background: in recent years, dentists have more opportunity of treating patients infected with blood-borne pathogens. although compliance with infection control practice (icp) in dental practice is required, it is not still sufficiently spread in japan. objective: to identify factors associated with compliance with icps in the population of japanese dentists. methods: in a questionnaire-based c...

Compliance control is highly relevant to human safety in human–robot interaction (HRI). This paper presents a review of various compliance control techniques. The paper is aimed to provide a good background knowledge for new researchers and highlight the current hot issues in compliance control research. Active compliance, passive compliance, adaptive and reinforcement learning-based compliance...

Compliance with medical therapy in general is often low, and compliance with blood pressure treatment is no better. Numerous studies have shown that patients frequently drop out of treatment for hypertension. Furthermore, even when patients stay in treatment, they often take their medications in a way quite dissimilar from that prescribed. Identifying noncompliant patients is important but not ...

background: epidemiological changes leading to chronic diseases are becoming more important day by day. hypertension is also known as a chronic disease. worldwide prevalence of hypertension have caused serious complications. the disease has become a health problem in all communities. this research aims at analyze the correlation between compliance with the treatment regimen and health locus of ...

Few pieces of legislation have affected so much so quickly and profoundly as the SarbaneseOxley (often abbreviated ‘‘SoX’’) Act of 2003. Triggered by accounting scandals such as Enron’s several years ago, SoX has many provisions, some of the most important of which require management of publicly traded companies to establish and maintain ‘‘an adequate internal control structure and procedures f...

To determine the association between some demographic features ( age, sex, level of education) and the rate of diabetes mellitus control, we performed a cross sectional study in 1065 patients who were under the care of Kerman diabetes center in 1992. We evaluated the data of 525 patients who had more than four visits annually. Sixty nine per cent of them were female and 31℅ male. The mean age f...

This paper presents some models and concepts for developing smart power grid control systems based on holonic concepts and the open standards IEC 61850, IEC 61499. Along with the proposed holonic models for different levels of control, we present a simple fault protection application illustrating how the IEC 61499 artifacts can be used for modeling and implementation of IEC 61850 compliant appl...

Copying human physiology leads us to the first truly anthropomimetic robot ECCEROBOT, driven by the antagonistically coupled compliant drives. Control design of such a mechanism appears as a really demanding and challenging mission. Puller-follower concept, developed for the robotic joint with antagonistically coupled drives, is expanded to the multi-joint control level. Problems in control of ...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background : schizophrenia requires a large share of medical resources due to its early onset and chronic and severe nature. compliance therapy is a therapy specifically designed to improve concordance with treatment for those with major mental illnesses. the aim of present study was to determine whether compliance therapy...