61 research outputs found
Performance of Sweetpotato for Bioregenerative Life Support
Sweetpotato was successfully grown to harvest maturity in a large-scale atmospherically-closed controlled environment chamber. Yield of edible biomass and capacity for contributing to air revitalization and water recovery were documented. Yield was slightly less than that found in smaller-scale studies, but this is not unusual (Wheeler 1999). Continued work is suggested to improve control of storage root initiation, bulking and vine growth
Sweet potato for closed ecological life support systems using the nutrient film technique
Sweet potatoes were grown hydroponically using the nutrient film technique (NFT) in support of the Closed Ecological Life Support System (CELSS) program. Experiments in the greenhouse with the TI-155 sweet potato cultivar produced up to 1790 g/plant of fresh storage roots. Studies with both TI-155 and Georgia Jet cultivars resulted in an edible biomass index of approximately 60 percent, with edible biomass linear growth rates of 12.1 to 66.0 g m(exp -2)d(exp -1) in 0.05 to 0.13 sq meters in 105 to 130 days. Additional experimental results are given. All studies indicate good potential for sweet potatoes in CELSS
What do people with aphasia want to be able to say? A content analysis of words identified as personally relevant by people with aphasia
Background
Word finding is a common difficulty for people with aphasia. Targeting words that are relevant
to the individual could maximise the usefulness and impact of word finding therapy.
Aims
To provide insights into words that people with aphasia perceive to be personally relevant.
Methods and procedures
100 people with aphasia were each asked to identify 100 words that would be particularly
important for them to be able to say. Two speech and language therapist researchers conducted
a quantitative content analysis of the words selected. The words were coded into a
framework of topics and subtopics. The frequency with which different words and topics
were selected was then calculated.
Outcomes and results
100 participants representing 20 areas of the United Kingdom ranged in age from 23 to 85
years. Word finding difficulties ranged from mild to severe. The sample of 9999 words
selected for practice included 3095 different words in 27 topics. The majority of words
selected (79.4%) were from the topics âfood and drinkâ (30.6%), ânature and gardeningâ
(10.3%), âentertainmentâ (9.4%), âplacesâ (7.3%), âpeopleâ (6.7%), âhouseâ (6.5%), âclothesâ
(5.2%) and âtravelâ (3.5%). The 100 words types chosen with the greatest frequency were
identified. These account for 27 percent of the 9999 words chosen by the participants.
Discussion
Personally relevant vocabulary is unique to each individual and is likely to contain specific or
specialist words for which material needs to be individually prepared. However there is
some commonality in the words chosen by people with aphasia. This could inform pre-prepared materials for use in word finding therapy from which personally relevant words
could be selected for practice
Clinical and cost effectiveness of computer treatment for aphasia post stroke (Big CACTUS): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
Background
Aphasia affects the ability to speak, comprehend spoken language, read and write. One third of stroke survivors experience aphasia. Evidence suggests that aphasia can continue to improve after the first few months with intensive speech and language therapy, which is frequently beyond what resources allow. The development of computer software for language practice provides an opportunity for self-managed therapy. This pragmatic randomised controlled trial will investigate the clinical and cost effectiveness of a computerised approach to long-term aphasia therapy post stroke.
Methods/Design
A total of 285 adults with aphasia at least four months post stroke will be randomly allocated to either usual care, computerised intervention in addition to usual care or attention and activity control in addition to usual care. Those in the intervention group will receive six months of self-managed word finding practice on their home computer with monthly face-to-face support from a volunteer/assistant. Those in the attention control group will receive puzzle activities, supplemented by monthly telephone calls.
Study delivery will be coordinated by 20 speech and language therapy departments across the United Kingdom. Outcome measures will be made at baseline, six, nine and 12 months after randomisation by blinded speech and language therapist assessors. Primary outcomes are the change in number of words (of personal relevance) named correctly at six months and improvement in functional conversation. Primary outcomes will be analysed using a Hochberg testing procedure. Significance will be declared if differences in both word retrieval and functional conversation at six months are significant at the 5% level, or if either comparison is significant at 2.5%. A cost utility analysis will be undertaken from the NHS and personal social service perspective. Differences between costs and quality-adjusted life years in the three groups will be described and the incremental cost effectiveness ratio will be calculated. Treatment fidelity will be monitored.
Discussion
This is the first fully powered trial of the clinical and cost effectiveness of computerised aphasia therapy. Specific challenges in designing the protocol are considered.
Trial registration
Registered with Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN68798818 webcite on 18 February 2014
Where Nothing Happened: The Experience of War Captivity and Levinasâs Concept of the âThere Isâ
This article takes as its subject matter the juridico-political space of the prisoner of war (POW) camp. It sets out to determine the nature of this space by looking at the experience of war captivity by Jewish members of the Western forces in World War II, focusing on the experience of Emmanuel Levinas, who spent 5 years in German war captivity. On the basis of a historical analysis of the conditions in which Levinas spent his time in captivity, it argues that the POW camp was a space of indifference that was determined by the legal exclusion of prisoners from both war and persecution. Held behind the stage of world events, prisoners were neither able to exercise their legal agency nor released from law into a realm of extra-legal violence. Through a close reading of Levinasâs early concept of the âthere isâ [il y a], the article seeks to establish the impact on prisoners of prolonged confinement in such a space. It sets out how prisonersâ subjectivity dissolved in the absence of meaningful relations with others and identifies the POW camp as a space in which existence was reduced to indeterminate, impersonal being
The controls of post-entrapment diffusion on the solubility of chalcopyrite daughter crystals in natural quartz-hosted fluid inclusions
publisher: Elsevier articletitle: The controls of post-entrapment diffusion on the solubility of chalcopyrite daughter crystals in natural quartz-hosted fluid inclusions journaltitle: Chemical Geology articlelink: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2015.07.005 content_type: article copyright: Copyright © 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.The attached document is the authorsâ final accepted version of the journal article. It is under a 24 month embargo. You are advised to consult the publisherâs version if you wish to cite from it. The published version was published in Chemical Geology Vol.412 (2015) and can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2015.07.005 © 2015. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Evaluating the efficacy of targeted intensive therapy facilitated by computer administered to dysphasic individuals
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Plato's choice of the sphere
Plato maintains that the world is spherical : he justifies this by asserting that of all shapes, the sphere is the most complete and the most self-similar. The term "complete" can be easily understood from the context ; the term "self-similar" (áœÎŒÎżÎčÏÏαÏÎżÎœ) can be best interpreted with reference to Parmenides' Being, which has a similar characteristic. Plato's own summary of his views indicates that he considers self-similarity as a necessary condition of axial rotation.Mortley Raoul J. Plato's choice of the sphere. In: Revue des Ătudes Grecques, tome 82, fascicule 391-393, Juillet-dĂ©cembre 1969. pp. 342-345
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