Abstract Background Venous blood sampling is a common procedure in health care.It is strictly regulated by national and international guidelines.Deviations from guidelines due to human mistakes can cause patient harm.Validated questionnaires for health care personnel can be used to assess preventable "near misses"--i.e.potential errors and nonconfo
The Rotary Switches researchers aimed at analyzing the meaning of humor in newspaper comic strips within a variety of incongruous combinations of multimodal rhetoric.The current research focused on how humor was produced via verbal medium only, via both verbal and visual media, as well as via visual only.The source of data was 74 political comic st
Sylvain Mathieu,1,2 Marion Couderc,1,2 Baptiste Glace,1,2 Bruno Pereira,2,3 Anne Tournadre,1,2 Jean-Jacques Dubost,1,2 Martin Soubrier1,21Department of Rheumatology, Gabriel-Montpied Hospital, 2Faculty of Medicine, University Clermont 1, 3Délégation de la Recherche Clinique, Gabriel-Montpied Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand, FranceBackgroun
This paper presents a comprehensive overview of the frequency-domain filtered-x least mean-square (FxLMS) algorithms for active noise control (ANC).The direct use of frequency-domain adaptive filters for ANC results in two kinds of delays, i.e., delay in the signal path and delay in the weight adaptation.The effects of the two kinds of delays on th
This study aimed to establish the nexus between CEO power and bank risk.Previous studies on how CEO power affects risk-taking have produced mixed results.Some studies show that CEO power reduces risk, while others show the reverse.This lack of conclusive findings motivated this study.This study used secondary data from a sample of 14 commercial ban