The aim of the present study was an in-depth analysis of fine motor skills of the hands in elderly women from different socio-cultural backgrounds. The research also included analysis of the associations of age with the variables assessing right- and left-hand motor skills and its effect on hand performance asymmetry. The study examined 486 women over the age of 60. The study measured dominant ...

A three-year prospective, longitudinal, multi-school study was undertaken to investigate if either handedness, eyedness, their same or opposite side status (unilateral or crossed hand-eye dominance) was related to specific aspects of elementary school academic performance. Some 540 subjects, in 1 through 5 grades comprised the initial group. Testing on the reading sub-test of the Iowa Test of B...

Introduction: In this study the objective was to determine effects of complex exercises in hemsball on attention and coordinative skills among adolescents with hearing loss.Method: 20 hearing-impaired students were divided into two groups as experimental control. A training program consisting applied loss for one hour, three days per week, a period 10 weeks. Bourdon Attention Test, Simple React...

Motorcycle is a complex machine, and its riding requires mental alertness along with mind body coordination. On the road, motorcyclists are subjected to excessive level of noise (> 90 dBA). High exposure can impair motor task functioning. The assessment (dexterity) under has not been examined formerly as well their psychological health profiling. Therefore, this study aimed investigate effec...

Background Acute ruptures of the ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) of the thumb are common injuries in sports. Surgical repair has yielded excellent results and high return-to-sport (RTS) rates in elite athletes. Purpose To determine (1) the RTS rate in Major League Baseball (MLB) players following thumb UCL repair, (2) postoperative career length and games played per season, (3) pre- and posto...

The robust speech recognition system available for all environments has become a hotspot in speech research. The environment adaptive methods play an important part in improving the system robustness including PMC. In this paper, PMC is investigated deeply and further developed to achieve the better performance. In general noisy environments, the channel distortion and noise corruption are both...

The capability of speech understanding can be tested in the form of sentences. This report describes the origin of a new test in the Czech language to evaluate the sentence intelligibility with the presence of the competitive disturb noise. The results of the test depend on the test project, sentence material, competitive signal, test evaluation, and hearing conditions. Pilot results were obtai...

purpose: the traditional view regards limb selection in reaching a hemispheric specialization and an permanent biological phenomenon. however, recent studies have questioned this idea. instead, they suggest that the task conditions is also an effective factor. the present study includes two experiments in right and left handed children examining the effect of object location as a task condition...