Assessment of seating forces imparted through daily activity by children with special needs

Extensor spasms regularly occur in spastic Cerebral Palsy (CP) children making their bodies unbalanced and causing wheelchair instability. Furthermore the child may be uncomfortable as a result of the high contact forces potentially causing pain and injury, which will impair their functional ability. Dynamic seating systems have been designed to absorb the energy associated with these spasms. For people with physical disabilities, especially patients who have strong extensor spasticity, the dynamic design prevents pressure ulcers and injury from impact. However, the quantitative effectiveness and impact of using dynamic components has yet to be established. Therefore our objective is to compare the imparted forces on equivalent rigid and dynamic seating systems, to understand the interactions between force, wheelchair compliance and physical activity throughout a four hour session of non-laboratory based daily living

Pengaruh Pembelajaran Active Deep Leaner Experience (ADLX) Terhadap Hasil Belajar Siswa SDIT Permata Mulia Mojokerto

The purpose of this study was to observe the effect of ADLX (Active Deep learner Experience) learning toward the output of SDIT Permata’s students. The method used in this study is Wilk Shapiro normality test, homogeneity test and T-independent test. The sample is the third grade students of SDIT Permata Mulia. It consists of two group. First, the third grade (Hasan) students as a control group and second, the third grade (Husein) students as experiment group. The result of this study shows that the output of experiment group is better than the control group, because of using ADLX learning. While the control group uses conventional learning. This result can be analyzed from the difference of the score average of the two group. The score average of the control group is 79,33, however the the score average of the experiment group is 89,61. Beside, T-independent test shows that T-count (-17.289) is less than T-table (2,728), it means that there is a significant difference in output between an experiment and a control group. In conclusion, there is an effect of ADLX (Active Deep learner Experience) learning to a students’ output

Die äußere Harmonisierung des inneren Aufstands – "Harmonische Gesellschaft" und "Massenzwischenfälle"

Während es in der Volksrepublik China nach offizieller Zählung zu einer stark ansteigende Anzahl von “Massenzwischenfällen” genannten Aufständen kommt, rief die Kommunistische Partei (KP) Chinas in der Regierungszeit Hu Jintao (2002-2012) das Erreichen einer "Sozialistischen Harmonischen Gesellschaft" 社会主义和谐社会 als gesellschaftliches Ziel aus. Die Widerspruch einer materialistisch-marxistische Partei, welche nicht mehr den Kommunismus, sondern eine durch traditionell konfuzianischen Prinzipien beruhende “Harmonische Gesellschaft” als gesellschaftliches Ziel vorgibt, führte zu dieser Arbeit. Sind die Aufstände der Grund für den ideologischen Wandel der KP? Sind die Rückkehr von Konfuzius und Mao Versuche der Legitimation und die Bevölkerung ideologisch wieder ins Boot zu holen? In welchem Zusammenhang steht der massive Ausbau von Spezialkräften für den Einsatz gegen Aufstände im Inneren? Zur Untersuchung wurde die folgende Forschungsfrage gebildet: Versucht die KP durch die Sozialistische Harmonische Gesellschaft als Aufstandsbekämpfungsstrategie gesellschaftliche Unruhe und Dissens-Äußerungen in der Bevölkerung äußerlich zu harmonisieren? Ausgehend von den zentralen vier Begriffen des Themenbereichs – der "Politik der Reform und Öffnung” 改革开放 , des "Sozialismus chinesischer Prägung” 中国特色 社会主义, des "Massenzwischenfalls” 群体性事件 und der "Aufstandsbekämpfung / Counterinsurgency (COIN)" wurden mit der Methode der Kritischen Diskursanalyse nach S. Jäger zunächst zentrale Reden Hus analysiert, um für die Beantwortung der Forschungsfrage die Theorie anschließend in Kontrast zum praktischen Umgang mit Protesten einer gesellschaftlich schwachen Gruppe zu setzen: den Wanderarbeiter_innen

Automated Software to Count Stains in Immunostaining Applications

Title from PDF of title page viewed June 20, 2019Thesis advisor: Thiagarajan GaneshVitaIncludes bibliographical references (pages 143-145)Thesis (M.S.)--School of Computing and Engineering. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2019Quantification of cells from immunostained images is a vital procedure in biomedical analysis, as it helps in the measurement of proliferation, immunodetection and differentiation of nuclear markers, which in turn play a significant role in the analysis of the cell functioning. Surgical pathology uses the quantified immunostained images as a diagnostic tool to differentiate between benign and tumor cells. However, manual quantification suffers numerous drawbacks, such as the lack of repeatability due to inter- and intra-observer variability, the lack of precision due to manual visual quantification and the larger time consumption for counting. This led to the introduction of the computerized image counting techniques as a measure to overcome these difficulties. In this context, the present study proposes a software assisted GUI imaging technique and attempts to analyze its efficiency in the quantification of cells. The study adopted various analytical process, such as the comparison in the quantification between manual and automated in different stains, colocalization, to identify the number of active cells while images are spatially overlapped, fusion indexing and the comparison of the cell counts in myotubes with a control value. The comparative analysis between the proposed software assisted imaging technique and manual counting, using different stains, such as β-Gal, DAPI and sclerostin with the help of box plot, yielded a strong significant difference in DAPI and sclerostin stains. No statistically significant differences were observed in β-Gal staining. The descriptive analysis in the quantification of overlapped cell using two overlapped images (β-Gal and DAPI) and three overlapped images (β-Gal, DAPI, sclerostin), demonstrated the improvement in the identification of active cells both in the case of two and three overlapped images. Furthermore, the comparative analysis of the fusion index value of Wnt3a images against control, using fusion bin range and fusion area methods, using box plot, revealed significant variation in fusion index value between Wnt3a and control in fusion area, whereas, the fusion bin did not yield any statistically significant outcome which help the study to reach into a conclusive inference. However, despite promising results, there is scope for improvement, which in turn opens the door for the future researchers to extend the study using more efficient automated imaging systems.Introduction -- Software description -- Description of program modules -- Procedures with images -- Conclusio