This paper describes a new computing paradigm known as a problem solving environment ~PSE!, explores the role this new paradigm might play in watershed management and land use change analysis, and compares PSEs to similar technologies such as decision support systems and geographic information systems. A prototypical watershed management PSE organizes and unifies the diverse collection of softw...

Periploca sepium (PS) has traditionally been used in oriental medicine for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We investigated the aqueous extract of PS (PSE) in its effects on human rheumatoid arthritis-derived fibroblast-like cells. In cell culture studies, PSE inhibited the growth and IL-6 production of the cells in dose dependent manners. The extract of Glycyrrhiza glabra (GG), which ha...

BACKGROUND Parental self-efficacy (PSE) refers to beliefs of parents to effectively engage in behaviors that result in desired outcomes for their children. There are several instruments of PSE for promoting healthy dietary or physical activity (PA) behaviors in children. These measures typically assess PSE in relation to some quantity or frequency of behavior, for example, number of servings or...

Process systems engineering (PSE) has been an active research field for almost 50 years. Its major achievements includemethodologies and tools to support processmodeling, simulation and optimization (MSO). Mature, commercially available technologies have been penetrating all fields of chemical engineering in academia as well as in industrial practice. MSO technologies have become a commodity, t...

This study aimed to analyze the factor structure of Coleman and Karraker’s (2003) Self-Efficacy of the Parenting Task Index Toddlers Scale, which assesses mothers’ and fathers’ parental self-efficacy (PSE) at child ages 1.5 and 3 years. A 5-factor model consisting of Presence, Emotional Support, Routines, Playing, and Teaching was found to have good measurement validity. All PSE dimensions were...

BACKGROUND The relationship between passive smoking exposure (PSE) and breast cancer risk is of major interest. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the relationship between PSE from partners and breast cancer risk stratified by hormone-receptor (HR) status in Chinese urban women population. DESIGN Hospital-based matched case control study. SETTING Chinese urban breast cancer patients without current or...

Abstract Given recent sociocultural and economic changes that have created significant pressures on South Korean mothers, we were interested in understanding the factors might contribute to their sense of competence taking challenges childrearing. We examined several family conditions theoretically supportive mothers’ parenting self-efficacy (PSE), specifically whether PSE was associated with m...

In this paper, we introduce a new framework called PSE Park for constructing a Problem Solving Environment (PSE); it enables us to construct PSEs easily. PSE Park outputs PSEs depending on user’s demand/input. In this sense, PSE Park is a kind of PSE for PSE, and helps users to construct PSEs. PSE Park consists of four engines: PIPE server, core, registration engine, and console. A PSE designed...

BACKGROUND The most important knowledge in the field of patient safety is regarding the prevention and reduction of patient safety events (PSE) during treatment and care. The similarities and patterns among the events may otherwise go unnoticed if they are not properly reported and analyzed. There is an urgent need for developing a PSE reporting system that can dynamically measure the similarit...