OBJECTIVE To investigate changes in walking activity and endurance after interdisciplinary rehabilitation in people with Parkinson disease (PD). DESIGN Randomized controlled trial. SETTING Clinic, home, and community. PARTICIPANTS Mild to moderate PD (Hoehn and Yahr stage 2-3). INTERVENTIONS Three experimental conditions lasting 6 weeks in duration: (1) no active rehabilitation; (2) 3.0...

In preclinical studies and clinical dose-ranging trials, the Jonckheere-Terpstra test is widely used in the assessment of dose-response relationships. Hewett and Spurrier (1979) presented a two-stage analog of the test in the context of large sample sizes. In this paper, we propose an exact test based on Simon's minimax and optimal design criteria originally used in one-arm phase II designs bas...

REASONS FOR PERFORMING STUDY Standardised exercise tests are used for fitness evaluation of sports horses. Standards are described for Thoroughbreds and Standardbreds; however, limited information is available for Warmbloods. OBJECTIVES To establish normative standards of performance parameters and heart rate recovery (HRR) in Warmblood riding horses of different levels of fitness using a sub...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between dynamic hyperinflation and dyspnea and to clarify the characteristics of dyspnea during the 6-minute walk test (6MWT) in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients. Twenty-three subjects with stable moderate chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (age 73.8±5.8 years, all male) took part in this study. During the 6MWT, vent...

BACKGROUND Environmental characteristics may be associated with patterns of physical activity. However, the development of instruments to measure perceived characteristics of the local environment is still at a comparatively early stage, and published instruments are not necessarily suitable for application in all settings. We therefore developed and established the test-retest reliability of a...

BACKGROUND The importance of gastric cancer, considering its progressive course and high mortality is one of the reasons we pay attention to patients' survival and the significance of this study was to estimate survival and determine the effective factors on patients with gastric cancer. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, all patients with gastric cancer who underwent surgery in Shahid Be...

Automation Systems Engineering Projects typically involve the cooperation of a set of different engineering disciplines and therefore heavily rely on systems integration approaches. However, the configuration of the underlying technical integration platform is a complex and error-prone task requiring high manual effort checking whether the integration of an engineering tool is compatible with a...

Until recently, it has been impossible to determine which patients with resected stage I lung cancer are among the 30% who will die of metastatic cancer within 5 years of surgery. Bioinformatics tools applied to lung cancer expression profiling data have identified prognostic genes that have been used to develop predictor models, but thus far, these models have not been incorporated into routin...

introduction: papsmear test has been performed by public health services since 1991 in iran.   although cervix cancer is reported 9 th cause of death in four studied counrties in 1999, unfortunately detection rate of smear test is reported very low.  the aim of this study was to determine the cause of low sensitivity of papsmear in hamadan province- north west of iran. materials and methods : 1...