884 research outputs found
Gait deviations in children with cerebral palsy : a modeling approach
Lankhorst, G.J. [Promotor]Harlaar, J. [Copromotor]Doorenbosch, C.A.M. [Copromotor
'Typical of the New Zealand Occupational Distribution'?: A Reconsideration of Catholic Interwar Employment Patterns
During the 1920s and 1930s, New Zealand Catholics often characterised themselves as a relatively poor community, and mostly engaged in low paid, unskilled employment. In the 1970s, reflecting on the Church fifty years earlier, historian Ernest Simmons claimed that Catholics tried to explain their relative lack of social and career advancement by blaming the Masons and other opponents and by creating 'a myth that Catholics had always been poor'. In his seminal 1990 work on the Irish in New Zealand, Donald Akenson attempted to debunk this myth, declaring that 'the dead centre normality of Irish Catholics is striking' and that they were 'typical of the New Zealand occupational distribution'
Customizing learning programs to the organization and its emplyees:How HRD practitioners create tailored learning programs
This study investigates how HRD practitioners customise learning programs, that is, tailor them to take into account the demands set by organisation and participants. A theoretical account of the relations between learning programmes and organisational/individual characteristics is provided. Results from an action-research project involving 13 learning programmes conducted in healthcare institutions are presented. The main conclusion of the study is that the seven HRD practitioners in our sample used few strategies to customise learning programmes
Recovery of arm-hand function after stroke: developing neuromechanical biomarkers to optimize rehabilitation strategies.
The aim
of this thesis was to explore the neuromechanics of recovery of arm-hand
function after stroke. A literature review revealed six articles that measured
biomechanical and electromyographical outcome measures simultaneously, while
applying active and passive tasks and multiple movement velocities to separate
neural and non-neural contributors to movement disorders after stroke.
Therefore, a neuromechanic assessment protocol was developed. Parameters were
responsive to clinical status and had good to excellent test-retest
reliability. Selective muscle activation was assessed with high measurement
reliability and was significantly lower in chronic stroke patients compared to
healthy participants.
Longitudinally, neuromechanical parameters were combined with data on arm-hand
function at six months after stroke. Paresis and diminished modulation of
reflexes were associated with poor functional outcome. Changes in tissue
properties were represented by a shift in wrist rest angle towards flexion and
decline in passive range of motion. Increase in active range of motion and
steady rest angle contributed most to prediction of functional outcome.
The precision diagnostics provided by a neuromechanical assessment protocol
could support clinical decision making and should be used in prediction models
and as biomarkers in recovery of arm-hand function after stroke, for example by
improving the selection of time-window and patients.ZON/MW grant 89000001LUMC / Geneeskund
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