121 research outputs found
Rehabilitation services for persons affected by stroke in Jordan
The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions stroke survivors have of the rehabilitation services received by them in the Jordanian community. A secondary aim was to explore the impact of culture on providing appropriate services for stroke survivors.Eighteen stroke survivors were recruited from an outpatient stroke rehabilitation programme. All 18 participants had been discharged from hospital for between one and six months. Semi-structured interviews were performed, either in the physiotherapy outpatient clinic where the affected person was attending a clinic or in their homes. Transcription of interviews carried out in Arabic and thematic analysis was also carried out in that language by transcribers who were fluent in Arabic and English, using a back-translation method. Necessary measures were taken to ensure the accuracy, reliability and validity of the data collection and analysis. Following thematic analysis, themes arising out of the data included physiotherapy and occupational therapy support in the community, out-patient rehabilitation clinic services, community clinic services and support from families, friends and neighbours. Participants expressed satisfaction with their therapists, but there were large areas of unmet rehabilitation need for stroke survivors in the Jordanian community such as a limited availability of occupational therapy services, insufficient amount of therapy services and poor medical support. This study presents a unique contribution to knowledge relating to the experiences of stroke survivors in a developing country, and also shows how care systems are very dependent on cultural contexts, cultural beliefs and practises.DOI 10.5463/DCID.v22i1.18</p
Parkin protects against LRRK2 G2019S mutant-induced dopaminergic neurodegeneration in Drosophila
10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2375-09.2009Journal of Neuroscience293611257-11262JNRS
Analysis of the vector form factors and with light-cone QCD sum rules
In this article, we calculate the vector form factors and
within the framework of the light-cone QCD sum rules
approach. The numerical values of the are compatible with the
existing theoretical calculations, the central value of the ,
, is in excellent agreement with the values from the chiral
perturbation theory and lattice QCD. The values of the are
very large comparing with the theoretical calculations and experimental data,
and can not give any reliable predictions. At large momentum transfers with
, the form factors and can
either take up the asymptotic behavior of or decrease more
quickly than , more experimental data are needed to select the
ideal sum rules.Comment: 22 pages, 16 figures, revised version, to appear in Eur. Phys. J.
Stress-induced alterations in parkin solubility promote parkin aggregation and compromise parkin's protective function
10.1093/hmg/ddi413Human Molecular Genetics14243885-389
Quantum dynamics of phase transitions in broken symmetry field theory
We perform a detailed numerical investigation of the dynamics of broken
symmetry field theory in 1+1 dimensions using a
Schwinger-Dyson equation truncation scheme based on ignoring vertex
corrections. In an earlier paper, we called this the bare vertex approximation
(BVA). We assume the initial state is described by a Gaussian density matrix
peaked around some non-zero value of and .Comment: 28 pages, 21 figures; ver 2 -- additional comments on the nature of
the phase transition in 1+1 dimension
Highly-parallelized simulation of a pixelated LArTPC on a GPU
The rapid development of general-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU) is allowing the implementation of highly-parallelized Monte Carlo simulation chains for particle physics experiments. This technique is particularly suitable for the simulation of a pixelated charge readout for time projection chambers, given the large number of channels that this technology employs. Here we present the first implementation of a full microphysical simulator of a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) equipped with light readout and pixelated charge readout, developed for the DUNE Near Detector. The software is implemented with an end-to-end set of GPU-optimized algorithms. The algorithms have been written in Python and translated into CUDA kernels using Numba, a just-in-time compiler for a subset of Python and NumPy instructions. The GPU implementation achieves a speed up of four orders of magnitude compared with the equivalent CPU version. The simulation of the current induced on 10^3 pixels takes around 1 ms on the GPU, compared with approximately 10 s on the CPU. The results of the simulation are compared against data from a pixel-readout LArTPC prototype
Cultural implications for physiotherapy education The Bethlehem experience
Available from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:DXN012305 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreSIGLEGBUnited Kingdo
The cast of molecular characters in Parkinson's disease: Felons, conspirators, and suspects
10.1111/j.1749-6632.2003.tb07465.xAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences99180-9
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