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Rehabilitation
Dong-Kyu Kim, Duck-Won Oh
Summary: This study aimed to demonstrate the necessary walking skills for community ambulation of individuals with chronic stroke using a validated community ambulation survey. A total of 107 older adults and 99 ambulatory, urban-living people with chronic stroke were sampled. The survey was valid for clinical use and identified the walking tasks that people with chronic stroke show less participation in community, which should be involved in routine rehabilitation schedules to restore functional walking in the community.
DISABILITY AND REHABILITATION
(2023)
Review
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Lena Aadal, Michele Offenbach Hundborg, Hanne Pallesen, Randi Steensgaard
Summary: This scoping review explores the characteristics of a meaningful life appraised by adults living with an acquired neurological impairment.
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Le-ping Wan, Guang-mei Yang, Hai-ying Dong, Xiao-xiao Liang, Yan He
Summary: This study aimed to explore the structural relationship between perceived participation and autonomy among older adults with stroke and hypertension in home and community-based services (HCBSs) in the eastern coastal region of China. A total of 714 respondents with stroke and hypertension were analyzed, and multiple linear regression analysis was used to identify the factors influencing perceived participation and autonomy. The results showed that age, marital status, health insurance, living status, number of children, chronic diseases, sleep time, frequency of outings, and health utility value were significant factors affecting perceived participation and autonomy.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Crystallography
Tomasz Tarkowski, Nevill Gonzalez Szwacki
Summary: In this study, the structure of single-wall boron nanotubes with large diameters and varying surface densities was investigated. Computational methods combining an evolutionary approach and a nearest-neighbors model Hamiltonian were used. The most stable nanotubes were found to contain approximately 63% 5-coordinated boron atoms and 11% boron vacancies. For hole densities below 0.22, the boron nanotubes exhibited randomly distributed hexagonal holes and were more stable compared to other structures. At higher hole densities, the boron nanotubes showed porous tubular structures with hole sizes dependent on the surface densities of boron atoms.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Nicole El-Turk, Michael S. H. Chou, Natasha C. H. Ting, Afaf Girgis, Shalini K. Vinod, Victoria Bray, Claudia C. Dobler
Summary: Although there is a significant burden associated with lung cancer treatment, most patients do not feel overwhelmed by the treatment tasks. Patients are motivated and equipped to manage the workload due to the severity of the disease and the perceived benefits of treatment. Patients should be informed about lifestyle changes and offered assistance before initiating treatment for lung cancer.
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Physics, Fluids & Plasmas
S. S. Manna
Summary: We studied a sandpile automata with height restriction of sand columns. In this sandpile, an active site transfers a grain to a neighboring site only if the height of the sand column at the destination site is less than a preassigned value nc. We analyzed the avalanche dynamics of the driven sandpile under open boundary conditions and found that the deterministic dynamics of the BTW sandpile under the height restriction are non-Abelian. Results from numerical simulations suggest that the steady states of the sandpile are recurrent states of the BTW sandpile, but with different probabilities and exponent values.
Article
Rehabilitation
Claire Della Vecchia, Marie Preau, Julie Haesebaert, Marie Viprey, Gilles Rode, Anne Termoz, Alexandra Dima, Anne -Marie Schott
Summary: This study examined the determinants of post-stroke social participation and found that positive thinking coping strategy, perceived satisfaction with the living environment, and fewer perceived activity limitations were associated with higher levels of social participation. On the other hand, seeking social support coping style and a higher number of stroke-related sequelae were associated with lower social participation.
ANNALS OF PHYSICAL AND REHABILITATION MEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Physics, Nuclear
Weichuan Li, Stefan Frauendorf, Mark A. Caprio
Summary: This study investigates the triaxiality of odd-mass nuclei by coupling a quasiparticle to an even-even core through the core-quasiparticle coupling model. Both soft and rigid triaxial cores are considered. It is shown that the presence of the odd quasiparticle modifies the collective quadrupole dynamics of the core to appear more rigid.
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL A
(2022)
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Yi Ge, Qi Zhang, Miao Wang, Lei Zhang, Shusheng Shi, Rizwan Ahmed Laar
Summary: Previous studies have contributed to understanding the constraints on women's sports participation, and this study investigates the influencing factors among Pakistani female students and suggests measures to enhance sports participation.
Article
Rehabilitation
Qi Lu, Dongrui Wang, Li Fu, Xue Wang, LiYa Li, Lihong Jiang, Cuiyu Deng, Yue Zhao
Summary: The study examined the impact of stigma on social participation in community-dwelling Chinese patients with stroke sequelae, finding that both enacted stigma and felt stigma were independently associated with lower levels of social participation among these patients.
CLINICAL REHABILITATION
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Philip T. Putnam, Cheng-Chi J. Chu, Nicholas A. Fagan, Olga Dal Monte, Steve W. C. Chang
Summary: This study investigates the effects of vicarious reward and experienced reward on primates and discovers the neuronal interaction between the anterior cingulate cortex gyrus (ACCg) and the basolateral amygdala (BLA) in different frequencies. The results suggest that following voluntary choices, vicarious reward and experienced reward exhibit enhanced couplings in different frequencies, and the reward outcomes consistently have strong directional influences from the ACCg to the BLA.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Fidelis Atibila, Gill Ten Hoor, Emmanuel Timmy Donkoh, Gerjo Kok
Summary: Hypertension is a significant public health issue in low and middle-income countries, leading to cardiovascular diseases and chronic kidney disease. This study in Ghana found that patients with hypertension face physical, psychological, and socio-economic challenges, and suggests the need for post-diagnosis counseling, expanded insurance coverage, and improved collaboration between healthcare professionals and patients' families.
Article
Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications
Teodor M. Atanackovic, Stevan Pilipovic
Summary: We studied a Zener-type model of a viscoelastic body using general fractional calculus and derived restrictions on coefficients based on the dissipation inequality. We showed that for stress relaxation and wave propagation, the restriction derived from the entropy inequality is sufficient to ensure the existence and uniqueness of the solution. Numerical data related to the solution of a wave equation for different parameter values were presented.
FRACTAL AND FRACTIONAL
(2022)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Andreas Kastrup, Christian Roth, Maria Politi, Maria Alexandrou, Helmut Hildebrandt, Andreas Schroeter, Panagiotis Papanagiotou
Summary: The study suggests that in pre-stroke dependent patients, endovascular treatment can reduce the rates of poor outcome and lead to smaller infarcts.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROLOGY
(2021)
Article
Economics
Robin Braun, Ralf Bruggemann
Summary: This article discusses the combination of sign restrictions with information from external instruments to identify structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) models. The availability of valid external instruments allows for the use of sign restrictions to identify additional orthogonal shocks or to provide more precise identification of the shocks identified by the external instruments. In cases where proxy variables are plausibly exogenous, various types of inequality restrictions can be used to limit the relationship between structural shocks and the external variable, narrowing down the set of admissible models. Bayesian inference and computation of Bayes factors are conducted within a proxy-augmented SVAR, which can be used to test the validity of sign or instrumental variable (IV) restrictions. The methodology is illustrated in estimating the effects of oil supply and monetary policy shocks.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS & ECONOMIC STATISTICS
(2023)
