background: respiratory function in patients undergoing open heart surgery is disrupted after surgery.  patient education on managing complications can reduce occurrence or severity of them. a variety of educational tools has been introduced, but there are controversies about the most appropriate tools. aim: determine the effect of instructional videos on respiratory function of the patients af...

Let E = (P) be a dominated experiment with an open Euclidean parameter space and densities (f). The experiment is said to be continuously L 2 {diierentiable if the family (p f) is continuously L 2 {diierentiable. The following assertions are proved: (1) The experiment E is continuously L 2 {diierentiable ii the family (f) is continuously L 1 {diierentiable and Fisher's information function is c...

For a bounded open domain 2 R 2 with connected complement and piecewise smooth boundary, we consider the Dirichlet Laplacian on and the S-matrix on the complement c. Using the restriction A E of (E) 1 to the boundary of , we establish that A 1=2 E 0 1 is trace class when E 0 is negative and give bounds on the energy dependence of this difference. This allows for precise bounds on the total scat...

Purpose – This paper aims to present an approach where assumption personas are used to engage stakeholders in the elicitation and specification of security requirements at a late stage of a system’s design. Design/methodology/approach – The author has devised an approach for developing assumption personas for use in participatory design sessions during the later stages of a system’s design. The...