In scheduling medical residents, the objective is often to maximize resident satisfaction across the space of feasible schedules, relative to the many hard constraints that ensure appropriate patient coverage, adequate training opportunities, etc. A common metric of resident satisfaction is the number of time-off requests that are granted. Simply maximizing this total, however, may lead to unde...

background: this was a cross-sectional study on the gender differences in weight-control behavior. the strategies used, weight status, weight satisfaction, and proportion of individuals attempting to lose weight among 233 government employees (104 men and 129 women) working in the federal government building in penang, malaysia, were assessed. methods: anthropometric indicators such as body mas...

OBJECTIVES To: 1) describe perceptions of satisfaction with and usability of the DEKA Arm and preferences for the DEKA Arm or personal prosthesis; 2) compare perceptions of satisfaction and usability by DEKA Arm configuration level; and 3) evaluate satisfaction and usability for study completers and non-completers; and for those who did and did not want to receive a DEKA Arm. METHODS The stud...

Background: Sexual satisfaction is the fundamental role in success of family foundation. sexual satisfaction is the one of the most important components of life’s satisfaction. that influence on couples’ health. Although sexual function is related to sexual satisfaction but this factor cant be recognized as the only influential factor and the other factors include relational and emotional varia...

We give a complexity theoretic classification of the counting versions of so-called H-colouring problems for graphs H that may have multiple edges between the same pair of vertices. More generally, we study the problem of computing a weighted sum of homomorphisms to a weighted graph H. The problem has two interesting alternative formulations: First, it is equivalent to computing the partition f...

We close a gap in the proof of Theorem 4.1 in our paper “The complexity of counting graph homomorphisms” [Random Structures and Algorithms 17 (2000), 260– 289]. Our paper [2] analysed the complexity of counting graph homomorphisms from a given graph G into a fixed graph H. This problem was called #H. A crucial step in our argument, Theorem 4.1, was to prove that the counting problem #H is #P -c...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this randomized equivalence trial was to determine the impact of consuming lean beef as part of a high protein (HP) weight-reducing diet on changes in body weight, body composition and cardiometabolic health. METHODS A total of 120 adults (99 female) with overweight or obesity (BMI: 35.7 ± 7.0 kg m-2) were randomly assigned to consume either a HP diet with ≥4 weekly...

We propose categories of finer-grained polarity for a more effective aspect-based sentiment summary, and describe linguistic and ontological clues that may affect such fine-grained polarity. We argue that relevance for satisfaction, contrastive weight clues, and certain adverbials work to affect the polarity, as evidenced by the statistical analysis.