PURPOSE To investigate objectively and noninvasively the role of cognitive demand on autonomic control of systemic cardiovascular and ocular accommodative responses in emmetropes and myopes of late-onset. METHODS Sixteen subjects (10 men, 6 women) aged between 18 and 34 years (mean +/- SD: 22.6 +/- 4.4 years), eight emmetropes (EMMs; mean spherical equivalent [MSE] refractive error +/- SD: 0....

Electrostatic manipulation of particles or droplets has raised huge interests across many fields including biomedical analysis, microchemistry and microfabrication/patterning, because its merits simple configuration easy operation. However, traditionally applied bulky high voltage sources for electrostatic not only have potential safety risk to the operator devices, but also limit portability. ...

BACKGROUND Evidence is often missing on social differentials in effects of nutrition interventions. We evaluated the adherence to and effect of prenatal food and micronutrient supplementations on mortality before the age of five years in different social groups as defined by maternal schooling. METHODS Data came from the MINIMat study (Maternal and Infant Nutrition Interventions, Matlab), a r...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to comprehensively review the sources of competitive strength of emerging market multinationals (EMMs). Since most lack firm-specific assets such as internalized knowledge or globally recognized brands, especially in their early international growth, and emanate from less-developed nations, the success of EMMs has to be explained by identifying factors in ...

When fixating on a stationary object, the power of the eye's lens fluctuates. Studies have suggested that changes in these so-called microfluctuations in accommodation may be a factor in the onset and progression of short-sightedness. Like many physiological signals, the fluctuations in the power of the lens exhibit chaotic behaviour. A breakdown or reduction in chaos in physiological systems i...

Technology in the form of Automated Dispensing Cabinets (ADCs), Barcode Medication Administration (BCMA), and closed-loop Electronic Management Systems (EMMS) are implemented hospitals to assist with supply, use monitoring medications. Although there is evidence suggest that these technologies can reduce errors improve medications general, little known about their impact on controlled such as o...

A rate-based congestion control algorithm regulates cell emission processes of source end systems according to feedback information from the network in order to utilize network resources. Although behavior of source and destination end systems have been standardized by the ATM Forum, operation algorithm of intermediate ATM switches are left to manufacturers. Many types of switch algorithms have...

We study the transition matrix of a quantum walk on strongly regular graphs. It is proposed by Emms, Hancock, Severini and Wilson in 2006, that the spectrum of S+(U3), a matrix based on the amplitudes of walks in the quantum walk, distinguishes strongly regular graphs. We probabilistically compute the spectrum of the line intersection graphs of two non-isomorphic generalized quadrangles of orde...

Zaher Armaly1 and Zaid Abassi2,3* 1Departmentof Nephrology, EMMS Nazareth–The Nazareth Hospital, Nazareth and Galilee Medical School-Bar Ilan University, Safed, Israel 2Research Unit, Rambam Health Care Campus Haifa, Israel 3Department of Physiology, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel *Corresponding author: Zaid Abassi, Department of Physiology...

Purpose: The purpose of this empirical research article is to investigate the association between e-marketing mix strategy (EMMS) and organizational performance (OP) in Jordanian SMEs. Theoretical framework: study used a quantitative methodology explore impact EMMS factors on OP indicators, such as product development, pricing strategies, promotional activities, online distribution channels. De...