... preferences for current health were 0.78 (0.23), i.e., on average, patients were willing to accept up to a 22% risk of immediate death in return for a 78% chance of obtaining perfect health for the ... interviewer then quoted a series of prices to the subject, and for each amount the subject was asked: "Would you be willing to pay $X for a cure for your health problems?"...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20
... flexor spasticity. The modified Ashworth scores (0–5) [17], was 4/5 for the fingers and 3/5 for wrist in both patients. The Fugl-Meyer Motor Score for the upper limb (FM, 0–66) [18], was 7 and 9 respectively. ... stroke patients were randomised to receive additional therapy with the Finger Trainer for 20 min every work day for four weeks, or the same duration of bimanual group thera...
Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20
báo cáo hóa học: " Recent developments in biofeedback for neuromotor rehabilitation" potx
... perception is an alterna- tive choice. Virtual environment designFigure 2 Virtual environment design. The design of a virtual living room is illustrated. The virtual arm animates the patient's ... applications for task-oriented biofeedback training Information fusion An information/sensory fusion approach is one way to reduce information overload to patients during biof...
Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20
báo cáo hóa học: "User-centered virtual environment design for virtual rehabilitation" ppt
... who performed both virtual and real-world versions of the stereoacuity test are discussed with respect to virtual rehabilitation design. Results: The user-centered design cycle argues for benchmarking ... utilizing virtual environments transition from single applications to comprehensive rehabilitation programs there is a need for a new design cycle methodology. Current human-...
Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Testing the potential of a virtual reality neurorehabilitation system during performance of observation, imagery and imitation of motor actions recorded by wireless functional nearinfrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)" potx
... treatment system, based on motor and ima- gery performance in a virtual reality (VR) environment [9]: the system consists of a VR environment containing virtual representations of the patient’s own ... body or head to be restrained, and therefore represents an optimal brain monitoring tool for our purpose to record from subjects performing movements in a VR environment. It is thoug...
Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " A haptic-robotic platform for upper-limb reaching stroke therapy: Preliminary design and evaluation results" ppt
... asked to perform a normal forward reaching movement, a normal reaching outward movement, and two different abnormal forward movements of the trunk. Each movement was repeated three times (for a total ... corresponding adjectives were used in place of good or bad for each ques- tion, for example, "With low power, how comfortable (4) or uncomfortable (1) is the system to use?". A...
Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20
báo cáo hóa học:" Influence of prosthesis design and implantation technique on implant stresses after cementless revision THR" docx
... based on measured forces from gait cycles of a patient were used to determine intersegmental resultant forces for the Standardized Femur geometry. Static opti- misation was performed to minimize ... f muscle and joint contact forces was therefore determined and applied for each finite element model configuration (Table 1, Table 2). Finite element models Meshes for all components in the...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20
báo cáo hóa học:" Influence of prosthesis design and implantation technique on implant stresses after cementless revision THR" pdf
... based on measured forces from gait cycles of a patient were used to determine intersegmental resultant forces for the Standardized Femur geometry. Static opti- misation was performed to minimize ... f muscle and joint contact forces was therefore determined and applied for each finite element model configuration (Table 1, Table 2). Finite element models Meshes for all components in the...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20
báo cáo hóa học:"Necessary and sufficient condition for the smoothness of intersection local time of subfractional Brownian motions" docx
... upon acceptance. It can be downloaded, printed and distributed freely for any purposes (see copyright notice below). For information about publishing your research in Journal of Inequalities and ... constants c 1 and c 2 so that c 1 G(x) ≤ F (x) ≤ c 2 G(x) in the common domain of definition for F and G. For a, b ∈ R, a ∧b := min{a, b} and a ∨b := max{a, b}. By Lemma 4.2 of Yan and Shen...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20
báo cáo hóa học:"On quotients and differences of hypergeometric functions" pptx
... tight bounds for these quotients and differences assuming various relationships between the parameters a, b, c. For the general case, we can formulate the following theorem. Theorem 1.2. For a, b, ... basic identities of the logarithm yield functional inequalities for the zero-balanced function. Next, writing the basic addition formula for the logarithm log z + log w = log(zw), z, w...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20