Background and objective: Agro-healing (care farming) has developed into a new professional area belonging to the field of social horticulture. programs are horticultural activities that serve as rehabilitation training for therapeutic treatment physical mental disorders, have caught attention scholars in medicine psychology. Developmental disabilities reduce cognitive function; people with dev...

The proportional diierentiation model provides the network operator with thètuning knobs' for adjusting the per-hop QoS ratios between classes, independent of the class loads. This paper applies the proportional model in the diierentiation of queueing delays, and investigates appropriate packet scheduling mechanisms. The second part of this work 2] considers the corresponding loss rate diierent...

OBJECTIVE To quantify visual discrimination, space-motion, and object-form perception in patients with Parkinson disease dementia (PDD), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), and Alzheimer disease (AD). METHODS The authors used a cross-sectional study to compare three demented groups matched for overall dementia severity (PDD: n = 24; DLB: n = 20; AD: n = 23) and two age-, sex-, and education-matc...

Parkinson's disease (PD) related dementia (PDD) develops in up to 80% of PD patients. The present study was performed to further unravel the underlying pathophysiological mechanisms by applying a new analysis approach that uses an atlas-based MEG beamformer to provide a detailed anatomical mapping of cortical rhythms and functional interactions. Importantly, we used the phase lag index (PLI) as...

cis- and trans-diamminedichloroplatinum(II) (PDD) produced a DNA cross-linking effect in mouse leukemia L1210 cells, which was demonstrable after subtoxic treatments with the DNA alkaline elution technique. Cross-linking effects developed following treatments with concentrations as low as 1 micron for cis-PDD and 5 micron for trans-PDD, which permitted over 80% survival of colony-forming abilit...

Pachydermodactyly (PDD) is a rare, benign form of digital fibromatosis and this is characterized by asymptomatic soft tissue swelling that affects the lateral aspects of the proximal interphalangeal (PIP) joints of the fingers. Although the etiology of PDD is unknown, the possibility of repetitive minor trauma by habitual or compulsive habits of interlacing the fingers or rubbing of the fingers...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Previous studies on the clinical and pathological manifestations of Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD) have reported findings more similar to dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) than to Alzheimer's disease (AD). The aim of this study was to investigate the neuropsychiatric symptoms of PDD compared to DLB and AD. METHODS We conducted a retrospective case-control study on 125...

Photodynamic diagnosis (PDD) is a practical tool currently used in surgical operation of aggressive brain tumors, such as glioblastoma. PDD is achieved by a photon-induced physicochemical reaction which is induced by excitation of protoporphyrin IX (PpIX) exposed to light. Fluorescence-guided gross-total resection has recently been developed in PDD, where 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) or its este...

Introduction Pervasive developmental disorders (PDD) are characterized by social and communication deficits, repetitive and stereotyped behaviours and onset before 3 years of age [1]. Prevalence of PDD has increased over the past 10 years and now it is ranging from 60 to 70 per 10.000 [2], with a male-to-female ratio of 3-4:1; these data do not include the Rett disorder. The dramatic increment ...

This paper presents three new computational methods for calculating design sensitivities of statistical moments and reliability of high-dimensional complex systems subject to random input. The first method represents a novel integration of the polynomial dimensional decomposition (PDD) of a multivariate stochastic response function and score functions. Applied to the statistical moments, the me...