Nontechnical skills are critical for good anesthetic practice but are seldom addressed explicitly in clinical training. The purposes of this study were (1) to evaluate the reliability and validity of the observation-based assessment tool Nurse Anaesthetists' Non-Technical Skills system (N-ANTS) and (2) to evaluate the effect of training nurse anesthetist supervisors in the use of N-ANTS. This s...

Using subjective testing, we study the effect of network parameters, delay and packet loss ratio, on QoE cloud gaming. We studied three different games, selected based genre, popularity, content complexity pace, tested them in a controlled environment, using novel emulator to create realistic lognormal distributions instead relying static mean delay, as used previously; also Parsec good represe...

three dimensional- high efficiency video coding (3D-HEVC) is the expanded version of the latest video compression standard, namely high efficiency video coding (HEVC), which is used to compress 3D videos. 3D videos include texture video and depth map. Since the statistical characteristics of depth maps are different from those of texture videos, new tools have been added to the HEVC standard fo...

This study investigates differences between subjective onlineand post-immersion measures, verbally and pictorially anchored scales, and the effects of content on those different measures. These factors were investigated by means of a 2x2x2 within-subjects-design. Participants (N = 162) evaluated two video clips. Against our expectations the findings suggest onlineand post-immersion measures to ...

Previously, we published a video-based objective rating scale of tics that met reliability and validity criteria for measurement of five domains of tic disability. In the original form, the scale's metric properties did not permit internal comparison of each of the five domains of impairment and did not provide a total score for use as a primary outcome measure. In this study, we retained the o...

conclusions following cabg, the most severity of pain was reported at surgical incision on time t2. pain began to decrease from the third day following the operation. age, sex and bmi along with operation-related factors such as duration of cbp or chest tube drainage may affect the pain pattern following cabg surgery. patients and methods the present study was conducted on 138 patients who unde...

this year’s AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE) was hosted by Northeastern University, courtesy of the NEU Game Design Program. One hundred forty-four participants from 11 countries attended AIIDE 2013. The main program included 16 oral paper presentations, 16 posters, and 3 demonstrations, with an acceptance rate of 27 percent for the main r...

Background Considerable resources have been invested in both low- and high-fidelity simulators in surgical training. The purpose of this study was to investigate if the Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS, low-fidelity box trainer) and LapVR (high-fidelity virtual reality) training systems correlate with operative performance on the Global Operative Assessment of Laparoscopic Skills (GOAL...