BACKGROUND Physical inactivity is highly prevalent after stroke, increasing the risk of poor health outcomes including recurrent stroke. Tailoring of exercise programs to individual preferences can improve adherence, but no tools exist for this purpose in stroke. METHODS We identified potential questionnaire items for establishing exercise preferences via: (i) our preliminary Exercise Prefere...

The cascade theory of handedness suggests that hand preferences develop from a history of cascading and sequentially developing manual asymmetries for a variety of actions. Infants who consistently use their preferred hand for a variety of actions likely would gain proficiency using that preferred hand and, consequently, perform more proficiently on other challenging manual tasks. One such task...

this paper presents an appropriate categorization of business processes in order to study the different aspects of knowledge management for each kind of business processes. in this categorization, business processes are classified into the four categories including work-flow oriented, decision oriented, information oriented and motivation oriented. then, the special attributes and knowledge man...

background it has been elucidated that berberis vulgaris (barberry) can alleviate morphine withdrawal syndrome. also it has been reported that aqueous extract of barberry possibly have inhibitory effect on nmda receptors. objectives in this study, we decided to evaluate the effects of aqueous extract of b. vulgaris fruit on morphine tendency in mice using conditioned place preference (cpp) meth...

To examine how inclusive our schools are after 25 years of educational reform, students with disabilities and their parents were asked to identify current barriers and provide suggestions for removing those barriers. Based on a series of focus group meetings, 15 students with mobility limitations (9-15 years) and 12 parents identified four categories of barriers at their schools: (a) the physic...

This paper highlights the development, enhancement and use of the MSC/PATRAN "Preference" at Sandia. This preference integrates MSC/PATRAN with the EXODUS II database. The development of the preference demonstrates the flexibility of MSC/PATRAN's open architecture. There were some interesting challenges not normally encountered when integrating MSC/PATRAN with commercial FEA codes. Also, as the...