling minimum feature sizes below 10nm. To achieve this, the main challenges to address are expected to be refresh, write recovery time (tWR), and variable retention time (VRT) parameters. This paper proposes enhancement features that address these three scaling parameters by simultaneously coarchitecting the controller and DRAM instead o...