STUDY DESIGN Correlation and agreement analysis. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to compare the Brazilian Portuguese versions of the Örebro Musculoskeletal Pain Screening Questionnaire Short-Form (ÖMPSQ-short) and the STarT Back Screening Tool (SBST)-Brazil in patients with low back pain and to verify their correlation with disability, kinesiophobia, and pain. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUN...

BACKGROUND The STarT Back Screening Tool (SBST) was developed to stratify low back pain patients according to their risk of future physical disability so that prognostic subgroups can receive matched treatments in primary care. OBJECTIVE To measure the construct and discriminative validity of the SBST-Brazil questionnaire. METHOD A hundred and fifty one patients were recruited to test the c...

BACKGROUND Stratification strategies based on identifying patient's prognosis in order to guide patient care constitute one of the most prominent and recent approach in low back pain research. The STarT Back Screening Tool (SBST) although promising, has not been studied in patients with chronic low back pain (cLBP). Considering how challenging it is to translate research into practice, the valu...

PURPOSE This study compared the kinematics and kinetics of the knee joint during traditional step-over-step (SOS) and compensatory step-by-step lead-leg (SBSL) and trail-leg (SBST) stair ambulation patterns. METHODS Seventeen (M:9) healthy adults completed five trials of ascent and descent using three different stepping patterns: 1) SBSL, 2) SBST, and 3) SOS. Kinematics and kinetics were coll...

Microcontrollers have become a widely accepted architecture for highly complex embedded systems on a single chip (SoC). It consists of deeply embedded heterogeneous components with poor accessibility makes their testing process a difficult task using hardware based self-test (HBST). Software-based self-test (SBST) is considered to be a promising testing technology for these systems. Almost ever...

Software-basierender Selbsttest (SBST) von Prozessoren wird schon seit Jahrzehnten verwendet, da er erhebliche Vorteile bietet, wie z. B. die Wiederverwendbarkeit in allen Stadien des Lebenszykluses des Systems, der Verzicht auf kostspielige Tester und geringe oder sogar gar kein Aufwand für „Design for Test“. Die größten Nachteile sind die unzureichende strukturelle Fehlerabdeckung sowie relat...

----------------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT----------------------------------------------------A promising approach for processors and processor-based systems (e.g., systems on a chip, or SoCs) corresponds to the so-called software-based self-test (SBST) the basic idea is to generate test programs to be executed by the processor and able to fully exercise the proces...

Cyclic ADP ribose (cADPR) is a novel second messenger that releases calcium from intracellular calcium stores, but works independently of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate. In mammals ADP-ribosyl cyclase function is found in two membrane proteins, CD38 and bone marrow stromal cell antigen 1 (BST-1)/CD157. These enzymes are exposed extracellularly and also possess cADPR hydrolase activity, but an int...

Recently there has been an upsurge of interest in both, Search– Based Software Testing (SBST), and Dynamic Symbolic Execution (DSE). Each of these two approaches has complementary strengths and weaknesses, making it a natural choice to explore the degree to which the strengths of one can be exploited to offset the weakness of the other. This paper introduces an augmented version of DSE that use...

This thesis considers the in-field testing of wireless sensor network (WSN) nodes as a means of providing increased network uptime. Such nodes operate with strict limits on energy, cost, computing power, and are prone to attack. While testing through softwarebased self-test (SBST) programs has advantages on WSN nodes, energy efficiency can be increased by compressing SBST programs before distri...