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Towards a reproducible model for subcortical capsular strokes
Following stroke, survivors often experience long lasting upper limb motor impairments that can vary in severity. A prominent category of these upper limb deficits are caused by damage to the capsular region caused by ischemia in the anterior choroidal artery. However, animal research has focused …
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Why does a lightning flash have multiple strokes?
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 1992.
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Load Sharing in the Forearm Muscles Prior to Impact in Tennis Backhand Strokes
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T16:06:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7821012.pdf: 7042367 bytes, checksum: b94fbef308c33391f731e6e40f2e2519 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1978
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The experience and meaning of caring for urban family caregivers of persons with strokes
This ethnographic study examined the experience and meaning of caring as it influences urban family caregivers' (UFCs) capacity to care for persons with stroke within African American family systems. This study was executed within and supported the Framework of Systemic Organization (Friedemann, …
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A Comparative Study of the One-Handed and Two-Handed Backhand Strokes in Tennis
1 PDF file (84 leaves)
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Relationships Between Key Performance Indicators Across Four Swimming Strokes and by Distances in Competitive Swimmers
… on total swim time (s), across four swimming strokes (butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle) of the same swim distance, and within a swimming stroke between swim distances (50m and 100 m). Varsity-caliber competitive swimmers (n=12 males; 19yrs1.4) were recruited. Anthropometric …
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Bow Articulations in the Late Galant (1775–1812): An Analysis of Bow Strokes in Selected Violin Sonatas of Mozart and Beethoven
<p>This study examines the evolving use of the violin bow during the late<em> galant</em> and Classical era (1776-1812) by means of several violin sonatas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven (K. 305, K. 454. Op. 12, No. 1, Op. 96). An analysis of bow articulations supplemented with …
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CAN LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION HELP CONTROL RISK FACTORS IN PATIENTS WITH TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACKS OR MINOR STROKES?: A PILOT STUDY AND PROPOSAL FOR A MULTICENTRE TRIAL
… or stroke, since approximately 15-20 percent of strokes are preceded by a TIA . However, literature suggests that risk factors are poorly controlled in these patients. Two studies in this population found anywhere from 25-60 percent of hypertensives have uncontrolled blood pressure, less than 50 …
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The relation between syllabic stroke intensity and typewritability
… a corresponding increase in the number of strokes typed, over the range investigated. This range was from 3.hBh strokes per syllable to h.285 strokes per syllable.
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Computer-assisted learning of Japanese kanji
… remembering the order, direction, and number of strokes for a given kanji. Using OpenGL and the Open Haptics toolkit, the program allows the user to both see and feel the kanji. Using a PHANTOM haptic device, the user can trace the different strokes using a height map of the kanji or following …
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From brush painting to high relief.
… The aim of this work is to extract the brush strokes from a painting and generate the individual corresponding relief proxies rather than recovering the exact depth map from the painting, which is a tricky computer vision problem, requiring assumptions that are rarely satisfied. The relief …
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Cognition and depression in cerebellar and frontal lobe stroke patients
… frontal lobe (N = 28) versus cerebellar (N = 31) strokes, 2) examine the effects of depression on cognition, and 3) to understand how structural and emotional factors relate to cognitive functioning. Results are consistent with previous findings of impaired executive functioning, verbal fluency, …
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Experiments with impulsive motion of a foil to generate large lift and thrust forces
… flapping foils were moved in swift, one-time strokes to produce large, transient forces in still water to produce propulsive and/or maneuvering forces almost instantaneously. Previous work produced trajectories, characterized by heave and pitch motions, for which the lift and thrust profiles …
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An investigation to determine the kinematic variables associated with the production of topspin in the tennis groundstrokes
… ball when playing forehand and backhand groundstrokes can give a tennis player a tactical advantage in a rally. Recent developments in racket technology and tactical approaches to the game have increased the prevalence of topspin strokes. However, there is a limited scientific knowledge base …
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Stroke in the young adults at the University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka
… Lusaka, Zambia.To study the relationship between strokes in the young adults (15-45 years) and HIV infection.Thirty young adults conveniently chosen who presented with stroke were counselled and had an HIV test done. After a full history and examination, investigation done included RPR, CT, RBS, …
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Anticipation of Movement Outcome Through Perception of Movement Kinematics
… an expert player (performer) who performed four strokes in three types of display (five, 2-d, and point-light). The results showed that the expert players were more accurate and faster in the anticipation than the novice players. Also, the expert players were more accurate and faster when they …
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Interpretation and clustering of handwritten student responses
… is able to capture and interpret digital ink strokes for many types of classroom exercises, including graphs, number lines, and fraction shading problems. By approaching the problem with both online and offline ink interpretation methods, relevant information is extracted from sets of ink …
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The role of the HIV-1 Tat protein in acute stroke: more than just a transactivator of transcription?
… Tat amino acid variants that might distinguish strokes due to HIV-associated vasculopathy from other mechanisms of stroke. Methods: A case-control study was performed on 58 Subtype-C HIV-infected individuals with acute ischaemic stroke and 71 HIV-1 Subtype-C-infected non-stroke controls. …
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Natural error correction techniques for sketch recognition
… select parts of the sketch, label the selected strokes, erase by scribbling over strokes, and even overwrite errors. Letting users provide feedback to the sketch recognizer helps improve the accuracy of the sketch as well as allows the sketch recognizer's performance to improve over time.
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