The Group Support Systems’ (GSS) research literature, filled with disjointed empirical investigations, yearns for a theory to guide researchers and practitioners in their efforts to prescribe support technologies for a given group task. A theory of Task and Technology Interaction (TTI) is proposed as a viable approach for guiding the research, and offering practical guidelines for MIS/GSS pract...

It is well known that the exercise pressor reflex (EPR) is mediated by group III and IV skeletal muscle afferent fibers, which exhibit unique discharge responses to mechanical and chemical stimuli. Based on the difference in discharge patterns of group III and IV muscle afferents, we hypothesized that activation of mechanically sensitive (MS) fibers would evoke a different pattern of cardiovasc...

BACKGROUND Though regular blood transfusion improves the survival, it carries the unavoidable risk of transfusion transmitted infections (TTI) in β-thalassaemic patients. Owing to the lack of uniformity in blood screening practices in Pakistan, TTI is still a major challenge. OBJECTIVES To study the current trends of TTI in regularly transfused β-thalassaemics and their correlation with age, ...

BACKGROUND Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a leading cause of pre-hospital mortality. Chest compressions performed during cardiopulmonary resuscitation aim to provide adequate perfusion to the vital organs during cardiac arrest. Poor resuscitation technique and the quality of pre-hospital CPR influences outcome from OHCA. Transthoracic impedance (TTI) measurement is a useful tool in th...

In this note we announce some results extending results of S. P. Novikov ([6] and [7]), the author [2], and C. T. C. Wall [8]. In the above papers it is shown how to characterize the homotopy type of 1-connected smooth closed manifolds of dimension w ^ S , « ^ 2 mod 4, and how to reduce the diffeomorphy classification of such manifolds to homotopy theory, with similar results for bounded manifo...

BACKGROUND Interruptions in chest compressions during cardiopulmonary resuscitation can negatively impact survival. Several new endotracheal intubation (ETI) techniques including video laryngoscopy may allow for ETI with minimal or no interruptions in chest compressions. We sought to determine the impact of three different ETI techniques upon time to intubation (TTI) in a simulated cardiac arre...

Article history: Received 2 April 2015 Received in revised form 12 December 2015 Accepted 17 December 2015 Available online 23 December 2015 Cold chainmanagement is of importance formanufacturers in the food industry since they face the dilemma of having to choose between frozen storage and cool storage in delivering products to retailers or endconsumers. Frozen storage incurs high-energy consu...

The incidence of food borne disease has recently increased in Europe, due to the unsuitable product processing, packaging, distribution and storage. This problem is particularly important for meat products, where the cold chain management plays a strategic role for the quality of the product arriving to the consumers’ home. In this context different technologies like RFID or TTI can help to kee...

In TUIs, physical/digital conflicts can occur when the digital model does not match the model implied by the spatial layout of tangibles. We show how tangible tabletop interfaces (TTI) can be modified to allow robot movement of tangibles, thereby avoiding conflicts. We present RoMo, an open source Java library that allow existing TTI applications to perform robot movement, and demonstrate its f...