BACKGROUND The aim of the study is to describe the work pattern of personal care workers (PCWs) in nursing homes. This knowledge is important for staff performance appraisal, task allocation and scheduling. It will also support funding allocation based on activities. METHODS A time-motion study was conducted in 2010 at two Australian nursing homes. The observation at Site 1 was between the ho...

INTRODUCTION Muscle pain in the shoulder/neck area and the upper extremities is a common and increasing problem among computer workers (Öberg and Åström, 2000). Hägg (1991) formulated the “Cinderella” hypothesis, proposing that the pain is caused by an overuse of low-threshold motor units (MUs). While this hypothesis is supported by laboratory studies that showed continuous activity of single M...

Logical reversibility is the basis for emerging technologies like quantum computing, may be used for certain aspects of low-power design, and has been proven beneficial for the design of encoding/decoding devices. Testing of circuits has been a major concern to verify the integrity of the implementation of the circuit. In this paper, we propose the main ideas of an ATPG method for detecting two...

A pattern recognition system refers to a system deployed for the classification of data patterns and categorizing them into predefined set of classes. Various methods used for recognizing the patterns are studied under this paper. The objective of this paper is to study the various techniques for recognizing the complex patterns, identify and implement the best suitable technique with its merit...

MOTIVATION Despite the growing literature devoted to finding differentially expressed genes in assays probing different tissues types, little attention has been paid to the combinatorial nature of feature selection inherent to large, high-dimensional gene expression datasets. New flexible data analysis approaches capable of searching relevant subgroups of genes and experiments are needed to und...

In this work, we study social interactions in a work environment and investigate how the presence of other people changes personal behavior patterns. We design the visual processing algorithms to track multiple people in the environment and detect dyadic interactions using a discriminative classifier. The locations of the users are associated with semantic tasks based on the functions of the ar...

We show how a domain and language independent design pattern, defined as networks of tasks and goals, can be used to formally specify the transfer of responsibility and accountability when tasks are delegated in healthcare teams. The pattern is general enough to be applied unchanged across a broad range of different healthcare situations.

The aim of this study was to develop an exploratory approach to characterizing the pattern of recreational abuse of alcohol and other drugs abuse at Christmas work dinners. An adaptation of the rapid assessment methodology RARE was carried out through the combination of quantitative (rapid assessment surveys, n=444) and qualitative (observations and semistructured interviews, n=8) techniques. T...

BACKGROUND Few studies have examined the relationship between antidepressant prescription and receipt of depression-related disability benefits. AIMS To address two questions: first, is prescription of antidepressants in accordance with published clinical guides associated with better disability outcomes, and second, what is the relationship between guideline-concordant antidepressant prescri...