BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine proxy-patient agreement on the domains of the Stroke Impact Scale (SIS), as per the proxy-proxy perspective. METHODS Stroke patients were prospectively assessed by means of the NIH Stroke Scale, Barthel index, and modified Rankin scale. Proxies and patients answered the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and the SIS 3.0. Compa...

This study proposes a new model for integrating the protection motivation theory (PMT) with technology acceptance (TAM) to explore factors affecting students’ intention attend e-learning courses during COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 432 valid responses an online questionnaire were received from freshmen students studying in universities Vietnam and Taiwan. Structural equation modeling was used e...

Tc-99m PMT and Tc-99m GSA can be taken up by hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), but there has been no report concerning HCC showing accumulation of both of Tc-99m PMT and Tc-99m GSA. In this paper we describe a case of two simultaneously developed HCCs, one of which took up both tracers but the other took up neither of them.

An important problem in multiresolution analysis of signals and images consists in restoring continuous hidden random variables x = {xs}s∈S from observed ones y = {ys}s∈S . This is done classically in the context of Hidden Markov Trees (HMT). HMT have been generalized recently to Pairwise Markov Trees (PMT). In this paper we propose a smoothing restoration algorithm for Gaussian PMT.

BACKGROUND The results of a recently performed randomized clinical trial showed that the effect of a multidisciplinary treatment of chronic pain patients on body awareness (BA), catastrophizing, and depression was improved by adding psychomotor therapy (PMT), an intervention targeting BA. No significant effects were found on quality of life and disability. The present follow-up study aimed to e...

It has been known since Rhodes Fairbridge’s first attempt to establish a global pattern of Holocene sealevel change by combining evidence from Western Australia and from sites in the northern hemisphere that the details of sea-level history since the Last Glacial Maximum vary considerably across the globe. The Australian region is relatively stable tectonically and is situated in the ‘far-field...

The objective of the study was to assess efficacy educational intervention program based on principles Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) reduce junk food consumption in high school students Pakistan. With quasi experimental design, planned and conducted. Fifty ages between 13 19 years were selected. Risk Behavior Diagnostic Scale adapted measure perceived susceptibility severity various diseas...

Whether the online social media, like Twitter or its variant Weibo, can be a convincing proxy to predict the stock market has been debated for years, especially for China. However, as the traditional theory in behavioral finance states, the individual emotions can influence decision-making of investors, so it is reasonable to further explore this controversial topic from the perspective of onli...

Abstract It is common practice to test the optical properties of photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) by illuminating entire photocathode region from front at once and measuring average performance. However, for optimal utilisation PMT performance in experiments, especially single-photon region, it essential also know systematic variations across photocathode, which requires measurements with focused l...

This paper analyzes the secure access delegation problem, which occurs naturally in the cloud, and postulate that Proxy ReEncryption is a feasible cryptographic solution, both from the functional and efficiency perspectives. Proxy re-encryption is a special type of public-key encryption that permits a proxy to transform ciphertexts from one public key to another, without the proxy being able to...