BACKGROUND : The U.K. Department of Health recently proposed an international dementia strategy to enhance the quality of dementia care in acute hospital care settings. To implement such a strategy, it is necessary to first assess whether nurses have the knowledge and person-centered approach essential to enhancing hospital-based dementia care quality. PURPOSE : The purpose of this study was ...

Nowadays, One-Dimensional Cutting Stock Problem (1D-CSP) is used in many industrial processes and re-cently has been considered as one of the most important research topic. In this paper, a metaheuristic algo-rithm based on the Simulated Annealing (SA) method is represented to minimize the trim loss and also to fo-cus the trim loss on the minimum number of large objects. In this method, the 1D-...

This article defines the origin of an internet-centered language assessment (ICLA), how ICLAs are different from the other traditional computer-oriented tests, and what uses and functions ICLAs have in different taxonomies of language testing. After a very short review of computer- oriented testing, ICLAs are defined and categorized in low-tech or high tech categories. Since low-tech tests are ...

The emerging ISO/IEC MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 multimedia standards use XML Schema for digital content descriptions and digital item declarations. They have posed an interesting challenge to XML query language design. The paper shows certain critical query specification issues for MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 XML documents and illustrates a logic method to handle the limitations in current text-oriented XML que...

We present a hardware oriented priority queue algorithm requiring n2 comparators and swappers to maintain an n item queue. It supports two operations, insert and extract minimum (or alternatively, extract maximum), both of which operate in a single cycle. Thus, sorting time is O(n). Records with identical keys are always extracted in FIFO order of insertion. A formal proof of correctness of the...

Xcerpt so far has considered identity a function of the structure and value of a data item (extensional identity). In this paper another approach to identity, viz. surrogate or object identity as in object-oriented programming languages and databases is investigated. It is demonstrated how this approach can solve a number of problems raised by the current Xcerpt, including object updates and th...

Attributes of words, such as frequency and imageability, can influence memory for order. In serial recall, Hulme, Stuart, Brown, and Morin (Journal of Memory and Language, 49(4), 500-518, 2003) found that high-frequency words were recalled worse, and low-frequency words better, when embedded in alternating lists than pure lists. This is predicted by associative chaining, wherein each recalled l...

PURPOSE To develop and validate scales to measure constructs that survivors of childhood cancer report as barriers and/or facilitators to the process of transitioning from paediatric to adult-oriented long-term follow-up (LTFU) care. METHODS Qualitative interviews provided a dataset that were used to develop items for three new scales that measure cancer worry, self-management skills and expe...