OBJECTIVE This study investigated whether affording objects with different levels of functional support would have an impact on reaching performance in patients after cerebrovascular accident (CVA) and in adults who were neurologically intact. Reaching performance was quantitatively analyzed, using several kinematic variables. METHOD Two groups, 14 participants after CVA and 24 age-matched ad...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Atopic cough (AC) is an established clinical entity in Japan, in which patients present with a chronic persistent non-productive cough. Exhaled nitric oxide (NO) is a biomarker of eosinophilic airway inflammation. The present study examined whether exhaled NO levels were increased in AC in comparison with cough variant asthma (CVA) and bronchial asthma (BA). METHODS C...

Chronic cough lasting 8 weeks or more often seems to be an intractable problem in childhood. Toxocara infection is associated with an increased prevalence of airway symptoms and may be the possible aetiological agent of chronic cough. Of 425 children aged 2-17 years with chronic cough who were investigated for toxocariasis and the distribution of bronchial asthma (BA), cough variant asthma (CVA...

We study mathematical aspects of dynamic hedging of Credit Valuation Adjustment (CVA) in a portfolio of OTC financial derivatives. Since the sub-prime crisis, counterparty risk and wrong-way risk are a crucial issue in connection with valuation and risk management of credit derivatives. In this work we first derive a general, model free equation for the dynamics of the CVA of a portfolio of OTC...

Social accountability is increasingly invoked as a way of improving health services. This article presents a theory-driven qualitative study of the context, mechanisms and outcomes of a social accountability program, Citizen Voice and Action (CVA), implemented by World Vision (WV) in Zambia. Primary data were collected between November 2013 and January 2014. It included in-depth interviews and ...

OBJECTIVE The Arnadóttir OT-ADL Neurobehavioral Evaluation (A-ONE) is a standardized assessment that links performance in activities of daily living (ADL) to neurobehavioral impairments. This study tested the construct validity of the A-ONE. METHOD From two hospitals in Iceland, 42 patients between 45 and 87 years of age who had sustained either a right or a left cerebrovascular accident (CVA...

BACKGROUND Older adults with cerebrovascular accident (CVA) show evidence of auditory and speech perception problems. In present study, it was examined whether these problems are due to impairments of concurrent auditory segregation procedure which is the basic level of auditory scene analysis and auditory organization in auditory scenes with competing sounds. METHODS Concurrent auditory segr...

Between 1970 and 1977, 69 children with newly diagnosed stage III or IV neuroblastoma were treated with pulses of either cyclophosphamide and vincristine (CV) (n = 23), or cyclophosphamide, vincristine, and adriamycin (CVA) (n = 46). The 'complete' and partial response rates were 35 and 22% to CV, and 43 and 26% to CVA. For 'complete' responders the median time to relapse was 18 months for thos...

OBJECTIVE To compare the incidence rate of hospitalized myocardial infarctions (MIs) and cerebrovascular accidents (CVAs) in subjects with and without neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD). METHODS A retrospective database cohort study was performed in subjects with neovascular AMD and controls matched for age, sex, geography, and enrollment duration. Healthcare claims for the st...