Existing research suggests shy people may satisfy their affiliation needs through computerized forms of communication such as instant messaging (IM). Fifty-five undergraduates completed an IM use index, the Cheek and Buss (1981) shyness scale and a motives for IM use scale developed for this study. It was found that the strongest motives for IM use were to increase personal contact as opposed t...

BACKGROUND Some people with dissociative identity disorder (DID) have very little communication or awareness among the parts of their identity, while others experience a great deal of cooperation among alternate identities. Previous research on this topic has been sparse. Currently, there is no empirical measure of integration versus fragmentation in a person with DID. In this study, we report ...

Ketorolac tromethamine injected intramuscularly (IM) has been shown to be an effective analgesic in treating patients with acute musculoskeletal pain in the emergency department (ED). The authors compare the efficacy of a single dose of IM ketorolac to osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) as delivered in the ED for the management of acute neck pain. A randomized clinical trial was conducted...

Index Terms—intensity modulation with direct detection (IM/DD), asymmetrically clipped orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (ACO-OFDM), optical communication.

Intensity modulation with direct modulation (IM/DD) favors low duty cycle modulation schemes such as pulse position modulation (PPM) and multiple PPM(MPPM).In this paper,the channel model over IM/DD is introduced. Then, a brief summary is given about some of the modulation techniques used in this area. Finally, some of the pulse position based coded modulation techniques are rewiewed.

OBJECTIVE To assess the potential relationship of ultraviolet B radiation (UVB) and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) exposure in explaining the period prevalence of multiple sclerosis (MS) in England. METHODS English national Hospital Episode Statistics covering all admissions to National Health Service hospitals in England in the 7 years from 1998 to 2005 were used to obtain the period prevalences o...

Optical label switching is a technique for more effective use of the processing speed of electronic IP routers. In this technique IP packets are accompanied by small optical labels, which the node uses for routing and forwarding decisions. In each node only the label is recovered, processed electronically and a new label is reinserted, while the payload remains in the optical domain. One method...

This work deals with the quantification of the effects of discarding large amounts of irrelevant information in sets of images. In particular, the trade-off between the cost of losing information and the benefit of increasing perceptual speed is examined. We look for a measure of such trade-off by a new measure, 'semantic intensity', broadly defined as the ratio of amount of 'meaning' conveyed ...