OBJECTIVE To develop and validate a Chinese version of the Craig Hospital Inventory of Environmental Factors. DESIGN Descriptive case-series. SUBJECTS A total of 107 individuals with chronic stroke and 56 age-matched healthy subjects. METHODS The English version of the 25-item Craig Hospital Inventory of Environmental Factors was translated into Chinese using standardized procedures, and ...

Spielberger's State-Trait Anxiety Inventory ( STAI) and Shostrom' s Personal Orientation Inventory (POI) were completed by three groups of undergraduates at the University of New England at Armidale, Australia, a few days prior to either beginning a program of Transcendental Meditation (TM group, N = 25), a parallel program of progressive relaxation (PR group, N =40), or acting as controls (N =...

In this paper, an (s, S) policy is determined by using a simulation-optimization approach for periodic review inventory system at pharmacy department of major hospital in Thailand. The simulation, which imitates the behavior, constructed on spreadsheet, while cyclic coordinate method with golden section search adopted as optimization algorithm. Solutions policy's parameters from algorithm are e...

Nuclear reactors have served as the antineutrino source for many fundamental physics experiments. The techniques developed by these experiments make it possible to use these very weakly interacting particles for a practical purpose. The large flux of antineutrinos that leaves a reactor carries information about two quantities of interest for safeguards: the reactor power and fissile inventory. ...

Using proprietary audit trail transactions compiled by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, we investigate, at the individual trader level, (1) the timing and (2) the determinants of dual traders’ personal trades. Our analysis reveals a surprising absence of any trade timing by dual traders in relation to the execution of their customers’ orders. Further examination employing correlation s...

BACKGROUND There are high rates of treatment non-completion for personality disorder and those who do not complete treatment have poorer outcomes. A goal-based motivational interview may increase service users' readiness to engage with therapy and so enhance treatment retention. We conducted a feasibility study to inform the design of a randomized controlled trial. The aims were to test the fea...