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Showing 1 to 20 of 228 for “"Paralysis"”.
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Increasing Emergency Nurses' Knowledge of Awareness with Paralysis
… (ED) nurse knowledge of awareness with paralysis (AWP), risk factors and ED practices believed to increase its incidence, and suggested mitigation strategies and best practices. Methods: This QI project used pretest/posttest design to determine effectiveness of an education intervention …
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Schools, Social Change, and the Politics of Paralysis
… of schooling, they further develop political paralysis among progressive educational practitioners.
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Towards Meaningful Work: A Preliminary Understanding of Career Paralysis
… of yet, little understood phenomenon of career paralysis. Career paralysis is a new term adopted by the researcher to represent the increasingly common experience among adults today of wanting to make a career change toward something more meaningful but, for several reasons, being unable to …
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Unawareness of paralysis following stroke: an existential-phenomenological inquiry into the paradox of anosognosia
… a patient recover her explicit awareness of her paralysis. The results of these studies confirmed all three hypotheses, with some theoretical constraints that are discussed in each chapter. More generally, the results of these studies are discussed in relation to both scientific and philosophical …
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“NYAM CHIEM” RECONSTRUCTING AND PERFORMING NIGHTMARE: A DANCE RESEARCH IN PERFORMANCE OF SLEEP PARALYSIS.
… This thesis examines the phenomenon of sleep paralysis through a personal reflexive research. The work challenges the notion that sleep paralysis is evil, revealing the phenomenon as a part of the human experience. The research is in two parts, practical and theory. The practical component …
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Osteocyte Activity and Skeletal Muscle Relative Gene Expression Profiling After Short-term Muscle Paralysis
… as early as one week after Botox-induced muscle paralysis. In the present study, 20-week-old female rats were injected with botulinum toxin A (BTX, n=12) in the right hindlimb muscles, while external control rats (CTRL, n=12) were similarly injected using a saline solution. Animals then underwent …
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Neural prosthetics for paralysis : algorithms and low-power analog architectures for decoding neural signals
This thesis develops a system for adaptively and automatically learning to interpret patterns of electrical activity in neuronal populations in a real-time, on-line fashion. The system is primarily intended to enable the long-term implantation of low-power, microchip-based recording and decoding …
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Tick toxinology : isolation and characterisation of the toxin from the Australian paralysis tick, Ixodes holocyclus
… including man. Envenomation by the Australian paralysis tick, I. holocyclus, is a considerable veterinary problem affecting tens of thousands of domestic and native animals each year. Envenomation is characterised by a progressive ascending flaccid paralysis and is due to a neurotoxin present …
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Israeli acute paralysis virus (IAPV) and deformed wing virus (DWV) infection progression in honey bees
… deformed wing virus (DWV) and Israeli acute paralysis virus (IAPV). These pathogens are major contributors to high numbers of colony failures, threatening the supply of pollination services in agriculture. However, understanding and modeling infection and transmission dynamics is hampered by …
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Social immunity in honey bee brood care: How Israeli acute paralysis virus influences nursing behavior
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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Three Essays In The Sociology Of Violence: Repertoire Paralysis, Localized Diffusion, And Emotional Interventions In De-Escalation
The essays in this dissertation apply a micro-first sociology of violence to three topics operating at several different timescales–decades, years, days, and minutes. The first paper considers the evolution of collective violence over fifty years. This study asks whether the emergent nature of …
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The effectiveness of Ayurvedic oil based nasal instillation (Nasya) medicines in the treatment of facial paralysis (Ardita)
Background: Ardita (facial paralysis) is a medical condition that disfigures or distorts the facial appearance of the sufferer, causing facial asymmetry and malfunction. Ardita patients may benefit from considering alternative treatments such as Ayurveda, including Taila Nasya (nasal instillation …
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