This study investigated how acoustic cues signal the different syntactic structures of ambiguous sentences in language production. Acoustic cues such as intensity, f0, pause and duration vary according to different syntactic boundaries. Intensity of post-boundary syllable, f0 reset range of syllables around the corresponding target boundary, pause, and final lengthening of preboundary syllable ...

BACKGROUND/AIM Physical function decline in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients has been a popular area of investigation in the last decade. It has been shown that lower levels of physical function in CKD results in poor outcomes. Nevertheless, nephrology practice does not include routine assessment of physical function. The aim of the present study is to elucidate which physical function ass...

Universal timed concurrent constraint programming (utcc) is a generalization of timed ccp (tcc) aiming at modeling mobile reactive systems. In this paper we formalize a general framework for data flow analyses of utcc programs by abstract interpretation techniques. The abstract semantics we propose is compositional allowing us to reduce the complexity of data flow analyses. Furthermore it is pa...

[Purpose] The purpose of the present study was to observe changes in physical activity (PA) from before surgery to after discharge among elderly patients with gastrointestinal cancer and to examine the relationships between PA, function, and physique after discharge in these patients. [Subjects and Methods] The study participants were 18 elderly patients who underwent surgical treatment for gas...

Background: Parkinson Disease (PD) is characterized by motor and non-motor symptoms that affect patients’ functions, especially while performing dual tasks--a critical factor in everyday living. However, many controversies exist about the benefits of dual-task training in patients with PD. Objectives: This study assessed the efficacy of motor and cognitive dual-task training in improving balanc...

This paper offers an overview of the emerging domain of mobile governance as an offspring of the broader landscape of e-governance. Mobile governance initiatives have been deployed everywhere in parallel to the development of crowdsourced, open source software applications that facilitate the collection, aggregation, and dissemination of both information and data coming from different sources: ...

Participation in regular physical activity has a variety of health benefits including increased levels of function and independence for people who are ageing. The inclusion of motor learning principles into exercise programs is proposed to increase functional benefits. The presence of these principles in the Feldenkrais Method (FM) suggests this may be a beneficial program for the ageing popula...

OBJECTIVE To study the effectiveness of simply-performed balancing exercises in fall prevention. DESIGN Pre- and post-trial. SETTING University hospital from January 2009 to May 2010. PARTICIPANTS Elderly with falls in the previous year. INTERVENTION Simple balancing exercise was performed at home every day and was recorded in the booklet. MEASUREMENTS New falling events and a battery...

BACKGROUND The Timed Up and Go Test (TUG Test) has previously been described as a reliable tool to evaluate objective functional impairment in patients with degenerative disc disease. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess the minimum clinically important difference (MCID) of the TUG Test. METHODS The TUG Test (measured in seconds) was correlated with validated patient-reported outco...