background: back pain is a common patients’ complaint, and its etiology is important because of different potential treatment approaches (based on causes). for a better diagnosis, magnetic resonance imaging (mri) is widely used in clinical settings that may result in inappropriate requests. this study aims to evaluate the appropriateness of the lumbosacral mri requests in patients with back pai...

The general objective of the "Rehabilitation Medicine Summit: Building Research Capacity" was to advance and promote research in medical rehabilitation by making recommendations to expand research capacity. The five elements of research capacity that guided the discussions were 1) researchers; 2) research culture, environment, and infrastructure; 3) funding; 4) partnerships; and 5) metrics. The...

W.R. Frontera and L.S. Krivickas are with the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston, MA 02114. V.A. Hughes, R. Roubenoff, and Frontera are with the Nutrition, Exercise Physiology, and Sarcopenia Laboratory at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, MA. Contracti...

1Research Center for Children with Special Health Care Needs, Franciscan Hospital for Children, Brighton, MA, USA 2Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA 3Department of Pediatrics, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA 4Queensland Cerebral Palsy and Rehabilitation Research Centre, The Unive...

In recent years, cloud computing has become popular as a cost-effective and efficient computing paradigm. Unfortunately, today’s cloud computing architectures are not designed for security and forensics. To date, very little research has been done to develop the theory and practice of cloud forensics. Many factors complicate forensic investigations in a cloud environment. First, the storage sys...

Adaptive computing solutions can significantly contribute to saving energy and other resources in data centers. Examples of such solutions include load and power management of servers, adapting air conditioning to dynamic loads, and dynamic distribution of computing loads to various data centers. Several solutions of this kind were developed and their potentials for saving energy and other reso...

David J. Reinkensmeyer, PhD; Leonard E. Kahn, BS; Michele Averbuch, PT; Alicia McKenna-Cole, PT; Brian D. Schmit, PhD ; W. Zev Rymer, MD, PhD Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Center for Biomedical Engineering, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697; Sensory Motor Performance Program, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabi...

1Department of Public Health and General Practice, Faculty of Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. 2 Hysnes Rehabilitation Center, St. Olavs University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway 3 Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, St. Olav University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway. 4 Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, Norw...