technical development and ongoing testing

... Switzerland 2Department of Health Sciences and Health Policy, University of Lucerne and SPF, Nottwil, Switzerland 3Seminar for Statistics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland ... relationships, and living conditions The WHOQOL and WHOQOL-BREF were specifically developed for cross-cultural use and are currently available in 36 languages Psychometric Geyh et al Health and Quality ... translation procedures and cross-cultural testing of psychometric properties [29] There have been efforts to develop and/ or validate QoL instruments cross-culturally (e.g the WHOQoL -development or the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:21

... Characteristics of hand path movement Figure shows the initial measurements for hand path, speed, curvature and jerk movement in the patients with a SIAS score of 2, 3, and 4, and in the healthy ... (s) Figure Hand paths, including the speed, curvature, and jerk profiles were evaluated in four representative participants Panels A, B, C and D show the respective hand paths The hand path is ... healthy participants Red, blue, and green thick and dotted lines in panels A and B denotes median (thick lines) and quartile (dotted lines) of MedianL from both initial and final measurements in Experiment...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... quality of stimulation can be more accurately, uniformly, and objectively regulated and measured, and the electroacupuncture produce a higher and more continuous level of stimulation than can be provided ... antiedemic effect of corticosteroid and acupuncture References Altman, S Techniques and instrumentation Problems in Vet Med 1992, 4, 66~87 Andy, S., Richard, W R and Charles, D K Spinal-evoked potentials ... Mcguire, J A and Hoff, E J Evaluation of dexamethasone, DMSO, mannitol, and solcoseryl in acute spinal cord trauma J Am Anim Hosp Assoc 1983, 19, 216~226 11 Holliday, R W., Weldon, N E and Ealand, B...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 17:22

... schedule with frequent rest periods) and random ordering of taskrelated exercises improves performance and learning [3,80] A good interchange between loading and adequate rest intervals are necessary ... patient's hand through a handle that is connected to the end-effector of the robot This robot treatment focuses on shoulder and elbow function The MIME system can work in preprogrammed position and ... chair and task devices (for reaching, tracing, peg board use, supination/pronation, threading, arc -and- fingers, finger tapping, and object flipping) that are organised on work surfaces and are...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... (0.00%) Hand Assessment, and (4) Hand Function Assessment (Table 3) The developmental hand assessment was performed as described above, on all potential subjects, to exclude those with developmental ... while 27% and 23% had left and right-sided involvement, respectively The study population's developmental hand age ranged from 5.57 years old to 10.13 years old Results of the tests for developmental ... presented in terms of rank and percentages Our assessment protocol focused on deformity, sensation, spasticity, motor control and hand function The correlation between hand function and the other parameters...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

... Two groups (GI and GII) were used as controls and three (GIII, GIV and GV) were designed as study groups with three different reinnervation protocols -GI: rabbits were left intact and used as controls ... coupled with the abductor branch of the inferior laryngeal nerve Materials and methods Animals and groups A total of 35 New Zealand rabbits (C.E.G.A.V., Saint Mars d'Egrenne, France) were included ... results with this technical approach in rats and monkeys but in cats, Baldissera et al found encouraging one [5] These studies demonstrated that diaphragmatic reinnervation was technically possible,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 16:20

... arm and hand rehabilitation 23 2.4.2 Robots dedicated to wrist and hand rehabilitation 24 2.4.3 Robots dedicated to hand and fingers rehabilitation 25 2.4.4 HandCPM ... limb use and performance of ADL, and to improve speech and swallowing function, continence and cognitive functioning Other important areas include mood and psychological issues, sexuality and sexual ... control of the forearm, wrist and fingers and involve a large number of joints Further, performing hand activities also requires the elbow and shoulder to support the weight and CHAPTER INTRODUCTION...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:04

... concentrations of total glutathione and GSSG were calculated from the absorbance change using authentic GSH and Ó FEBS 2002 1572 T Kaneko et al (Eur J Biochem 269) GSSG as a standard and the data are expressed ... deferens, and prostate gland in 13-week-old-adult rats (Fig 1A) The highest activity for GR was found in the epididymis, followed by seminal vesicles, prostate gland, vas deferens, and testes ... intensity of the bands for the protein and the mRNA were faint Effects of inhibitors of cGCS and GR on primary cultured testicular cells To investigate the contribution of de novo synthesis and the recycling...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 17:20

... economics, and complexity theory (see also, Colander, Holt and Rosser, 2004: 496) Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis (2000) identify Ronald Coase, Friedrich von Hayek, Duncan Luce and Howard Riaffa, and ... Cowles Commission and the empiricist pragmatism of the Marshallian applied microeconomics of the Chicago School (Novshek and Sonnenschein, 1987; Hands and Mirowski, 1998; Mirowski and Hands, 1998; ... neoclassical economics (up to the 1970s) and the contemporary For recent surveys, see (Bowles and Gintis, 2000; Colander, 2000; Mirowski, 2002; Colander, Holt and Rosser, 2004; Davis, 2006) mainstream...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 02:05

... collection and analysis, and participated in interpreting and writing the manuscript DC referred the patients and participated in interpreting data, and WZR participated in interpreting data and writing ... plantarflexion and the torque and EMG responses were ensemble-averaged Pseudorandom binary sequence trials To identify overall stiffness properties and to separate the reflex and intrinsic components, ... to follow a command input Subjects were seated and secured in an adjustable chair with the ankle strapped to the footrest and the thigh and trunk strapped to the chair The seat and footrest were...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... movement with respect to the arm, and hand movement with respect to the forearm using Euler angle notation and a sequence of ZXY rotations of the trunk, arm and hand, and ZYX rotations of the forearm ... placed against the trunk and the elbow was flexed 90° flexion and in a neutral pronation-supination, i.e., with the palm of the hand perpendicular to the table surface and facing inward (medially) ... lateral and medial epicondyles proximally and the Z-axis was the line that joined both epicondyles in the lateral direction In the hand, the origin was at the midpoint between radial and ulnar...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... joint angles and footground contact, lower limb surface electromyography, pushbutton control signal, artificial muscle force and elastic band force We recorded bilateral ankle, knee and hip Page ... speed, trial condition and fidelity of the data We calculated the average standard deviation over the stride cycle (reported in Figures and 5) for each average profile and for each condition ... profiles from the artificial muscle and elastic band tension and their respective moment arms The orthoses torque was normalized to subject mass To quantify the magnitude and repeatability of the control...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... forest herb development [23], growth and development of early forest herb could therefore significantly be reduced under no-tillage conditions Mechanical tillage can alter the balance of air and water ... temperature, and penetration resistance) for plant emergence, plant development, and unimpeded root growth Therefore, quantifying the effects of tillage systems on soil moisture, temperature, and compaction ... design of soil and vegetation treatments in the four studied stands Empty columns are control strips Shaded areas show strips that are absent in some stands Experimental strips and date of treatment...

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Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 23:22

... Finetechnical, Japan), frozen and transversely sectioned at epicenter of lesion These sections were mounted on silanecoated glass slides Slides were stained first with hematoxylin and eosin, and ... the ASC group (circles) G and H: These showed structural consistency with nerve cell A, B and C: H&E stain, D-G: Luxol fast blue and cresyl violet stain, H, H1, H2 and H3: Immunofluorescence ... after transfection and supernatant was harvested at 48 and 72 h after transfection Viral supernatant was filtered using 0.4 μm pore filter (Invitrogen, USA) Fig Adipogenic and osteogenic differentiation...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 23:22

... investigator (RK) and confirmed by senior psychiatrists (AN and RRP) The diagnosis of schizophrenia was made at clinical interview and augmented by discussion with relatives and a review of clinical ... medication and support them in times of crisis and need, functions, which in the West are carried out by assertive outreach teams, crisis teams and community mental health teams, and are believed ... abnormalities, persistent and stable over time [6] In patients with schizophrenia, delusions and hallucinations could arise as a result of deficits in cognitive functions involving perceptual and attributional...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:20

... elderly Dutch men and women It can be expected that the same polymorphisms could be important for both knee OA and hand OA, although no association between the VDR genotypes and hand OA was found ... metabolism, OA, the immune response, and cancer [12] The VDR gene acts as an important regulator of calcium metabolism and bone cell function [13], and it was the first candidate gene to be studied in ... the risk of hand OA in Finnish middleaged women In addition, we evaluated whether the calcium intake modifies the relationship between the VDR gene polymorphisms and hand OA Materials and methods...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20

... differences were found between active and inactive BD or between corticosteroid receiving and nonreceiving patients, and no interaction between corticosteroids and BD disease was identified (data ... corticosteroid treatment, and their respective control subgroups Numbers of patients and significant differences between subgroups (t-test) are shown Values are expressed as mean ± standard error Furthermore, ... (Wilkoxon test) was used to compare changes in FMD and NMD, before and after days on corticosteroid treatment Values are expressed as mean ± standard error of the mean P < 0.05 was deemed to indicate...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21