GEOGRAPHY AFTER FIRST YEAR SCIENCE1

First Year After Stroke

Over time there have been many advancements in acute care management after the event of a stroke. However, stroke episodes continue to have associated complex adverse sequelae that require ongoing attention beyond the initial inpatient acute and rehabilitation phases. Gradual functional decline frequently occurs poststroke and has been associated with inactivity, fatigue, cognitive issues, addi...

After the first year of Rencon

Rencon, CONtest for performance RENdering systems, started in 2002. Since we have not had evaluation methods for such systems whose output is interpreted subjectively, furthermore performance rendering is a research of not only computer science but also musicology, psychology, and cognition, Rencon has roles of (1) pursuing evaluation methods for systems whose output includes subjective issues,...

Five-year survival-after first-ever stroke.

The aim of the study was to analyze the 5-year survival after first-ever ischemic stroke and intracerebral hemorrhage. In this study 836 patients were analyzed with a first-ever stroke admitted at the Department of Neurology Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, from January 1(st) 1997 to December 31(st) 1998. Of these 613 (73,3%) were ischemic strokes and 223 intracerebral hemorrhages (26,7%) Subarac...

Foundations of Data Science1

Visual impairments in the first year after traumatic brain injury.

BACKGROUND This article reviews literature regarding individuals with traumatic brain injury who have vision related impairments up to one year, post-injury. Such impairments may impact rehabilitation of activities of daily living and mobility since vision is integral in much of what one does on a daily basis. METHODS Search of Medline, Ovid, and PubMed was performed using terms including: tr...