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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"hand use"”.
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Monitoring Hand Use and Hand Role of Stroke Survivors at Home Using Egocentric Video
Capturing hand function performance at home is essential to measuring the ultimate impact of novel interventions after stroke. Wearable technologies have been used to capture upper limb use ratios outside of clinical environments, however, wrist-worn devices measure arm use rather than hand use, …
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The Ape Ecological Niche: Posture and Hand Use in Gibbons and Macaques and the Influence of Manual Skill on Cognitive Development in Apes and Humans
… and anatomical characteristics that allow us to use our arms and hands in unique ways. Apes also have relatively larger brains with similar sulcal patterning indicating there is a distinctively hominoid brain structure. These features in great apes have consistently been linked with higher …
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Gesture Production, Motor Skills, and Disfluencies Observed in Typically Developing Preschoolers
… a procedural description task with restricted hand use and hand tapping. Data indicated that higher frequencies of gestures and disfluencies were seen during the cartoon narration. A greater frequency of disfluencies was also experienced with restricted hand use. Relationships between the …
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Girlfriend or esposa? Cultural scenarios in translation
… commitment to each other. Mexicans, on the other hand, use the terms esposo and esposa as indices of adult status, which can be achieved through cohabitation.
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Naturalistic Visuomotor Behaviours Reveal Reduced Handedness Lateralization In Autism
… The current study investigates how handedness, a robust marker of cerebral lateralization, is modulated in autistic and non-autistic right-handed adults (n=27 per group) using a naturalistic LEGO® model-building task. Participants recreated five models from blocks placed on a …
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Manual laterality in hearing impaired and hearing children
… was designed to investigate the differences in hand preference and skilled hand movement between hearing impaired and non-hearing impaired children. The subjects were 78 hearing impaired (44 males, 34 females) and 68 normal hearing children (24 males, 44 females). Hand preference was measured …
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Left-handed BCI - examining effects of handedness and hand dominance on EEG grasp classification
… Interfaces (BCIs) are of high potential use to individuals whosemotor function is impaired, or who have undergone a loss of limb or limb functionality. Electroencephalography (EEG) is one popular method of collecting signals from the brain, and is commonly used in cases where other …
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Entrepreneurial Marketing as a Way for Chinese SMEs to Operate Effectively in a Transition Economy
… building, adopting a bottom-up approach, use resources at hand, use creative ways to leverage limited resources, achieve control of the future, and so on. Being more entrepreneurial in marketing, employing both entrepreneurial orientation and market orientation as well as applying …
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CONSUMMATORY RESPONSE STRENGTH IN THE ANALYSIS OF TASTE-AVERSION LEARNING
… conditioning studies, on the other hand, use as conditioned stimuli flavored solutions with distinct motivational or response-determining properties. It is possible that many of the differences between taste-aversion conditioning and other forms of Pavlovian conditioning are related …
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Evaluation of the residual prestress force in aged railway concrete sleepers considered for reuse
… design life. Given the desire to extend the useful life of sleepers, aged concrete sleepers are often removed from primary running lines for second-hand use in branch, sidings and yard lines. However, the current quality assurance system for reusing sleepers relies mainly on visual condition …
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Cultivation and Conflict: Buddhist-Derived Meditation and Ethical Complexity among Israeli Jews
… the ways in which orthodox Jews on the one hand, and non-observant Jewish activists for solidarity with Palestinians on the other hand, use meditation techniques drawn from Buddhism for pursuing objectives that are central for them, respectively, as contemporary Israelis. In the …
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Effective Modeling of Nutrient Losses and Nutrient Management Practices in an Agricultural and Urbanizing Watershed
… and desorption in the soil. On the other hand, plant uptake of nitrogen played an important role for Ox-N load generation. A side by side comparison was conducted on the Upper Broad Run HSPF/PQUAL and HSPF/AGCHEM models. Both PQUAL and AGCHEM provided good-to-reasonable nutrient …
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Regulation of IGF-i Signaling by SOCS3 in Human Coronary Artery Smooth Muscle Cells
… with superimposed thrombosis is the main cause of unstable angina, myocardial infarction and sudden death. Instability of a plaque depends on the balance between release of extracellular matrix by human coronary artery smooth muscle cells (hCASMCs) and cytokines involved in inflammation. …