Calf massager: Intervention for body muscle discomfort during prolonged standing

Many occupations require workers to stand for long periods of time without proper interventions, which causes discomfort in the back and lower limbs. Therefore, this study aims to assess the effectiveness in alleviating body muscle discomfort during prolonged standing through the use of a calf massager. This study was conducted among male workers at a manufacturer with production line workers and the list was obtained from the HR Department and simple random sampling was done by number categorization. A total of 100 respondents (50 respondents for both the control and the experimental groups) participated in this study. The experiment took place in a room with a similar setup for the production line. Each respondent was requested to perform the simulated task for 2 hr. For the experimental group, the calf massager was turned on every 15 min. At every 15‐min interval after turning on the calf massager, respondents from both groups were required to evaluate their discomfort level on a Borg's scale CR‐10 questionnaire. The results showed that the level of body discomfort among respondents in the experimental group reduced (20–30%) compared with that of the control group. Multivariate analysis results revealed that the discomfort rating for the lower back, knees, thighs, calves, and feet was significantly lower (p < .05) among the experimental group compared with the control group. For lower body parts, the lower back region was statistically significant (p < .05) at the 90th, 105th, and 120th min; the thigh region was statistically significant (p < .05) at the 120th min; the knee region was statistically significant (p < .05) at the 105th and 120th min; the calf region was statistically significant (p < .05) at all minute intervals except the 15th and 45th min, while the feet region, was statistically significant at the 105th and 120th min. Therefore, this study indicates that calf massage treatment is capable of reducing body muscle discomfort during prolonged standing and highlights the significance of calf massage.     

自动传输收视率调查系统

综述了当前收视率调查的主要方法 ,提出一种自动传输的收视率调查系统 ,详细介绍了该系统的组成、原理和设计思想 ,并分析了不同实现方法的优点与不足。应用表明 ,该系统在同类产品中具有明显优势     

滑块式捞油抽子的设计

为了降低在捞油作业中油的漏失率．节约能源．分析了筒式捞油抽子的问题．改进其结构，设计了滑块式捞油抽子。现场应用表明，改进后的捞油抽子密封性好．可消除钢丝绳打扭造成的事故隐患，有效降低捞油漏失率，避免油污染环境，使用寿命长。     

Understanding source effects in ADHD rating scales: Reply to DuPaul (2003).

G. J. DuPaul (see record 2003-02033-012) offered two suggestions for additional research to understand the strong source effects reported by R. Gomez, G. L Burns, J. A. Walsh, and M. A. de Moura (see record 2003-02033-001) in attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) rating scales. The first suggestion was to determine whether the source effects represent mostly bias or accuracy. The second suggestion was to minimize source effects through the development of better ADHD rating scales. Because source effects can represent bias or accuracy, it is important to minimize the bias aspect through content validation procedures prior to attempts to determine whether source effects better reflect bias or accuracy. This comment offers various suggestions to reduce the bias in ADHD rating scales. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

劳动工时定额工作新探索

围绕工时定额的制定方法、原则等问题着重进行论述,以便在市场经济条件下,更好地发挥工时定额管理工作的巨大作用。     

网络信息资源分级体系框架的构建

网络信息分级是保障网络信息内容安全的重要手段。主要构建了网络信息资源分级体系框架六元组模型,分析了相关组成元素的内容,以适应不同行业应用。     

基于语音拖音段的端点检测算法研究

为了进行有效的语音信号处理,并降低语音信号的冗余度,通常采用端点检测技术来提取语音信号中的有效部分。本文在传统语音端点检测方法的基础上,提出了一种基于基音周期对语音段末尾进行判别的方法,针对汉语发音都是以浊音结尾的特点,同时利用基音周期对浊音段信号比较敏感这一特性,能够有效地避开汉语语音信号尾部拖音段中所包含的无效信息,既提高了端点检测的准确性,又减少了后续语音识别系统样本训练时间。实验结果证明,该方法对于汉语中孤立词末尾的拖音段,可以得到较好的端点检测效果。     

关于电子皮带秤挂码标定的探讨

在电子皮带秤称量输送物料的传输系统中,当出现对实物标定困难和安装位置不便于链码标定的计量点时,简单、易行的选择就是进行挂码标定。笔者就怎样减少挂码标定的误差,获得较高的标定精确度等,进行了探讨,可供相关专业参考。     

Credit rating with a monotonicity-constrained support vector machine model

Deciding whether borrowers can fulfill their obligations is a major issue for financial institutions, and while various credit rating models have been developed to help achieve this, they cannot reflect the domain knowledge of human experts. This paper proposes a new rating model based on a support vector machine with monotonicity constraints derived from the prior knowledge of financial experts. Experiments conducted on real-world data sets show that the proposed method, not only data driven but also domain knowledge oriented, can help correct the loss of monotonicity in data occurring during the collecting process, and performs better than the conventional counterpart.     

What you get is what you see: revisiting the evaluator effect in usability tests

Usability evaluation is essential to user-centred design; yet, evaluators who analyse the same usability test sessions have been found to identify substantially different sets of usability problems. We revisit this evaluator effect by having 19 experienced usability professionals analyse video-recorded test sessions with five users. Nine participants analysed moderated sessions; 10 participants analysed unmoderated sessions. For the moderated sessions, participants reported an average of 33% of the problems reported by all nine of these participants and 50% of the subset of problems reported as critical or serious by at least one participant. For the unmoderated sessions, the percentages were 32% and 40%. Thus, the evaluator effect was similar for moderated and unmoderated sessions, and it was substantial for the full set of problems and still present for the most severe problems. In addition, participants disagreed in their severity ratings. As much as 24% (moderated) and 30% (unmoderated) of the problems reported by multiple participants were rated as critical by one participant and minor by another. The majority of the participants perceived an evaluator effect when merging their individual findings into group evaluations. We discuss reasons for the evaluator effect and recommend ways of managing it.