BACKGROUND The increasing attention on functional assessments in medical and vocational rehabilitation requires a focus change for the general practitioners (GP) into paying attention to patient resources, possibilities and coping instead of symptoms, problems and limitations. The GPs report difficulties in performing the requested explicit functional assessments. The purpose of this study was ...

BACKGROUND Social participation is challenging for people with visual impairments. As a result, on average, social networks are smaller, romantic relationships formed later, educational achievements lower, and career prospects limited. Adolescents on their way towards achieving these goals may benefit from the knowledge and experience of adults who have overcome similar difficulties. Therefore,...

The objective of this review is to evaluate treatments for homonymous visual field defects (HVFDs). We distinguish between three treatments: visual restoration training (VRT), optical aids, and compensatory training. VRT is both the most ambitious and controversial approach, aiming to restore portions of the lost visual field. While early studies suggested that VRT can reduce the visual field d...

Atopic dermatitis (AD) not only changes the life of the affected child but also affects the physical, social and emotional functioning of parents. The aim of the study was to assess the quality of life of parents of children with AD and to correlate it with the disease severity. It was a cross sectional, self-administered questionnaire study performed in parents of children with AD attending de...

There is a growing need to understand the factors that influence an older adult's decision to be more (or less) physically active and the reasons behind those decisions. This exploratory field study was undertaken to begin identifying potential predictors of the leisure and physical activity patterns of seniors. In all, 119 Canadian older adults (M age 65.9 years) were interviewed in depth by t...

Activity recognition in sport is an attractive field for computer vision research. Game, player and team analysis are of great interest and research topics within this field emerge with the goal of automated analysis. As the execution of same activities differs between players and activities cannot be modeled by local description alone, additional information is needed. Inspired by the concept ...

Failure reproduction and fault isolation are key activities in the post-release phase. As we develop techniques to exploit field data to accelerate and improve these activities, we must be aware of the impact of field data integrity. This work scopes and provides details about a study we are conducting to quantify the impact of users’ contribution and filtering processes in the integrity of fie...

We immobilize hydrolases such as lipase and chitinase on superparamagnetic particles, which are subjected to a rotational magnetic field, and measure the activities of the enzymes. We find that the activities of lipase and chitinase increase in the rotational magnetic field compared to those in the absence of a magnetic field and reach maximum at certain frequencies. The present methodology may...

OBJECTIVES Emergency medicine (EM) faculty often aim to improve resident performance by enhancing the quality and delivery of feedback. The acceptance and integration of external feedback is influenced by multiple factors. However, it is interpreted through the "lens" of the learner's own self-assessment. Ideally, following an educational activity with feedback, a learner should be able to gene...

Knowing tourists’ individual preferences provides the possibility to offer personalized tours. The challenge is to capture these preferences using a mobile device. During a field study in Görlitz three methods for elicitation were evaluated by computing the correlation between the tourists’ and the algorithms’ rankings. The results served to clarify fundamental questions en route to develop a p...