assessing financial performance is one of the most important in functional domains, because financial information is considered for the basis of making decisions. organizations use various indexes for assessing performance in quantitative techniques. although these sorts of assessments provide useful information, but the comprehensive concept will never be concluded because of considering all t...

High dynamic range optical-to-near-infrared transmission measurements for different parts of human body in the spectral range from 650 to 950 nm have been performed. Experimentally measured spectra are correlated with Monte Carlo simulations using chromaticity coordinates in CIE 1976 L*a*b* color space. Both a qualitative and a quantitative agreement have been found, paving a new way of charact...

Accurate measurements of physical activity are important for the diagnosis of the exacerbation of chronic diseases. Accelerometers have been widely employed in clinical research for measuring activity intensity and investigating the association between physical activity and adverse health conditions. However, the ability of accelerometers in assessing physical activity intensity such as walking...

Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) is a new modality used to help treat conditions associated with immune dysregulation. The inflammatory myopathies are a group of complex diseases including dermatomyositis, polymyositis, and inclusion-body myositis. Overall evaluation of IVIg in myopathy has been hampered by difficulty in accurately diagnosing and assessing disease activity. The lack of large, ...

Background and Purpose: Back problems continue to be the number one symptom disorder for consulting complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practitioners. Neuroscience continues to indicate that the human brain undergoes a process of somato-topic cortical reorganization in association with sustained states of chronic pain. Feldenkrais® practitioners aim to create individualized multimodal ...

Because of its direct consequences on reproductive success, body condition is an often-studied individual trait in insects. Various studies on insects use disparate methods to assess "body condition." However, it is doubtful that the results obtained by disparate methods are comparable. In this study, the body conditions of Poecilus cupreus (Linnaeus) (Coleoptera: Carabidae) from eight sites we...