Objectives: Fear of falling (FOF) is a common complication after stroke affecting gait and balance performance in individuals with a history of stroke. The current study aimed at determining the influence of the level of FOF on gait and balance performance after chronic stroke. Methods: A total of 76 persons with chronic stroke (including 41 women), who had no cognitive impairment and could wa...

information asymmetry is a negative event that gives manager incentives to use his private information to attempt transferring wealth from investors by overstating financial performance and consequently, stock prices during his tenure at the firm. the manipulations generate agency costs. conservative reporting is a mechanism that reduces the managers’ ability to manipulate and overstate financi...

Speedup learning is a branch of machine learning that studies learning mechanisms for speeding up problem solvers based on problem solving experience. The input to a speedup learner typically consists of observations of prior problem-solving experience, which may include traces of the problem solver’s operations and/or solutions to solved problems. The output is knowledge that the problem solve...

A global existence theorem is given for the periodic solutions of a class of scalar delay-differential equations satisfying a restorative condition. Properties concerning the period and the amplitude of the slowly oscillating periodic solutions are established. The results are applied to a physiological reflex model exhibiting asymmetry of response. It is shown that the model predicts periodic ...

Purpose: Considering the influence of horizontal velocity on many biomechanical characteristics of walking, the purpose of this study was to investigate how inter-lower-limbs local and global asymmetry is influenced by changes in walking speed from slow to fast. Methods: Ground reaction force data and trajectory of attached markers of bilateral lower limbs of 15 right leg-dominant able-bodied ...

The stock exchange, as part of the capital market, in case of necessary conditions, can equip national capital and direct it towards economic growth. A secure environment for investment and information asymmetry are considered to be the features of a good business, in which managers are working towards stockholders. This research seeks to investigate whether information asymmetry of financial m...