We are reporting on a case of a Real Time Communication (RTC) service provider who implemented a set of RTC tools to reach the twofold goal of supporting organizational restructuring after an economic crisis and simultaneously improving its competitive position in a marketplace driven by increasing commoditization. In contrast to other technology implementations where management follows an appl...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this research was to examine whether waterpipe smokers experience increased risk of motor vehicle crashes. METHODS In a telephone survey, a random sample of Iranian drivers were asked to report their age, gender, vehicle age, whether their vehicles were equipped with anti-lock braking system (ABS), average daily drive time (DDT), whether they smoked cigarette or wate...

Recently, Cass and Van der Burg demonstrated that temporal order judgment (TOJ) precision could be profoundly impaired by the mere presence of dynamic visual clutter elsewhere in the visual field. This study examines whether presenting target and distractor objects in different depth planes might ameliorate this remote temporal camouflage (RTC) effect. TOJ thresholds were measured under static ...

The Narrow Field Infrared Adaptive Optics System (NFIRAOS) is the first light Adaptive Optics (AO) system for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). A critical component of NFIRAOS is the Real-Time Controller (RTC) subsystem which provides real-time wavefront correction by processing wavefront information to compute Deformable Mirror (DM) and Tip/Tilt Stage (TTS) commands. The National Research Coun...

Koo, Jin Kyu Ph.D., Purdue University, August 2012. Secure Control Protocols for Resource-Constrained Embedded Systems. Major Professors: Saurabh Bagchi and Xiaojun Lin. Embedded systems are increasingly being deployed into the world around us. For example, they are used to monitor the environment around us, measure and control the electrical grid, and control vehicles on the road. As they are ...

Aim : To compare the quality of aged care provided by two different models of primary health care services in the United Arab Emirates. Methods : Cross sectional survey by chart review of 200 consecutive people aged 65 years and over attending two primary health care centers located in adjacent suburbs and serving populations with similar characteristics; a resource intensive center (RIC) and t...

In older previously sedentary individuals endurance training imposes a more effective stimulus to enhance cardiometabolic health compared with resistance or sprint training. We examined the effect of replacing a portion of endurance training with combined resistance and/or sprint training and how this influences cardiometabolic health indicators in masters endurance cyclists. Twenty-seven well-...

Force balancing is a very important issue in mechanism design and has only recently been introduced to the design of robotic mechanisms. In this paper, a force balancing method called adjusting kinematic parameters (AKP) for robotic mechanisms or realtime controllable (RTC) mechanisms is proposed, as opposed to force balancing methods, e.g., the counterweights (CW) method. Both the working prin...

INTRODUCTION Road traffic injury (RTI) has assumed major public health importance world-wide and the burden is heavier on the health-care infrastructure of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Nigeria, RTI is the leading cause of trauma related morbidity and mortality. While there are some published epidemiological reports on RTI in the region, studies on the mechanism of causation of road traff...

The steps from HIV-1 cytoplasmic entry until integration of the reverse transcribed genome are currently enigmatic. They occur in ill-defined reverse-transcription- and pre-integration-complexes (RTC, PIC) with various host and viral proteins implicated. In this study, we report quantitative detection of functional RTC/PIC by labeling nascent DNA combined with detection of viral integrase. We s...