PRINCIPLES To evaluate the validity and feasibility of a novel photography-based home assessment (PhoHA) protocol, as a possible substitute for on-site home assessment (OsHA). METHODS A total of 20 patients aged ≥65 years who were hospitalised in a rehabilitation centre for musculoskeletal disorders affecting mobility participated in this prospective validation study. For PhoHA, occupational ...

OBJECTIVE  To create international symphysis-fundal height standards derived from pregnancies of healthy women with good maternal and perinatal outcomes. DESIGN  Prospective longitudinal observational study. SETTING  Eight geographically diverse urban regions in Brazil, China, India, Italy, Kenya, Oman, United Kingdom, and United States. PARTICIPANTS  Healthy, well nourished pregnant wome...

Anthropometric parameters serve as useful adjuncts to other observations in evaluating intrauterine as well as infantile growth and development. Determination of measurements with regard to Head Circumference of infants during first year of life is important for the assessment of physical growth. Range of anthropometric measurements in each parameter is different in different races. Earlier rep...

We studied the between-therapist reliability and the validity of four instruments in measuring lumbar spine curvature and pelvic tilt. The four instruments and their measurements were 1) a tape measure to measure the change in lumbar curvature during trunk flexion; 2) a gravity goniometer to measure pelvic angle and lumbar curvature during stance, trunk flexion, and trunk extension; 3) a parall...

BACKGROUND Using measures of explicit attitudes, physical activity status has been established as a factor that reduces the stigma able-bodied people hold towards people with physical disabilities. This phenomenon is called the exerciser stereotype. However, whether the exerciser stereotype exists when using measures of implicit attitudes remains unknown. OBJECTIVE The aims of this study were...

[Purpose] The purpose of this research was to verify the reliability and validity of measuring respiration movement using a wearable strain sensor (WSS) which has been developed newly for clinical objective assessment. [Subjects and Methods] The 21 healthy male students were advised to conduct a breathing movement using measuring tape (MT) and WSS respectively, which was the measured at four lo...

ported elsewhere. Burkhardt et al. (4) collected 791 urine specimens and compared the results obtained by refractometer, urinometer, and reagent stick. They reported that 90% of the stick measurements were within 0.005 units of the corresponding urinometer results; correction for pH modestly improved the results. Zack (5) reported a similar degree of correlation. In both of these studies the au...

Current research in Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) shows improvements in performance for a wide variety of Information Retrieval systems. Researchers use experimental methods to determine the appropriate number of dimensions for a given application. We propose the development of a theoretical foundation for determination of this parameter for LSI. We assert that LSI’s use of higher orders of co...