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Showing 1 to 20 of 105 for “"Everyday Activities"”.
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Strategies of adaptation to age-related losses in everyday activities of independent seniors
… 1990) to the adaptive management of resources in everyday life in old age. The general hypothesis that loss-based selection, optimization, and compensation (SOC) use mediated the relationship between personal resource availability and successful aging outcomes was tested by interviewing 101 women …
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Self-efficacy expectations and functional ability in everyday activities in clients undergoing total knee arthroplasty
… (1977), examined the effects of educational activities on self-efficacy and of self-efficacy on functional ability in everyday activities in clients undergoing elective, primary, unilateral, total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Educational activities included: attending a joint replacement class …
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Development and Evaluation of the iWalker: An Instrumented Rolling Walker to Assess Balance and Mobility in Everyday Activities
… limiting generalization to mobility in the everyday context. An instrumented rolling walker (iWalker) was developed as an ambulatory measurement tool applicable to the assessment of balance outside of the lab or clinic for assistive device users. The iWalker autonomously collects …
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Living with a long-term physical health condition: Young people's perceptions of participation in everyday activities, wellbeing and support
… their LTHC. Findings suggested that the typical activities and trajectories of adolescence and young adulthood such as education, employment and social participation are disrupted. This was perceived to impact wellbeing and psychological health and created a mismatch between what participants …
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Visualizing exercise hidden in everyday activity
… bike for half and hour every day. While these activities are helpful, they can be daunting for an inactive person and difficult to plan into a busy schedule. Alternatively, many regular activities such as using stairs or walking to work can also provide healthy exercise. To bring attention to …
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The effectiveness of occupational therapy in enabling adults with a diagnosis of depression to improve their function and meaningful participation; a mixed methods study
… and is characterised by a loss of interest inactivities as well as difficulty carrying out everyday activities. Occupational therapy aimsto enable people to participate in the daily activities they want or need to do to improvehealth and well-being, however there is a limited evidence base …
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Senses and Local Environment: The Case of Larabanga in the Northern Region of Ghana
… argues that the sensory order employed during everyday activities deepens our understanding of local people’s relations with the environment. This study was conducted in Larabanga, Ghana, employing anthropology of the senses and phenomenology. The study reveals that people acquire ways of doing …
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Good-walk recognition using Android smartphone accelerometer with application on senior patients
Good walk from one's everyday activities can be used towards chronic disease diagnosis. Smartphones have become increasingly popular among people across ages. Properties including light weight, computationally powerful make smartphones ideal platforms for activity tracking and analysis. This work …
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Walking patterns of individuals with and without Developmental Coordination Disorder
… of motor coordination significantly affecting everyday activities. Given the importance of walking to access everyday activities, and the constraints to movement experienced by individuals with DCD, this area of research is particularly pertinent. This thesis aimed to investigate step …
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Specific Language Impairment and Executive Function: Parent and Teacher Ratings of Behavior
… designed to investigate executive behaviors in everyday activities, to examine the executive skills of preschool children with SLI relative to their typically developing (TD) peers. </p> <p><em>Method</em>: Seventeen preschool children with SLI were age- and gender- matched to 17 typically …
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The Effects Of Stimulus Motion On Contrast Sensitivity: Dynamic Sensi
… analog to actual targets encountered in everyday activities, which are often in motion and/or of less-than-perfect contrast. In addition, the size-threshold methodology typically used to measure SVA is incongruent with current theories of a multi-channel visual system. Dynamic Visual …
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A Qualitative Study on Long-Term Adherence to Home Exercise Programs in People with Parkinson’s Disease
… which can increase independence for daily activities and overall quality of life. In order for the benefits of exercise to continue after a program is completed, integration of the exercises into everyday life may lead to long-term adherence. Through the use of semi-structured interviews, …
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Grande Wi-Fi : understanding what Wi-Fi users are doing in coffee-shops
… spaces. This thesis looks closely at Wi-Fi users everyday activities in four typical research-settings. It is suggested that a closer understanding of the ways in which Wi-Fi users interact - online as well as face-to-face, sustaining their offline and online relationships - is fundamental to …
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Cognitive strategy intervention for elders living in a residential care facility.
… residents to maintain their independence for everyday activities. These individuals may experience memory dysfunction which can negatively impact their confidence and well being. Through the implementation of an intervention focusing on teaching elders strategies to improve everyday memory …
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Mathematical modelling of autophagy pathway.
… in all eukaryotic cells as a part of cell’s everyday activities and plays an important role in cell growth and development (cellular differentiation, immunity, cellular homeostasis). This work proposes a simple mathematical model of autophagy pathway as a system with feedback, which controls …
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Time domain segmentation of speech signals
… of computers in an increasing number of everyday activities, much effort is being made to improve communications between man and machine. One area of intense research is the computer recognition of human speech. A basic component of almost all speech recognition schemes is the capability …
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A Possible Ehecatl Figure from West Mexico
… was once considered merely illustrative of everyday activities, this thesis concludes that the MFAH Colima Dancer and similar figures evince highly evolved communal religious practices. This interpretation also supports the existence of generally unacknowledged trade between ancient West …
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Transactions between adolescents' sense of responsibility and disclosure to parents in the United States and China: implications for academic adjustment
… to parents and their spontaneous disclosure of everyday activities to them. Information on children’s use of self-regulated learning strategies in school was also obtained. In both the United States and China, the more children felt responsible to parents, the more they disclosed to them over …
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Empowering communities through comprehensive community-based energy advocacy : assessing energy programs and advocacy in California and New Mexico
… attention until price surges or blackouts impede everyday activities. With higher energy burdens and higher incidences of power plants in their neighborhoods, however, low-income and Latino/communities of color confront significant economic and environmental energy-related challenges on a daily …
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