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Showing 1 to 20 of 396 for “"SCI"”.
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The Reconciliation of Art + Sci
In current higher education paradigms, art and science are often siloed fields rather than subjects that inform each other. This dichotomy or hyper-specialization of art and science in higher education is a result of the industrial revolution with production as the telos. The product of this …
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The Precarity of Images: Sci-fi Worldbuilding and its Uses in Agitprop
… how theories of worldbuilding common to the science fiction genre are applied to the making of agitational propaganda for liberation movements. In doing so, it questions how both explicit and implicit political images—posters, games, comics, illustrations, social media posts—either light a …
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Power On: The ‘Digital Other’ and Emergent Personhood in American Sci-Fi
In total, this project aims to identify the new subject in its recently represented contexts. The project ultimately argues that the new subject is, in these contexts, a “digital other,” existing because of exploitation and entrenched in histories of colonialism, imperialism, and global capitalism. …
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EMG Control of an Upper-Limb Rehabilitation Exoskeleton for SCI Affected Users
… for individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) has been shown to be most effective when the user is motivated and mentally engaged in the execution of therapeutic exercises. Consequently, designers of the human-robot interface are challenged with developing control schemes that can detect …
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Experimental and theoretical studies of the ScI, YI, Hg2, and XeI diatomic molecules
… studies of the scandium monoiodide (ScI), yttrium monoiodide (YI), Hg2, and xenon monoiodide (XeI) diatomic molecules have been conducted. Spectra of the ScI molecule from 300 nm to 1000 nm with photoexcitation by a krypton fluorine (KrF) excimer laser at 248 nm are described. At …
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Uma Biblioteca para programação paralela por troca de mensagens de clusters baseados na tecnologia SCI
… eficientemente as potencialidades da tecnologia SCI (Scalable Coherent Interface). No âmago da referida biblioteca, a qual se denominou DECK/SCI, acham-se três protocolos de comunicação distintos: um protocolo de baixa latência e mínimo overhead, especializado na troca de mensagens pequenas; um …
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SCI-Induced Chronic Pain is Driven by a Central to Peripheral IL-1 Mediated Signaling Pathway
Up to 80% of spinal cord injury (SCI) patients develop chronic pain, with the majority of that pain emanating from somatic regions below the level of injury. Below-level neuropathic pain is rated as being severe and is notoriously difficult to manage because the mechanisms responsible for its …
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The effects of an acute bout of whole-body vibration on pulse wave velocity in individuals with SCI
… cause of mortality in the spinal cord injured (SCI) population. Reduced arterial compliance is a cardiovascular risk factor and whole body vibration (WBV) has be en shown to improve arterial compliance in able-bodied individuals. The study investigated the effect of an acute session ofWBV on …
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The Relationship of Well-Being, And General Role Participation And Parental Role Satisfaction in Mothers with SCI: An Exploratory Study
… participation and well-being in mothers with SCI. Twenty-nine women with a spinal cord injury participated in the study. The inclusion criteria was being a mother with a spinal cord injury living in the community and actively parenting at least one child under the age of 12 who were currently …
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Achieving gender equity through UNICEF intervention- the Sara Communication Initiative (SCI) : an examination of social capital and capabilities in two selected Malawian rural schools
The Sara Communication Initiative (SCI), a girls’ intervention programme, was introduced by the Forum for African Women Educationalists in Malawi (FAWEMA), to address girls’ low enrolment and high dropout from school. NORAD and UNICEF initially funded the SCI. FAWEMA is currently the custodian of …
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The Effect of Robotic Walking and Activity-based Rehabilitation on Functional Capacity, Secondary Complications & Psychological Well-being in Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)
… evidence base supporting the efficacy of RLT for SCI rehabilitation. Thus, this randomized control pilot study aimed to investigate the effects of RLT compared to ABT on functional capacity, secondary complications, and psychological well-being in people with SCI after 24-weeks of rehabilitation. …
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Trpv1 Channels Contribute to Behavioral Hypersensitivity and Spontaneous Activity In Nociceptors After Spinal Cord Injury
… persons who have sustained spinal cord injury (SCI) develop chronic pain. While most investigators have assumed that the critical mechanisms underlying neuropathic pain after SCI are restricted to the central nervous system (CNS), recent studies showed that contusive SCI results in a large …
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Identifying Depression Utilizing Tumor Necrosis Factor–[alpha] and Endothelial Function in Spinal Cord Injury
People with spinal cord injury (SCI) are at high risk of developing pressure injuries (PrI) and depression. Depression has been shown to be associated with increased risk for PrI complications, and it is suggested that physiological changes related to depression may contribute to PrI development. …
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Mechanisms of improvement following functional inhibition of neutrophil infiltration after spinal cord injury
Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) is a traumatic event that results in loss of function below the level of injury, and other dysfunctions including pain syndromes, both above and below the level of the lesion. A cascade of biochemical and cellular events leads to secondary events after SCI, exacerbating the …
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Novel Use of Dual Anti-Inflammatory Therapy to Overcome Drug Resistance and Improve Functional Recovery Following Spinal Cord Injury
… living with a traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI). Despite the need for effective therapies, there are currently no proven effective treatments that can improve recovery of function in SCI patients. Many therapeutic compounds have shown promise in preclinical models of SCI, but all of these …
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Effects of Repetitive Intermittent Hypoxia after Acute and Chronic Spinal Cord Injury
… potential therapy for spinal cord injury (SCI), which enhances spinal plasticity resulting in improved functional recovery. In this thesis, I assessed the effect of AIH on motor functional recovery, markers of spinal plasticity within spinal motor neurons, inflammation within the lesion …
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Role of BCL-XL in cell death after spinal cord injury
… impairment after rat spinal cord injury (SCI) results from secondary apoptosis regulated in part, by SCI-induced decreases in protein levels of the anti-apoptotic protein Bcl-xL. In this dissertation, I assessed the role that Bcl-xL subcellular re-routing and post-translational …
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Alterations in brain connectivity after spinal cord injury using functional MRI
… inhabitants are inflicted by Spinal Cord Injury (SCI). The long-term impairment of the SCI patients has led researchers to investigate different rehabilitation and treatment efforts that require careful observations to be made on reliable markers. Presently, a number of neuropsychological …
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Cardiac Autonomic Assessment and Diastolic Function in Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury
… function in individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI). The secondary purpose was to investigate the influence of cardiac autonomic activity and blood volume on diastolic function in individuals with SCI. Results from Study 1 showed that the QTVI increased when participants performed a …
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