Restaurateurs seeking to maximize revenues should look carefully at how long their tables are occupied and at how much the average diner spends. This study examines two aspects of the restaurant environment table type and table location to determine whether the placement or configuration of a dining table (in particular, whether it has an architectural anchor) has measurable effects on duration...

OBJECTIVE We sought to characterize sensory integration (SI) and praxis patterns of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and discern whether these patterns relate to social participation. METHOD We extracted Sensory Integration and Praxis Tests (SIPT) and Sensory Processing Measure (SPM) scores from clinical records of children with ASD ages 4-11 yr (N=89) and used SIPT and SPM standa...

In this paper, a new side-by-side mooring bay designed by Keppel Offshore & Marine Technology Centre is investigated, and its global performance and dynamic stability are compared against those of the traditional SPM-mooring system. The multi-body systems include SPM buoy with a turntable and mooring system, a VLCC FPSO, oil tanker, and the hawsers/fenders and yokes between them. A time-domain ...

Most UNIX operating systems are not delivered with adequate facilities to address password management in medium to large, heterogeneous environments. The System for Password Management (SPM, pronounced spam) provides multiple levels of user verification beyond the normal password verification procedure, both local and centralized password database management, a consistent command interface acro...

Analytic continuation (AC) from the imaginary-time Green's function to spectral is a crucial process for numerical studies of dynamical properties quantum many-body systems. This process, however, an ill-posed problem; that is, obtained spectrum unstable against noise function. Though several methods have been developed, each them has its own advantages and disadvantages. The sparse modeling (S...

Remote sensing of suspended particulate matter, SPM, from space has long been used to assess its spatio-temporal variability in various coastal areas. The associated algorithms were generally site specific or developed over a relatively narrow range of concentration, which make them inappropriate for global applications (or at least over broad SPM range). In the frame of the GlobCoast project, ...

To evaluate the incidence of secondary primary malignancy (SPM) in patients with ovarian cancer using a nationwide retrospective population-based dataset. Patients newly diagnosed with ovarian cancer between 1997 and 2010 were identified using Taiwan's National Health Insurance database. Patients with antecedent malignancies were excluded. Standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) for SPM were calcu...

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) uses MRI to noninvasively map areas of increased neuronal activity in human brain without the use of an exogenous contrast agent. Low signal-to-noise ratio of fMRI images makes it necessary to use sophisticated image processing techniques, such as statistical parametric map (SPM), to detect activated brain areas. This paper presents a new technique t...

The photo-stability of photosystem I (PSI) is of high importance for the photosynthetic processes. For this reason, we studied the protective action of two biogenic polyamines (PAs) spermine (Spm) and spermidine (Spd) on PSI activity in isolated thylakoid membranes subjected to photoinhibition. Our results show that pre-loading thylakoid membranes with Spm and Spd reduced considerably the inhib...

The concentration of putrescine (PUT), spermidine (SPD) and spermine (SPM) was determined in chilled meat and kidneys of 18 rabbits and in liver of 12 animals 24h after slaughter. Very low PUT concentrations were detected only in kidneys. Mean SPD levels were 2.2, 2.2, 61.7 and 32.7mgkg(-1) in saddle, leg, liver and kidneys, respectively. The respective SPM concentrations were 14.7, 8.0, 115 an...