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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"clinical methods"”.
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Evaluation of clinical methods of pulmonary gas exchange assessment in the standing horse
There are limited methods of assessing pulmonary function in horses at rest. In this study, we developed clinical techniques to measure gas exchange efficiency in horses. These techniques were then used to evaluate horses with varying degrees of lower respiratory disease. Three groups of horses …
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COMPARISON OF EXTERNAL TIBIAL ROTATION IN AFFECTED AND UNAFFECTED KNEES AS MEASURED BY TWO CLINICAL METHODS
… the goniometric and Modified Helfet Test (MHT) methods of assessing tibial rotation, could distinguish between knees affected or unaffected by pathology and/or surgery. METHODS: Twenty-eight subjects with knee pathology diagnosed by a physician and with self-reported activity limitations were …
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Investigating the relationship between hip joint kinematics and patient-reported measures during squatting tasks & reliability of clinical methods of squatting assessment in females with acetabular dysplasia
… and analyze feasibility and reliability of methods for assessing squat performance. Methods: To assess kinematic variability and relationships between variables, 23 females with AD and 28 controls participated. Three-dimensional kinematic data was collected in one session using motion …
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The Use of Trunk-Mounted Accelerometers for Neurmuscular Testing in Collegiate Women's Soccer
… of athlete performance. Similar IMU are used in clinical settings for gait analysis and jump testing but are located at the center of mass (COM). For clinical methods of jump and gait analysis to be translated to sports related IMU, an investigation of the validity of measure from the scapulae …
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Contextualized Risk Assessment in Clinical Practice: Utility of Actuarial, Clinical, and Structured Clinical Approaches to Predictions of Violence.
… is the relative effectiveness of assessment methods. Specifically, actuarial methods (see Quinsey et al., 1998 for a review) have been compared and contrasted to clinical and structured clinical methods (see e.g. Hart, 1998; Webster et al., 1997). Proponents of each approach argue for its …
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Accelerometer-based analysis of gait and prediction of fall risk in older adults
… quality of life as we age, but current clinical methods of screening for fall risk remain insufficient to prevent falls. This thesis summarizes the development of a modern approach to fall risk analysis and fall prevention through the use of hip-mounted triaxial accelerometers to …
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The role of the P28 multigene family in the pathogenesis of Ehrlichia chaffeensis infection.
… it is difficult to diagnose by routine clinical methods. <i>E. chaffeensis</i> expresses a 28 kDa outer membrane protein from a multigene family known as P28/OMP-1. Different alleles from this multigene family are expressed in different host cell types, but the role of this membrane …
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Development of improved analysis of radionuclide images of aerosol deposition
… few years, there has been an increase in the clinical methods targeting the human tracheobronchial tree, both for therapeutic and diagnostic purposes. For these methods to be effective, a good understanding of the lung structure is necessary. This knowledge can be attained through the use of …
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Craft knowledge in medicine : an interpretation of teaching and learning in apprenticeship
… and expert-novice comparisons explored clinical work, teaching, and learning in apprenticeship.<br></br><br></br>Data analysis of participants' responses and ward round discussions allowed identified categories to cluster within three inter-related constructs instrumental to the …
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A new portable 3D gyroscope system for the evaluation of upper limb function
… and a reduction in quality of life. Current clinical methods of functional assessment are largely subjective and rely heavily on the clinician's experience. There is a great need for a quantitative and objective measure of function which can be readily applied within the clinical environment …
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Optimal Multi-Drug Chemotherapy Control Scheme for Cancer Treatment. Design and development of a multi-drug feedback control scheme for optimal chemotherapy treatment for cancer. Evolutionary multi-objective optimisation algorithms were used to achieve the optimal parameters of the controller for effective treatment of cancer with minimum side effects.
… side effects of the cancer drugs. Conventional clinical methods very often fail to find drug doses that balance between these two due to their inherent conflicting nature. In this investigation, mathematical models for cancer chemotherapy are used to predict the number of tumour cells and …
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The Effects of Clinical and Traditional Supervision Methods on the Satisfaction Levels of Higher and Lower-Order Need Teachers
… study sought to examine the relationship between clinical and traditional supervision models and teacher need strength. The problem that this study addressed can best be stated in the form of a question: What (if any) effect does clinical and traditional supervision have on the satisfaction levels …
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Evaluation and Feasibility of a Head Positioning Intervention in Patients with Intraparenchymal Hemorrhage
… one of the most important first steps to promote clinical stability in the hyperacute stage of IPH stroke because of the risk of increased intracranial pressure (ICP) in these patients. Nursing research completed in the late 1970s and early 1980s in patients with increased ICP due to traumatic …
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A virtual hand assessment system for efficient outcome measures of hand rehabilitation
… the precision and efficiency of the standard clinical methods used in hand rehabilitation. However, the designs of these devices were either oriented toward a particular hand injury or heavily dependent on subjective assessment techniques to evaluate the progress. These limitations reduce the …
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Atherosclerotic inflammation imaging using somatostatin receptor-2 positron emission tomography
… trigger culprit pathogenic mechanisms relating clinical cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors to atherosclerotic plaque progression and rupture. Imaging vascular inflammation affords a valuable marker of atherosclerotic disease activity to reveal important mechanistic insights for CVD …
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Bone age estimation using machine learning approach: An assessment using hand and wrist bones of South African children
… Age Assessment (BAA) achieves this, as it is a clinical process used to establish an individual's biological profile. A large proportion of the South African population resides in rural areas where the fully functional civil registration system is limited. Many individuals remain unregistered on …
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Breastfeeding of preterm infants. Associated factors in infants, mothers, and clinical practice.
… intensive care units (NICUs) about which clinical methods facilitate breastfeeding. Skin-to-skin contact between infant and parent is the first step in the breastfeeding process for preterm infants, but studies of toleration of skin-to-skin contact in extremely preterm infants – less than …
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Regional myocardial perfusion : experimental and clinical studies in patients with coronary artery disease
… perfusion. This technique has been applied in clinical medicine in an attempt to describe the disturbances of regional myocardial perfusion that occur in patients with coronary artery disease. These disturbances of perfusion have been related to the patients' symptoms, the electrocardiogram and …
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Functional Drivers of Therapeutic Response in Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma
… displays a remarkable amount of genetic and clinical heterogeneity, hampering efforts at designing effective therapeutic agents. The last major change in frontline therapy for DLBCL came in 1997 with the addition of rituximab into widespread clinical use. Much effort has been put forth to …
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Electroencephalographic effects of general anaesthetics : a suite of clinical studies and theoretical models
… of a collection of various theoretical and clinical papers in three sections: (a) A background section summarizing previous relevant published works on the molecular actions of anaesthetic agents, and the origin and problems with the acquisition of the EEG. (b) A second section dealing with …
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