BACKGROUND We propose the use of serious games to screen for abnormal cognitive status in situations where it may be too costly or impractical to use standard cognitive assessments (eg, emergency departments). If validated, serious games in health care could enable broader availability of efficient and engaging cognitive screening. OBJECTIVE The objective of this work is to demonstrate the fe...

BACKGROUND C5 nerve palsy is a known complication of cervical spine surgery. The development and etiology of this complication are not completely understood. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether rotation of the cervical spinal cord predicts the development of a C5 palsy. METHODS We performed a retrospective review of prospectively collected spine registry data as well as ...

This study examined the perceptual-weighting strategies and performance-audibility functions of 11 moderately hearing-impaired (HI) children, 11 age-matched normal-hearing (NH) children, 11 moderately HI adults, and 11 NH adults. The purpose was to (a) determine the perceptual-weighting strategies of HI children relative to the other groups and (b) determine the audibility required by each grou...

We present the results of a study of the two-point correlation function for a sample of field galaxies taken from the CNOC cluster survey. The sample consists of 144 galaxies within a contiguous region of space subtending 225 square arcminutes. The objects have r-band magnitudes 17.0 ≤ r ≤ 21.7 and redshifts 0.21 ≤ z ≤ 0.53. The median redshift of the sample is z̄ = 0.36. The real space correlat...

Many systems of interacting elements can be conceptualized as networks, where network nodes represent the elements and network ties represent interactions between the elements. In systems where the underlying network evolves, it is useful to determine the points in time where the network structure changes significantly as these may correspond to functional change points. We propose a method for...

Results. The selfassessed symptoms of the Dutch FMS patients seem to be valid and are comparable with those of American patients. No association between disease duration and number of self-reported symptoms was found. An association between self-reported pain and mean tender point score was lacking for patients with disease of shorter duration and was weak for patients with disease of longer du...