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A Multi-School Validation of a Revised Scale for Assessing Cultural Competence in Pharmacy Students.
( Aacp American Association , 2019 , Article)To revise the Self-Assessment of Perceived Level of Cultural Competence (SAPLCC) instrument and validate it within a national sample of pharmacy students. A cross-sectional study design using a convenience sample of ... -
Multi-sensor fusion based on multiple classifier systems for human activity identification
( Springer Berlin Heidelberg , 2019 , Article)Multimodal sensors in healthcare applications have been increasingly researched because it facilitates automatic and comprehensive monitoring of human behaviors, high-intensity sports management, energy expenditure estimation, ... -
Multi-soliton solutions of the BBM equation arisen in shallow water
( International Scientific Research Publications , 2016 , Article)In this work, multiple soliton solutions and multiple singular soliton solutions are formally derived for the BBM equation. A novel transformation method combined with the Hirota's bilinear method are used to determine the ... -
Multi-species attributes as the condition for adaptive sampling of rare species using two-stage sequential sampling with an auxiliary variable
( The Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc , 2011 , Conference Paper)Assessing populations of rare species is challenging because of the large effort required to locate patches of occupied habitat and achieve precise estimates of density and abundance. The presence of a rare species has ... -
Multi-stage intra-patient template matching for prostate detection in MR volumes
(2013 , Conference Paper)Detecting objects, a significant task in computer vision, is accompanied with many challenges. When we focus on medical images, the challenges of detecting an organ or a tumour exhibit their own specific difficulties. ... -
Multi-tasking for cost-efficient mobile crowdsensing under uniformity constraints
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)In a practical Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS) system, there usually exist multiple heterogeneous MCS tasks, each with a different set of requirements for completion. The coexistence of these MCS tasks presents a need to study ... -
Multi-terminal Hvdc system with offshore wind farms under anomalous conditions: Stability assessment
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Article)Droop control is widely adopted to control Multi-Terminal high-voltage Direct Current (MTDC) systems with offshore wind farms. During permanent faults, the faulty line should be isolated promptly to preserve a high reliability ... -
Multi-tier method using infrared photography and GPR to detect and locate water leaks
( Elsevier , 2016 , Article Review)This paper presents newly developed method for detecting and locating leaks in water distribution networks utilizing two detection techniques; ground penetrating radar (GPR) and infrared photography (IR). The experimental ... -
Multi-user diversity with optimal power allocation in spectrum sharing under average interference power constraint
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2014 , Conference Paper)In this paper, we investigate the performance of multi-user diversity (MUD) with optimal power allocation (OPA) in spectrum sharing (SS) under average interference power (AIP) constraint. In particular, OPA through average ... -
Multi-zone HVAC control system design using feedback linearization
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Conference Paper)Most buildings nowadays are equipped with Heating, Ventilation, and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) systems dedicated for processing indoor air in terms of different parameters: temperature, humidity, pressure, and quality. Recent ... -
Multiattribute Utility Theory Deployment in Sewer Defects Assessment
( American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) , 2018 , Article)Assessing the condition of sewer pipelines is a backbone process to plan for rehabilitation and maintenance work. The closed circuit-television (CCTV) method is the widely adopted method to record the inner condition of ... -
Multicarrier Microgrid Operation Model Using Stochastic Mixed Integer Linear Programming
( IEEE Computer Society , 2022 , Article)The microgrid operation is addressed in this article based on a multicarrier energy hub. Natural gas, electricity, heating, cooling, hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and renewable energies are considered as the energy carriers. ... -
Multicast at Edge: An Edge Network Architecture for Service-Less Crowdsourced Live Video Multicast
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Article)Using smartphones, tablets, and other portable/handheld devices, we have become more reliant on the video streaming services for entertainment and remote work. Mobile data traffic has grown eighteen folds over the past ... -
Multicomponent noisy signal adaptive instantaneous frequency estimation using components time support information
( Institution of Engineering and Technology , 2014 , Article)This study proposes an adaptive method for components instantaneous frequency (IF) estimation of noisy non-stationary multicomponent signals, combined with the components time-support estimation method based on the shorttime ... -
Multicultural Validation of the Zuckerman–Kuhlman–Aluja Personality Questionnaire Shortened Form (ZKA-PQ/SF) Across 18 Countries
( SAGE Publications Inc. , 2020 , Article)The aim of this study was to assess the psychometric properties of the Zuckerman–Kuhlman–Aluja Personality Questionnaire shortened form (ZKA-PQ/SF) in 18 cultures and 13 languages of different African, American, Asian, and ... -
Multidata-Owner Searchable Encryption Scheme over Medical Cloud Data with Efficient Access Control
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2022 , Article)Several schemes have been proposed to enable cloud servers to search encrypted medical data to preserve patients' privacy. However, the existing schemes use inefficient attribute-based encryption (ABE) approaches for access ... -
Multidisciplinary members’ perspectives on a pharmacist joining a rheumatology practice team
( Sage , 2015 , Article)Background: Pharmacist participation in chronic disease management benefits patients in many ambulatory settings. We explored the attitudes and perceptions among multidisciplinary members of a rheumatology team towards ... -
Multifrequency Polsar Image Classification Using Dual-Band 1D Convolutional Neural Networks
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Conference Paper)In this work, we propose a novel classification approach based on dual-band one-dimensional Convolutional Neural Networks (1D-CNNs) for classification of multifrequency polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) data. The proposed approach ... -
Multifunctional Bioactive Scaffolds from ARX- g-(Zn@rGO)-HAp for Bone Tissue Engineering: In Vitro Antibacterial, Antitumor, and Biocompatibility Evaluations
( American Chemical Society , 2022 , Article)Advanced biomaterials are required with enhanced antibacterial and anticancer activities to obtain desirable biocompatibility during and after scaffold implantation in tissue engineering. Here, we report the development ... -
Multifunctional self-healing polymeric nanocomposite coatings for corrosion inhibition of steel
( Elsevier B.V. , 2019 , Article)The present work focuses on the self-healing and corrosion behavior of novel epoxy based coatings containing epoxy monomer (EM) and dodecylamine (DDA) as self-healing and corrosion inhibitor, respectively. The coating ...