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Showing 1 to 20 of 196 for “"rehabilitative"”.
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Rehabilitative Architecture
The following document is the accumulation of assumptions to engage the architectural qualities of water and courtyards in drug rehabilitation recovery centers to improve patient recovery rates and provide a response to the challenges of addiction. The proposed long-term drug rehabilitation center …
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Loudness models for rehabilitative audiology
This thesis is devoted towards the loudness perception of normal- and hearing-impaired listeners. It starts with a description of a field-test performed with a wearable DSP prototype hearing aid, which aims at restoring loudness perception in the individual hearing-impaired listener with different …
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Towards the Development of an Adaptive Rehabilitative Device
Balance impairments severely affect the health and well-being of patients across multiple population groups. The most common treatment compensates for impaired balance by prescribing canes, which increase support base area, reduce paretic-limb load, and provide somatosensory feedback. However, to …
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CAN REHABILITATIVE PROGRAMS REDUCE THE RECIDIVISM OF JUVENILE OFFENDERS?
… the juvenile justice and questions the rehabilitative function and ability of the system. Various methods of rehabilitation have been used and have been deemed null or effective. If certain practices have been deemed ineffective, are they still in practice, and why? Also, if other …
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Model-based prediction of the benefit with rehabilitative hearing devices
… Modellen für die Vorhersage des Nutzens von rehabilitativen Hörhilfen untersucht. Hörhilfen waren dabei zum einen einkanalige Störgeräuschreduktionen, zum anderen ein simuliertes Cochlea-Implantat. Der erste Nutzen wurde mit dem Acceptable Noise Level Test mit und ohne Störgeräuschreduktion …
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A Community Survey to Identify Rehabilitative Needs in the Home
… be helpful to the community in planning for rehabilitative services. These needs were identified and described from data secured by personal interviews of 56 respondents, using a prearranged schedule. These respondents were 50 years of age and over who lived in and sought hospitalization in …
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Exercise leader interaction analysis of ACSM rehabilitative exercise specialist candidates
Twenty subjects were audio and video taped during their exercise leadership examination. The tapes were used to code the interactions that occurred between the exercise leaders and the participants in the simulated cardiac rehabilitation exercise session using an interaction analysis system …
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Rehabilitative practices in juvenile detention: invoking multiple perspectives to explore implementation
… to a growing body of literature documenting rehabilitative practices in the context of service providers’ daily routine. Specifically, this study examined rehabilitative practices in a juvenile detention via an ethnographic case study cast in a mixed methods framework to address the following …
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Characterization of a series viscous actuator for use in rehabilitative robotics
In this thesis, a series viscous actuator, composed of a viscous rotary damper connected to the output of a geared electric motor, is proposed as a novel solution to the high actuator impedances encountered when using such a motor. High impedances can be undesirable when interacting with the …
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The right to education as a rehabilitative measure in prisons in Uganda
This study examines the right to education as a rehabilitative measure in prisons in Uganda. It elaborates the theoretical and conceptual aspects of education in prisons, rehabilitation, and related concepts. It is anchored on a critical analysis of the historical evolution of rehabilitation …
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Design of a Robotic Equine Forelimb for Testing Load-Bearing Rehabilitative Devices
Because horses are animals of flight, bone fractures in the horses' limbs are quite common. When foals fracture a bone in their leg, the healthy leg is often compromised. During convalescence, the animal tends to overstress the healthy leg in an attempt to relieve the stress on the injured leg. …
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Multi-modal investigation of tendon healing: tendinopathic injury models to novel rehabilitative strategies
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Architecture and Rehabilitation: How Architecture can be Rehabilitative for its Patients, for its City
This building serves as a rehabilitative center for patients in recovery from mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI). It is located on the Columbia Medical School and New York Presbyterian Hospital campus in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City. The building is designed with three …
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Survey of the Diagnostic, Rehabilitative, Educational, and Inter-professional Changes in the Profession of Audiology
<p><strong>Background:</strong> The profession of audiology has undergone dramatic changes since its inception. A survey of audiologists working in a variety of settings was conducted to gain insight into their perspective on how the scope of audiology practice has changed overtime. Participants …
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Inclusive & rehabilitative environment : the application of universal design principles to rehabilitate mainstream society's attitude toward disabilities & access
This "Inclusive and Rehabilitative Environment" dissertation focuses on the application of Universal Design principles and changing attitudes toward people with disabilities in the built environment. The choice of research subject is partly influenced by my disability as a profoundly deaf person …
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Chemical Castration: How a Medical Therapy Became Punishment and the Bioethical Imperative to Return to a Rehabilitative Model for Sex Offenders
… in 1966, at which time the nation favored a rehabilitative approach to criminal justice. In its first thirty years of use, chemical castration proved effective at reducing recidivism rates among one subset of offenders, paraphiliacs, by about fifty percent.
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The effect of music therapy on mood, perceived exertion, and exercise adherence of patients participating in a rehabilitative upper extremity exercise program
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of music therapy on perceived exertion, mood and exercise adherence of patients participating in a group upper extremity exercise program. Twenty two patients ranging in age from 22 to 86 participated in a occupational therapy upper extremity …
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