OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of Comprehensive Hand Repetitive Intensive Strength Training (CHRIST) on upper limb function in children with cerebral palsy using motion analysis. METHOD The subjects in this study included 19 children (10 males, 9 females, mean age=8.8 years) with cerebral palsy. The experimental group (n=10) received CHRIST and general rehabilitation therapy. The control...

Penetrating ocular trauma is one of the most important causes of vision loss, especially in men, and can be associated with intraocular foreign bodies. The incidence of intraocular cilia after trauma is very low. Here we report the case of a 24-year-old man who visited Poostchi Ophthalmology Clinic (Shiraz, Iran) due to a gradual vision loss in his left eye over the past 2 months. The probable ...

To my treasured wife Marti-my eternal companion To the Lord Jesus Christ iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS They have encouraged, advised and led me along this path. I want to thank members of the Meiler Lab – Dr. Edward W. Lowe for his help with GPU acceleration, Brian Weiner for his help in programming and introduction to the lab, Mariusz Butkeivicz and Jeff Mendenhall for their insight and assistance thro...

Great Commission that should be the responsibility of believers becomes irrelevant in midst challenges post-modern era where everything is relative. The mission paradigm this began to shift, which all were motivated by culture. In relative era, digital acceleration can directly make Christians facing global culture world focuses on universal view state Jesus not only way salvation but one ways ...

We speak a different language, and here our tongue is incomprehensible. The greatest travelers have not gone beyond the limits of their own world; they have trodden the paths of their own souls, of good and evil, of morality and redemption... but to this shadowy land, that knows neither sin nor redemption from sin, where evil is not moral but is only the pain residing forever in earthly things,...