OBJECTIVE To investigate the feasibility of unsupervised community use of an array-based automated setup functional electrical stimulator for current foot-drop functional electrical stimulation (FES) users. DESIGN Feasibility study. SETTING Gait laboratory and community use. PARTICIPANTS Participants (N=7) with diagnosis of unilateral foot-drop of central neurologic origin (>6mo) who were...

Background: The gait pattern after stroke can be disturbed by foot drop. The conventional approach to the treatment of drop foot gait is a splint, the ankle-foot orthosis (AFO). An active approach is functional electrical stimulation (FES). Functional electrical stimulation (FES) refers to electrical stimulation of muscles in order to improve the impaired motor function. This is achieved by act...

The temperatures of shock-compressed FeS and FeS 2in the pressure ranges 125-170 GPa nd 100-244 GPa, respectively, are reported and used to constrain the melting curves and thermodynamic properties to core pressures. A fit of the Lindemann lawparameters corresponding to the usual functional form for the lattice Grtineisen parameter gives YL = 1.17:L'0.13 andnœ = 0.5_+0.5 for the high-pressure p...

KIT receptor is required for mast cell development, survival, and migration toward its ligand stem cell factor (SCF). Many solid tumors express SCF and this leads to mast cell recruitment to tumors and release of mediators linked to tumor angiogenesis, growth, and metastasis. Here, we investigate whether FES protein-tyrosine kinase, a downstream effector of KIT signaling in mast cells, is requi...

During the operation of cytochrome bc(1), a key enzyme of biological energy conversion, the iron-sulfur head domain of one of the subunits of the catalytic core undergoes a large-scale movement from the catalytic quinone oxidation Q(o) site to cytochrome c(1). This changes a distance between the two iron-two sulfur (FeS) cluster and other cofactors of the redox chains. Although the role and the...

UNLABELLED The presence of estrogen receptor (ER) in breast cancer is a prognostic indicator for both disease-free and overall survival. 16α-(18)F-fluoro-17β-estradiol ((18)F-FES) with PET is a noninvasive test for evaluation of ER expression and has been used for predicting response to endocrine therapy in patients with ER-positive metastatic breast cancer. The purpose of this study was to cor...

As a neuroprosthetic technique, functional electrical stimulation (FES) can restore lost motor performance of impaired patients. Through delivering electrical pulses to target muscles, the joint movement can be eventually elicited. This work presents a real-time FES system which is able to deal with two neuroprosthetic missions: one is estimating FES-induced joint torque with evoked electromyog...

There is a growing interest in the earth abundant and nontoxic iron disulfide (FeS(2)) photovoltaic materials. Here, we report the synthesis of FeS(2) nanoplates with different spectral features which we have associated with thicknesses and crystallization. The structure and crystalline order of ultrathin FeS(2) nanoplates have a strong influence on the carrier lifetime, electronic and optical ...

  this study was carried out from October 1993 through November 1995(26 months).during this period 3472 patients(2743 male and 729 female) with long bone and/or pelvic fracture were admitted in different wards of Shahid Bahonar hospital of Kerman.based on the Gurd criteria,25 of these patients (24 male,1 female) were suffering from fat embolism sundrome(FES).incidence of FES in this study was ...

Falls are common in older subjects and result in loss of confidence and independence. The Falls Efficacy Scale (FES) and the Activities-specific Balance Confidence scale (ABC) were developed in North America to quantify these entities, but contain idiom unfamiliar to an older British population. Neither has been validated in the UK. The FES and the ABC were modified for use within British cultu...