Objective. To examine physical, cognitive, and social-emotional predictors of quality of life (HRQOL) and functional disability (FD) in adolescents diagnosed with Neurofibromatosis-1. Methods. Participants were twenty-seven adolescents with a diagnosis of NF-1 who were recruited through an NF-1 specialty clinic at a large Midwestern children's hospital. Measurements of the adolescents' cognitiv...

PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE CONDITIONS S. P. Schwenzer 1 , M. A. Bullock 2 , J. C. Bridges 3 , C. L. Chavez 4 , J. Filiberto 5 , L. J. Hicks 3 , S. P. Kelley 1 , M. A. Miller 6 , J. M. Moore 4 , H. D. Smith 4 , T. D. Swindle 7 , A. H. Treiman 8 – 1 The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK; 2 Southwest Research Institute, 1050 Walnut St., Suite 300, Boulder, CO 80302 (bullock@bou...

Nicht alles, was vermessbar ist, ist auch real. Bereits Galilei demonstrierte mit einer Vermessung der Hölle Dantes, dass man selbst literarische Räume kartieren kann. Diesem Vorbild folgen auch die Laienkartographen des 21. Jahrhunderts. Ihre »Map Mashups« führen eine Tradition fort, die seit der Antike Spuren in Literatur, Kartographie und wissenschaftlichen Diskursen hinterlassen hat. Mit di...

The paper is devoted to the subjective image quality evaluation for selected highly efficient compression standards. The experimental verification was done for the seven-segment display image test.

1 Department of Civil Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States, 2 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States, 3 Department of Bridge and Tunnel Engineering, School of Transportation Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, 4 School of Civil Engineering, Harbin Institute o...

This paper investigates the determinants of Polish small firm’s intentions to expand production in the context of possible economic expansion on accession to the EU. Using a non-linear specification a model is developed using twenty-seven explanatory variables derived from a questionnaire given to Polish small firms in late 1999 asking about their motivations in expanding production. Seven of t...

There is the work by Bridges et al (1999) on the key features of a constructive proof of the implicit function theorem, including some applications to physics and mechanics. For mixtures of logistic distributions such information is lacking, although a special instance of the implicit function theorem prevails therein. The theorem is needed to see that the ridgeline function, which carries info...

BACKGROUND Pictograms have been shown by many studies to be an effective way of conveying information. An easy-to-understand pictorial description is essential for communication of dietary intake in the computer era. OBJECTIVES We proposed a novel approach that represents textual descriptions of dietary intake into a pictorial representation with the concept of pictograms. The computational i...

One hundred and twenty-seven exudates from inflammatory processes, judged sterile after incubation on standard isolation media, were further investigated. This involved the exclusion of slow-growing strains by a further 48 hours incubation of the primary plates and subcultures from hypertonic broth that had been inoculated concurrently with the initial cultures. Over 80% of otherwise sterile ex...