BACKGROUND Partial weight bearing is thought to avoid excessive loading that may interfere with the healing process after surgery of the pelvis or the lower extremity. The object of this study was to investigate the relationship between the ability to partially weight bear and the patient's psychomotor skills and an additional evaluation of the possibility to predict this ability with a standar...

One of the common chronic inflammatory skin diseases is Acne Vulgaris that affects up to 80% of a teen-age population. The progress of acne lesions is due to colonization of Propionibacterium acnes (P .acnes) in hair follicles. Treatment of acne includes topical or systemic therapy or combination therapy, with a tendency to perform topical therapy in mild to moderate acne. Nanoemulsions, small ...

In numerous wafer fabrication facilities (wafer fabs) the load changes dynamically. Current load release control schemes are usually developed and tested in a constant load environment. In this paper, we discuss four CONWIP-like lot release policies and assess their ability to buffer variability generated by the load changes and to keep the lot release variability as low as possible. All contro...

Cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) may cause cognitive dysfunction. We tested the association between the combined presence of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) features of SVD and cognitive ability in older age. Cognitive testing and brain MRI were performed in 680 older participants. MRI presence of lacunes, white matter hyperintensities, microbleeds, and perivascular spaces were summed in a ...

Prior studies have shown benefits of interactions on mobile devices. Device mobility itself changes the nature of the user experience; interactions on mobile devices may present better support for cognition. To better understand cognitive demands related to mobility, the current study investigated presentations on a mobile device for a three-dimensional construction task. The task imposed consi...

In our movements and posture, we always act against a physical load. A key property of any load is its elastic stiffness (K), which describes how the force required to hold it must change with position. Here we examine how load stiffness affects the ability to maintain a stable posture at the wrist. Loads having positive (like a spring) and negative stiffness (like an inverted pendulum) were cr...

Electricity is of great vital and indispensable to national economies. A new short-term load forecasting for micro grid is proposed in this paper. After comparing and analyzing all load characteristic in the time domain and frequency domain, we apply wavelet transform to decompose the load signal. After that, the training set and text set are selected in consideration of the effects generated b...

Two experiments examined the effects of interactive tutorial features (compared to “passive” features) on learning spatial tasks, an area seldom explored in interactivity research. Experiment 1 results indicated that for simple spatial tasks, interactive tutorials hindered learning for participants of higher spatial ability but improved learning for lower-ability participants. This interaction ...

Currently, mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) can be deployed in various scenarios but the presence of varying degree of resources, mobility of nodes and the lack of load-balancing capabilities in MANETs (Mobile Ad Hoc Networks) poses a hefty challenge for such networks to scale and perform efficiently when subjected to varying network conditions. Load imbalance is one of the most critical issues ...

With the aim of reducing cost of electricity consumption and peak load reduction, tools requirement for better managing electricity consumption have become inevitable in recent years. Smart home has some equipment which are controllable and this ability is used for increasing comfort and minimizing electricity cost for residence. As a key component of smart home , Electric Vehicle(EV) ,increase...