OBJECTIVE Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are at increased risk of falling. In healthy elderly persons with a history of falling, a reduced ability to avoid obstacles while walking has been shown to relate to increased fall risk. The aim of this study was to determine whether this potential risk factor for falls would also be present in persons with RA. METHODS Twelve RA patients and ...

Distraction is an emotion regulation strategy that has an ambiguous status within cognitive-behavior therapy. According to some treatment protocols it is counterproductive, whereas according to other protocols it is seen as a quite useful strategy. The main purpose of the present study was to test the hypothesis that distraction is adaptive when combined with active acceptance, but maladaptive ...

Impression management strategy is an important way to cope with the stigma of failed entrepreneurial firms. However, most existing studies only focused on process impression a single strategy. Few have provided systematic theoretical explanation how use different types strategies stigma. To fill this gap, two-path model failure was constructed, based two-component management. In addition, mecha...

A new strategy to on-line collision-avoidance of the redundant robots with obstacles is presented. The strategy allows the use of redundant degrees of freedom such that a manipulator can avoid obstacles while tracking the desired end-effectors trajectory. The effectiveness of the proposed strategy based on null space criteria is discussed by theoretical considerations. The strategy is based on ...

Abstract The future assembly of the Lunar Orbital Platform Gateway, on a near 9:2 resonant Rectilinear Halo Orbit, requires necessity designing safe and reliable strategies to perform rendezvous docking with station. paper describes tests strategy guarantee safety an entire manoeuvre in proximity Moon L2 Lagrangian point respect specific set failures. far range is guaranteed through automatic a...

Abstract Contemporary attachment researchers claim that attachment-anxiety is associated with a hyperactivating defense strategy while attachment-avoidance deactivating strategy. However, to date, no study has comprehensively examined the basic patterns of specific expression in two dimensions insecurity (anxiety/avoidance). To address this research gap, current aimed assess character defenses ...