In Pursuit of Slowness

Slowness in schizophrenia.

Nufferno Speed Test In this investigation we have used only the Nufferno speed test, which is designed to measure speed as distinct from general level of intelligence. It consists of 19 problems of the Thurstone letterseries type in each of which the patient is presented with series of letters and is required to add at the end of the series the letter which is appropriate to the sequence (Furne...

Slowness Surface Wave Surface

Slowness of movement in Parkinson's disease.

Loss of the ability to move is the most characteristic and fundamental motor deficit in Parkinson’s disease. Parkinsonian patients exhibit akinesia (inability to initiate movement), hypokinesia (reduced movement), and bradykinesia (slowness of the movement itself). (All these phenomena will be subsumed under the title akinesia.) Rigid muscles may contribute to akinesia, but they are not the cau...

www.ssoar.info Slowness logistics

Works conducted in logistics management mostly emphasize the importance of a ‘time compression’ strategy to develop a sustainable competitive advantage. At the level of the design, manufacturing or distribution of products to consumers, high-speed orientation is now considered to be a universal source of performance. Drawing from current developments in the French food retailing industry, the p...

Slowness of movement in melancholic depression.

We studied 10 subjects each with melancholic depression evidencing significant motor retardation (RM), Parkinson's disease (PD) with bradykinesia, and normal healthy controls (NC), matched closely for age and gender, on measurements of motor function and depression, and their performance of simple and complex ballistic movements. The simple movements involved the execution of 10 degrees, 20 deg...