This pilot study explored the feasibility of in-home teletreatment for patients with post-stroke anomia. Three participants over 65 years of age suffering from post-stroke anomia were treated in this pre/post-intervention case study. They received 12 speech therapy teletreatments (two sessions/week for 6 weeks) aimed at improving confrontation naming skills. Half of the failed items from a set ...

This work studies the problem of GPU thread mapping for a Sierpiński gasket fractal embedded in a discrete Euclidean space of n × n. A block-space map λ : Z2E 7→ Z 2 F is proposed, from Euclidean parallel space E to embedded fractal space F, that maps in O(log 2 log 2 (n)) time and uses no more than O(n) threads with H ≈ 1.58... being the Hausdorff dimension, making it parallel space efficient....

Enzymes are one of the most important biomolecules which has a wide range of applications in industrial as well as biomedical field. They are important due to their many useful properties. Their development, to a great extent, has been possible due to the availability of microbial sources. Microorganisms are of much attention because they can be produced economically and are amenable to genetic...

1 Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, National Horticultural Research Center, P. O. Box 01000 220, Thika. 2 Department of Botany, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, P. O. Box 00200-62000, Nairobi. 3 Department of Horticulture, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, P. O. Box 00200-62000, Nairobi. 4 Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, Biotechnology Cen...

At the last Pig Genetics Workshop two papers described aspects of the lost potential in pig production at the commercial level. Black (2000) estimated that slower growth, reduced efficiency of feed use and fatter carcases decreased the profitability of pig enterprises by as much as 25%. Walters (2000) estimated that successful progress had been achieved in backfat reduction but that there were ...

For faster random access of a target image block, a bi-section idea is applied to link image blocks. Conventional methods configure the blocks in linearly linked way, for which the block seek time entirely depends on the location of the block on the compressed bitstream. The block linkage information is configured such that binary search is possible, giving the worst case block seek time of dlo...

Currently, the exploration and development scope of Changqing oilfield has gradually developed to edge blocks deep systems, typically Yanchi block. However, in construction process, there are some problems such as poor well wall stability, frequent leakage prominent collapse contradiction, which seriously restricts increase drilling speed. In this paper, measures structure optimization, system ...