Background A systematic literature review was conducted to (a) identify the most frequently
used health-related quality of life (HRQOL) models and (b) critique those models. Methods …

The prevalence, effect on health outcomes, and economic impact of chronic kidney disease
(CKD) have created interest in self-management interventions to help slow disease …

We present two new leader election algorithms for mobile ad hoc networks. The algorithms
ensure that eventually each connected component of the topology graph has exactly one …

The power of two well-known consistency conditions for shared-memory multiprocessors,
sequential consistency and linearizability, is compared. The cost measure studied is the …

Background and Purpose—Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) has promise as a treatment
for acute stroke. This study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy, safety, and feasibility of …

Background: We reviewed psycho-educational intervention studies that were designed to
reduce interdialytic weight gain (IDWG) in adult hemodialysis patients. Our goals were to …

Stressors, coping and depression in haemodialysis patients Background: Depression is
common in persons receiving outpatient haemodialysis, but little work has been done to …

We initiate a study of bounded clock synchronization under a more severe fault model than
that proposed by Lamport and Melliar-Smith [1985]. Realistic aspects of the problem of …

Visuospatial impairment is frequently reported in Parkinson's disease but the psychological
mechanisms which subserve the impaired abilities and the way in which breakdown of the …

We discuss the problem of predicting the number of available parking spaces in a parking
lot. The parking lot is modeled by a continuous-time Markov chain, following Caliskan …