lundborg disease a pilot study

... postural instability and gait impairment Short shuffling steps, slow walking speed, and increased stride variability characterize abnormal gait in PD Although PD is primarily a motor disease, accumulating ... on state LEDD = the levodopa equivalent daily dose Background Parkinson's disease (PD) is caused by a dopamine deficiency in the basal ganglia that results in characteristic motor abnormalities ... subjects had mild to moderate gait impairment that was predominantly associated with abnormal balance None of the subjects had the gait freezing episodes commonly seen in more advanced disease Gait...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... to thank the American Parkinson’s Disease Association of Rhode Island and the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation, as well as the individuals that participated in this study Author details VA RR&D ... instrumented walkway (GAITRite Mat, CIR Systems) calibrated for 25 feet of data collection, placed in a hallway with minimal distractions Participants completed two walking trials at a comfortable pace ... gait questionnaire in patients with Parkinson’s disease Mov Disord 2009, 24(5):655-661 Vellas BJ, Garry PJ, Wayne SJ, Baumgartner RN, Albarede JL: A comparative study of falls, gait and balance...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... the calorie intake, and patients were advised to use canola oil and canola oil margarine, olive oil and olive oil margarine, avocados, macadamia nuts, almonds, and peanuts and peanut butter as ... was considered statistically significant Results Changes in cardiovascular disease risk in all 22 patients The baseline clinical and biochemical features, and use of DMARDs and changes in cardiovascular ... citation purposes) Available online http://arthritis-research.com/4/6/R12 21 Wallberg-Jonsson S, Cederfelt M, Rantapaa-Dahlqvist S: Hemostatic factors and cardiovascular disease in active rheumatoid...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22

... with measured with a real-time quantitaViral load measured with measured with a real-time quantitative RT-PCR assay Viral load was significantly increased above baseline on days – ** indicates ... nasal lavage Levels of IL-6 and IL-8 in nasal lavage (A) Time course of IL-6 (B) Time course of IL-8 (C) Mean levels of IL-6 in nasal lavage when stable and at exacerbation There was an increase ... indicates p < 0.05 All authors have read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements The authors thank staff at the Chest and Allergy Clinic, St Mary's Hospital and local General Practices...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 16:20

... 2001;41:604-5 Prakash S, Chavda BV, Mandalia H, Dhawan R, Padmanabhan D Headaches related to triptans therapy in patients of migrainous vertigo J Headache Pain 2008;9(3):185-8 Marcus DA, Furman JM Prevention ... Female Female Female Female Female Female Female Aura Aura No Aura Aura Aura Aura Aura Vertigo Vertigo Non-Vertigo Non-Vertigo Vertigo Vertigo Non-Vertigo Motion Sickness History Actual Visual ... RB, Pascual J, Goadsby PJ, et al Effect of rizatriptan and other triptans on the nausea symptom of migraine: a post hoc analysis Headache 2001;41(8):754-63 32 Krymchantowski AV, Bigal ME Rizatriptan...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:57

... since sample errors for annual data can be higher than annual changes ( special for area changes and growth) Defoliation data are not presented in the balances but in complementary tables The changes ... most attractive because it uses a minimum of calculations and has a link to observable market values Having a link to market valuation can also be said about the latter method in the sense that ... business accounting practices rather than social accounting rules This means that intrests on loans rather than rate of return to capital and amortizations rather than consumption of fixed capital are...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 08:20

... Co-Investigator, Research Study Coordinator Ligia Kiss Data Analysis (Quantitative) Joelle Mak Data Entry Johna Hoey Data Entry, Policy Analysis Kathleen Weneden Data Analysis (Qualitative) Charlotte Watts Co-Principal ... briefings; advice regarding asylum support and accommodation; assistance with applications for asylum support; third party reporting; ‘move on’ advice for those granted leave to remain; and assistance ... listed as main asylum applicants were invited directly Details on women dependent on a husband’s claim are not kept in the SIS client database; therefore additional database cross-references and...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 12:20

... largest maternity hospital in Cordoba, Argentina stated that their current pregnancy was unintended and it is not in agreement with currently available data on contraceptive prevalence The main ... become pregnant (at that time)? Earlier/at that time/later/not at all/you have never thought about it" [7] The statistical analysis includes a description of the sociodemographic characteristics ... equally in the design, interpretation of the data and review and revise the final manuscript 23 Republica Argentina, Congreso Nacional: Ley 25673 and Decreto 1282/2003 Programa Nacional de Salud...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 16:20

... Cristina Botella ´ ´ ´ ´ Departamento de Psicolog a Basica, Clınica y Psicobiolog a Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales Avda Vicente Sos Baynat s=n ´ 12071 – Castellon Spain E-mail: botella@psb.uji.es ... programa de evaluacion y rehabilitacion neurocognitiva por ordenador [Gradior Program: Computer program for evaluation and cognitive rehabilitation] Valladolid, Spain: Ed EdIntras Caoutte A, Vincent ... Satisfaction state (SST) Users evaluated their degree of satisfaction with what they experienced in each Butler session, using an adaptation of a visual analog scale consisting of seven facial...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20

... use human annotated dialogue acts (DA) as the extraction units The system-generated summaries are compared to human annotated extractive and abstractive summaries We use ROUGE as the evaluation ... Somewhat against Table shows the compression ratio of the extractive summaries and abstractive summaries as well as their standard deviation Because in conversations, utterance length varies a lot, ... have an abstractive summary, an extractive summary, and an overall opinion for each speaker The following shows an example of such annotation for speaker B in a dialogue about “capital punishment”:...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 00:20

... Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning J MacQueen 1967 Some methods for classification and analysis of multivariate observations In Proceedings ... on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP Theresa Wilson, Paul Hoffmann, Swapna Somasundaran, Jason Kessler, JanyceWiebe, Yejin Choi, Claire Cardie, Ellen Riloff, and Siddharth Patwardhan 2005 ... close as illustrated in Table On average we note that the gold data has the number of classes per thread to be roughly 2-5 Data We use data from two online forums - Create Debate [CD]2 and discussions...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 17:20

... given as median (range) The belatacept group includes patients at week 13 and for the maximum, minimum and AUC calculations at week A0 , predose activity; Amax, maximum activity; Amin, minimum activity; ... performed sample and data analyzes NTV, HR and StB helped to interpret data and draft the manuscript written by SB All authors read and approved the manuscript SB, Sara Bremer; StB, Stein Bergan Page ... posttransplant, MPA C0 seemed to be higher among belatacept patients (P = 0.057, n = and n = 3) and of belatacept patients demonstrated higher MPA AUC0–9 h than the CsA patients The maximum plasma concentrations...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20

... collection and analysis RGC contributed data analysis and writing MAZ provided guidance on using SF-10 for Children TM related to data collection and analysis TK managed the database and did data entry ... Services and the National Committee for Quality Assurance's Health Plan Employer Data Information Set (HEDIS 3.0) to evaluate the quality of care that is provided in managed care plans and other health ... data to calculate BMI, 12 (6.3%) were classified as "underweight" and were excluded from analyses SAS 9.1 (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC) was used for all statistical calculations Summary statistics...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... the patients' health after surgery as well as a three-month period between test administrations Data analysis Data was entered into the statistical analysis program, SPSS 14.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, ... statistics, dependent t-tests, and analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used to describe and compare differences between the preoperative and postoperative variables Multivariate analysis of variance ... 24:244-250 Escobar A, Quintana JM, Bilbao A, Azkarate J, Guenaga JI, Arenaza JC, Gutierrez LF: Effect of patient characteristics on reported outcomes after total knee replacement Rheumatology (Oxford)...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... virtual reality tasks, or another diagnosis (e.g orthopaedic) having a major effect on upper limb function Admitted participants had a high level of general disability and were each wheelchairbound, ... in the forearm) orthosis without robotic actuators, a socalled passive system The adjustable mechanical arm allows variable levels of gravity support by means of a Gijbels et al Journal of NeuroEngineering ... picking up an egg), added with patient-preferred therapy game (e.g car racing or card playing) The mechanical-assisted training was given supplementary on customary care comprising physical and/or...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... American College of Sports Medicine and American Heart Association (ACSM/ AHA) Guidelines on physical activity and public health [20] Practical advantages of exergaming include the ability to train ... side of the body at each of four sites (biceps brachii, triceps brachii, subscapular, and suprailiac) The caliper has a measuring range of to 80 mm, an accuracy of 99%, and a reliability within ... significance level at P ≤ 0.05 Results Five participants had a maximum score of on the FAC, indicating an ability to ambulate on non-level and Table Characteristics of study participants Tennis...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... 0.001) Statistical analysis For all variables, data from three trials under each evaluation were averaged for each participant A one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was conducted, using evaluation ... evaluation (before and after gait training) as a factor and mean walking speed as the dependent variable Two two-way ANOVAs and six multivariate analyses of variance (MANOVAs) were employed, ... conception and design of the study, gait training, acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of data, and drafting the article CLPM was responsible for gait training, acquisition of data, analysis...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... and standard deviations for each parameter and time interval were calculated for each patient and used for further analysis Significant changes in the mean and standard deviations of these parameters ... the manuscript AM participated in data analysis, interpretation and presentation, and prepared the manuscript KS and SS contributed to identifying pathological gait parameters and evaluated patient’s ... patient’s contorted self-awareness–and reliable The latter is the prerequisite for obtaining meaningful data on a patient’s physical status and may be particularly valuable for assessing a patient’s...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... Pain and self-reported characteristics Self-rated pain was assessed as pain at the moment and measured within a week before the day of testing on a blank 100 mm visual analogue scale (VAS), on ... non-traumatic neck pain in a working age population Other possible applications that may need further exploration is for rehabilitation of acute neck pain, whiplash associated disorders and diseases ... head as far as possible" and "return to the starting position as accurately as possible" Prior to each block the subject was given a training session of two trials Cervical kinematics was measured...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... width and height of the workspace Data and statistical analysis Representative tasks were analyzed across subjects using the performance metrics defined in Table Mean and standard deviation values ... Eight-point-rectangle Tracking Pattern used for a Target Acquisition Task Eight-point-rectangle Tracking Pattern used for a Target Acquisition Task A: Eight-Point-Rectangle track pattern used in the target acquisition ... Optimizing Rehabilitation Outcomes J Telemed & E-Health 2004, 10:200-212 Hamilton BB, et al.: A uniform national data system for medical rehabilitation In Rehabilitation outcomes: analysis and measurement...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20