Psychosocial variables can help to explain patient ■ outcomes following total knee replacement. In particular, lower levels of depressive symptomatol ■ ogy and dysfunctional coping, and higher levels of education, problem-focused coping, internal health locus of control and perceived adequacy of assistance from others were predictive of enhanced outcomes at 6 months postsurgery. Rehabilitation...

From the Department of Internal Medi­ cine, St. Elisabeth Hospital, Willemstad, Curaçao (K.B.); and the Division of Ne­ phrol ogy, Depart ment of Medicine, Leiden University Med ical Center, and Leiden University, Leiden (A.P.J.V.), and the De­ partment of Internal Medicine, Uni ver sity of Groningen, University Medical Cen ter Groningen, Groningen (R.O.B.G.) — both in the Netherlands. Address ...

Discretely controlled continuous systems (DCCS) represent an important class of hybrid systems, in which a continuous process is regulated by a discrete controller. The paper considers the problem of stabilizing the periodic operation of such systems under event-driven switching. The key idea presented is to adjust switching surface parameters on-line to the current behavior of the continuous s...

We develop a polygonal mesh simplification algorithm based on a novel analysis of the mesh geometry. Particularly, we propose first a characterization of vertices as hyperbolic or non-hyperbolic depend-ing upon their discrete local geometry. Subsequently, the simplification process computes a volume cost for each non-hyperbolic vertex, in anal-ogy with spherical volume, to capture the loss of f...

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The purpose of this study is to examine the role of the bal-anced scorecard in Government MIS Department. The frame of Government MIS Department performance applying the balanced scorecard methodol-ogy, analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and fuzzy AHP is developed by review the studies of balanced scorecard and information systems. Then, this study adopted 13 valid questionnaires in the Taiwan’s ...

Motivated by the GKM picture of the equivariant cohomol-ogy ring for a torus action on an orbifold we define one-skeletons and their corresponding rings, H(Γ, α). We prove that, under a mild gener-icity condition, such a ring is a free S(g *)−module, with generators given by Thom classes of flow-outs of the vertices. We also show that many interesting notions and results in symplectic geometry,...

In the article, authors identify and describe role of media in broadcasting content about new religious movements (on example Scientol- ogy movement) on Russian Internet. The Kribrum social analysis system is used as a technical tool. put into project model that included 80 concepts for Center Scientology 1,242 institu- tions. consider periods 01/01/2018-12/31/2019 (stable situation) 01/01/2020...

Nowadays, the sustainability of health care system is a relevant research topic. The works Russian scientists demon- strate lack systematic approach to determining efficiency and care. International experience data Regional Office for Europe World Health Organization (WHO) show that, despite exten- sive research, indicators have been insufficiently developed. Using methods multidi - mensional c...

Chaos occurs in the crystal growth process as an irregular swing phenomenon flexible shaft rotating-lifting (FSRL) system. may lead to failure of mono-silicon production. Therefore, it should be suppressed. Many chaos control methods have been proposed theoretically and some them used applications. For a practical plant displaying harmful chaos, engineers from specific area usually face with ch...