OBJECTIVE To describe the manual ability of adolescents with cerebral palsy and to investigate the relationship of manual ability with daily activities. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SUBJECTS Ninety-four adolescents with cerebral palsy, aged 12-16 years. METHODS Manual ability was assessed according to the Manual Ability Classification System (MACS) and the ABILHAND-Kids. Daily activities...

Visibility degradation is a pervasive and urgent environmental problem in China. The occurrence of low visibility events is frequent in the North China Plain, where the aerosol loading is quite high and aerosols are strongly hygroscopic. A parameterization of light extinction (Kex) for low visibilities on hazy days is proposed in this paper, based on visibility, relative humidity (RH), aerosol ...

Study of the effect of atmospheric relative humity (RH) on the adsorption of paraformaldehyde-generated formaldehyde gas on various surfaces and the effect of the adsorbed formaldehyde on the death rate of bacterial spores showed that increasing the RH caused a corresponding increase of formaldehyde levels on all surfaces. The amount peaked at 83% RH. The levels obtained at 100% RH were slightl...

ashworth and modified ashworth scales are the most widely used tests to assess the severity of muscle spasticity. these clinical scales offer qualitative and subjective information and consequently there are issues concerning reliability when two or more clinicians are involved in assessment of spasticity. this article presents the result of a study assessing inter-rater reliability of the orig...

background: heart failure is a severe chronic disease and has a negative impact on the health-related quality of life (hrql). in addition to preventing disease progress, one of the important goals in heart failure treatment is to improve the patient’s quality of life. this study is aimed to compare three generic to specific quality of life instruments that are used in cardiac rehabilitation set...

conclusions results of the current study showed that at preschool stage girls had higher performance compared to boys in fine motor skills and at preschool stage boys had significantly higher performance compared to girls in gross motor skills. hence, it seems to be necessary to train preschool authorities in teaching fine and gross motor skills, considering the gender. patients and methods the...

In applications of public-key encryption schemes, anonymity(key-privacy) as well as security(data-privacy) is useful and widely desired. In this paper some new and general concepts in public-key encryption, i.e., “master-key anonymity”, “relevant master-key anonymity” and “key-integrity”, are introduced(the former two are defined for IBE schemes and the latter one is for any public-key encrypti...

TRAVIS L. HEDMAN, PT*; CHARLES D. QUICK, OTR/L†; REGINALD L. RICHARD, MS, PT‡; EVAN M. RENZ, MD§; STEVEN V. FISHER, MD¥; ELIZABETH A. RIVERS, OTR, RN¶; JAMES C. CASEY, MOT, OTR/L**; KEVIN K. CHUNG, MD††; PETER A. DESOCIO, DO‡‡; WILLIAM S. DEWEY, PT, CHT, OCS§§; JAIME L. DROOK, OTR/L¥¥; NICOLE J. LEHNERZ, OTR/L¶¶; CHRISTOPHER V. MAANI, MD***; ALFREDO E. MONTALVO, MSN, BSN, APN†††; BETH A. SHIELD...

item Frequency Percentage With scores ≥4.50 Type of cea No 0 0 Yes 216 100 Description of intervention No 1 0.5 Partial 1 0.5 Yes 214 99 Description of comparator No 13 6.0 Partial 83 38 Yes 120 56 With scores 4.00–4.49 Target population No 18 8.3 Yes 198 92 Time horizon No 114 53 Yes 102 47 Perspective No 81 38 Partial 4 1.9 Yes 131 61 How denominator was derived No 17 7.9 Yes 199 92 cea ratio...