OBJECTIVE In a study published in 2002, it was observed that a variable composed by the Functional Independence Measure (FIM) and the trunk control test at admission predicted 66.5% of the FIM at discharge in stroke patients. The objective was to confirm the reproducibility of this predictive model. METHODS Retrospective study of 245 hemiparetic stroke inpatients of the rehabilitation departm...

T he superficial femoral artery (SFA) lies largely within the adductor canal, where it is surrounded by a double layer of fascia of the firm muscles of the thigh. After passing the adductor hiatus, the termination of the adductor canal, the SFA becomes known as the popliteal artery and enters the soft fatty tissue of the popliteal fossa. The SFA is hypothesized to undergo dramatic nonpulsatile ...

خلا صلا ـ ة : عون نم يفيكتلا ةانقلا ردقم ءادلأ اًضرع ثحبلا اذه مدقي LMS ةيئاضفلا ةرفشملا تاعومجملا مظن يف نييئاوه مدختست يتلا ةينمزلا لإل اسر ل لابقتسلال اًدحاو اًيئاوهو . و ةانق يه ةمدختسملا ةيكلسلالا ةانقلا Rayleigh ءاضوضلا دوجوب ىسواجلا (Gaussian) يمجتلا جارخلاا يف يع . و حضوت ثحبلا جئاتن إ دحاو لماعم يذ ةانق ردقم مادختساب زاحنم ريغ ريدقت ىلع لوصحلا ةيناكم ) يراسم نم لكل لإا ةراش .( و وحن ةيف...

We tested two hypotheses, first that exercise training reverses age-related decrements in endothelium-dependent dilation in soleus muscle feed arteries and second that this improved endothelium-dependent dilation is the result of increased nitric oxide (NO) bioavailability due to increased content and phosphorylation of endothelial NO synthase (eNOS) and/or increased antioxidant enzyme content....

Federated identity management (FIM) enables a user to authenticate once and access privileged information across many disparate domains. It is a technology of great promise whose adoption has been disappointing. FIM’s proponents include both governments and leaders in the IT industry. Many explanations have been given for its slow uptake, from disputes over liability assignment for authenticati...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The aim of this study was to verify whether the presence of anosognosia (A) affects the rehabilitative prognosis of hemiplegic subjects with neglect (N). METHODS This study was carried out on 30 patients with left hemiplegia: 15 patients had neglect (group N) and 15 had neglect and anosognosia (group N+A). Mean age was 68.2+/-6.3 in group N (9 men and 6 women) and 72.1+...

The effects of testosterone on functional recovery in stroke patients have not previously been studied. The purpose of the study was to determine the effects of pre-rehabilitation serum testosterone levels on functional recovery in male stroke patients. In total, 111 male stroke patients admitted to our department were enrolled in the study (age: 74 ± 10 years, days from stroke onset: 36 ± 14 d...

Jasperse, Jeffrey L., and M. Harold Laughlin. Vasomotor responses of soleus feed arteries from sedentary and exercise-trained rats. J. Appl. Physiol. 86(2): 441–449, 1999.— Our goals were to determine the nature of endotheliumdependent and -independent vascular responses in isolated soleus feed arteries (SFA) and to test the hypothesis that these responses would be altered by exercise training....

Face recognition is a challenging task in computer vision and pattern recognition. It is well-known that obtaining a low-dimensional feature representation with enhanced discriminatory power is of paramount importance to face recognition. Moreover, recent research has shown that the face images reside on a possibly nonlinear manifold. Thus, how to effectively exploit the hidden structure is a k...