Hippotherapy's Influence In Static Balance In A Subject With Charcot-marie-tooth Disease [influência Da Hipoterapia No Equilíbrio Estático Em Um Indivíduo Com Doença De Charcot-marie-tooth]

Objective. Verify hippotherapy's influence in static balance in a subject with Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT). Method. It was done a study of case, with one subject with Charcot-Marie-Tooth, female gender, 12 years old. The subject was filmed in anterior view (frontal view) and profile (saggital view). The instrument used was Computerized Biophotogrammetry which served as angular reference to verify body's oscillations in the static balance. The hippotherapy was done during 16 sessions, twice a week, for 2 months, using the hippotherapy program and equestrian activities. Results. The oscillations's degrees evaluated after the hippotherapy intervention showed decrease both in frontal and saggital views. Conclusion. 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The current standard model of cosmology successfully describes a variety of measurements, but the nature of its main ingredients, dark matter and dark energy, remains unknown. Euclid is a medium-class mission in the Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 programme of the European Space Agency (ESA) that will provide high-resolution optical imaging, as well as near-infrared imaging and spectroscopy, over about 14,000 deg^2 of extragalactic sky. In addition to accurate weak lensing and clustering measurements that probe structure formation over half of the age of the Universe, its primary probes for cosmology, these exquisite data will enable a wide range of science. This paper provides a high-level overview of the mission, summarising the survey characteristics, the various data-processing steps, and data products. We also highlight the main science objectives and expected performance

Euclid. I. Overview of the Euclid mission

International audienceThe current standard model of cosmology successfully describes a variety of measurements, but the nature of its main ingredients, dark matter and dark energy, remains unknown. Euclid is a medium-class mission in the Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 programme of the European Space Agency (ESA) that will provide high-resolution optical imaging, as well as near-infrared imaging and spectroscopy, over about 14,000 deg^2 of extragalactic sky. In addition to accurate weak lensing and clustering measurements that probe structure formation over half of the age of the Universe, its primary probes for cosmology, these exquisite data will enable a wide range of science. This paper provides a high-level overview of the mission, summarising the survey characteristics, the various data-processing steps, and data products. We also highlight the main science objectives and expected performance