BACKGROUND Respiratory tract infections (RTIs) may be more severe in those with asthma or COPD and these patients are more frequently in need of health care. The aim of the study was to describe the frequency of RTI symptoms in a general adult population and how care-seeking is associated with the presence of obstructive lung disease. METHODS Cross-sectional data including spirometry and self...

The paper proposes three dimensional extension to High Level ARchitecture (HLA) and Runtime Infrastructure (RTI) to solve several issues such as security, information hiding problem and interoperability and performance of RTI software. The hierarchical and modular design of RTI software provides natural way to form complex distributed simulation systems and methods to tune performance of federa...

The present work is an attempt to use models present in Item Response Theory, which are psychometric models, for modelling Right to Information (RTI) queries. A synthetic matrix resembling our RTI dataset (construction on-going) has been created and we have applied Graded Response Model (GRM) to the data. Outcomes of the experiment have helped us identify latent patterns regarding the RTI query...

DMSO’s effort to provide a CORBA based, standard, common real time simulation architecture (High Level Architecture/Run Time Infrastructure, HLA/RTI) [1] for use in military, Civil Air Traffic Control (CATC USA, Europe, Canada), the entertainment industry and NASA has not produced a CORBA based implementation with adequate real time performance. The features that are desirable in an RTI impleme...

With the reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act in 2004, Response to Intervention (RTI) was officially introduced. Unlike the discrepancy model, which determines eligibility in special education with a discrepancy between achievement and ability, RTI was designed to provide intensive instruction to students in the general classroom as soon as difficulties in acquirin...

Response to Intervention (RTI) refers to an integrated, schoolwide method of service delivery across general and special education that promotes successful school outcomes for all students. In essence, RTI is a twofold system of reliable high-quality instruction and frequent formative assessment of student progress (Mellard, Byrd, Johnson, Tollefson, & Boesche, 2004). Hence, RTI involves system...

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 allows schools to use a child's response to research-based intervention (RTI) as a part of procedures to identify students with learning disabilities. This paper considers whether RTI-based assessment models meet ethical and legal standards for acceptable assessment practices. Based on a review of available research, it was con...

Objectives: To describe the incidence of respiratory tract infections (RTIs) in tracheostomized patients hospitalized in a weaning and rehabilitation center (WRC) and to identify risk factors (RFs) for the development of RTI. Materials and methods: A nested case-control study was conducted. Age was used as the matching variable. All tracheostomized patients who were hospitalized from March, 201...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the behavior temporal of road-traffic injuries (RTI) in Valledupar, Colombia from January 2008 to December 2012. METHODOLOGY An observational study was conducted based on records from the Colombian National Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences Institute regional office in Valledupar. Different variables were analyzed, such as the injured person's sex, age, education level...