OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study were to develop a scale for measuring the highest level of mobility in adult ICU patients and to assess its feasibility and inter-rater reliability. BACKGROUND Growing evidence supports the feasibility, safety and efficacy of early mobilization in the intensive care unit (ICU). However, there are no adequately validated tools to quickly, easily, and rel...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the inter-rater agreement for the clinical dysphagia scale (CDS). METHOD Sixty-seven subjects scheduled to participate in a video-fluoroscopic swallowing study (VFSS) were pre-examined by two raters independently within a 24-hour interval. Each item and the total score were compared between the raters. In addition, we investigated whether subtraction of items showing ...

the distribution of yellowfin seabream populations in estuaries and inland rivers in coastal area of the persian gulf and strait of hormuz is presented. based on morphological and mersitic characteristics and also color pattern, these populations are assigned to the recently described sparid fish, acanthopagrus arabicus iwatsuki, 2013 which is distinguished by pelvic and anal fins vivid or stro...

In this paper, we study two large data sets containing the information of two different human behaviors: blog-posting and wiki-revising. In both cases, the interevent time distributions decay as power-laws at both individual and population level. As different from previous studies, we put emphasis on time scales and obtain heterogeneous decay exponents in intraand interday range for the same da...

This paper presents a robust method to correct for intensity differences across a series of aligned stained histological slices. The method is made up of two steps. First, for each slice, a scale-space analysis of the histogram provides a set of alternative interpretations in terms of tissue classes. Each of these interpretations can lead to a different classification of the related slice. A si...

The current computer technology enables us to build huge broadcast video archives which had been a future dream. Today, even the hard disk recorders on the market are capable of recording several hundred hours of broadcast video. It is naturally perceived that a huge amount of broadcast video would be a useful corpus for multimedia indexing and mining research. Based on this viewpoint, we desig...

â â â  â â  abstract: â  china and asean have been maintaining a relationship both cooperative and competitive in the textile trade. due to its labor intensive feature and high dependence on foreign trade , the textile trade has received much attention after the 2008 financial crisis. the customs data (classified by the hs code) from year 2006-2009 is employed to research the impact of the cris...

Introduction: The Occupational Fatigue Exhaustion Recovery (OFER) scale is a reliable and validated tool to measure work-related fatigue. However, its psychometric properties were not found in any studies examining nurses in the Southeast Asian region, particularly in Brunei. Aim: To ensure validity and reliability of the OFER scale using a sample of emergency nurses in Brunei. Methods: OFER sc...

The following report summarizes the proceedings of a three-and-a-half day inter-agency workshop focused on the technical challenges of HPC resilience in the 2020 Exascale timeframe. The resilience problem is not specific to any particular program or agency; coordinated resilience solutions will be challenging because of the need for a truly integrated approach. The interagency workshop therefor...