Contemporary splinting practice in the UK for adults with neurological dysfunction: A cross-sectional survey

This article is made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund.Aim: To explore the contemporary splinting practice of UK occupational therapists and physiotherapists for adults with neurological dysfunction. Method: Cross-sectional online survey of members of the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Neurology and College of Occupational Therapists Specialist Section Neurological Practice. Results: Four hundred and twenty therapists completed the survey. Contracture management is the most common rationale for therapists splinting adults with neurological dysfunction. Other shared therapeutic goals of splinting include maintaining muscle and joint alignment, spasticity management, function, pain management and control of oedema. Considerable clinical uncertainty was uncovered in practice particularly around wearing regimens of splints. Most therapists have access to locally-derived splinting guidelines, which may contribute to this diversity of practice. Conclusions: This study provides a unique insight into aspects of contemporary splinting practice among UK therapists, who belong to a specialist neurological professional network and work in a number of different health-care settings with adults who have a neurological condition. Study findings show a wide variation in splinting practice, thereby indicating a potential need for national guidance to assist therapists in this area of clinical uncertainty. Further research is required to establish best practice parameters for splinting in neurological rehabilitation

Constraint on the chemical potentials of hydrogen and proton in recombination

In this paper, we revisit the hydrogen recombination history from a novel perspective: the evolution of chemical potentials. We derive expressions for the chemical potentials, which depend on the thermal bath temperature and the ionization degree of the universe. Our main finding reveals a constraint between the chemical potentials of hydrogen and proton at $z\approx 1200$ when the free electron fraction is $X_e\approx 1/3$. Furthermore, we present important data on the chemical potentials during recombination, highlighting the differences between the predictions of the Peebles' and CosmoRec code solutions. Finally, we discuss a particular case related to the chemical potential of hydrogen.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure

Active Galactic Nuclei with Starbursts: Sources for Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays

Ultra high energy cosmic ray events presently show a spectrum, which we interpret here as galactic cosmic rays due to a starburst in the radio galaxy Cen A pushed up in energy by the shock of a relativistic jet. The knee feature and the particles with energy immediately higher in galactic cosmic rays then turn into the bulk of ultra high energy cosmic rays. This entails that all ultra high energy cosmic rays are heavy nuclei. This picture is viable if the majority of the observed ultra high energy events come from the radio galaxy Cen A, and are scattered by intergalactic magnetic fields across most of the sky.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure, proceedings of "High-Energy Gamma-rays and Neutrinos from Extra-Galactic Sources", Heidelber

Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia e sua atuação no programa de pó-graduação em Biologia Molecular da Universidade de Brasília.

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Funções analíticas da linguagem Sql do Oracle.

Funções analíticas do oracle. Função RANK. Função DENSE_RANK. Função RATIO_REPORT. Funções LAG e LEAD.bitstream/CNPTIA/9900/1/comuntec41.pdfAcesso em: 30 maio 2008

Different hydrogen-bonded chains in the crystal structures of three alkyl N-[(E )-1-(2-benzylidene-1-methylhydrazinyl)-3- hydroxy-1-oxopropan-2-yl]carbamates

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Avaliação físico-química e sensorial de mandioca pré-processada armazenada sob congelamento.

O objetivo do presente trabalho foi avaliar as modificações físico-químicas e sensoriais de mandioca pré-processada, durante armazenamento sob congelamento. As raízes de mandioca foram selecionadas, lavadas em água corrente, descascadas e cortadas manualmente, higienizadas, acondicionadas em sacos de polietileno e armazenadas sob congelamento a -18ºC durante 150 dias, sendo analisadas nos tempos 0, 7, 15, 30, 60, 90, 120 e 150 dias quanto ao pH, acidez titulável, umidade e análise de aceitação sensorial. O valor médio de umidade encontrado para as raízes de mandioca congeladas durante 150 dias foi de 60,65%. Para a variável pH das raízes de mandioca não foi verificada diferença significativa durante todo o período. No entanto, observou-se acréscimo significativo da acidez nas raízes a partir dos 90 dias de armazenamento. Com relação à análise sensorial, as médias obtidas para todos os atributos avaliados nos tempos zero e 150 dias mantiveram-se praticamente inalteradas e próximas do conceito "gostei muito". Os resultados sugerem que o congelamento de raízes de mandioca pré-processadas constitui método eficiente para retardar o surgimento de modificações e deteriorações, sendo possível prolongar sua vida útil por até 150 dias

Leaf-, panel- and latex-expressed sequenced tags from the rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) under cold-stressed and suboptimal growing conditions: the development of gene-targeted Functional markers for stress response.

Hevea brasiliensis is a native species of the Amazon Basin of South America and the primary source of natural rubber worldwide. Due to the occurrence of South American Leaf Blight disease in this area, rubber plantations have been extended to suboptimal regions. Rubber tree breeding is time-consuming and expensive, but molecular markers can serve as a tool for early valuation, thus reducing time and costs. In this work, we constructed six different cDNA libraries with the aim of developing gene-targeted molecular markers for the rubber tree. A total of 8,263 reads were assembled, generating 5,025 unigenes that were analyzed; 912 expressed sequence tags (ESTs) represented new transcripts, and two sequences were highly up-regulated by cold stress. These unigenes were scanned for microsatellite (SSR) regions and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). In total, 169 novel EST-SSR markers were developed; 138 loci were polymorphic in the rubber tree, and 98 % presented transferability to six other Hevea species. Locus duplication was observed in H. brasil-iensis and other species. Additionally, 43 SNP markers in 13 sequences that showed similarity to proteins involved in stress response, latex biosynthesis and developmental processes were characterized. cDNA libraries are a rich source of SSR and SNP markers and enable the identification of new transcripts. The new markers developed here will be a valuable resource for linkage mapping, QTL identification and other studies in the rubber tree and can also be used to evaluate the genetic variability of other Hevea species, which are valuable assets in rubber tree breeding