PURPOSE Our study aimed to examine the relationship between intelligence and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in children (6-13 years old) diagnosed as having a brain tumor. MATERIALS AND METHODS We administered a Korean version of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-III, the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory, version 4.0 (PedsQL), the Korean version of the Parenting Stress I...

The integration of microcontrollers with programmable electronic devices and design automation software tools has greatly improved today’s embedded system design. Most recently, there has been a trend to integrate microcontrollers with programmable digital and analog peripherals on a single chip. This technology is known as programmable embedded system-on-chip. At the author’s institution, prog...

Pseudomonas putida PCL1445 secretes two cyclic lipopeptides, putisolvin I and putisolvin II, which possess a surface-tension-reducing ability, and are able to inhibit biofilm formation and to break down biofilms of Pseudomonas species including Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The putisolvin synthetase gene cluster (pso) and its surrounding region were isolated, sequenced and characterized. Three genes,...

A large number of small tiny device called sensor nodes are use to develop wireless sensor network that can be effectively used as a tool for monitor physical or environmental conditions, such as temperature, sound, vibration, pressure and motion at different locations. There are two major issues, one is energy-efficient routing protocol and other is overall lifetime of the sensor network. This...

The psychometric properties of the Parent Self-efficacy in Managing the Transition to School Scale (PSMTSS) were investigated with a sample of 763 mothers whose children were starting primary school in Australia. Exploratory factor analysis identified two factors, Efficacy and Worry, accounting for 56.6% of the total variance in parent selfefficacy scores. These factors were demonstrated to hav...

The energy cost for producing electricity via wave energy converters (WECs) is still not competitive with other renewable energy sources, especially wind energy. It is well known that energy maximising control plays an important role to improve the performance of WECs, allowing the energy conversion to be performed as economically as possible. The control strategies are usually subsequently emp...

Most atomic physics experiments are controlled by a digital pattern generator used to synchronize all equipment providing triggers and clocks. Recently, the availability of well-documented open-source development tools has lifted barriers using programmable systems on chip (PSoCs), making them convenient versatile tool for synthesizing patterns. Here, we take advantage these advancements in des...