SEFRE (Shoulder-Elbow-Forearm Robotics Economic) rehabilitation system is presented in this paper. SEFRE Rehab System is composed of a robotic manipulator and an exoskeleton, so-called Forearm Supportive Mechanism (FSM). The controller of the system is developed as the Master PC consisting of five modules, that is, Intelligent Control (IC), Patient Communication (PC), Training with Game (TG), P...

BACKGROUND In recent years, the focus on patient safety and housestaff supervision has led to a steady increase in institutions providing 24/7 in-hospital (also known as in-house, henceforth referred to as IH) coverage by pediatric intensivists. Effects of this increased attending physician presence on education of pediatric housestaff have not been studied. We hypothesized that IH coverage wou...

AIM To evaluate an intervention aimed at enriching day centres for people with psychiatric disabilities by exploring staff experiences from developing and implementing the intervention. METHOD Each staff group developed a tailor-made intervention plan, following a manual, for how to enrich the day centre. They received supervision and support from the research team. The study was based on foc...

Psychological treatments delivered by lay therapists, with little or no previous mental health training, have been shown to be effective in treating a range of mental health problems. In low resource settings, the dearth of available experts to assess therapy quality potentially leads to a bottleneck in scaling up lay therapist delivered psychological treatments. Peer-led supervision and the as...

Occupational self-efficacy is a valuable resource for well-being and health in the workplace, but according to stress-as-offense-to-self model, it can be threatened by abusive supervisors. In our study, we examined this mechanism through which supervisors indirectly affect subordinates’ well-being. Assuming differences between male female subordinates regarding occupational self-efficacy, consi...

Background Clinical experience associated with the fear and anxiety of nursing students in the psychiatric unit. Mental health nursing instructors find it challenging to teach nursing students to deal with patients with mental disorders in an environment where they need to provide patient teaching and clinical decision-making based on evidence and new technology. Objective To measure the effe...

The Machine Learning community have been introduced to NELL (Never-Ending Language Learning), a system able to learn from web and to use its knowledge to keep learning infinitely. The idea of continuously learning from the web brings concerns about reliability and accuracy, mainly when the learning process uses its own knowledge to improve its learning capabilities. Considering that the knowled...

Abstract Narcissists often attain leadership positions, but at the same time do not care for others and engage in unethical behaviors. We therefore explored role of leader narcissism as an antecedent abusive supervision, a form leadership. based our study on narcissistic admiration rivalry concept (NARC) proposed direct positive effect leaders’ rivalry—the maladaptive dimension—on supervision. ...