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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"debility"”.
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Inpatient Rehabilitation Outcomes for Patients with Debility
… and discharge patients to community living. Debility, or deconditioning associated with hospitalization, is the fourth most common impairment group, accounting for about 10% of IRF cases. Objectives were to provide benchmark data for patients with debility, consider trends with respect to …
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Disease and Dis -Ease: Emotions, Sociality and Illness in Punata, Bolivia
… illnesses dues to emotions: (1) a discourse of debility and (2) a discourse concerning how women orchestrate, express (or do not express), and/or negotiate their emotions in relation to other people. Three extended case studies present the complexity of women's views of their conflicts, their …
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Partial Figures: Sound in Queer and Feminist Thought
… that bridges affection and dependency or debility; it compromises aesthetics as a site for the exercise of judgement. To be partial to something or someone is to be rendered incomplete by that thing, a torsion or disfigurement that marks queer and feminist method. By considering notions of …
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Green synthesis and characterization of gold nanoparticles from capparis sepiaria-tabernaemontana elegans cocktail and investigation of their biological effects in vitro.
… bacteria may result in prolonged debility of the patient and increased healthcare costs. avoidance of the development of antimicrobial resistance therefore needs increasing attention in the management of patients, with chronic wound infection. nanotechnology presents a …
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Gaucer Disease in the Ashkenazi-Jewish Community of South Africa
… individuals suffer from chronic ill-health and debility, with a clinical course of acute exacerbations, remissions and relapses. The basic defect has been shown to be a genetically determined abnormality in the enzyme beta-glucosidase, (Brady et aZ, 1965; Patrick, 1965). The diagnosis can now be …
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Effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation as a treatment for persistent auditory verbal hallucinations
… can cause high levels of stress and functional debility. Atypical antipsychotic drugs are the recommended treatment for AVHs but are non-effective in 25-30% of cases. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has proven reasonably effective but improvements can still be made to the treatment for some …
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The South Wales Miners 1964-1985
… Mcllroy and Campbell point out, '[t]he [current] debility of labour studies ... have to be related to the defeats and the consequent sense of demoralisation the labour movement has suffered from, as well as state policies and academic responses to them'.
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Surviving and thriving: an integrated critical theory of chronic pain from stories of urban American Indians living with chronic pain
… They seek to function without further debility and to maintain their economic, spiritual, social, and physical wellness. This is care for survival not care for cure. Conclusion: In an Equilibrium Model of Chronic Pain, which emerges from this research, surviving on the worst days with …
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Community media and civil society: lessons from the Bolivarian republic of Venezuela
… media practice. It also demonstrates that this debility has been increasingly addressed by a shift toward a Gramscian perspective of civil society governance as the goal of socialist organization. The bulk of the dissertation tracks the above patterns as they have played out in Venezuela both …
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English privateering during the Spanish and French wars, 1625-1630
… Dogged by serious mismanagement and financial debility, despite prodigious efforts to raise money, the English military machine was structurally incapable of successfully fighting both Spain and France. These disastrous expeditions were accompanied by, and related to, growing parliamentary …
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Race, gender, and recogimiento: Discursive negotiations of space, sexuality, and productivity in late colonial Mexico
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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Bandura's Social Cognitive Concepts and Physical Activity of People with Multiple Sclerosis: A Hierarchical Regression Analysis
… for MS, so symptom management and a decrease in debility remain a critical area of focus for health professionals working with MS patients. While there is no cure for this disorder, physical activity has been shown to alleviate multiple symptoms of MS such as mobility impairment, fatigue, pain, …
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Physical incapacity, its assessment with an analysis of 1200 cases
… is supposed to last one month. Post puerperal debility is too commonly certified as a cause of incapacity. (i) Diseases of Skin - Few in number. Rarely/ Rarely per se incapacitating, bat taken in conjunction with kind of work not unfrequently so. (j) Diseases of Bone and Locomotory System - …
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Autobiographical subjects: Disability and social identity in life writing
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