PURPOSE The study was done to identify factors influencing the sleep of elderly women. METHODS Data were collected by questionnaires from 203 elderly women in Seoul and Gyeong-gi province. Measures were physical health state, family support, life satisfaction, sleep, depression, and quality of life. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficients, t-test, ANOVA, and stepwise multipl...

In this paper, we present our on-going grammar development effort towards a linguistically precise and broad coverage grammar for Mandarin Chinese in the framework of HPSG. The use of LinGO Grammar Matrix facilitates the quick start of the development. We propose a series of linguistic treatments for a list of interesting phenomena. The analyses are largely compatible with the HPSG framework. I...

Purpose Falling is a major health problem in community-dwelling elderly individuals. The aim of the present study was to conduct a prospective investigation to evaluate the accuracy of the Timed Up and Go Test (TUGT), 4-meter walking test, and grip strength test to screen for the risk of falls and to determine a cutoff point to be used clinically. Patients and methods This was a prospective s...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Developing a practical fall risk assessment tool to predict the occurrence of falls in the primary care setting is important because investigators have reported deterioration of physical function associated with falls. Researchers have used many performance tests to predict the occurrence of falls. These performance tests predict falls and also assess physical function an...

OBJECTIVE Schizophrenia is associated with deficits in executive control and associative learning. In the present study, we investigated the effect of associative learning during a Go/NoGo task in healthy controls subjects and patients with schizophrenia. METHODS Thirty patients with schizophrenia and 30 age-and-gender matched healthy control subjects performed 15 blocks of training and 3 blo...

This study examines the effect of response readiness on the stopping of motor responses. Thirteen subjects performed a primary task requiring a speeded choice reaction on go trials and response inhibition on nogo trials. An occasional cue informed subjects that a nogo trial was imminent but left them uncertain about the number of go trials separating the cue and the upcoming nogo trial. This se...

Emotional image recognition of facial expression is an important and widely used measure and method for study of emotions. Standardized emotional image system carries out matching of emotional valence and emotional arousal towards emotional stimulation materials, increases possibility of equal positive and negative intensity from emotion elicitation and makes experimental results possess higher...

OBJECTIVE To identify the effect of chair seat height and turning direction on the Timed Up and Go scores of patients after stroke. DESIGN A cross-sectional study. SETTING A geriatric day hospital in Hong Kong. SUBJECTS Twenty-five patients with sub-acute stroke. METHODS The time taken to complete the Timed Up and Go test with various chair seat heights (65%, 90% and 115% of each subjec...