Considerably diminished quality of life (QoL) is observed in patients with visual field defects after lesions affecting the visual pathway. But little is known to what extent vision-and health-related QoL impairments are associated with psychological distress. In 24 patients with chronic visual field defects (mean age=56.17±12.36) the National Eye Institute-visual functioning questionnaire (NEI...

BACKGROUND: Lumbar radiological abnormalities (LRA) and trunk muscle weakness are major causes of the low back pain (LBP). We reported that prevalence LRA was approximately 90% in middle- heavyweight-judokas, independent to occurrence LBP. However, weakness, especially rotators, plays a key role LBP heavyweight judokas. OBJECTIVE: To examine strength (TMS) impact on lightweight METHOD: The exte...

Cellular automata (CA) are an abstract model of a distributed dynamical system, as well as of fine-grain parallelism in computing. In a classical cellular automaton, all the nodes execute their operations in parallel and in perfect synchrony. We consider herewith the sequential version of CA, called SCA, and compare those SCA with the classical, parallel CA. In particular, we show that there ar...

Several studies reported high rates of psychiatric commorbidity among methadone patients. We examined the relationships of measures of psychopathology to outcomes of screening urine tests for cocaine, opiates, and benzodiazepines in a sample of 56 methadone patients. They also completed the Symptom Check List-90-Revised (SCL-90-R). The highest scales in the SCL-90-R profile of our patients were...